Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Hellbound’ Season 2 On Netflix, Where Resurrections From Hell Throw The World Order Into Chaos

Series connected streaming services thin to return their ain saccharine clip betwixt seasons. By nan clip Squid Game comes back, almost 4 years will person passed, and it feels for illustration it’s been moreover longer since we past saw Stranger Things. The 2nd play of Hellbound, astir a nine wherever sinners cognize precisely erstwhile they’ll beryllium sent to hell, has dropped 3 years aft nan first season. Will you retrieve what happened backmost past successful bid to understand what’s going connected now?

HELLBOUND SEASON 2: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: A car pulls up to a building branded “Yulhye Angels Haven.”

The Gist: Police detective Jin Kyeong-hoon (Yang Ik-june) comes upon Jeong Jin-soo (Kim Sung-cheol), nan leader of nan New Truth Society, who tells nan bull astir how, 20 years ago, he was told was going to hell, and was fixed nan nonstop infinitesimal it would happen. That infinitesimal is now a fewer minutes away. He feels he doesn’t merit to spell to hell, and surviving pinch this knowledge was arsenic hellish arsenic what he’s astir to face.

When nan demons travel for him and yet devour him, though, Jin-soo sees himself arsenic various group successful his young life erstwhile he was a kid. After starting to pain successful hell, he abruptly finds himself backmost connected Earth, someway resurrected.

Meanwhile, nan Arrowhead, who reason nan New Truth Society, execute different nationalist ceremonial to spot if a condemned man will beryllium forgiven aliases sent to hell. As nan demons travel retired to declare their victim, a monolithic thoroughfare conflict ensues, and much than nan intended sinner gets killed successful nan process.

Kim Jeong-chil (Lee Dong-hee), nan existent New Truth leader, finds his power slipping, arsenic his car is attacked by Arrowhead loyalists and he’s virtually dragged done nan streets earlier his driver tin prevention him. He meets pinch Lee Su-gyeong, who represents nan caller government. She proposes that they activity together to reconstruct a consciousness of bid successful nan look of nan Arrowhead’s anarchy; nan authorities would alternatively align themselves pinch “respectable frauds” for illustration New Truth than anarchists for illustration The Arrowhead.

Lee has knowledge that gives her authorities leverage: New Truth has a resurrected Park Jeong-ja (Kim Shin-rok) held captive; she tin beryllium utilized arsenic nan look of this caller effort towards order. But Kim besides knows that personification other could beryllium resurrected: Jeong Jin-soo. And nan only personification who whitethorn cognize what’s going on, Jin Kyeong-hoon, vanished soon aft Jeong was sent to Hell 8 years prior.

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What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Take a show astir nan pursuit of a cult leader, for illustration The Following, and harvester it pinch supernatural elements, and you person Hellbound.

Our Take:

While we still spot group get grabbed by demons and get violently sent to nan “bad place,” nan play seems to beryllium much astir 2 resurrected souls, Jeong Jin-soo and Park Jeong-ja; nan erstwhile is simply a belief leader, nan second seems to beryllium a regular personification who became a awesome because she was nan first 1 to beryllium “demonstrated”.

What it seems nan 2nd play will beryllium mostly astir is nan authorities and nan New Truth trying to leverage having Park Jeong-ja to conflict nan Arrowhead. This makes consciousness for a continuation of specified a high-concept, acheronian series. A 2nd play of showing group getting sent to hellhole isn’t astir arsenic absorbing arsenic keeping way of who is utilizing this caller life wrinkle to their advantage. The only rumor we had was keeping way of who was pinch which statement and what they stood for, fixed that it’s been 3 years since nan first play debuted.

Sex and Skin: None.

Parting Shot: We spot Jin Kyeong-hoon and his girl Hee-jeong (Lee Re), and Hee-jeong is decidedly not doing well.

Sleeper Star: Hellbound has specified a ample cast, and specified a wide-ranging story, it’s difficult to find personification who stands out.

Most Pilot-y Line: Lee Dong-wook (Kim Do-yoon), who livestreams Arrowhead ceremonies, has a taste professional connected during nan latest “demonstration,” and shows nan group’s tented-fingers manus signal. That awesome seemed weirdly childish.

Our Call: STREAM IT. Given nan clip betwixt seasons, nan first section of Hellbound‘s 2nd play whitethorn person you a spot disoriented. But erstwhile you fig retired precisely what’s going on, nan communicative that comes retired of nan first section is an absorbing one.

Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes astir food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His penning has appeared successful nan New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.