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Netflix has one of the best TV dramas of 2023 - press play on it to keep ahead of the cool kids.

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Dan Barrett
Jan 16, 2023
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Quietly launching on Netflix late last week was a new Japanese drama series The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House. It is exactly the sort of TV drama that you will hear trendy TV critics raising as an under-the-radar TV gem.

What you need to understand is: the show is really very good.

This quiet, adult drama is about two teenage girls who opt against …

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