Checkered Shirt Season 2 (2025)

Finally, success.

Checkered Shirt succeeded better where most in this area faltered, they delivered believable performances. Building on the open ending from S1, Han Gyeol and Jeong U, after making plans, lost touch with each other and it took five years to reconnect. Dong Ho and Yu Bin are great together. Visually they compliment each other and felt natural in all stages of their relationship.

The script at times was a little repetitive. The scenery in accordance with the budget and I will add, it was a bonus to see them outside enclosed spaces. This added a bit of reality to it.

Yu Bin has been building a catalogue with his performances, the last two I'm not a fan but he did show variety. With this I will say, he's back on top as finally we saw the depth of raw emotion he can tap into. Great.

Dong Ho, having only seen him in Blossom Campus, upgraded. Throughout this series, I was very intrigued by his reserved performance. What hid behind those silent eyes? He did better here. Would love to see more of him.

Sukfilm has returned to what they previously did well and that is hiring the best actors, building on their rapport and sticking to a formula that works. The scripts still needs some work to get there without unnecessary clutter and repetitions. They did well with S1 and S2 with this one.

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A sequel that could've been solved in five minutes

I do not think Checkered Shirt needed a sequel. Finishing S1 I thought it was necessary, having finished S2, nope.

The main reason it needed more was because of the cliffhanger, but I just watched just over 60 minutes of footage for a resolution and conclusion that could have been handled with a phone call. I refuse to accept the story they gave us, because what do you mean "you couldn't see him and your phone broke"?

That is a terrible excuse and I do not accept it.

They used this story (it's them, five years later by the way), as a way of introducing angst and character development, which fine, but I really did not like the resolution that came with the excuse, it gave them character but felt like a last ditch attempt.

I guess what I'm trying say is, it was nice, but a misunderstanding is not plot and we need to stop using it that way. Anyway it was cute and kind of angsty and pretty short so not bad :)

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