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Pachinko Season-Finale Recap: Changes
Pachinko’s characters have been forced to make choices while enduring tragedy — the finale is all about the consequences of those choices.
Coming out of the war alive, things got better just enough to let some life in: Noa could go to school, and they could throw a party, and Sunja could have low-stakes chit-chatter with a regular at the noodle stall and fantasize about one day opening her own restaurant. Noa’s refusal of financial help when he was studying to get into Waseda proved his commitment to go at it alone, and the discipline and steadfastness that resulted from this choice define his views: he lectures Akiko interminably on greed and avarice, and she, rich girl that she is, loves every second of it. Using the same deranged expression he put on to intimidate a barely alive Yoseb, Hansu takes his son’s face in his hands and declares: “You are mine.” He looks almost relieved to have the truth out in the open, but he is also clearly delusional: there is no way a knowing Noa will let himself be used as a pawn for his diabolical schemes.
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