Netflix renews hit Korean drama Sweet Home for 2 more seasons
Netflix has been on a spree announcing renewals of several hit K-drama shows. After Squid Game, K-drama series Sweet Home has been renewed not just for one but two more seasons.
Sweet Home was released on Netflix in 2020. The monster genre series foreshadowed the success of Squid Game in a way. What's more, the drama about a virus outbreak came at a time when the whole world was going through a different virus outbreak - Covid-19.
괴물과 인간이 뒤섞인 세상. 이 처절한 사투에 송강, 이진욱, 이시영, 고민시, 박규영에 이어 유오성, 오정세, 김무열, 진영이 새롭게 합류합니다. ‘스위트홈’ 시즌2&3 오직 넷플릭스에서. #스위트홈 #송강 #이진욱 #이시영 #고민시 #박규영 #유오성 #오정세 #김무열 #진영 #넷플릭스 #Netflix pic.twitter.com/IEjGYAm37u
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Details:
- So far, the production of the two seasons has been announced. There is no release date given yet.
- Fans will see Song Kang reprise his role as the lonely high-schooler Hyun Soo, Lee Jin-wook will return as the mysterious Sang Wook, Lee Si-young will don her role as firefighter Yi Kyung, Go Min-si will return as Eun Yoo, and Park Gyu-young as Ji Soo.
- We last saw Song Kang and Go Min-si together in the drama Love Alarm.
- The new seasons will also introduce some new characters - Yoo Oh-sung will play the Special Forces captain, Oh Jung-se will play a lab scientist, Kim Moo-yeol and Jinyoung will play members of the Special Forces.
- The story will pick up where it left off in the first season.
죽어버리거나, 아니면 괴물로 살아남거나..
— Netflix Korea｜넷플릭스 코리아 (@NetflixKR) June 14, 2022
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Plot: Riding on the success of several gory, dystopian and zombie genre series, Sweet Home follows a lonely high-schooler who moves into an apartment just before a virus outbreak. The virus outbreak turns greedy and malicious humans into man-eating monsters (not zombies). Hyun Soo and the other residents are trapped in the apartment, left alone to fend for themselves.
In the first season, the protagonist Hyun Soo (Song Kang) manages to escape the apartment in Green Home where he’s trapped in. But he’s captured by the military. The new seasons are likely to tell the stories of how the firefighter Lee Kyung, Eun Yoo, and Ji Soo survived the outbreak.
Before Squid Game, it was Sweet Home that became the first K-drama to top in the top 10 chart at number 3. We don’t know who is more in love with K-Dramas - Netflix or us, but we sure are not complaining about the revivals.