

Drawing from Min Jin Lee’s sprawling bestselling novel, which traces the fate of a Korean family across multiple countries and generations, “Pachinko” is a gorgeous drama built around observing both the crisp and hazy all at once. Aside from the emotional richness of the new Apple TV+ series “ Pachinko,” it becomes apparent very quickly that what sets this eight-episode season apart is that it plays out more as a collective memory than a written history. There’s a built-in framework for an episodic journey that fulfills what’s on the page as an exercise in transposing. Very often, TV adaptations of books naturally play out like fixed objects.
