Category: TV Review

“Camilla Lackberg’s Erica” – TV Series Review


A Swedish author named Camilla Lackberg wrote five (thus far) novels about a mystery writer who solves crimes in the real world, similar to a Jessica Fletcher. All were made into telefilms in Sweden. This miniseries, “Camilla Lackberg’s Erica”,  is a set of three of them, adapted for French TV. They play out like a slightly more adult version of our Hallmark Mystery Movies, as I will explain.

As the first opens, Erica (Julie De Bona), a successful crime novelist living in Paris, returns to her picturesque seaside hometown to settle up estate matters from her recently-departed parents. Her married sister Anna (Maud Baecker) still lives there with her hubby and two cute kids. Erica hasn’t been back much, or remained as close with sis as they had been. Upon arrival, Erica runs into a former bestie. They make plans for dinner at the friend’s house that evening. Erica arrives only to find the woman lying in a tub of bloody water, wrists slit in what looks like a suicide. That’s what the cops, especially lead detective Patrick (Gregory Fitoussi) insist, resenting her proffered facts that point towards a staged murder. Guess who’s gonna be right, and who’s gonna come around to appreciating whom?

That episode introduces an assortment of family and romance issues dangled, for the next. As both of those fronts ramp up, the second case revolves around the killing of a young tourist, which leads to a family with three generations of zealots claiming, to varying degrees, the ability to heal, though the results haven’t been there.  In the third, a young girl is almost drowned and the Good Samaritan who tried to save her is beaten to death for his efforts. That leads to another set of dark complicated familial backstories.  In these latter two, Erica has been accepted by the cops as a useful ally/resource. All the plots by Lackberg and three other credited writers, are reasonably suspenseful.

Now for the Hallmark reference. The fictional seaside town is idyllic, shot in Hossegor and the Landes region of southwestern France. The views we get show why it thrives on tourism. Erica has the earnest intelligence and charm of Hallmark heroines like Candace Cameron Bure’s Aurora Teagarden. She’s longer on curiosity than common sense, plunging foolishly into situations of danger. The series spends more running time on romantic and family sidebars, and miscellaneous warm fuzzies than on the principal crimes, including the inevitable rocky romance with Patrick.  There’s one early scene with nudity, and a bit more action and depravity among the baddies than the typical Hallmark fare, but still pretty bloodless.

Each of the trio of mysteries is presented in two 45-minute episodes. See them in order, since those secondary story arcs are progressive. I was entertained enough to hope they adapt Lackberg’s other novels, as well.

2 1/2 Out Of 4 Stars

“Camilla Läckberg’s Erica” premieres in the U.S. and Canada on MHz Choice on January 20, 2026.

https://watch.mhzchoice.com/camilla-lackberg-s-erica

“Sophie Cross” – TV Series Review

WANJA MUES, Alexia Barlier, Thomas Jouannet

The French trio of procedural dramas, “Sophie Cross” (a/k/a “Crossroads”) starts with a tragedy. The 6-year-old son of a lovely couple, Sophie (Alexia Barlier) and Thomas (Thomas Jouannet) vanishes from their beachfront backyard. She’s a lawyer; he’s a police commissioner. Their frantic search is fruitless, and she can’t emotionally continue to handle her career.

Cut to three years later. Still no sign of the child, and Sophie has just finished training to become a police detective. Obviously, much of her motivation was to continue the search, despite the shrinking likelihood of ever finding him… or his body. Relationships with her new squad start off rocky. She’s not used to being a team player, and oversteps her rookie status – including ignoring direct orders to back off. But she’s really smart and intuitive, so over the course of the episodes, she earns her stripes.

The first case starts with a murdered doctor, followed by the identical slaying of a drug dealer. Are they connected? The second begins with a teacher killed in the school parking lot. He’s got an ex-wife and daughter who are bitter from his leaving them to shack up with one of his teenaged students. The student’s dad is far from thrilled about it, too, landing him in the suspect pool, with plenty of company. The third starts with a private eye fatally shot with the same gun that was used in a diamond robbery five years before. That casts doubt on whether the guy convicted of the earlier crime was really the perp. He was a known bad guy, but was he nailed on the right charge?

