Disney’s superhero K-drama Moving is running circles around the MCU

polygon.com:

It’s a weird time to be a fan of superhero storytelling in the U.S. On the one hand, it’s still the dominant genre of many of the biggest films and TV shows being made by major Hollywood studios. On the other, most of the superhero fare that has actually made it to a big or small screen near you in the last few years has been uninspired, predictable, and more interested in not pissing anyone off than becoming someone’s favorite story.

In part because of the current state of Hollywood, most of the best superhero storytelling that is happening right now is international TV and film. The best superhero show currently “airing on television,” for example, is produced by Disney, but it’s neither a Marvel story nor on Disney Plus (at least not in the U.S., where it is being released in weekly bunches on Disney-majority-owned streamer Hulu). It’s a multigenerational, multigenre superhero saga, made by the Korean TV industry, and it’s running narrative circles around its MCU-set Disney Plus cousins.

Moving (무빙) starts small, mostly as a supernatural coming-of-age drama. It follows Kim Bong-seok (Lee Jung-ha), a sweet teenage boy living with his mom in a sleepy suburb, desperately working to keep his supernatural power a secret. When Bong-seok’s emotions get the better of him, which happens a lot for a teen boy, he begins floating into the air.

The show’s early episodes articulate the work that goes into keeping Bong-seok’s power in check. His protective mom, Mi-hyeon (Han Hyo-joo), loads him down with weights in the morning, and makes sure he is always eating as much as possible to keep him heavy. When Bong-seok feels his emotions start to rise, he recites the digits of pi (incorrectly, we eventually learn) to try to distract