Weak Hero Class 2

Season 2 Seriously Delivered

I just finished Weak Hero Class Season 2, and wow it did not disappoint. i already loved season one so much.So I was really excited about this. The story picks up in a new setting with new faces, but it keeps that intense, datk vibe that made Season 1 so amazing and catching. I really appreciated how it dove even deeper into the characters this time, especially Si-eun. He’s still sharp and calculating, but now you really feel the emotional weight he’s carrying.

One thing that really stuck with me was the emotional depth this season isn’t just about fights (though those are still brutal and very well done). It’s about the scars left behind. si-euns guilt hit especially hard. Watching him try to navigate that pain and make sense of what happened added a lot of heart to the story.

Overall, it's deep, smart, and emotionally heavy in the best way. Definitely one of the strongest dramas I’ve ever watched. i'm really excited for season three and have high hopes

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A Violent Delinquent Repeating a Grade

--Review--

Like the main character, season 1 was like a promising student that had abruptly suspended his studies. There was obvious potential‒high production value, slick action choreography, and excellent acting‒but the student had to drop out before completing the year (or story). So I gave it a high score. But in reality, it was an incomplete grade with the hope that there was a good reason S1 ended without a proper resolution and that S2 would complete the story.

But noooo, it turns out that the student simply abandoned his studies and is now at a new school. And he's now doing the exact same shit as the previous year and reusing the same essays and slick-looking incomplete assignments. Except this year, he's not even putting as much effort into the 'promising student schtick'‒with worse plot logic and character development. As it turns out, there wasn't even a legit reason for him to drop out last year‒he bullied and beat up some kid.

Because boys and girls, that's where we are. Your taciturn hero who confronts bullies is actually a violent bully asshole himself, and one who is scamming you for sympathy. I gave it 3 episodes before this became painfully evident. First we fuckall'ed the characters and unfinished story from S1. Then we get the same nasty bullies, the braindead miscommunication leading to the fight between ML and the basketball guy, and then another superfighter-protector-cooldude creating another wholesome friend group, and my gosh a new Big Bad from outside the school. Even the Taekwando guy from S1 can tell you he's seen this movie before, and he's in a coma.

Beneath the slick production and acting, the story is just a psychotic mess to provide repeated excuse for brutal fight scenes, which the show does very well. And in between those head crackers are flimsy ploys and backstories to scam you for sympathy‒you know, the same pity-me story used last year with a few names changed here and there. But in the end, it's just a shallow disguise on top of the same story, same fights, same character dynamics, and I suspect, yet another excuse to repeat the scam another year.

So really, this show is just the personification of a violent delinquent thug repeating a grade. Oh, he's also running around with sob stories scamming people for money. Because he's just another derivative henchman working for the newest TV crime syndicate called Netflix that's plundered its way into hundred billion dollar valuation while sucking dry what little creativity remains in TV and film. I look forward to this being renewed for 5 more seasons.

--Category Ratings--

- Overall - 5.5 (6 - 0.5 for insulting the viewer with these lazy Netflix money grabs)
- Plot - 5
- Theme / Message / Impact - 6
- Acting - 8.5
- Audio/Music - 8.5
- Visuals - 9
- Rewatch - 5
- Topic Accessibility - 8
- Subtitle quality - 8

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Weak Hero

I think season 2 was left upended in the hopes that they would probably make a season 3 if the chance arises, that's also why it was kind of unsatisfying. I still enjoyed, quite literally binged it in one sitting. While the emotions were really intense, they struggled with the story line a little bit.

The fight scenes were really intense in this one. Like I was really worried about them just walking off after every battle. They needed to check themselves into a clinic since they were worried about going to a hospital or something, there had to have been internal bleeding at some. Gettiny hit on the head with a metal pipe is no joke and he just walked it off. Insane!!

Also, they cut a huge chunk of the webtoon out. There was a particular character who was like really strong but unproblematic and we didn't even get to see him.
Hopefully, they do the next season more justice and it doesn't just turn to another netflix cash cow.

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Honestly? (Spoilers Waarning!)

EP4 fight!!!! Pure madness, Desperation, Sadness, crushing Guilt and raw GRIEF. I felt it all!! best scene of the series!!!

Till EP5 it was really good, but somehow it lost its spark. I was bored most of the time, which I did not expect, given how excited I was for Class 2.

The last fight was BRUTAL, like whaat?!

When SuHo woke up and said, "How's it going?" to Si-Eun, I felt like crying because "lately I've tried other things, but nothing can capture the sting" they're the CANON!!

I also felt really bad for Na Baek-Jin. He deserved a better life, and I have a feeling Baku is going to carry a lot of guilt over what happened. My heart already hurts for him.

Hopefully, there will be a Class 3 with the same cast (and with SuHo!!) but fingers crossed for a stronger storyline next time.

The storyline definitely stumbled, but the actors? They absolutely carried the show with their performances.