All three principal stories are satisfyingly complex and twisty for any murder mystery buff, with solid casting across the board. As usual, not a lot of shoot-em-up action, though there are a handful of intense moments. Each is presented in two 45-minute segments. The search for their son runs as a continuing secondary plot thread. It’s not necessary to binge, but the three stories should be viewed for the progressions to make sense. The episodes are helmed by directors Frank van Mechelen (Salamander) and Adeline Darraux (Tom & Lola).

I’ve mentioned that most of the European TV series I’ve covered feature more realistic levels of attractiveness than our domestic prime-time producers typically serve up. This one’s a bit of an exception. Barlier resembles Claire Danes, and Jouannet can hold his own against most of our series’ leading men.  The mysteries are all solved, but some personal subplots are left open, leading to a fervent hope for a Season 2.  

“Sophie Cross”, in French with subtitles, streams on MHz Choice on January 13, 2026.

3 Out Of 4 Stars

https://watch.mhzchoice.com/sophie-cross

“Backwoods Crime” – TV Series Review

A scene from the Austrian TV series “Backwoods Crime.” on MHz Choice. Courtesy of MHz Choice

Some time ago, I reviewed ten mostly-unrelated tele-films from Austria, streaming on MHz Choice under the umbrella of “Backwoods Crime.” The casts, plots and locales are all different, just sharing the common thread of murders in the boondocks being handled in an intelligent, modest-action manner by whichever cops are called upon. All were worthwhile, to varying degrees. Not a lemon in the lot.

“Der Schutzengel” is the first of nine now being released for streaming under that heading. This one opens 12 years before its main action, with young Martin (Michael Steinocher) having his marriage proposal deflected by his girlfriend. She says they’re too young, but doesn’t fully close that door. We learn she disappeared shortly thereafter, with her whereabouts still unknown.

A dozen years later, Martin returns to that town as a police officer, planning to move into his old house with his new squeeze. But he starts having flashbacks to the unfinished business of that dangling proposal. Those mainly consist of the eye candy we get from Martin having recorded his then-topless intended, expecting a yes to be preserved for posterity.

Martin’s first case involves the long-term housemaid of the local gentry found dead in the pond where she regularly swam. It looks like an accident, but that wouldn’t give us 90 minutes of story line, would it? Once they determine it was murder, despite any apparent motives,questions arise as to whether it relates to that earlier disappearance, which has been gnawing at Martin ever since.

The case is overseen by Detective Paul Werner (Franz Karl), who methodically and calmly unravels the mystery(ies). There’s nothing glamorous about the process, but Karl’s low-key performance, balancing the sleuthing with sensitivity, is a pleasure to watch. He’s apparently played cops before, but this character deserves more chances to shine. Give the dude a real series, folks. Then be sure to send it along for streaming on our side of the pond.

The consistency of the quality throughout these ten gives good reason to expect more of the same from the other forthcoming nine.

That’s my last review for 2025. Happy New Year, everyone!

“Backwoods Crime: Der Schutzengel,” in German with English subtitles, streams on MHz Choice starting Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025.

RATING: 3 out of 4 stars

A scene from the Austrian TV series “Backwoods Crimes.” Courtesy of MHz Choice. Copyright: ORF/Mona Film/Tivoli Film/Helga Rader

“Good People” – TV Miniseries Review

A scene from the French/Belgian TV miniseries “Good People.” Courtesy of MHz Choice

“Good People” (“Des Gens Bien”) is a French/Belgian miniseries that plays out as a droll dramedy arising from a scam. The title denotes the fact that good people can do uncharacteristically bad things with what seem like good intentions. They can also rope in other good people who mean well.

We start with watching Tom (Lucas Meister) stage an auto accident in which he barely survives, though his wife, Linda (Berangere McNeese), is burned to death. We soon learn why he did it – extreme financial hardship. Then about halfway through the six episodes, we learn how. The motive is to cash in on a big life insurance policy but events, as they must, soon spin out of control.

One cop, Philippe (Michael Abiteboul), smells a rat, suspecting the accident wasn’t what it seemed. But his boss, Roger (veteran character actor Dominique Pinon), who knows Tom very well, refuses to let him investigate. Roger had lost his wife in a similar crash around that same stretch of roadway, and is completely closed to any other explanation. There’s also an obstacle of cross-border jurisdiction limiting Philippe’s efforts.

