Sweet Home Season 3 (2024)

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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It feels like the survival monster story plot took a backseat to some emotional bulls*it...

Worst of the 3 seasons for sure.

They sacrificed a lot of time they could have spent focusing on defeating the monster threat and developing the strongest characters survival stories stalling with other filler nonsense. They also sacrificed time they could have spent explaining and showcasing the various types of infectees strengths and weaknesses, to instead focus SO MUCH time on pointless emotional character expositions and discussing or portraying relationships that were barely existent/non existent in the first 2 seasons. I assume they were trying to focus on pulling viewer heart strings or some nonsense like that, but I felt nothing for anyone by the end, not even the 'victory' for the leads felt good.

They also sacrificed a lot of time for some very, very pointless dialogue and trying to make the neo human/leads look 'cool' and act very smooth and collected and exchange 'cool' lines and looks at each other at the most ridiculous times, interrupting the pacing of the series in many places, and their attitudes contradicting everything previously felt about those particular characters struggles. Also, many loose ends were not even remotely addressed, there was no actual showdown between the main threat and the leads at the end (major cop out and waste of all that CGI) and all the wrong lead characters died while some really useless ones survived.
Anyway:

The GOOD:
- The acting and casting.
- 90% of the CGI.
- The fight scenes.

The BAD:
- The plot. Total waste of the previous two seasons. Very, very weak wrap up.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Lee Si Young was excellent as always (they wasted her appearance in S03 completely, might as well have killed her off in S02)
- The soldiers never failed to be interesting characters in S02 and S03, they also served more purpose and carried more weight in the story than the leads in S03.
- Hyun Su looked pretty neat with neon blue eyes.

Season 3 was the furthest removed from S01 imo, they took this in a different direction in a bad way, it didn't match the intensity, energy and fast paced action of the first two seasons which made engaging with the content and being invested in the characters survival feel very blah.
Over all season 3 was a let down for me.

Because S03 is such a let down and S02 will leave you expecting a third season, which will disappoint you, I'd suggest people just don't watch past S01, because S01 can actually be considered stand alone just fine and it was excellent.

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Closure, but it's unmemorable

I thought Season 1 was generally enjoyable, and Season 2 was also interesting, but had a little too many subplots and random characters. Season 3 fixes that by once again focusing on the most important character (Hyun-su) but doesn't give him much to do.

I'm really glad Hyun-su got more screentime in this season, especially with Eun-yu and Eun-hyeok, because these three were and still are the most important and most intriguing characters, but plot-wise, these three were pretty underutilized. I think the issue is, firstly, just not being quite sure what the end goal is. We know generally that they're on a crash course towards the antagonist, but I didn't really understand what the plan was. And secondly, between this season and the previous season, there's a pretty big shift away from individual stories and showing what triggers monsterization and how they should be dealt with. I get that it's difficult to do this once you've scaled up the story and there are so many arcs to address, but the unfortunate trade-off is that nothing quite sticks.

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