Sweet Home Season 3 (2024)

Everything past season 1 sucks

Wow...I did not think this show could go from an absolute 10 in my heart, to one of the worst things I've ever seen.

For starters: Season 1 is flawless, perfect, I love it so much. The vibes are immaculate, the characters are perfect, the soundtrack slaps, it's strangely so comforting considering its dark themes, and it genuinely feels like a sweet home. I cared about all the characters, I cried when characters died, I wanted to know where the story would go, and I've rewatched it 4 times because I love it so much.

Season 2 went very quickly and steeply downhill. Hyunsu wasn't even in it, the monsters were nothing like season 1 and were instead generic stone things - and in the entirety of season 2 I think like MAYBE 3 people turned into monsters, which made everyone in the bunker feel useless for the story. It also hinted early on that the monsters aren't actually evil by showing the mom and baby monster, then completely dropped the idea a few episodes later (they weren't even mentioned in S3). They killed off basically all of the original characters from season 1 - which on its own made the entire season feel drastically different from the first, and it didn't even focus on the few characters that were left over from season 1 - Instead it focused primarily on the STUPID ARMY DUDES which I didn't care about in the slightest. And that weird lady in charge with her son in the basement (which was never explained or wrapped up AT ALL?!)
The only thing that I liked about season 2 was the fact that Sangwook was still alive inside of his body, but it wasn't even mentioned again for the rest of the season because HE WASN'T EVEN IN IT.
Also the soundtrack was so underwhelming - and by that I mean, completely unnoticeable. No Warriors, no Sweet Home, no Side by Side, no Monster Slayer...it was beyond disappointing.

Season 3 started out better than season 2 because "at least Hyunsu is in it." But when you actually think about it....no he's not. He's not acting like himself, he's not making any decisions of his own, he doesn't actually do anything to contribute to the story at all, and it never even properly explains what the hell is going on with him - that said, I am still glad Song Kang was at least in it this time, he did a fantastic job considering the horrible storytelling.
I was really excited for Eunhyeok to be back, but similar to Hyunsu's character, it wasn't really him - he had no emotions (literally), there was no heartfelt reunion with him and Eunyu (which was so anticlimactic after hyping it up so hard throughout the entire 2nd season), and literally nothing happened with his character at all. (Though I will say, the scene of him and Hyunsu fighting in the bus single handedly carried the entire season and is the only reason I rated this as high as I did.)
Throughout the season it kept having these "plot twist" moments that made it seem like we were supposed to be shocked but they were just the stupidest irrelevant things, like the fact that the pretty girl wasn't even actually the daughter of that crazy lady in charge...? And they just threw in the fact that the bad guy is Yikyeong's fiance and the reason he didn't recognize her in the first season is because he "didn't have his memories." It felt unplanned and rushed.
Also they killed off the remaining survivors from season 1 , save for the main characters, and Yeongsu turned into a monster (however, I did like that he became the same monster as his dad, that was a nice touch.)
The bad guy was working through the entire 2nd and 3rds seasons to go into his daughters body to be more powerful and blah blah blah, then he's in her body for all of like FOUR MINUTES then leaves and goes back into Sangwook's CRISPY FCKING BODY. Then Hyunsu cooks him over the fire like a fcking marshmallow and he leaves that body again, then some other stuff happens...AND HE GOES BACK INTO SANGWOOK'S BODY AGAIN (this time healed and beautiful, which I did appreciate) and the worst part of all is that it shows that Sangwook is alive and fighting inside, then the bad guy crawls BACK INTO THE FIRE and everyone just WATCHES IT HAPPEN?!?!?! ....so now Sangwook is dead?!?! After hinting at him being alive since the beginning and just destroying any hope that he could actually survive. He was fighting inside for over a year just to be burned in a fire...like what the hell, he's been through enough fire trauma and you end his story LIKE THAT?!?
And the daughter ended up having no purpose to the story at all. She just died...(I think??)

The ending of season 3 is possibly the worst thing ever...BUT, the thing that makes me even more upset is the fact that it WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT ENDING if the rest of season 2 and 3 were at all good. Hyunsu collecting survivors, humanity realizing not all monsters are bad and that they can coexist with each other - THAT is what I wanted the entire season to be about, that is what Sweet Home is SUPPOSED to be about - not irrelevant army dudes or creepy moms with monster sons or suspicious pastor guys or the creepy doctor or the daughter or neo-human-whatever-the-fcks. Sweet Home was supposed to be about surviving, and working together to create a "Sweet Home" to live happily. And season 2 and 3 were everything but that.

I still love every bit of season 1, but I will be completely erasing the last 2 seasons from my brain, and to me they do not exist canonically.

