Look out for new series Dune: Prophecy, The Trunk, Interior Chinatown and Citadel: Honey Bunny.
SINGAPORE – In this monthly column, The Straits Times’ recommendations for November include a space opera, a South Korean mystery about fake marriages, an Asian-American satire and spies with a shared past.Set 10,000 years before the events of the 2021 and 2024 Dune films starring Timothee Chalamet, this prequel series explores the origins of the fearsome Bene Gesserit, a religious order.
This South Korean mystery melodrama stars Seo Hyun-jin – who headlined the 2016 romantic comedy Another Miss Oh – as In-ji, an employee at a company that brokers marriages of convenience. Her job has her living with a different “contract husband” every year and feeling jaded as a result. In this satirical drama, Jimmy O. Yang is Willis Wu, an Asian-American actor relegated to bit parts in a police procedural show.
The director helmed the 2017 and 2022 Thor superhero films and won a screenwriting Oscar for war comedy Jojo Rabbit .Waititi has a knack for blending humour and pathos, and the comic timing should be impeccable with stand-up comedians Yang and Ronny Chieng – who plays Willis’ friend Fatty Choi – on deck.Samantha Ruth Prabhu in Citadel: Honey Bunny.
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