A very happy Friday to us all: Apple TV+ has renewed Pachinko for a second season, just before the season 1 finale streams this Friday. (Could this be because we’ll have so many feelings about that finale? Maybe!)

Showrunner Soo Hugh and executive producer Theresa Kang-Lowe told Deadline that “the next season may explore the third generation of characters, including Sunja’s sons, Mozasu and Noa. The story may also build on Solomon’s self-discovery and Koh Hansu’s redemption.” Here’s hoping that it also features a lot more Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung), whose thread in the adaptation took a backseat to the more Americanized character of Solomon.

No matter what, we’ll get more of the best opening credits sequence ever created.

Eliza Smith

Eliza Smith

Eliza Smith, with Haley Swanson, was co-editor of Sex and the Single Woman, an essay anthology based on Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl (Harper Perennial, 2022).