Linda and Tom owned a tanning parlor that was failing. They were on the verge of losing that, plus their home and cars, having exhausted the limits of their credit. The members of a local church kicked in a lot of money its members could little afford to help them stay afloat by updating the equipment but it wasn’t going to be enough. Thus was the plot hatched… with the best of intentions.

Among the things that go wrong, Philippe won’t give up his probing. Linda’s cousin Serge (Peter Van den Begin), a hulking thug recently paroled from prison, tumbles onto the plan and forces his way in for the payoff. Tom’s highly devout sister (Gwen Berrou), who’d convinced the churchgoers to help him and Linda, sees something she shouldn’t, and a high-profile person accidentally involved in the intrigue brings far more attention to the case than anyone could have expected.

The tenor set by the series’ trio of writers can best be described as a darkly comic, slowly unfolding farce. The cast is excellent all around, especially shining as the plan unravels and actions become more desperate. The plot includes a few surprises in what happens to whom. Van den Begin really dominates in his scenes presenting Serge’s stupidity and conscience-free brutality. Pinon, who has been such an asset as a regular in the recently-reviewed cop series “Cassandre, gets too little screen time in this one. There’s also a brief role for Corinne Masiero, who headlined one of my favorite light crime series from ANY country, “Captain Marleau.”

My frequent complaint about series that run longer than needed is mercifully NOT applicable to this one. The half-dozen 50-minute episodes befit the material. The series ends without major cliffhangers but does leave a few open questions. One source indicates they meant it to run three seasons, which may not occur, since this one aired in 2022. I’d welcome more if that happens, but am quite satisfied with where they ended this production.

“Good People” (originally “Des Gens Bien”), in French with English subtitles, begins streaming MHz Choice on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.

A scene from the French/Belgian TV miniseries “Good People.” Courtesy of MHz Choice

“Tandem: Return to the Past” – TV Series Review

Astrid Veillon and Stéphane Blanca as Soler and Marchal (center), in the French TV series “Tandem: Return to the Past.” Courtesy of MHz Choice

“Tandem: Return to the Past” (“Retour vers le passe”) is a long-running light French police procedural that draws to an end after 85 episodes that aired from 2016-2024. I reviewed the first dozen or so long ago, and don’t feel I’ve missed a lot of character progression in the interim. The squad and families have remained largely intact. Ex-spouses and colleagues Lea (Astrid Veillon) and Paul (Stephane Blancafort), the lead cops in the series, are getting along well and are possibly on the verge of re-tying the old knot. Their son Thomas (Titouan Laporte) has also become an officer. Things are going smoothly all around.

Well, that changes dramatically when a floating body turns up in the nearby river, minus one arm. Lea and Paul are vacationing with the whole family in the boonies when they find what turns out to be the missing appendage – miles from the other remains – perched atop a cairn, imbuing it with even greater significance.

They soon learn that both parts of the stiff came from a woman who was Lea and Paul’s bestie at the academy 20 years earlier. She was believed to have committed suicide. But the way her remains were unearthed and arranged, followed by the corpse of one of their old instructors found lying in her open and recently-vacated grave, point to our protagonists being targeted to revisit the old case, since someone apparently has an ax to grind, and thinks they’re the ones to handle it. Or, they might even be getting targeted, in a more menacing sense of the word.

Events in this two-part episode move along at a good pace, with humor and a few subplots fleshing out the complete picture and moving all towards closure. The scenery is lovely, as are the old buildings featured in much of the action set in Montpellier and its surroundings in southeastern France. The cast is almost overrun with likable characters. Lea and Paul’s faces – especially when smiling – radiate warmth and sincerity that works well with colleagues, witnesses and suspects.

I’m sure all who saw the previous 84 will feel as if they’re saying goodbye to old friends. I’ll probably go back and catch the ones I’ve missed. (Since writing this, I already have watched most of them; good stuff continued in the interim.)

No more coming without spoilers. Suffice it to report that all wraps up in a satisfactory manner, with no cliffhangers or unanswered questions.

“Tandem: Return to the Past” (originally “Retour vers le passe”), in French with English subtitles, begins streaming MHz Choice on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025.

