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Netflix’s ‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’ Is TV Junk Food<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Netflix</p> <p>Less than six months after <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/money-heist-creators-new-netflix-series-will-target-the-1-percents-luxury-pandemic-bunkers">premiering on Netflix</a>,<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/netflixs-money-heist-korea-is-squid-game-meets-a-cheesy-heist-movie"> <em>Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area</em></a> returns on December 9 with a batch of fresh episodes. As before, the series doesn’t radically alter the template set by Álex Pina’s Spanish original, whose narrative is largely followed to a T. Still, it remains a loopy pulp thriller whose dedication to amped-up action and melodrama is only equaled by its love of preposterous twists and turns.</p> <p>A brief recap for those who haven’t yet caught up with the first season: In the near future, North and South Korea have agreed to a détente that will be finalized, economically speaking, at a forthcoming conference. Currency for the newly whole nation is being printed at the Unified Korea Mint. That makes it the prime target of the Professor (Yoo Ji-tae), a criminal mastermind who assembles a team of crooks with various specialty skills—and who are all code-named after international cities—to steal four trillion won from the heavily fortified locale.</p> <p>This necessitates taking everyone inside hostage, and leads to a standoff with Inspector Seon Woo-jin (<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lost-secrets-revealed-in-an-epilogue-did-it-ruin-the-show"><em>Lost</em></a>’s Kim Yun-jin), whom the Professor is covertly dating on the outside as a means of gaining further intel on her operation, as well as manipulating her for his own devious purposes. The Professor is a man always five steps ahead of his adversaries, and also of his underlings, who wear red jumpsuits and smiley-faced masks during their mission.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/money-heist-korea-joint-economic-area-part-2-review-netflixs-version-of-junk-food?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Netflix

Less than six months after premiering on Netflix, Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area returns on December 9 with a batch of fresh episodes. As before, the series doesn’t radically alter the template set by Álex Pina’s Spanish original, whose narrative is largely followed to a T. Still, it remains a loopy pulp thriller whose dedication to amped-up action and melodrama is only equaled by its love of preposterous twists and turns.

A brief recap for those who haven’t yet caught up with the first season: In the near future, North and South Korea have agreed to a détente that will be finalized, economically speaking, at a forthcoming conference. Currency for the newly whole nation is being printed at the Unified Korea Mint. That makes it the prime target of the Professor (Yoo Ji-tae), a criminal mastermind who assembles a team of crooks with various specialty skills—and who are all code-named after international cities—to steal four trillion won from the heavily fortified locale.

This necessitates taking everyone inside hostage, and leads to a standoff with Inspector Seon Woo-jin (Lost’s Kim Yun-jin), whom the Professor is covertly dating on the outside as a means of gaining further intel on her operation, as well as manipulating her for his own devious purposes. The Professor is a man always five steps ahead of his adversaries, and also of his underlings, who wear red jumpsuits and smiley-faced masks during their mission.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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