Started the first episode of The WONDERfools this week and was completely gripped. The episode opens on Eun Chae-ni (Park Eun-bin, star of Extraordinary Attorney Woo) who lives and works in her grandmother's restaurant, dreams of travelling, has a severe heart condition, no money and lots of punk attitude. Within the first 1-2 minutes there's a fantastic, character-defining scene where she takes on a group of street evangelists announcing the end of the world.
This opening episode is about establishing characters - in addition to Chae-ni, her family and friends, we also meet Lee Un-jeong (Cha Eun-woo), a very junior official in a government complaints office. Where Chae-ni is comically loud and punk, Un-jeong is the opposite, facing down the angry complainant that terrorizes everyone else in the office with a calm, deadpan response. It's early in the series but I feel like it isn't going to be a coincidence that these two have complementary personalities.
The episode also establishes that there are links between several of the character, and that pretty much everyone is hiding something. This also applies to the setting, Haesong City, on the surface a regular mid-sized modern town but there are hints of mysterious goings on in the past and the present.
Although I've been looking forward to this series for a long time I didn't know what to expect, apart from a superhero TV show with a different tone from the MCU. I'm now fighting the urge to binge-watch and looking forward to wherever this series takes me.
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