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A Powerful Follow‑Up Season

Wow! If I loved the first season, I loved this one even more! The friendship between Si Eun and Jun Tae is wonderful. From my point of view, Si Eun didn't want anything to do with Jun Tae in the first few episodes, but then she changed her mind because she saw herself in him during that fight in class and decided to be Jun Tae's Su Ho. In addition to this, let's not forget Baku and Gotak, who are also fabulous, and together these four make a really nice and likeable quartet!

Now let's talk a little about the series in general: what I liked most is that the shots in this season are never from behind, meaning we never see Si Eun from behind because those shots in the first season are from Su Ho's point of view, meaning we see him looking at him. Another thing is that Si Eun feels guilty about the coma of the person she loves most and therefore does not want to have other friends so as not to make them suffer. Finally, he always goes to the hospital but never enters and stays outside the room, but writes to her every day as if it were his diary.

SPOILER ALERT
If I had to choose my favourite scene from this season, I would find it really difficult, but if I had to mention the two that impressed me the most, I would say:
-the scene where Jun Tae calls Si Eun and tells her that it's not her fault that Su Ho is in a coma. This scene is really powerful because no one had told her that yet, not even her parents, so she really needed to hear those few words from Jun Tae, and in fact, she decides to stay in the end;
-the final scene, of course, the scene where she meets Su Ho is wonderful; because, as we understand from the first season, Si Eun doesn't like running, but once she finds out that Su Ho is awake, she runs faster than ever. Then, of course, the meeting scene is just as I expected. We see Si Eun smiling again because the only person she smiles for is finally well, and then Su Ho asks who those three are and Si Eun says, “My FRIENDS”, and Su Ho smiles because his worst fear was that Si Eun would withdraw into himself.

I'm eagerly awaiting the third season, even though I'm a little scared, hahah.

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Great Genre Great Acting

I'll start off by saying I'm biased. I'm a lover of this genre. Wind Breaker, Crows Zero, High x Low. There's something about the "We're barely doing actual school and focusing on gang rivalries." That I find extremely entertaining. Anything in the genre is automatically holding my entire attention by the throat. The elements of found family and the tropes that the characters often take on from the goofy happy leader who can kick everyone's ass to the nerd who can barely fight but is the most loyal and passionate. I love it.

Everyone did such a good job continuing the story. I lived that the character development was careful and considerate to show parallel experiences to deepen the bonds of friendship in the plot. I'm so excited to see what comes next.

Also, Park Jihoon is such a dynamic and charismatic actor. Everyone did a really great job, but there's just something about his hard work and execution that really carries this show to a new level of entertainment.

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Crying, puking, throwing up

Ok, So I`ve let this one marinate for a few weeks now to collect my thoughts. And my only conclusion is that I think this one holds up very well to the first season, I might have enjoyed watching whc2 a bit more than the first season (*Gasp*). But at the same time, I think this season makes the first season better? Not in a comparatively way, but I think this season adds to the first . I have spent the last few weeks just thinking about WHC and I have so many thoughts that I will not be able to fit into this review, but below are some main points.

What I think WHC2 does well:
- The best thing this season does is incorporating the first season into this one. I was a bit nervous when season 2 was announced that they the two seasons would feel like 2 separate shows, but this is not the case at all. As a viewer, you almost feel like Sieun, where he still lives in the past to a certain extent, trying to move forward with his life with his new friends but not quite able to do so. I genuinely believe that the best thing about this season is how Suho truly hunts the narrative through-out the season, he might not be there, but his presence is so strong and that is just great storytelling.
- I loved the new side characters. I was a bit reluctant in the first few episodes, but they really grew on me. I especially loved the character of Juntae, and his friendship with Sieun is a bit underrated imo.
- Loved how Sieun fought this season. Saw a few people complain that it doesn’t follow the original source material, but I love that he was just fighting like a feral squirrel. I mean, the guy is deeply depressed, so I think the fighting style fitted his overall state-of-mind.

What could have been done better:
- This season is clearly more plot-driven compared to character driven like S1. So you do lose some of those connections to the characters. For example, I feel like we didn´t really understand the villain’s motive, like why?
- I didn´t think about this as was watching but I´ve seen people point it out and I must agree; some of the makeup and lighting looks a bit odd? Can´t pinpoint what is off, but there is something.
- I´m sorry but you can NOT tell me that these guys are high school students. When Baekjin put that school uniform on I cackled.

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I liked S2 better than S1, maybe because of the actors or something, but there’s more to it than just that.

In the first season, Beom Seok's character was honestly way too annoying for me to handle. I get that he was being abused at home, and that's tragic, but it still doesn't give him the right to act like a bully to everyone else. Watching him cross lines and manipulate people while also being a victim felt… frustrating. It made me think, victimizing villains doesn't make their actions okay. Just because someone suffers doesn't mean we should excuse everything they do. That's why, even though I understood his pain, I hated his character in S1... it was hard to sympathize with him fully.

