SCREEN GRAB
TV critic Robert Lloyd and staff writer Ashley Lee recommend two very different Netflix series: A drama about a disaster in India and a dating show out of Korea.
THE RAILWAY MEN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BHOPAL 1984 Netflix
In December 1984 a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed thousands overnight and sickened thousands more; the product of corporate cost-cutting, managerial negligence and human error, it’s consider the worst industrial accident in history. The superbly wrought, fact-inspired “The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984” portrays the slow-thenfast buildup to the uncontainable failure in excruciating detail, but the heart of the story, which creates a tapestry of characters to care for (and some not to), centers on the Bhopal junction station, where heroic railway workers struggled to save lives, some at the cost of their own. With Kay Kay Menon as the proper station master throwing protocol out the window, and Babil Khan as a trainee locomotive driver. Thrilling, horrifying, moving. (R.L.)
SINGLE’S INFERNO Netflix
Sunsets are now annoyingly early and Southern California temperatures are relatively chillier, so I’m basking in the heat of my favorite Koreanlanguage
dating series, “Single’s Inferno.” Beautifully shot and all-tooeasy to binge, the show gathers a group of gorgeous singletons on a deserted island, where they must not only complete physical challenges, but also effectively flirt without revealing their ages or careers. The goal is to match up and escape to Paradise, a luxury resort where they stay overnight, enjoy a hot meal and can speak much more freely. (It’s amazing how quickly chemistry can dissipate once this happens.) Its third season turns up the competition with the reveal of — gasp! — a second island, complete with another set of singletons. Consider me seated with a tropical blended cocktail.
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