Stephane BLANCAFORT (Paul Marchal), and Astrid VEILLON (Lea Soler), in the French TV series “In Tandem: Return to the Past.” Courtesy of MHz Choice

“Marion” – TV Series Review

“Marion” is a police procedural drama series from French TV, and a perfect example of why I try to see a whole season before reviewing it, rather than assuming the rest from a partial release for screening. This one’s set in Paris, with Edwidge Marion (Louise Monot) taking over the small squad of railway detectives operating out of La Gare du Nord. The six-episode season consists of three two-part cases. As usual, the series combines its crimes du jour with romances, personal stories and evolving relationships among the principals and their families. This one is somewhat heavier on baggage (not the kind passengers carry) and backstories than most, with a disorienting number of flashbacks. Each pair of episodes had a different author… unfortunately.

In the first offering, an attack on a deaf lad in a train station mens’ room leads down a rabbit hole (rather literally and figuratively) to an extensive series of gruesome crimes, with a laudable amount of suspense anchoring a few romantic subplots. The latter brings a couple of dimly-lit boinks, but no exposed naughty bits in Laetitia Kugler’s well-crafted script.

My appreciation of the writing started fading with the next duo, written by Caroline Ophelie. A prisoner is killed while being transferred through the train station for medical reasons under Marion’s watch. She is unfairly blamed for the screw-up in protection. The victim had allegedly cached away $11 million from a heist, and the cops really wanted to learn where it was hidden before he croaked. The investigation turns up several suspects, and includes a couple of twists, but the path to the goal line seemed relatively stilted, compared to the first mystery.

Then it bottomed out with Round Three, penned by David Bourgie. In this one, Marion is shot in the head at the beginning. While in a coma, her body disappears from the hospital. The search leads to a bizarre set of circumstances, ranging from mummies of recent origin to a far-fetched set of psychological and logistic elements. Even worse, numerous actions of the protagonists are ridiculously inept and foolhardy, failing to even consider a blatantly obvious possible solution to the grisly crimes. This descended all the way to annoying as it unfolded.

(Side note – I just realized this series offers a double boost for feminism. Most of the best sleuthing comes from the female detectives. And the two women wrote better scripts than the guy.)

All things considered, I still recommend watching the first two or four episodes. Skip the third set (unless you want to confirm the basis for my displeasure. Or, you might even make it a drinking game, downing a shot each time one of the good guys does something stupid.) And it’s OK to hope for a second season. Marion and her crew have enough appeal to warrant further attention… if they line up the quality of writing the cast deserves.

Marion, in French with subtitles, streams on MHz Choice as of December 9, 2025.

2 Out Of 4 Stars

“Master Crimes: Season 2” – TV Series Review

In  “Master Crimes: Season 2”,  Professor Arbus and her posse of post-grads return for six more 45-minute episodes of solving murders via psychology and logic, usually differing from where the available clues would lead normal police forces, in this light French procedural. The main cast returning for Season 2 includes Muriel Robin as Professor Louise Arbus, Anne Le Nen as Barbara Delandre, Olivier Claverie as Oscar Rugasira, Victor Meutelet as Samuel Cythere, Astrid Roos as Mia Delaunay, Nordine Ganso as Boris Volodine, Thaïs Vauquières as Valentine Vallée, Michaël Cohen as Théodore Belin, Léon Durieux as Grégoire, and Nicolas Briançon as Pierre Delaunay.

https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2024/09/master-crimes-season-1-tv-series-review/

The crimes and twists are comparable in quality to the first season. The humor is somewhat more prevalent, as Arbus and Delandre have become friendly, and comfortable with each other’s skill sets. There are also more romantic and other types of intrigue among all the principals that unfold throughout the season. The most notable arc is for Valentine, the perky social media maven, who adds new dimensions, tinged with mystery, to her character. We also learn a lot more about Mia’s backstory and its residual complications.

As far as principal plots in the stand-alone episodes are concerned, they open with a nekked dead guy, posed like The Thinker in a gallery (no naughty bits shown on-camera). He’d been the model for a small art therapy class of fresh-faced suspects. The second begins with a stiff in a cave within a hippie-style, self-sufficient eco-community, replete with secrets beneath its Kumbaya façade. Then we go to a dead dude in a wolf mask, laid out in a pet cemetery. He was the founder of a successful dating site that matches couples, using their pets as the prime indicator of compatibility.

