"A Shop For Killers."

The under-the-radar Korean action-thriller on Hulu gets the Two Episode Test.

The international television market is loaded with quality programming, which is why I started doing “Deep Dive: Netflix” and “Deep Dive: BritBox,” to explore and uncover just a small sample of what’s out there.

The series already led to some excellent discoveries but I am in no way ultra-thorough about covering the international scene (though you should see my Netflix suggestion page these days).

This is why I’m always open to the many great suggestions from readers who leave ideas in the comment sections, but unless I action them immediately (as in, writing the title down or making a reference in my Notes app) such things are easily lost.

But the other day I was reading recommended-follow Rick Ellis and his “Too Much TV” newsletter right here on Substack and along with covering, well, everything, he also is tapped into the international market and he wrote this recently:

“I spend a lot of time writing about television produced outside the U.S. and it can be a challenging task. Unless it’s one of the rare high-profile projects, most international TV shows and movies just get dumped onto American streaming services. No screeners for critics, very little info at all about the shows. Netflix is notorious for this behavior, but Disney is increasingly not much better. There is a growing pipeline of original Disney programming (or high-profile licensed locally produced shows) that are released globally across Disney+ and on either Disney+ or Hulu in the U.S. And for the most part, the shows just appear with little fanfare and no advanced coverage. Which is too bad, because a lot of those shows are quite good.

Ellis went on to give a shout out to “A Shop For Killers,” and with THAT title, I was already interested.