Netflix is keeping its K-drama pipeline pumping. The streamer revealed Thursday that it has begun production on The Facade of Love, a new romance series from Mo Wan-il, the hitmaking director behind the JTBC juggernaut The World of the Married, and veteran writer Ha Su-jin (The Matchmakers, Sell Your Haunted House). Netflix also shared a sneak peek from the show’s first table read in Seoul (above and below).
The series finds Mo again mining the marital meltdown dynamics that made his 2020 hit a cultural phenomenon in Korea and beyond. The World of the Married — a local adaptation of BBC One’s Doctor Foster — struck a chord with its story of an accomplished female doctor who methodically unravels her husband’s affair. The show went on to become the highest-rated drama in Korean cable television history, with a finale that drew a 28.4 percent nationwide rating, a record that still
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