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Where do I even start....
Dislikes:
1) First and foremost sidelined the whole main cast. It was bad in Season 2 but it's worse in Season 3
2) Didn't care the slightest bit for the side characters. Get off my screen.
3) Lost the whole fucking plot.
4) Why did it take 7 episodes for Hyun su and Eun hyeok to reach the villain. Like...
5) It felt like they put him as villain because they didn't know who to put otherwise.
6) Ending fight looked like a kids play. Song Wook you are a king sir, but why did you arrive so late to your own body
7) Eun yu leaving and Hyun su let her HUH??!
8) Unnecessary plots
9) Why did she turn the kid into a monster. Like my blud was just saying anything why did you take him seriously 😭
10) Why is everybody and their momma scared of the Villain? He was a joke
11) Army plot was so boring
12) They roamed so freely on the streets I thought there should be monsters everywhere
Likes:
1) Eun hyeok
2) Eun yu
3) Hyun su
4) Yi kyung(Milf queen)
5) The acting was good tho. Everybody did a great job.

Still giving this 7.5 just because Season 1 is my comfort series and I liked the main trios chemistry

In Conclusion: Season 1 you will always be superior. You deserved a much better continuation. Sorry for the mess the director made.

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Phenomenal first season, then it was all downhill from there.

The first season was absolutely incredible, compelling and interesting. Season two was passable at best.And then the wheels come off. Season three was downright awful…ОК… I am too emotional. Season three is shaky and predictable. It actually kind of felt like a betrayal - it’s as if the show-runners crafted this great compelling show that captured me attention and suddenly and left me with a series that they clearly had no idea what to do with.

Let me start with the positives.
*The characters were very all unique and I especially liked Cha Hyeon Su and Seo I Su.
*This story had a very "layered" feel for me--the horror that never really goes away, it's always just around the corner.
*I loved the way the you had me questioning my own moral perspective. I mean, is it really so bad if the guy being hurt is a jerk?! I'm asking for a friend...
Unfortunately this is where the cons start to come one.
*The neohuman were slightly disappointing. I wish we got more story as to what was happening. It doesn’t need to be elaborate but they were a tad one dimensional to the story.
*Theres so much time spent hopping from one setting to the other that it all feels very repetitive.
* For me, the worst creative choice was the seemingly endless and painfully cliched story line of Pyeon Sang Uk. All the cliches were there and were milked for everything they were worth. It was agony.
*A bunch of random encounters with inexplicable things, starring the heroes so flat and interchangeable that you won't remember who is who, or, honestly, give a damn.
*Just running around in circles, repeating scenes all throughout, and without much of a clear timeline.

No.Just no.

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a slightly biased review

a little disappointed bc even though i also didn't love s2 i expected better from this one.
let me start by saying that I did enjoy this. it was entertaining and there were interesting plot twists. however i really liked s1 and got attached to the characters, and if you've seen this season you know only 3 of them remain by the end.
the characters that were introduced in s2 either died without contributing to the plot or just took a lot of screentime aimlessly (which led to an unfinished ending).
there were also no cute moments at all, which i feel like were what made me love s1 so much. it felt heavier, and the ending less rewarding than if it had happened, say, after a few cute sibling interactions. they tell you they're happy; they don't really show you. still, glad it was a happy ending.
and now we get to my bias: my favorite character (sang wook) died. i already expected him to be dead throughout the series, but then they say he isn't and give me hope, just to kill him off offscreen. i'm so biased towards him that if he had been alive i would have given this 4 stars. they also decided to personally attack me by putting a compilation of his scenes. pure trauma would not recommend

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Overall good ending to the story

I actually quite liked this season as well as the previous two. Of course, season 1 was superior in every way and was the most thrilling, however I don't get why so many viewers disliked the soldiers story plot - I found it even more interesting than the survivors' plot at times and the characters were written well (I even shed some tears in season 2&3) - but everyone has different taste...

Season 3 started off really good and was good overall, especially with the return of some characters. I just wished for more brutality towards the villains lol (the ending was just too soft for me).

Song Kang did amazing and actions/thrillers def suit him a lot! I wish we get to see him more often in these genres. Lee Jin Wook pulls off villains amazingly well *o* . Lee Do Hyun is such a pleasure to watch whatever role he takes <3 Go Min Si got so much better with time, i really enjoy watchinig her nowadays ^^ and many, many more actors (esp. the soldiers) showed excellect skills, so acting was definitely on point here, no complaints!

Almost all of my favorites survived, so it's an 8/10 in the end :D Joke aside, the theme was pretty new when the series started. There weren't many monster/apocalyptic/thriller/horror stuff to watch and Sweet Home was definitely something fresh for many people. I suggest watching it without too much expectations that it's gonna be a 10/10 (S1 def deserves a 10 but S2&3 focus more on the psychological aspect and suspence and less on the action so if you're looking for that, just try to hold on for the characters тт.тт)

P.S. I haven't read the webtoon, so my opinion is purely based on the Netflix series

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Wasted potential

A lot better than season 2 but its so insanely underwhelming.

It feels like all the creativity was poured into season 1. Season 2 gave the need for wanting more and I was really hoping season 3 would seal the drama knowing its the finale…but nothing.

