Okay so I’m gonna preface this by saying I have read both the WEBTOON Sweet home and the prequel Shotgun boy so for this second season I had to fill in a lot of gaps with this knowledge so If I was a kdrama only I would probably rate this season lower- now to the review…
Season one covered basically the entire sweet home WEBTOON like basically everything except a few monsters and the firefighter/special ops woman was a new addition but they were generally pretty faithful to the original and that’s what made it so good the WEBTOON was already a masterpiece they didn’t have to do too much and the cgi was actually pretty good for a lot of the monsters it was very entertaining and where we left off at the end of the season made us very hype for this second season but sadly it didn’t deliver in a lot of aspects
Season 2 left us with more questions than answers and not the good kind of questions such as how did hyun even escape the facility after the fight with the other MH in the gangsters body sorry I’m bad with names haha but we just all of a sudden see him not a stone? And helping the firefighter take care of her baby and why their eyes turn white now instead of black? And why so much story time of these random survivors I did not like the like bunker/underground shelter story they had going I was not connected to any of those characters and felt pretty uninterested in it especially since all of the actual fan favorites died before they got there. And hyuks sister was cool with the soldier but also only really cared when she met up with hyun and was interested to see if she was actually gonna find hyuk but I did like the ending with hyuk coming out the egg, but I wish they explored more of the egg ppl aka like the evolved monster humans bc in the WEBTOON we see more of their like power that isn’t necessarily a power but they are protected by the monsters as they are the pinnacles of their being and the monsters r ppl who couldn’t overcome their desires and those who did reach the second stage so I’m glad hyuk did and he will definitely become a mastermind to the monsters but we start to see in this season the monsters organizing and working together and strategizing but they didn’t really show us like much of that since we see hyuk come out the egg at the end so now he isn’t the one who was controlling them so who was it?? And another thing the cg was much worse this season the monsters were looking obviously placed and fake and the monsters were lacking originality like why were there robot machine monsters like what desire is that the only monster we saw with some originality was the face monster who actually was from the WEBTOON but this season was entirely written from production aside from the egg ppl and hyuk being “alive” so there was a definite drop in quality since carnby kim wasn’t writing or designing the monsters for this. Such a shame but I do want to see how they do with s3 for this but the military emphasis was a bit boring especially since they didn’t even use the whole shotgun boy aspect of the origin of the monsterification or how there was already like a lab of people that had specialized ammo to kill the monsters that shotgun boy was using like what happened to all that I think if they had that like the lab people we see were those people it would of made it more compelling since they started this with “zero” and “one” who ultimately made it happen to all humans to reach their evolution so they definitely have some work to do!!