Reviewer Rating: 3.5/5.0
3.5
Phew! The storyline of Pachinko Season 2 Episode 7 is moving faster than ever before, with major changes happening to almost every character.
Watching this episode caused some tension due to all the different story threads and rapid cuts between timelines.
I suppose this structure is necessary to fit all of the episode’s events into one hour, but it often makes it seem more like a highlight reel than a complete chapter of an ongoing story.
Noah is going to college
The whole neighborhood came to Noah’s farewell party. It’s interesting, in the background, how Junko’s mother puts away the large amount of sake after initially demurely covering the cup. She’s long overdue for some fun, so it’s nice to see her having fun.
Mozasu won the award for funniest callback ever, announcing: “Today, I Be sure to serve it first! He also deserves an honorable mention for Best Dressed because he really blended ’50s tailoring between preppy style and James Dean cool.
It’s not all fun and games, though. Koh shows up in his limousine and gives Noah the gold watch he gave Sunja years ago. It keeps appearing like a bad coin, or more accurately, a desperate compass that is only useful when one is at rock bottom.
Koh attended the feast, watching with pride as his secret son accepted the toasts and cheers from his neighbors with humility and a hint of awkward grace.
Later, during the celebration, Noah shared a long look between Sunja and Gao across the table. Noah’s face was expressionless, but his eyes made it clear that while he was nice, he wasn’t naive.
Noah didn’t seem to have some big revelation; it was more like he just noticed something that might be interesting. Or maybe he knows something he might eventually want to forget.
Naomi’s terrible, no, very bad day
The scene in Naomi’s office is heartbreaking, but extremely well constructed.
For the first time we see her triple-checking a deal, and it reminds us how serious she is as a person and how careful she must be as a woman in her professional field.
Her example of professionalism made her employer’s accusation of leaking client information all the more painful, although that was true in this particular case.
I don’t know how she held on while her boss and Tom laid out how they pretty much took over her deal based on her “irregularities” while also telling her she was a terrible employee and setting up for others People set a worse example.
She silently defended herself, pointing out that it was unrealistic to expect herself to be perfect forever. This echoes her last conversation with Solomon, in which she said she wanted to do what he asked and never look at another man again, but she couldn’t guarantee that.
Naomi also said it was unfair for her boss to deny her a chance at redemption, “especially when other people[in the room] tom) has been given a second chance.
However, the conference room is not a place for logic and reason. She was fired, but her boss said parting: “It’s a shame.”
Naomi’s “For Whom?” SNAP is well known around the world.
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A truly wonderful night at Mosa
In an episode where several long-oppressed characters finally fight back, Mosa’s fist-pumping outburst against his uncle still comes as a surprise.
On Noah’s last night, the family held a more modest farewell party at home, which everyone enjoyed until Joseph came down from the attic and complained about almost everything, except Kyung Hee’s cooking. .
Moz becomes a stand-in for the audience when he yells here How long are we going to live like this?
He’d had enough of Joseph White belittling his aunt, and of everyone ignoring the fact that he hadn’t left home in five years.
BTW, it’s nice to hear Moz state the differences between him and Noah without any jealousy or defensiveness.
He was so completely at ease with himself that it was admirable that even his elders could not match him.
Noah used “this is my last night” as reason and encouragement, and came up with the idea of taking his uncle out. It was a struggle for Joseph, but with the help of his nephew and the bandana, they went to a baseball game.
Joseph White loses himself in the game, seemingly aware that no one is watching him, even in his Gray Gardens days. For him, it marked a welcome and long-overdue turning point.
Moz shows he’s more than just the comedian in the family. He always knew his worth, but I think the family probably viewed him in some ways as a disappointing younger brother. It all ends tonight with the snap of a bat, just like Joseph White’s life as a hermit.
Mr. King’s Afternoon Roller Coaster
Gao finally saw that Mr. Kim had truly made up his mind to leave his life in Osaka and return to South Korea to fight. “People like us don’t have a home,” Gao reminded him.
Koh didn’t like this development for his trusted right-hand man, but he accepted it after letting Mr. Kim do one last job.
At home, when Joseph saw his packed luggage, Mr. King explained that he was “in the fight with our brothers in the north.”
Joseph White said to Mean Girl: “Why do you do this? You’re not even from north.
But what Joseph said next shocked both Mr. Kim and me: He gave Mr. Kim the green light to develop a relationship with Kyung Hee!
After hearing these words, you can see the uneasy expression on Kim Jong-un’s face. He simply decided to give up his life for a cause he believed in, but… Qingxi! He can finally have her. Isn’t this what he has been waiting for all these years?
Joseph White practically pushed Mr. Kim out of the yard, shouting, “Go save our daughter!” Full of energy, but when Mr. Kim found her, Kyung-hee had no energy.
It was a frustrating decision for her, at least for the reasons she stated. There were many other good reasons for saying no, one of the perfect ones being that they lived in the same house as her legal husband and it was awkward.
But it feels like Kyung Hee didn’t keep her promise to God and actually refused to live with Mr. Kim as penance for their night of apparent passion in the country (why did this happen off screen??).
This moment between these two star-crossed characters feels overly dramatic and a bit inconsistent with what we’ve seen of their actions so far.
And the lighting is so weird! What Was Mr. Jin is standing in that dazzling golden beam of light? Does this foreshadow his longing for this world and will soon be transported to heaven or a spaceship?
All this and more
Despite all of these events, this episode managed to cram in even more great stuff.
i did it no This was seen when Koh had Yoshii Isamu (who could be Solomon Yoshii’s grandfather in 1989?) kill his father-in-law.
I know something This incident was originally going to happen after the father-in-law barred Koh from attending his daughter’s wedding, but the murder itself, combined with the new connection to someone who I thought would be Koh’s rival, was completely surprising.
In 1989, Junko learned of Kato’s involvement in war crimes. After Moz gives her this information, instead of praising him, she stands up and wants her to immediately sever ties with Kato.
Junko is clearly disturbed by what Kato has done in the past.
But she’s unhappy with the double standards because she apparently can’t have Japanese friends, while Moz has been dating Japanese women for years, and now Solomon’s new girlfriend is Japanese.
(On that note: Sunja, you probably don’t want to invite Naomi to dinner anytime soon).
There are so many pieces moved in and out of the chessboard in this episode that it’s hard to imagine how it’s all going to end in the remaining hour of the series.
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