I just finished Season 2 of Kingdom, and I gotta say, episode 1 of Season 2 is probably the most epic episode of television I've seen in awhile. Thoroughly enjoyed it and praying for a season 3.
So drop a comment for what to watch next and what's keeping you occupied (and sane) during this time whether it be TV, movies, books, podcasts or anything at all.
(Subtle plug I've also been reading Howl's Moving Castle and if you're a fan of the movie, for sure check it out!)
I just finished watching the pilot of a new Japanese tv drama, 三浦部長、本日付けで女性になります (Head Miura Became a Woman Today) and I think I'll go on watching the series. The drama centers around a transgender protagonist and focuses on how things change for her at work and home after she begins to dress and behave as she likes it. I'm particularly interested in how it will envision a new family structure, or perhaps an unsustainable one. Very very few East Asian tv dramas tackle with issues of transgender, as far as I know. I could only recall an episode in a 2016 Japanese tv drama, 家売るオンナ (Your Home is My Business), where discourses about transgender group and family are subsumed under promotional rhetorics to sell houses, and therefore, seem too optimistic and superficial. It's interesting to see a whole tv series would discuss the issue and this time, I'm looking forward to more complex representations and references.
ReplyDeleteSome basic information about the tv drama can be found here: https://www.nhk.or.jp/drama/dodra/miurabucho/
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