News culture This South Korean sci-fi series returns to Netflix after more than 2 years of waiting: season 2 triggers the apocalypse at the end of 2024

Culture news This South Korean sci-fi series returns to Netflix after more than 2 years of waiting: season 2 triggers the apocalypse in late 2024

The Netflix catalog promises a hellish end of year: the best South Korean series are back!

To mark the end of 2024, the Netflix platform has decided to rely on the return of its most popular series to round off a busy twelve-month period. ! Subscribers were recently able to rediscover the adventures of the sparkling Emily Cooper in the two parts of season 4 of Emily in Paris. In a completely different atmosphere, it is the anthology Monsters which made its return last week, focusing on a duo of criminals (the Menendez brothers) who will have the difficult task of doing as well as the viewing scores of Dahmer. As for the next few weeks, the program is also very tempting: we can cite the final season of the animated series Arcane or the Squid Game phenomenon.

On the occasion of the Netflix Geeked Weekthe SVOD platform is gradually relaunching communication around the famous octopus game by laying the foundations of the plot of season 2. Scheduled for broadcast from December 26, fans’ patience will soon be rewarded. But before that, Netflix has another gift for fans of the South Korean half-drama, half-horror series: the arrival of season 2 of the series Hellboundalso awaited for almost three years ! Since the revelation of this information, subscribers have already crossed out the date on their calendar… from October 25 !

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The Hellbound series returns with a six-episode season 2: three years later, the apocalypse begins again!

Unlike some series that come back from one year to the next, those who watched the first season of Hellbound had to be patient, especially since it only consisted of six episodes. It’s hard to contain your impatience when you start a binge-watching which can last for a single day! In any case, it will soon be ancient history, even if subscribers have a good chance of reliving the same scenario… As with season 1, the sequel to the Hellbound series will consist of six episodes, all of which will be available on the day of release, scheduled, as we said, for October 25.

For those who are not familiar with this South Korean series, adapted from a webtoon of the same name, Hellbound immerses us in the middle of an investigation into a strange supernatural phenomenon. Suddenly, creatures come out of nowhere to kill specific individuals. The frightened population sees this as a kind of dire omen, an outpouring of God’s powers seeking to punish them.Divided into two time periods – the first three episodes in 2022, the next three in 2027 – the series shows us the repercussions of these dark events and the prophecies that revolve around them. Regarding the plot of season 2, here is what the official synopsis tells us :

Lawyer Min Hyejin, New Truth, and the Arrowheads are intertwined amid the sudden resurrections of New Truth chairman Jeong Jin-soo and Park Jung-ja. Actress Kim Hyun-joo returns to play Min Hyejin, a lawyer who fights against a group of fanatics who worship Jung Jinsu and New Truth, known as the Arrowheads. Meanwhile, Kim Sung-Cheol, who replaces Yoo Ah-in in Hellbound Season 2, will play Jeong Jin-soo, the founder of New Truth, who hides his past to protect his doctrines and institution.