Is this really it?
I had been anticipating the release of a second season for a few years, sweet home being one of my favourite shows, upon finding out that it was finally happening I was super excited. And it was great! For about three episodes. I was really interested to see where it would go. It seemed like how the humans could be worse than monsters was going to an important theme. Maybe something about the abuse and control of the army, that’s what it seemed to be building up in those opening episodes.But then it kinda fell apart. I found myself comparing it to Peninsula (Train To Busan sequel) a lot, it suffered from a lot of the same same things. It might not be terrible on its own, but it doesn’t hold up to the initial media.
I got bored and lost interest pretty quickly, I didn’t really care about anything that was happening on screen anymore. It felt messy. I had no emotional investment in these characters, the originals that I did care about were buried in all the show tired to do, if they weren’t simply buried.
I also felt we lost what made the monsters so unique, they stem from the desires of people, but now we’re seeing packs of the same monster? Where’s the nuance!
It didn’t feel like I was watching the same show as I was last season. It doesn’t help that most of our beloved characters were dead in the first few episodes. I don’t watch this show expecting my favourite characters to survive, but it was upsetting seeing them being discarded so quickly so they could make an almost entirely new cast. It lost everything that made me love it. It turned into something generic. People running away from monsters and trying to survive, what post-apocalyptic media hasn’t done that already.
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Utterly Disapointing
This show was so underwhelming, I checked it out because it’d been compared to the likes of Squid Game and Alice in Borderland but it’s nothing like them.It centres around eight characters who I frankly couldn’t care less about. They’ve been left to their own devices with limited but continuous resources. There aren’t any real stakes, they have an out if they really want it.
There was no plot by the second half, just violence, it was just pure torture porn.
There are so many better shows that show people at their lowest or whatever this show was trying to do.
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Not bad but not new
This show is good if you're looking for something light hearted and easy to watch. It's not doing anything new but it's also not doing anything wrong. I found it a little boring for my tastes, but I'm not in high school anymore. I probably would have eaten it up a few years ago. It's a good beginner BL, it cute with minimial drama up until the last few episodes.It seems with most media that involves love triangles I always prefer the person who doesn't get picked and this show was no exception.
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Not what I was expecting
Tw// Self HarmBased on everything I'd seen about this show I was expecting a cute run of the mill BL, thats what the description promised after all, but after the third episode I ended up dropping it. The continuos harasment of Rak was uncomfortable and Khram's self harm was really upsetting for both the content and how Rak was blaming himself. The show started off strong and while the acting could be cringey it had potential but I just wasn't willing to watch past this point.
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