K-drama Taxi Driver season 2: Lee Je-hoon, fellow cast members back for more satisfying vigilante thrills
- Two episodes in and season 2 of Taxi Driver is off to a great start, with Lee remaining a strong lead as fighting machine Kim Do-ki
- Part of Taxi Driver’s charm is the way it attenuates its dark real-world issues with its bouncy action style and the cool camaraderie within its cast
Two years after first driving onto our screens, Kim Do-ki and the Rainbow Taxi Company are revved up and ready to go again in a brand new set of episodes of the hit vigilante action K-drama Taxi Driver.
Lee Je-hoon is back as the aforementioned driver in black, as are Pyo Ye-jin, Jang Hyuk-jin and Bae Yoo-ram as his teammates, and Kim Eui-sung as the outfit’s boss.
Though it was never a quaint show to begin with, Taxi Driver 2 ups the ante with an opening brace of episodes that include a jail break, a flipped over bus and an action-packed mission to Vietnam. If the season begins as it means to continue, clearly we have much to look forward to over the next two months.
Even more so than other examples of the current vigilante drama trend, Taxi Driver has its finger on the pulse of the anger and anxieties of Korean society. It manages to do so through its episodic structure, which sees the Rainbow crew tackle new foes every weekend, many of them modelled after instances of crime and corruption that have recently cropped up in the news.
Leading with its topical nature, season two begins with a news montage and the first item concerns a worker who died while operating machinery in a factory.