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Review | Disney+ K-drama review: Connect – Takashi Miike’s wild and grungy Korean drama debut disappoints after strong opening

  • Disney+ K-drama starts well, following Jung Hae-in as Ha Dong-soo, a ‘connect’, or member of a superhuman race who can reattach their severed body parts
  • A serial killer ends up with one of his eyes, setting up a storyline that fails to fully develop. It’s not the only one wasted as the series falls apart a bit

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Jung Hae-in as Ha Dongsoo in a still from Disney+ K-drama Connect, in which he plays a superhuman one of whose eyes ends up in a serial killer.

3/5 stars

Ha Dong-soo (Jung Hae-in) is a “connect”, a superhuman whose body can heal itself and, most impressively, reattach limbs and pieces when they are cut off.

When that happens, be it a finger, a hand or even a whole arm, red cords pulse out from the host body and its severed elements, in search of each other, until they connect and recombine.

When Connect began – the show premiered its first three episodes at the Busan International Film Festival in October – its wild story and freaky visual elements were a bit like those bloody vines erupting from severed body parts, equal parts exciting and unnerving.

It would have been nice if this metaphor could have extended to the whole series, with the story threads finding purchase in the back half of the narrative and pulling themselves all together.

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