Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hope on the Street’ on Prime Video, a…

The title of Hope on the Street (Prime Video) cleverly aligns the professional nom de guerre of BTS’s j-hope with the title of his new solo single and the rapper, singer and dancer’s professed adoration for street dancing. Directed by Jun-Soo Park with creative input from j-hope himself, the six episodes of Hope on the Street will release weekly on Prime and feature j-hope and special guests like South Korean dance champion Boogaloo Kin as they pop and lock on a global scale, hitting Seoul, Osaka, Paris, New York City, and j-hope’s hometown of Gwangju, where a young Jung Ho-seok learned his earliest moves.     Opening Shot: “I started out dancing,” j-hope tells his interviewer. “Dancing’s what opened up the doors for me. So I thought I should look back on the dances I’ve done before.” The Gist: Before he made his Big Hit debut as a K-pop idol, before he became a highlight of BTS’s contingent of rappers, and before he hit the Hot 100 as a solo artist with the Becky G collabo “Chicken Noodle Soup,” j-hope was just a kid who loved to dance. “I had forgotten all about it,” he says early on in Hope on the...