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All the latest news, reviews and interviews about your favourite television series, as well as shows and films on Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and other streaming platforms.

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  • Happy Pride Month? After Michelle Dee won Miss Universe Philippines 2023 on May 13, she came out to a magazine as bisexual, saying she is ‘attracted to all forms of beauty, all shapes and sizes’
  • She spent her childhood in Utah, US before returning to her hometown, and hails from a well-connected family – her grandfather’s brother is Dee Ching Chuan, founder of China Bank

Kim Dong-wook and Chun Woo-hee star in K-drama Delightfully Deceitful, a stylish drama that mixes thrills with indulgent – sometimes unnecessary – psychobabble.

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Kim Dong-wook’s time-travelling TV reporter is on the trail of a serial killer in rural South Korea in My Perfect Stranger, and along for the ride is Jin Ki-joo’s publishing house editor, with past issues of her own.

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Season three of Disney+ Korean medical drama Dr. Romantic sees top surgeon Master Kim (Han Suk-kyu) saving lives, both inside his new Trauma Centre and outside at various civil emergencies.

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Here is a preview of the top K-dramas debuting in June 2023, from Netflix’s Bloodhounds to Lies Hidden in My Garden starring Lim Ji-yeon of The Glory, and See You in My 19th Life with Shin Hye-sun.

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Made famous globally by Netflix’s gory revenge series ‘The Glory’, the movement has ensnared everyone from K-pop stars to baseball players, and accusations – often anonymous – can be career-ending.

Starring Koji Yakusho, Netflix Japanese drama series The Days follows the events of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in a thrilling story with strong hints of HBO’s Chernobyl.

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Readers discuss a television drama’s portrayal of Hong Kong’s sex industry in the 1980s, and the easing of rules on women freezing their eggs in Singapore.

The winner of Netflix show Physical 100, Woo Jin-yong explains how his CrossFit training, experience and strategising helped him beat younger and stronger contestants.

The Glory stars Lim Ji-yeon and Cha Joo-young are being eyed for starring roles in The Story of Mrs. Ok and Queen Wongyeong, respectively, while Netflix’s Trigger series could be led by Kim Nam-gil.

American Born Chinese from Disney+, whose star-studded cast includes Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan, is an entertaining high-school-set affair that tackles issues of Asian-American representation.

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Prime-time K-drama Queen of Masks is heating up as Kim Sun-a leads a cast of high-achieving modern Korean women who remain vulnerable and prey to a predatory patriarchy.

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Jang Na-ra and Jang Hyuk star in Disney+ K-drama Family: The Unbreakable Bond, a secret-agent family comedy-drama that sees the husband’s double life cause strife with his wife of 10 years.

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When Olivia Dawn Mok watched the first episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, she was not impressed. Further watching hooked her in, and she says the series taught her about identity and authenticity.

Move over, Y2K looks – this season’s runways and red carpets, from Dior to Ferragamo, show that careful dressing is making a comeback, and so is topping off ‘fits with hats

Netflix expanded its crackdown on password sharing to more than 100 other countries, alerting users that their accounts cannot be shared for free outside of their households.

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Disney+ series American Born Chinese, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang and Daniel Wu, mixes teen angst and supernatural myths as it follows an Asian-American student in suburban California.

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K-pop stars from BTS’ Suga to Blackpink’s Jisoo are offering a more human side of themselves by appearing in YouTube shows where they drink alcohol and chat. But critics point out the dangers of this celebrity craze.

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Asian-American actor Michael Tow talks about denying his cultural identity as a child, surviving Hollywood, and the personal loss he shares with his character in Apple TV series City on Fire.

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In Netflix Korean drama The Good Bad Mother, Lee Do-hyun plays a prosecutor who returns physically and mentally handicapped to his previously domineering mother. Redemption and catharsis follow.

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Thurnwald, who plays a Korean adoptee in Netflix series XO, Kitty, talks about his own experiences as a Korean adoptee growing up on Australia’s Gold Coast, and how he wants to get behind the camera.

Oppenheim’s highest-paid property agent joins the Netflix reality show’s sixth season, but eagle-eyed fans will remember she cameoed before …

A line in Korean drama True to Love compared wearing make-up to the plight of prisoners in Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp where millions of Jews were murdered. Eight days after the episode aired, a weak apology was offered.

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We spoke to the reality TV personality about the fashion, food, TV shows and travel destinations she’s been loving lately, from Loewe and Uluwatu resort in Bali, to HBO’s The Last of Us

Airing on May 18, XO, Kitty is the spin-off from film series To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, starring Cathcart in the titular role – and the 19-year-old has stirred up plenty of showbiz buzz already

Korean drama Oh! Youngsim is a rocky update of a 1990s animated series based on a Korean pop-culture figure. Song Ha-yoon stars as Oh Young-sim, with Super Junior’s Lee Dong-hae co-starring.

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New Netflix series XO, Kitty – a spin-off from the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before franchise – stars Anna Cathcart as Kitty Song Covey as she goes to South Korea in search of true love.

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Style sits down with XO, Kitty’s breakout star Daniel Sang Heon Lee to chat about his Hong Kong upbringing, Korean heritage and why he looks up to actor Matthew McConaughey