Sneak Peek: Soo Hugh Podcast

Soo Hugh: I'm so lucky to have had, in both seasons, writer's rooms where it was filled with not just great writers, but people who came from such varied backgrounds. It was very important to me that we didn't just have Korean and Korean American writers, that we didn't have that very narrow point of view. We had a Nigerian playwright. We had a poet who had never even written a screenplay before. We had novelists. We had Chang-rae Lee and David Mitchell, who don't come even from the film and television backgrounds, just so many different writers from different modes and different experiences of different ages and different immigration backgrounds. Yet, the thing that I think is so interesting was how similar so many of our stories were to one another. Everyone can remember that moment when they're watching over a parent and not knowing what to do because the parent's getting older. And it really speaks to the universality of so many of our human emotions and I hope "Pachinko" speaks to that, that even though it's a story of this one specific family who lived in one specific time period, that there's also this feeling that "Ah, I know this family because this family resembles mine as well."