Review by Brian Lowry, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:24:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Review by Brian Lowry, CNN, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 Like ‘Squid Game,’ ‘Bargain’ trades on the life-is-cheap edge of South Korean drama https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/10/07/like-squid-game-bargain-trades-on-the-life-is-cheap-edge-of-south-korean-drama/ Sat, 07 Oct 2023 15:04:20 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= (CNN) — The unexpected success of “Squid Game” gave a green light to bringing more South Korean dramas to the US, with Paramount establishing a partnership with Seoul-based CJ ENM to do so. The latest fruit of that relationship, “Bargain,” isn’t as compulsively watchable as “Squid Game” but echoes it in one key respect, darkly

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