Hermoso 2 (2026)

Surprisingly 'Beautiful'

I loved this series! I know there are a ton of negative reviews/comments about this series and admittedly, despite the myriad of legitimate issues it does have, I still think this is one of the better series to take a look at. Why? Because it has heart and it disregards the traditional path of telling a BL cliché story. It takes a direction I did not expect it to take. With an ending, I am sure, perhaps no one else except me respected. I loved and enjoyed the unconventional and heteroclite conclusion. It made logical sense. This is not a pablum-fed saga but a serious story. It is a solid adult tale with an uninhibited solution to an insoluble dilemma. Take it or leave it. There is nothing pre-pubescent or tripe about this series and that alone makes it worth considering. If the director had taken the story more seriously and believed in its integrity, this could have been a more impactful series.

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Hermoso Season 2 — Sometimes It's Better to Let a Story End

I honestly don't understand why this second season exists.

The first season already had an ending. It wasn't a happy one, but it was a conclusion I could accept. It was emotional, bittersweet, and gave the story a sense of closure. Instead of respecting that ending, Season 2 reopens everything simply to create more drama, and for me, it completely undermines what came before.

The biggest mistake is the memory-loss storyline.

Amnesia is already one of my least favourite clichés when it's well written. Here, it feels like an excuse to force the characters back to the beginning and create an artificial love triangle. Watching someone forget the person they loved and start developing feelings for someone else—especially someone who should never become a romantic option—didn't make me emotional. It made me frustrated. At that point, I honestly found myself thinking I would have preferred the original ending to remain untouched.

The acting is once again perfectly acceptable for what the script asks the cast to do. I never felt the actors were the problem. They commit to the material and do their best with increasingly exaggerated situations. Unfortunately, even good performances can't rescue a story that keeps piling one melodramatic twist on top of another without earning them emotionally.

Like the first season, the production values remain respectable. The cinematography is pleasant, the locations are beautiful, and the intimate scenes are filmed confidently. But this time, even those strengths weren't enough to keep me invested. Instead of feeling like a natural continuation, the series often feels determined to shock the audience rather than tell a meaningful story.

Final Thought

Hermoso Season 2 takes an ending that was already satisfying enough and complicates it with unnecessary twists that add frustration rather than emotion. For me, this sequel never justified its own existence. Instead of strengthening the original story, it weakens it, proving that sometimes the hardest decision for a writer is also the right one: knowing when to stop.

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