Netflix K-drama Sisyphus: The Myth – escapist fun as sci-fi action-drama series kicks off with outrageous set pieces
- A breathless, colourful mix of comedy, action, and science fiction, Sisyphus: The Myth doesn’t try to make sense, but you need not worry about that
- Starring Stranger’s Cho Seung-woo as a Korean Tony Stark, and Park Shin-hye, who join forces for no obvious reason, this is riotously good entertainment
Having shut down a temper tantrum in first class, rock-star scientist Han Tae-sool performs some engineering wizardry after pushing a dead pilot out of his seat in the cockpit of a commercial airliner as it free-falls to earth, all while casually phoning into his company’s board meeting and chatting to a hallucination of his dead brother.
Welcome to Sisyphus: The Myth, an explosive new Korean drama show starring Park Shin-hye and Cho Seung-woo from JTBC, now airing on Netflix worldwide. A cocktail of action and sci-fi, with a few big dollops of melodrama, the series has precious little concern for logic, but is very focused on giving its audience an adrenaline-fuelled good time.
Stranger star Cho plays Tae-sool, a cocky genius who is the CEO of Quantum & Life, a massive conglomerate with 100,000 employees and a soaring stock price, although the show never bothers to explain what it sells. Tae-sool is a brilliant inventor who lives in a sleek mansion atop a hill with a dazzling view of the city skyline, and computer screens and hi-tech paraphernalia strewn among its fancy rooms.
He is Korean Tony Stark, all the way down to his bachelor playboy status, his thick-jawed and heavy-set driver/bodyguard, and his complex about a dead relative (in this case his brother).