Sweet Home on Netflix: seasons 2 and 3, new stars for monster K-drama series

Police University’s Jung Jin-young and Kim Moo-yeol from Juvenile Justice are among new cast members joining the Korean survival series for seasons 2 and 3
Fans can also expect a wider franchise universe and even more stunning visuals as the monster-fighting residents who escaped their building face a new problem

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Pierce Conran

Published: 7:15pm, 18 Jun 2022

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Fans of the monster survival series Sweet Home have known for a while that a second season was in the works, but this week brought with it even happier tidings: the hit Netflix drama has officially been renewed for both a second and third season.

Sweet Home season 1 stars Song Kang, Lee Jin-uk, Lee Si-young, Ko Min-si and Park Kyu-young are all slated to return, and joining them in the show will be Yoo Oh-seong, Oh Jung-se, Kim Moo-yeol and Jung Jin-young. All nine wore black shirts emblazoned ‘Sweet Home II+III’ in a Netflix social media post.

Lee Eung-bok, who will return to direct both seasons, says: “Season 2 will include a new setting, and the technical details that we couldn’t refine in Season 1 will be further honed.”

Netflix teased a wider franchise universe and even more stunning visuals, suggesting that the hit show may avail of a bigger budget in light of the success of its first season and that of other Netflix hits.

Based on the popular webtoon of the same name by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan, Sweet Home launched on Netflix in December 2020 and became the first of many Korean shows to crack the top 10 in the United States, where it reached third spot.

The story focuses on the residents of a derelict residential tower who are forced to band together to fight off monsters. Song plays teenager Cha Hyun-soo, who becomes infected with a monster-making disease ravaging the land but somehow manages to fight it and use it against other monsters.

Cast members of Sweet Home wear shirts promoting its second and third seasons. Photo: Netflix

The high-concept survival drama delighted viewers with its memorable visuals and several popular cast members. Season one ended when Hyun-soo and other surviving residents escaped their building, only to be confronted with a new problem on the outside: the military.

Yoo Oh-seong, a veteran of classic films such as the gangster hit Friend, joins the cast as a sergeant heading up a special unit charged with eradicating the monsters, while Juvenile Justice and Grid actor Kim Moo-yeol will play his second-in-command.

Also in the unit will be a guard played by Jung Jin-young, the former singer with K-pop group B1A4 who recently starred in the drama Police University.

Meanwhile, versatile character actor Oh Jung-se of It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, When the Camellia Blooms and Jirisan will appear as a doctor specialising in vaccine research.

Song Kang has been very busy after his turn in Sweet Home, appearing in Navillera, Nevertheless, Forecasting Love and Weather and season two of Love Alarm, which also co-starred Ko Min-si. Lee Si-young was recently seen in Grid, Park Kyu-young co-starred in The Devil’s Judge and Lee Jin-uk last appeared in Bulgasal: Immortal Souls.

Sweet Home is one of several Korean hits that have recently been renewed by Netflix, with D.P., Squid Game and All of Us Are Dead also confirmed to be getting second seasons.

In addition, Hellbound is rumoured to be getting a follow-up season, while the makers of Kingdom, the original Netflix Korea hit, are also working on a feature-length prequel special, Kingdom: Crown Prince, following the template set by last year’s Ashin of the North.

A still from Sweet Home season 1. Photo: Netflix

Sweet Home season 1 is streaming on Netflix.

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