[Drama chat] A season 2, or a season too much?
by Unit
…and they lived happily ever after. Ideally, a story should end with this, but some dramas choose to call for a second season rather than end their tale and move on. Some dramas will even deny us a satisfactory ending and hang us on a cliff of disappointment, just to extract a season 2 from an already thinning out plot.
While a few second seasons are planned from the start, the majority are a spur of the moment decision due to the drama’s popularity and/or the promise of a bigger return on investment. But for me, for the most part, I’m team dramas should just be one and done.
What are your thoughts on second seasons? Yea or nay?
Let the chatting begin!
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26 Im Byung Chul
September 19, 2022 at 10:47 AM
I'm kind of on the fence on this. Some dramas might seem to lend themselves well to 2nd seasons if the drama is based on compelling smaller stories in each episode (e.g. DP, Taxi Driver) that would continue with the same approach and cast in the 2nd season (although this still remains to be seen). Others have been disappointments in their 2nd season for me (e.g. Hospital Playlist), mostly because the compelling aspects of the first season have worn off and the impact can't be repeated. It's a mixed bag for me, but one 2nd season I'm eagerly waiting for is Alchemy of Souls, although my hopes aren't high.
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27 Richard Johnson
September 19, 2022 at 10:11 PM
Many a novelist has become rich and famous by finding a formula for multiple "seasons." Each novel stands on its own, but with the same hero or heroine struggling to climb a different mountain. Some novelists are so good at this that they have multiple independent series. A few might even have the independent series occasionally twist together, like Bosch being the half-brother of the Lincoln Lawyer.
The Koreans were the first to produce television dramas with the depth and reach of novels. Their writers are quite capable of finding the same formula that novelists use, but I haven't seen it yet.
As Jerry Kuvira mentions in this thread, Stranger 2 was close. However, for the first of a series, Stranger 1 depended too strongly on the characters played by Yoo Jae Myung and Shin Hye Sun. Neither character made it out alive.
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28 Rose
September 20, 2022 at 5:12 AM
I don't watch any series, because I don't like multiple-season concepts, and I watch k-drama because they finish up everything in an average of 16 episodes, short and sweet(I guess). But there is no sure thing here, sometimes it would be a good idea to have multiple seasons, like the "Hospital playlist", that drama was the exact kind of drama I would watch season after season. Meanwhile, I think it's important for the director/writer to be ready for the second season, because if not they may come very short on so many levels, and the audience is going to be disappointed, so I think it's not worth it, if you can't make a plot worth of another season, don't make more seasons!
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29 hlndncr
September 22, 2022 at 1:00 PM
I generally do not care for second seasons. K-dramas are appealing to me because of the single, complete story format most present. I suppose if I were to institute a paradigm for an ideal second season it would require: 1) a complete second story rather than a rehash or continuation of the first, 2) a unique perspective or differing point of view from the original, and 3) touchpoints to the original story without an overdependence on the prior viewing experience.
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30 Fabuluv
September 23, 2022 at 8:57 AM
I feel like seasons 2 are for the international fans who have just come into kdramas and downt know how they work. Bless em but mini dramas are just that 16-20 episodes that make a full story and then we move on. If you want to relive it re watch it. You know. There are some drama the killed season two like Age of Youth and Queen of Mystery but thos are exceptions not rules. Please stop with season twos unless you show me in season one where you will take the story...and make it make sense, make sure you can keep the original cast and feel of season one. That's a tall order so just don't attempt.
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31 Shorebunny
September 24, 2022 at 8:29 PM
I want a Season 2 of Law School but I know we’ll never get it and hoping Netflix leaves Writer Phoebe high and dry…no money for a Season 4 of Love featuring Marriage and Divorce. I was done when she was trying to kill off the best looking man on the show and his brother. That just passed me off to say enough and see why a major network fired her.
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32 Shorebunny
September 24, 2022 at 8:33 PM
Netflix greenlighted aka approved and put up production$$ for Season2 of the Uncanny Counter but it’s never going to happen because of the ML bullying issue. So that’s that.
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33 Shorebunny
September 24, 2022 at 8:34 PM
Adamas was definitely a case of came for the Oppa but they both ( twins) were fake! LOL
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34 Shorebunny
September 24, 2022 at 8:35 PM
Hoping the next Season of Taxi Driver and last and third season of Yumi Cells is great
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35 Shorebunny
September 24, 2022 at 10:29 PM
Let’s Eat Season 2 jumped the shark without most of the cast that made it good and I shook my head at the shameless sequels that followed of iterations…it was just wrong.
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