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Pachinko is one of the big hit TV shows on Apple TV+, and Season 2 just came to a dramatic conclusion on the streamer. Creator-showrunner Soo Hugh spoke to THR about the Season 2 finale, where things stand with a potential Season 3, possible storylines and much more. Keep reading to find out more… On the final scene of Season 2, in which Noa finds himself in Nagano selling the gold watch Hansu gave him, and taking on a new identity as Ogawa Minato: “I think the minute he casts off his name and takes someone else’s name, he’s going to live another life. He specifically chose a Japanese name. I feel like it’s directing the audience to believe that Noa’s going to live as a Japanese person and, what is the cost of that kind of passing?” On Solomon, Sunja’s grandson, scheming his way back into the good graces of his peers at the expense of his girlfriend, Naomi, and Abe, one of his former clients: “Solomon has destroyed Naomi’s career, and a man that he resented very much was so ruined that he committed suicide — and this is all directly at the hands of Solomon. He can’t lie about that, so he’s going to have to reckon with this. He can’t run away, because he’s done a very good job running it away or talking his way out of things. Solomon is a really good salesperson. I always feel like immigrants are very good salespeople. That compartmentalization, that coding that a lot of immigrants do, at some point catches up to you.” On Solomon’s father, Mozasu, and Yoshii Isamu’s grandson, Yoshii Mamoru: “Obviously, there’s a bigger history between Mozasu and Yoshii, and that, of course, circles back to Hansu, because in season two, we realized Hansu also knows Yoshii. Melodrama is those delicious, juicy ways characters fit and don’t fit, and collide and scratch one another. I think that’s the fun part of being able to sit with these stories for a long period — you get to set it up and then you see the fallout from those actions. So right now, obviously, the audience has no idea what’s happened, but we know [that storyline is] coming.” On the possibility of season 3: “This is really, now, one of those things that’s so out of my hands, and I think Apple’s also waiting to see how the show does. I think we’re really trying to fight for a third season — and it really comes down to viewership.” On wanting four seasons of the show: “In some ways, it feels like there’s a version where one or two more seasons does feel like the right way to end this. People can’t live forever. At some point, life happens, time passes and people pass. But it does feel like there’s another season or two to eke out.” Find out which TV shows have been renewed and cancelled so far at Apple TV+ in 2024.
