Apple TV+ has given the green light to Pachinko Season 2, which will continue the acclaimed drama series created by Soo Hugh and based on the bestselling novel (buy at Amazon).
Following its debut on Apple TV+ last month, the global hit series received broad critical acclaim. The early pick-up comes ahead of the season one finale on Friday, April 29, 2022.
“Words cannot express my joy in being able to continue telling the extraordinary story of this indomitable family,” said creator, writer, and executive producer Hugh.
“I’m grateful to the amazing team at Apple and Media Res studio for believing and supporting this show and to our passionate fans who have cheered us on. It’s an honor to be able to continue working with this amazing cast and crew.”
Epic in scope and intimate in tone, Pachinko tells an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning. Pachinko Season 2 will continue the riveting story that spans generations and is told in three languages: Korean, Japanese, and English.
Pachinko chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive. Starting in South Korea in the early 1900s, the story is told through the eyes of a remarkable matriarch, Sunja, who triumphs against all odds.
In this Friday’s season finale episode, Sunja learns that Isak has been arrested and searches for him with the aid of her young son. Solomon makes a fateful decision.
Pachinko is written and executive produced by Hugh (The Terror, The Killing), who created the series and serves as showrunner. Kogonada and Justin Chon are executive producers and directed four episodes each.
Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer are executive producers for Media Res, the studio behind the series; Theresa Kang-Lowe is executive producer for Blue Marble Pictures; and Richard Middleton is also executive producer. David Kim and Sebastian Lee co-executive produce.
The series stars Academy Award-winning actress Yuh-Jung Youn as older Sunja, Lee Minho as Hansu, Jin Ha as Solomon, Minha Kim as teenage Sunja, Anna Sawai as Naomi, Eunchae Jung as young Kyunghee, Inji Jeong as Yangjin, Jimmi Simpson as Tom Andrews, Junwoo Han as Yoseb, Kaho Minami as Etsuko, Steve Sanghyun Noh as Isak, Soji Arai as Mozasu, and Yuna as young Sunja.
In addition to Pachinko, it was recently announced that Hugh would create, showrun, and executive produce the new Apple Original limited series, The White Darkness, which will be executive produced by Kang-Lowe through Blue Marble Pictures.
Pachinko Season 2 will also stream alongside new and returning Apple Originals hailing from Media Res, including the Emmy, SAG, and Critics Choice Award-winning The Morning Show, which recently received a season-three renewal, and the star-studded climate change anthology series Extrapolations from writer, director and executive producer Scott Z. Burns.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.