The Uncanny Counter: what to expect from season 2 of Netflix’s fantasy K-drama
- Reports suggest the cast will be back in front of the cameras around September, with new episodes airing early next year
- While new threats are sure to emerge when the ‘counters’ return, we may also have a few more relationships spicing up the plot
Hit Korean drama The Uncanny Counter wrapped up its run on January 24, but fans need not worry – everyone’s favourite demon hunters are set to return for a second season.
Based on the webtoon sensation Amazing Rumor (or Amazing So-mun) by Jang Yi, The Uncanny Counter focuses on four people who run a noodle shop by day and hunt demons when they’re off the clock.
Jo Byung-gyu stars as So-mun, a high schooler who has had a limp ever since a car crash eight years earlier in which his parents perished. One day a spirit from Yung, the afterworld, enters his body and he joins the “counters” – Mo-tak (Yu Jun-sang), Ha-na (Sejeong) and Mae-ok (Yum Hye-ran) – who heal his leg.
Kicking off on November 28 last year on Korean cable network OCN and Netflix (which licensed it globally), the series was an instant hit and quickly became the highest-rated programme in OCN’s history. Early in its run, viewers were already clamouring for a second season and it would seem that the powers that be have been listening, with OCN confirming on January 25 that a second season is coming.
Korean shows have traditionally been one-season affairs, but this has slowly begun to change as the medium has evolved to adapt itself to modern tastes. So it should come as no surprise that The Uncanny Counter was also conceived as a one-season series and the showrunners only began to consider turning it into a multi-season programme after it had become a hit.