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Yook Sung-jae considers joining the Village ranks
I like the names that keep cropping up for SBS’s mystery-thriller drama The Village: Secret of Achiara, which has been adding solid actors like Moon Geun-young (Goddess of Fire Jung-yi), Shin...
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First script reading for Village: Secret of Achiara
The cast of SBS’s upcoming Village: Secret of Achiara assembled for its first script reading on Friday, starting with our main lead, Moon Geun-young (above), who’ll be the driving force behind...
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Secrets burned and buried in The Village
Ooh, it’s eerie. I like eerie. SBS’s The Village: Secret of Achiara has released its first teaser, and it’s shrouded in mystery and tension, with a lot of furtive looks by Moon Geun-young in the lead...
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More moody mystery in second teaser for Village: Secret of Achiara
The second teaser has been released for SBS’s Village: Secret of Achiara, which continues the ominous, eerie vibe of the drama’s first teaser. There’s also one news still of series lead Moon...
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Village’s mysterious new schoolteacher and eager policeman
I like the potential odd-coupling of this crime-solving partnership in SBS’s new murder mystery thriller Village: Secret of Achiara, which has released a new teaser. Moon Geun-young stars as a new...
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A missing woman and a dead body in the Village
I’m glad that Village: Secret of Achiara is premiering next week, because I’m already dying of curiosity about this small town where everybody’s got secrets. A new teaser and character stills are out...
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Legal thriller Remember up to follow Village on SBS
I guess Goodbye, Mr. Black really is gone from the SBS lineup, because the broadcaster is looking elsewhere to fill the slot to follow Village: Secret of Achiara. Currently, the title being considered...
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Oh Snap! Hands of death in the Village
Ack, creepy! I know Village: Secret of Achiara was going for a mystery-thriller vibe, but this new poster of Moon Geun-young sure adds a new layer of eerie, doesn’t it? And given that there’s one dead...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 1
Village: Secret of Achiara launched today on SBS, and I was looking forward to seeing whether the show could maintain the creaky, eerie ambiance promised by the promos. I may be a wimp with the scary...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 2
We settle into the mystery and the town, as we get a deeper look at our characters and what drives them, as well as the secrets they’re all harboring. And yeah, there are a lot of secrets in every...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 3
For the wimps among us (which includes me), you may want to watch Village in the light of day, or at least with all your lights turned on. It’s not expressly scary, in that there’s no violence or gore...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 4
More suspects emerge in the case, where increasingly, things are not as they seem on the surface. The harder our leads work to get to the truth of the matter, the harder opposing forces work to ensure...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 5
Some mysteries come into clearer focus, but happily for the story’s sake, those answers just serve to spawn more mysteries. The identity questions are rather obvious so I’d hoped the story wouldn’t...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 6
As our heroine notes in this episode, just when one path seems to be going nowhere, a new one opens up. I still find the investigation plodding in regards to connecting dots quickly (in that they...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 7
Ah, I feel like our characters are finally catching up to speed with the rest of us, now that they’re putting together answers to some of our biggest questions. Next up is figuring out the whys of it...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 8
Our heroine turns a corner and happily, finally, exhibits some grit in the face of unpleasantness—nice So-yoon was rather boring to watch, since the extent of her activity seemed to be looking...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 9
You can always count on Village to have a shocker for an ending, and this episode delivers. The show isn’t always shocking in the same way, which I appreciate; some episodes it’s gruesome, others...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 10
Aw, our gullible, simple-minded petty officer is growing up, even if it’s in tiny little baby steps. Though I did find his naivety mildly frustrating in past episodes, the more he is challenged, the...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 11
And we’re back! Fyi, Village will have a few scheduling irregularities heading into its final weeks — yesterday’s episode was pre-empted so we’re only getting Episode 11 this week. Next week we’ll be...
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Village: Secret of Achiara: Episode 12
The delusion, it runs deep in this town. That certainly explains how the secrets have remained under wraps for so long—with this amount of willful ignorance going around, it’s no wonder it’s taken...
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