I enjoyed the first season of Netflix's Korean monster series "Sweet Home" though I'd hoped for more clarity on the rules of the show than we got. This second season, whilst I never considered stopping watching it, takes the series into increasingly wild places that I wasn't expecting, and didn't particularly care for.
Cha Hyun-Soo (Song Kang) now using his half-monster strength, battles Sang-wook (Lee Jin-wook) as they head towards a safe zone. The remaining humans from the Green Home apartments are also shipped towards the Safe Zone, specifically a sports Stadium. The infection though is spreading, and the quarantine and isolation procedures are harsh. The military are led by Master Sergeant Tak In-hwan (Yu Oh-seong) and he soon comes to learn that the remaining government have extreme contingency plans in place.
A common criticism I have of a series is that it moves too slow and pads out its story with unnecessary filler episodes. My criticism of this second season of "Sweet Home" is that it does entirely the opposite of that. Seemingly every episode has an undetermined time jump forward and it introduces a bunch of new characters and a new storyline. I was, it's fair to admit, quite lost for a lot of it.
It's also a lot more generic apocalypse now, with the monsters mostly an existential threat, than a specific one and much more of the bickering between scientist, the public and the military you see in something like "Day of the Dead". When they do turn up though, they also appear to be much more standard creatures, rather than the specific adaptations that they had in the first run, and are now bland CGI efforts too.
It didn't shake me off entirely though. I found if I wasn't digging a particular aspect of the story, or a character then I just waited a bit and they were either killed, off or the story just went elsewhere. It's a definite downgrade on the first run, but I suspect I'll be back for the third season this summer. Unless that's significantly better though, I hope that's the end of the series.