Kim Jee-woon. The name itself comes with a whole bag of expectations. Even if his last output “Illang: The Wolf Brigade” did not live up to them, fans have nonetheless been looking forward to how he moves on from that. Never one to shy away from experimenting in different genres, Kim has now taken up the challenge of trying a new format as he makes the leap to television with his first series “Dr. Brain” for Apple TV+.
Synopsis
When Lee Se-won was a child, his mother died in a hit and run accident. He decided afterwards to become a brain scientist. He is a genius and remembers everything he sees. 20 years after his mother's death, Lee Se-won has become a famous Ph.D scientist in the brain science field. One day, a mysterious person contacts him and asks him to extract information from the brain of a man who committed suicide. Lee Se-won is interested and accepts the proposal. He attempts to extract information from the dead man's brain, but fails. A couple of days later, he finds himself behaving differently and seeing things differently. He starts to look into the dead man's case.
Based on a webcomic of the same name, “Dr. Brain” stars Lee Sung-hyun, in his first release since “Parasite”, Park Hee-soon, who is currently on Netflix with the newly released “My Name”, Seo Ji-hye (“Rampant”) and Lee Yoo-young (“Diva”). It will be releasing an episode weekly, starting November 4th, on Apply TV+.
