Season 1 - 10 episodes (2016 June 2)
Netflix Japanese language Original Mini-series
Availability: Global
1 season
Plot:
Two comedians Tokunaga and Kamiya search for meaning in life and comedy over the course of ten years.
Review:
Rating: Watch it / [It depends] / Skip it
- I like the potential of the series more than what it accomplishes. The story is simply amazing, exploring the beginnings of a young comedian that wants to make it big. Because this is a drama and not a comedy, it has some amazing moments. A few individual scenes depict the longing for stardom and the harsh reality amazingly well, but the show is slow. It's just too long. Every scene is too long. Maybe it's the sheer amount of subtitles to read, or that Tokunaga's mundane life often isn't very interesting. It's a series of small moments spaced too far apart. There is no secondary plot in each episode to liven the pacing. I thought episode eight was great and would be a great finale and wondered how the series would continue, but episode nine was really good too. Ten was a bit muddled. I don't know if it took seven episodes of buildup to payoff, but it's a great story even if the execution is lacking, but it's hard to recommend a show that makes you work so hard to get to the end.
Trivia:
- Netflix's first original Japanese series.
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