Producer A24 He’s had a good run in cinema for several years now: He’s racked up fifty Oscar nominations in less than a decade, and in fact, he’s already won. A pair of statuettes for best film for ‘Moonlight’ in 2017 and ‘Everything everywhere at once’ the same year. But his aptitude for TV series cannot be ignored: First ‘Ramy’ (along with sister series ‘Mo’), then ‘Euphoria’ and now ‘Bronca’ is an instant classic of sorts The series, which will be at the top of future summaries of the best of 2023 and stands out among miniseries with three Golden Globe awards, won awards for best miniseries, best actress for Ali Wong and best actor for Steven Yeun.
Even though it seems like a lie, it is the first series he created. Lee Sung Jin, South Korean screenwriter with experience in the films ‘Bloody Girls’, ‘Silicon Valley’ or ‘Dave’. Starting from a seemingly light anecdote, Lee manages to create a series Complex and nuanced yet agile, it’s also a great place to have a great time with action black comedy, overwhelming drama, a chiaroscuro chronicle of the Asian-American experience, analysis of class anxieties, and broken characters..
More precisely, the fight in the title, which will be a fight, pits two characters who are in different life situations but agree among themselves. anxiety about money problems and a dissatisfaction between what is justified and what cannot be resolved. On one side is Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) is an independent contractor suffering from the throes of depression, for which he believes himself to be guilty, partly as a result of his parents’ forced return to Korea. On the other hand, Amy Liu (Ali Wong), a businesswoman whose father is Chinese and mother Vietnamese, may be about to sell her houseplant business for ten million dollars. This would allow her to spend more time with her perfect husband, George (Joseph Lee), and perfect daughter, June (Remy Holt), in the house she had perfectly redesigned. But he doesn’t seem very happy with this possibility.
Danny and Amy at the beginning of the series A car crash in the parking lot turned into a chase through the streets angels and then on a long distance dive characters, with increasingly unpredictable reciprocal movements and sometimes more direct than others, entangling members of their own families or people from their closest business circles, all of whom Lee knows how to bring his own relief to, a complex situation. humanity.
The cast is always on par. Lee’s proposed double challenge: to shine in both the most physical action and sequences of pure emotional catharsis (Yeun returning to church or Wong trying to express his pain to the most unexpected person); Being both a cartoon and the most fragile person in the world; He makes us laugh with the most sudden moves and beats us to the team with a subtle nuance. It’s hard to know what scene after scene will follow or what strange twists and turns the script will take. This feeling of uncertainty is exciting.
Considering we’re talking about the A24, the least surprising aspect of the ‘Bronca’ is the attention paid to its aesthetics at every level. The team is like the ‘all-stars’ of the studio: Grace Yun Responsible for production design, as in ‘Priest (First Reformation)’ or ‘Hereditary’; Larkin Seiple Signs the photo as in ‘Everything everywhere at once’ and Bobby KrlicAlso known as The Haxan Cloak, he sometimes looks for fun music after the horror in ‘Midsommar’. It was always going to be difficult to talk about disappointment with people like that.