Then comes S2, and I immediately felt a difference. The same manipulation trick was there.. Baek Jin being controlled but this time it didn't feel as unfair or annoying because there was at least one character who didn't just stand by and watch it happen. Park Humin actually called it out and didn't let it slide, which made the story feel more balanced. I think that made the show so much more engaging for me this time around. You could see the tension, the conflict, and the moral consequences more clearly, and it was satisfying to watch characters take responsibility instead of just being victims or villains in isolation.

The characters felt less one dimensional, the story didn't make excuses for bad behavior, and the dynamics between them were more intense and believable. That's why, for me, S2 definitely won over S1.

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more action, less connection

i hate comparing things, but there are a lot of things different this time around from editing to writing. let me start with the editing. there were two weird cuts connected to really personal scenes. firstly, when others find out about sieun's car accident. instead of seeing their actual reaction to the revelation, we see them running to the hospital. second time the same thing happened was when suho woke up and we probably got one of the most underwhelming first time meeting scenes of all time. that dialogue deserves a death sentence. why did the writer decide to have others join sieun and suho's reunion where they didn't say a WORD? we will never know. also, for the sake of the bond between the friend group, i would've loved a scene where sieun actually opens up about his past to the other guys. was it that hard? other thing that bothered me were over choreographed fight scenes. some looked downright silly. on the bright side, most of the introduced characters were interesting, and i quite liked them. i also liked overall schools' gang plot or whatever you like to call it. most importantly, i'm happy that sieun smiled more than once turning this season.

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Perfect series

everything abt this season is great , i only hoped Suho and Seun would at least hug after all this wait..it was really worth watching.i liked how Seun kept on trying to change himself for Suho; he made new friends BEC OF SUHO, tried to protect other students BEC OF SUHO..it's like Suho kept Seun alive even while in a coma
imo actors chosen for each role were the best.Bako had that kind of character that is both serious with those who hurt him,and joyful with his friends..PLUS that he was soo patient with Seun and gave him the space he needs and was understanding the reason Seun behaved like he did (like he doesn't want more friends) , and in the end became friends ..Gotak in my opinion also has a character similar to Suho .. the hairstyle , how cool he is , being a saviour , his fighting skills and all. Jeung tae also played the role of a weak friend so well
this is just so perfect , i highly recommend watching it

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So much better than Season 1

First of all I really don’t understand the people who consider season 1 as brilliant! 😂 Apart from the first 4 episodes not much about season 1 was brilliant!!!
The characters mostly sucked and some of the characters from the beginning never came back which was sad. The story and motivation of the characters was lacking (e.g.: Beom-Seok and why he felt so much hatred towards Su-ho was illogical and annoying which was sad bcs I really didn’t wanna hate Beom-seok bcs I pitied him but in the end I hated him so much!)
The fighting scenes sucked too! it was just mindless kicking and loads of “shibal” exclamations… the violence was mostly boring unless Su-Ho was the one fighting.
And then the end: The worst end ever!!!! I was seriously not happy!!! But I couldn’t just give up on Su-Ho my boy so I ofc immediately watched season 2 as soon as it came out and OMG!!!! I literally finished it in 3 days!!!! Here is why I liked it better than season 1:

1. The new characters were just soooooo much better 😍😍😍I loved all of the three new boys!!! They all had their own unique traits!!! Especially Baku!!! What an amazing character!!! I hope we will see more of them!!! Also Hyun-Tak! Actually I liked the two of them a bit more than Si-Eun 😅
Not only the new friends but also the new villains were awesome!!!!! Baek-Jin was brilliant!!!! To be honest I really wanted to know more about him! As well as that hot psychopath Seong-Je!!!! I lowkey wanna see him fight Su-Ho if there is a Season 3!!!

2. The story line was way more intriguing. Ofc it sounds very unrealistic like why would a gangster use high school studenta for his dirty jobs. Also most of them didnt look like or behave like high school students at all xD That was a bit unrealistic tbh and partly the reason for the point deduction.
The ending was almost perfect tho! I did predict that either Baku or Baek-Jin would die and I guess I was right…

3. The fighting scenes were insane!!! The quality has suddenly improved so much compared to season 1!!! I am so glad they invested more in that!!! Tbh I feel like there were less fighting scenes in total but the existing ones had a higher quality.

Some thinga I thought were unnecessary were Baku joining the Union for a short time and Si-Eun’s accident… I wish they replaced those scenes with more background information on Baku and Baek-Jin.

Other than that I loved season 2 SOOOO MUCHHHHH more!!! Hoping there will be season 3 but judging on how it ended i assume there will be another season…

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Much the same as the 1st Weak Hero, but...

I liked the fact it wasn't focussed on the school environment so much, very few classroom scenes. Gave it a more mature feel. I liked the speed of the story, how it played out. I would have liked to see some things that we didn't & would like to have not seen some things we did but no deal breakers. I really enjoyed the series, class 1 & class 2. Park Ji Hoon is so very talented & versatile. The cast impressed me with their acting & there are so many of them!

Great work, congrats to all the crew. Can't wait for the next project. Tastefully Yours is about to air in a few days so I'll check it out.

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