So much characters were introduced on season 2 and season 3 continues from there but even after season 2 I was still not caring for the new side characters because they contributed nothing to the plot nor did they have well developed attributes that season 1 cast had.

Season 3 being the finale made me question the production team’s end goal because quite frankly I don’t see the vision they had in mind. Half the episodes felt like absolute fillers with the most interesting scenes being from Eunyu’s Sweet Home moment with Eunhyeok.

Season 3 gave screentimes to the main characters that didn’t receive it in season 2 but the story is really just not there.
So many scientific terms were born but never explained and the ending just feels HEAVILY underwhelming.

Cast and cgi ate tho.

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Season 1 is still superior

This season was a step up from season 2, but still nowhere near as good as the first season.
I did enjoy this season for what it was, even if the final few minutes were rushed and didn't fully explain what needed to be about neohumans and what happens to the main trio.
I do have some issues overall. Mainly, the plot. Season 2 built up so many random characters and plot points, seemingly for nothing because almost all of the new characters introduced were killed off and plot points disappeared.
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I guess I didn't fully understand Lee Jinwook's character and what he wanted. I thought that he wanted to find more special infectees, but then he killed all of them. So what was the point of him as the main villain? This leads me to my second main issue, which is lack of payoff. I think we all expected Hyunsu and Jinwook's character to have an epic final showdown, but we were denied that. The whole ending battle was lackluster. Not only that, but I thought that Hyunsu's ability to turn monsters back into humans was leading up to him kicking Jinwook from Yisu's head, but he spent all of a minute in there. It's weird. We're told that Hyunsu is special and we kinda see that, but not really. Really frustrating for someone who is suppose to be the main character.
Okay, so all of that to say, I did enjoy the first half of the season. It was fun to see the main trio back together (even if, as much as I loved having him back, bringing Lee Eunhyeok back didn't serve much purpose). I also really enjoyed Monster!Hyunsu. He was a fun change and the scene where he and Human!Hyunsu talk and become one was well filmed and cool, but perhaps should've bee longer and more built up.
Ultimately, both this season and 2 don't hold a candle to the first season, which had a focused plot, good character arcs, and more importantly HEART.

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A Satisfying Ending

Not a phenomenal ending, but satisfying one. This isn't going to be long. If you've gotten to season 3, you already know the story (you may need to check out the last episode of S2 as a refresher), the production value, and acting. The writing probably could have been a little crisper.

SH 3 brings a close to the all of the storylines that started in seasons 1 and 2. Technically, I think there were less monsters than there were in 2, because most of them...ok that's a spoiler.. let's just say the cut back on the effects budget. Season 3 strove to bring humanity back into the picture. In some ways it succeeded and in some it failed only because there was no reason to do so. Except for our main villain it tried to make everyone have some strand of likability and that was unnecessary. The season lacked tension and shock value.

For the most part it was entertaining, but it could have and should have been better. It was better than 2, but for me it just was nowhere near the brilliance of season 1.

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Maybe the world is coming to an end

This is a phrase that is certainly in the minds of many characters in the series, or at least it was, because the creator decided to kill almost everyone.

Regarding the story, the beginning is slow and there is almost no action. Not ironically, it only starts to get really cool to watch when Yi Kyeong shows up to save his daughter. As the girl is the core of the third season, this is when the series begins to move forward. I didn't understand the fight between Eunhyuk and Hyunsu inside the bus. I know they were getting weird and that Hyunsu was possessed by that crazy guy, but it didn't make any sense. I don't think even those who read the Webtoon understood it.

I found the ending strange, because, out of nowhere, Sang Wook managed to hold the villain almost completely. It was easy compared to how I interpreted the situation, because Sang Wook's body had already been burned, and then he appeared brand new again. Afterwards, he began to have an internal struggle for his body. Anyway, I didn't see the point, but I liked that it worked, mainly because Sang Wook saved a lot of people.

Yi Kyeong's daughter irritated me in the two seasons she participated in, especially when she turned the little boy into that jelly. But I can't deny that she suffered a lot. However, if she hadn't turned those innocent people into monsters, it would have given Hyunsu time to save her, I imagine. I didn't understand if she really died or not.

Eun Yu also had a strange event. She was infected, but maybe I didn't see how it happened. I didn't understand why she got infected out of nowhere and Chan Yeong and the girl didn't.

Regarding the music, I was disappointed. The first and second seasons had a spectacular opening and an excellent soundtrack. I thought the third season was missing something, like Imagine Dragons' "Warriors." The best soundtrack was when Eunhyuk and Hyunsu were talking on the bus, and it only lasted about 8 seconds. However, the opening animation is brilliant.

Overall, the series was good because they managed to turn many Webtoon chapters into three seasons of an average of 45 minutes each.

The saddest things in the third season were the deaths and the fact that Hyunsu or Chan Yeong didn't come out to Eun Yu. 😭

★The performances, as always, were impeccable★

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