TheRetiredGodOfWar

to me it felt like no scene had any weight, even when that kid at the beginning collapsed, it never felt like a serious situation, from that point on they tried to make everything a joke and failed even to do that, season 1 was so good because it knew how to balance the serious and the funny and jokes for the most part landed.
Season 2 had no soul

I 100% agree

What the hell was this season 2?
I Finally managed to finish it, and it was such a chore, I felt like I owed it to the first season to give this one a fair shot, but it got more and more stupid and ridiculous as time went on.

This was a complete deconstruction of every character from season 1, none of them behaved like an actual human being, everyone felt like caricatures of themselves, from father kim to yohan, it felt like the writer and director had a vendetta against them and had to make them as unlikable and cringe as possible, and that brings it to my next point: this drama was hands down the cringiest drama I have ever seen in my entire life.

The comedy never properly landed, the action was mid at best, the plot was just the Father Kim team bursting at the seems with characters that the writer had no idea what to do with against the stupidest, most incompetent set of villains in dramaland history.

in comparison, the first season managed to evoke so many emotions out of the audience, the action scenes felt heavy and impactful, the comedy was perfect and on point and the plot for the most part was quite believable, in S2 the same characters that the writer had no idea what to do with had actual superpowers, like WTH? who made this stupid decision?
all in all S2 managed to fail to do the bare minimum of what S1 excelled at.
3/10



PS: as someone that was begging for a season 2 for a long time, I wanted to personally apologize to everyone here🥺

No idea, I've been told the same thing but when I ask them for an explanation, they either disappear or try to attack by insults, they never have a proper explanation for their hate.

me too, I don't want them to be enemies

Well, the drama never really addressed which religion it was basing its premise on or if it did, I might have missed it. and it's not just in Christianity that considers suicide a sin, other religions consider it a sin too or at the very least something that should be avoided, in Buddhism for example they believe that suicide does not end an individual's suffering because their suffering is a result of their karma, and by ending themselves they bring that karma into their next life.

Family Matters is on my list, but it's gonna be awhile until I get to it, I've heard great things though.

whoaaaaaaaaa indeed Pikachu, whoaaaaaaaaa indeed

It's not really horror, and you can tell when something's gonna happen so you're good, as someone whose heart does jump ropes when jumpscare happens, it didn't happen to me once.

Same, I was so scared of the women that could grow tall, but then I learned her story, and I was crying so much for her, and then her partner smashing her light; Chef's kiss🤯😍

PS: I'm currently watching fiery priest 2, and it's a very good Palate cleanser after such a heavy drama.

for sure, go right ahead.

Yeah that one makes more sense to me as well

Exactly, people seem to have forgotten how dumb he actually was and that he won due to luck and self sacrifice of a bunch of people.

Funny thing is that if he was acting all smart in S2, these same people that are complaining right now would be saying that: "this is so out of character for him"

Some people just like to complain 🤣

Got it thanks

are you talking about Bad-Memory Eraser being dog shit? was it that bad? cuz I was gonna watch it at some point.

don't consider what I'm saying as facts, but I interpreted that scene as two scenarios:

1. Ji Yeong's suicide was such a great sin that erased her from her loved one's memory and because of that she became resentful and obsessed at the end and began to haunt Hyeon Min.

2. my second theory makes less sense, but it's that Hyeon Min due to the injury he had suffered lost his memory of Ji Yeong and because of that he didn't have the will to exist for long in the afterlife, or to return to his body, Ji Yeong forced him to return by her own will but even alive he was broken and lost between two worlds and couldn't rememberer Ji Yeong and that caused Ji Yeong to be resentful and to haunt Hyeon Min.

I'm more in favor of the first theory, it makes much more sense to me.

Same thing happened to me, the sad truth of it is that I love to argue with people about Kdramas and to discuss our differing point of views, and even be proven wrong on few occasions, but the issue with these people over here is that they don't really have any sort of argument to back up their claims and because of that all they can do in response is to attack and label the people that are against them with horrible words and insults, but that's the level of their IQ, what more can we expect from them?😔

Of course, Gi Hun made all the wrong decisions when it came to how to maximize his revenge by using the money and that's exactly what makes squid game's writing so good, Gi Hun in S2 stayed true to his character and intelligence, if he had suddenly started acting all smart and making all the right decisions then he wouldn't be the Gi Hun we know, cuz in S1 he was a too-trusting naive idiot who managed to win the game by pure luck and chance, it would be out of character for him to now suddenly become a genius.

The superpower thing was stupid to me too but for a different reason, it was moronic because it took so long, time slowed and then it again slowly showed the emotions, it was so slow and monotonous I had to skip each time, and the writer also seemed to have forgotten about his ability halfway through the drama and besides him stopping the director villain dude from tampering with the beer, it didn't serve much purpose either.

Exactly🤣🤣🤣🤣