Early on in Sweet Home, after a monster wreaks havoc and leaves the residents of the very grandly-named Green Home Mansion apartment rattled, one of them is quick with his questions to another resident—a firefighter. “What is the government doing? We’re paying so much tax and they can’t even take care of one monster?,” he asks.
A 10-episode Korean web series that released in 2020 on Netflix, Sweet Home trained its focus on a motley crew of residents that inhabit a run-down housing complex, their stories, and the subsequent struggle for answers as to whether humanity will prevail in a crumbling world overrun by monsters. At the time of its release, the series, based on the webtoon of the same name by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan, was among the few non-english shows to become globally popular on Netflix.
After a four-year gap, there’s finally a sequel in sight — all set to release on December 1 with several actors from the original ensemble as well as a few fresh faces essaying new characters.
