“Come on, it’ll be fun,” my fiancé said, “It’s all over Instagram. Don’t you want to know what the young people are into?”
That’s how she got me to watch K-Pop Demon Hunters, the most popular Netflix original film of all time. Since its release this past June, it’s amassed more than 260 million streams. That’s more than Squid Game. The film follows a group of Korean pop stars who protect the world from evil with a mix of song and casual violence against demons. Demons, we discover, are people who have been dominated by feelings of shame. They can only be redeemed if they learn to overcome the shame, if they discover that they are enough. One of the singers is ashamed of her father, who, it turns out, was a demon! If she doesn’t learn to overcome this generational shame, she’ll become a demon, too.
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