Besides aesthetically pleasing people and places, The King also pushes a “love conquers all” theme present in Kim Eun-sook’s other dramas.

“The Last Dance” offers the best and most intimate look at how Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dominated the sports world in the 1990s.

DEA agent Hector Berrellez, the supervisor of the inquiry into Camarena’s assassination, tells his own harrowing tale of taking on Guadalajara’s kingpins—and in the process delivers revelations about the U.S. government’s own culpability in the death of one of their own.

A sobering, sad, and horrific overview of the United States war in Afghanistan.

Happily, the show’s brisk, handsomely produced 39-minute premiere is a great deal of fun, giving fans reason to have a good feeling about this.

The topics discussed are wide-ranging and deep — death, life, spirituality, love — each approached with eccentricity, enthusiasm, and deep compassion.