Disney+ continues to muscle in on the K-drama market with Connect, a genre-blending K-drama from legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike. Across six mind-bending episodes, the series combines a serial killer thriller with sci-fi body horror to mixed results, but it’s a pleasantly offbeat and proudly weird experience that is well worth taking a look at if you’re into the genres or talent involved.
With k-drama now more popular than ever, it’s no surprise that other streaming services are trying to occupy some of the market share, especially since Netflix has a k-drama library that is, at least at present, basically untouchable. The House of Mouse will be looking for a franchisable property to compete with mega-hits like Squid Game. At the very least, it’d be useful for Disney if their platform could at least become known as a go-to space for high-quality k-drama (as if there’s any other kind.)
So, will Connect… connect those dots? Let’s see.
Connect doesn’t seem to have been planned as a multiple-season project, but depending on how the show does, you never know. Disney will probably keep a close eye on the viewing figures and how much social media traction the show manages to pick up over the next couple of weeks.
Of course, k-dramas do not historically run for more than one season outside of the odd outlier or exceptional circumstances, so a second season isn’t especially likely in that regard. However, the show being based on an existing webtoon and ending on a cliffhanger will certainly help it out. This all having been said, though, we predict that Connect will not be renewed for a second season.
Here is the official plot synopsis courtesy of MyDramaList:
A work that depicts the mysterious story of a man who has been deprived of a part of his body by organ hunters and becomes ‘connected’ with a person who has received an organ transplant. Ha Dong Soo is part of a new human race called connect, who has an immortal body, kidnapped by a group of human organ traffickers. His eye is cut out from him. He soon sees something and realizes the man who has his stolen eye is a serial killer. Ha Dong Soo is now able to see what the serial killer sees. He chases after the serial killer to stop him from killing anymore people.
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