Netflix K-drama Gyeongseong Creature season 2 review: awful ...

1.5/5 stars

Lead cast: Han So-hee, Park Seo-joon, Lee Mu-saeng, Bae Hyeon-seong

After battling a dangerous monster engineered by the Japanese army at the tail end of World War II, Han So-hee and Park Seo-joon return eight decades later to duel with a panoply of new villains in the second season of Netflix’s big-budget, low-logic series Gyeongseong Creature.

In season one, the crafty seeker Yoon Chae-ok, played by Han, and the debonair pawnbroker Jang Tae-sang, played by Park, teamed up to rescue a woman from the bowels of a hospital in Gyeongseong – the name for Seoul under Japanese colonial rule – only to find themselves going up against a tentacled monster as well as the Japanese army.

After it was revealed that the creature was none other than her mother, Chae-ok swallowed a nanjin at the end of season one, which gave her some of the properties of the monster and has allowed her to live on, ageless, through the years.