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Review | Disney+ K-drama The Tyrant review: Kim Seon-ho in violent action sci-fi that’s convoluted
- In Disney+ series a spy agency loses control of a programme, prompting a scramble by a mystery cast of characters whose motives are obscure
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2/5 stars
Lead cast: Jo Yoon-su, Kim Seon-ho, Cha Seung-won, Kim Kang-woo
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Posturing is the name of the game in Disney+’s hard-to-follow sci-fi action series The Tyrant, which puts style over substance and narrative cohesion.
For the first time since Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Kim Seon-ho is back on the small screen as Director Choi of Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS), who goes rogue when a programme he has been running, unofficially known as “The Tyrant”, takes on a life of its own.
The final sample of the programme is lost during a delivery and now everyone wants to get their hands on it. This includes Choi himself, as well as Paul (Kim Kang-woo, Artificial City), who works for a US intelligence agency and wants to destroy it, and mysterious woman Chae Jae-gyeong (Jo Yoon-su, The Interest of Love), who is hired to steal it.
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