Then a rich young woman who embarrassed her family by running her own sex site is found dead in her horse’s stall of the family stable. Obsessive fan, or family squabble behind the crime? The next involves the preserved head of a woman, posed in a coffin that’s part of the décor in an Escape Room adventure. The last starts with a burned body in a burned circle in the guy’s back yard. It looks like some sort of ritual, which is confirmed by other boldies appearing in the same charred condition at the same time.

There’s no need to binge this one, since each is a new crime. In fact, it might be better not to. Arbus’ well-earned aura of wry superiority straddles the fence between amusing and smugness. Too much of that too close together might grate on some viewers. As before, all the crimes are solved, as are most of the subplots. No cliffhangers, though the finale dangles a new matter begging for a third season. I truly hope it shall come to pass.

“Master Crimes: Season 2”, in French with subtitles, streams on MHz Choice on November 11, 2025.

3 Out Of 4 Stars

“Cassandre” Season 4 – TV Series Review

Gwendoline HAMON – Alexandre VARGA

The light French crime dramedy “Cassandre: Season 4” continues with the same cast and another four non-bloody rounds of murders to solve. My review from Season One gives you the who’s who and some background for enjoying this one: https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2025/01/cassandre-season-1-tv-series-review/

Since then, there’s been a bit of will they/won’t they between Cassandre and Pascal, with other romances along the way for each. Cassandre’s son is still a pain in the neck, but less so than her ex, another cop who keeps showing up on cases more frequently than she’d like. The characters on the rest of her team have also continued being developed – especially Emmanuele Bougerol’s Major Kerouac (no known relation to Jack), who anchors the station while the detectives do their thing in the field.

This quartet begins with a murder victim’s father holding a courtroom hostage when the perpetrator isn’t dealt with severely enough by “the system”.  In the next, a murder occurs that seemingly relates to one years before, occurring weeks after the guy convicted for the first comes back from prison. Guess who the prime suspect is? That premise is similar to the Belgian “Public Enemy” series (also reviewed on this site). 

In the third, corporate crime and personal affairs make a juggling act of motive and perpetrator options. This one has the most action and blood of the season, but still less than our typical prime-time crime fare. The fourth begins with a monastery tour group finding a dead baker at the bottom of a well, where there shoulda oughta hadda been water.

Cassandre’s appeal as a protagonist continues to grow. The actress playing her, Gwendoline Hamon, looks like a cross between Renee Russo and Michelle Pfeiffer, varying between the two with the camera angle. No need to binge, since each 90-minute episode is a stand-alone plot. But watch them in order for the relationship progressions.  And it’s worthwhile getting to know these likable characters, since four more seasons  have already aired abroad, and they ain’t done yet.

“Cassandre: Season 4”, in French with subtitles, streams on MHz Choice on November 4th.

3 Out Of 4 Stars

“Petra” Season 2 – TV Series Review

A scene from the Italian TV crime series “Petra” Season 2. Courtesy of MHz Choice

It’s been three years since I reviewed the earlier episodes of the entertaining Italian procedural, “Petra.” This round not only provides a pleasant return to its picturesque Genoa setting, but gives us an engaging evolution of the eponymous star. Here’s the usual refresher link: https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2022/11/petra-tv-series-review/

We rejoin Petra and Antonio after they’ve been on a long (by US standards) vacation. She stayed home alone with her pet tarantula – as would, of course, be her wont. He indulged in the uncharacteristic luxury of a long cruise, meeting a woman he adored (Beatrice, played by Manuela Mandracchia). But middle-aged shlub that he is, Antonio felt under-qualified to keep it going on land, since she was one of the VERY wealthy elite of the community. The class gap seemed to bother him, far more than her.

A more significant change manifests in Petra. She’s finally unpacked all those cartons from her move and filled that drab apartment with nice furnishings. Yet there’s still no artwork adorning the institutional gray walls. Baby steps towards normalcy. She’s opened up her personality appreciably, smiling and joking more than before. She’s still relationship-averse, assuming anything serious would end badly… again.

This second season has more heart, with greater emphasis on character development and personal story arcs, romantic and otherwise. Besides the spider, Petra continues another idiosyncrasy that fans of our “Quincy” series will recognize – keeping a memento from the clues at the end of each solved case.

