Netflix’s ‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Is TV Junk Food

Dec 9 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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Less than six months after premiering on Netflix, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area returns on December 9 with a batch of fresh episodes. As before, the series doesn’t radically alter the template set by Álex Pina’s Spanish original, whose narrative is largely followed to a T. Still, it remains a loopy pulp thriller whose dedication to amped-up action and melodrama is only equaled by its love of preposterous...

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