Pachinko moves freely in and out of several periods in the life of Sunja, played as a grandmother by Yuh-jung Youn, in a way that resists frantic flashback-style finger-pointing.
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Years ago, while watching The Forsyte Saga, the 2002 adaptation of John Galsworthy’s multigenerational family epic, I began to wonder what it would be like to watch a TV series that continues forever. It could be roughly like The Forsyte Saga, I thought, or like the TV adaptation of Roots: the story of a family that follows each new generation, charting births and deaths and important transitions. It could act as a barometer for the changing world with one family line that registers and responds to enormous historical events…