But now to address the main course – the murders to be solved. As before, each 90-minute episode addresses new crimes, so bingeing isn’t as important for following the proceedings. In the first, a guy she meets from the web for a “zipless… shall we say, boink” turns up the next day as the season’s first murder victim. She keeps that one-nighter a secret for a while, so she’ll be allowed to stay on the case. It turns out that he was married with two kids and a complex set of personal and business activities, leaving a whole lotta motives and possible murderers to sort through. The second episode begins with a homeless guy in an alley being killed by a bullet, then brutally kicked by skinheads. Are those loathsome louts the culprits? Or was there more in the man’s pre-destitution life that caused his demise, along with others that followed?

The third episode begins with the murder of a dude in a jester costume during the colorful festivities of Carnival. Since everyone frolicking in the crowded street was in costume, ID’ing the killer wasn’t helped much by footage from surrounding street cams. The solution had to be extracted from old business with old friends/frenemies as well as recent events. The last episode revolved around sex trafficking and prostitution – mainly affecting the lives of minors.

Though there are moments of levity along the way, these are all handled as dramas, without the comedy side of other Italian favorites like “Detective Montalbano,” “Makari” or “Monterossi.” Three of the four cases were harder to figure out than one. It would be interesting to know which episode any of you find to be the weakest mystery link in the chain. Perhaps your mileage will vary.

What I’d previously described as a miniseries turned out to be two four-episode seasons that end in a satisfactory place for most of the principals (i.e. no cliffhangers), but leaves the door open for a third season. Since this quartet aired abroad in 2023, which was three years after the first foursome, it’s quite possible that more will follow. Fine with me if that’s the way the renewal winds blow.

“Petra” Season Two, mostly in Italian with English subtitles, begins streaming on MHz Choice starting Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025.

RATING: 3 out of 4 stars

THE VILLAGERS – Review

A scene from THE VILLAGERS. Courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment

I’ve enjoyed a slew of Ma Dong-seok’s contributions to Korean action flicks. The rotund, open-faced actor usually plays sidekicks and minor parties – often adding some comic relief. Most of his 14 awards and nominations, to date, have been for supporting actor gigs. But in THE VILLAGERS, he’s the action star.

His character, Yeok Gi-cheol, is a former MMA champion who had aged into coaching. His integrity gets him banished when he confronts the sport’s honchos about their corruption. Fortunately – or so it first seems – an admirer gets him a job in the village giving rise to the film’s name, teaching phys ed and serving as assistant dean at a high school.

The latter title merely sticks him with the thankless task of collecting overdue tuition from the students and their families. Because he looks like an overweight, middle-aged simpleton, he gets less respect than Rodney Dangerfield. The main drama comes from the ignored efforts of a student, Yoo-jin (Kim Sae-ron) to get the school and cops to investigate the disappearance of her best friend. Despite being only 15, the missing girl had been working at a night club that catered to very adult tastes, raising many possible crime-free explanations about her fate. Yoo-jin insists that her pal was not the sort of unhappy teen who runs away that the authorities want to presume. Deaf ears on lazy cops’ heads abound.

Since all her efforts have been rebuffed by every adult in the picture, Yoo-jin is skeptical about Gi-cheol’s attempts to help her. It becomes apparent to us long before them that there’s something big going on, with cops, politicos and school honchos in on whatever it is. His default setting is that of being baffled by how little anyone in any position of responsibility cares what happened to her – especially the cops’ reluctance to even open a file for investigation.

This sort of little guy(s) vs. systemic corruption is a common theme in films from all around the world. Bollywood cranks out tons of these with high-octane, one-man-army vigor. Usually, the action quotient is higher than in this one, which plays out more like a slowly unfolding procedural. Gi-cheol could and should be delivering more beat-downs than he does, spreading his frustrations to the viewers.

The conspiracy is a spider web that takes a long time to penetrate. But the two stars keep it interesting, even as daylight starts peeking through the fog of criminal enterprise and cover-up later than viewers might prefer. Even so, the climax makes the journey worthwhile.

There’s a sad note in all of this. Kim Sae-ron was a charming, talented actress with a dozen awards and nominations on her resume, including one of my favorite Korean imports, THE MAN FROM NOWHERE. But she committed suicide a few years after this film’s release when she was only 24. A real loss for all.

THE VILLAGERS, in Korean with English subtitles, is available streaming in digital format from WellGo USA starting Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025.

RATING: 2.5 out of 4 stars