April 06, 2021
Song Joong-ki in a scene from Vincenzo. Netflix’s overstuffed but fun K-drama is never less than entertaining.
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This article contains spoilers.
It’s not an easy thing to know exactly what a K-drama audience will respond to, particularly as that audience keeps growing around the world and becoming more sophisticated.
As they try to answer that elusive riddle, there are several ways that writers of Korean dramas can pen their shows: stick to tried and true narratives, craft an involving mystery, or push boundaries with something new and edgy, for example.
Then you have something like Vincenzo , which goes for the everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink approach.