This article contains spoilers. 4/5 stars Korean entertainment has seen a mushrooming of zombie stories in recent years. Their popularity has risen in tandem with that of other dystopian narratives presented as allegories of contemporary society’s pervasive ills. The recently concluded Happiness had plenty to say about social class and government control, but unlike its peers, it wasn’t all doom.
This article contains spoilers. Given its bright apartments, sunny days and occasionally ebullient characters, you could be forgiven for mistaking Happiness for something other than the survival-horror drama that it is. Zombies lurk around every corner, but they only appear sparingly and in well-executed set pieces that punctuate a series that remains breezily enjoyable two-thirds of the way in. Soon.