D.P Dog Day 2º temporada (2023)

A segunda parte de D.P é uma continuação direta dos eventos da parte 1. Nossos soldados do D.P, Ahn Joon Ho e Han Ho Yul, estão lidando com as consequências das situações traumáticas dos desertores que eles tiveram que capturar. O fato do Han Ho Yul ter perdido a fala, literalmente, como resultado disso é muito sintomático. É muito injusto o trabalho de prender esses rapazes que fogem do exército e trazê-los de volta para o lugar do sofrimento, especialmente se termina de forma trágica.

Lembro de ter achado a primeira temporada digna dos mais altos elogios por abordar um tema tão delicado de forma tão corajosa. Porém esta temporada, talvez por ter passado um intervalo muito grande entre os lançamentos e esfriado o impacto deixado pela primeira, acabou não sendo tão excepcional. Apesar disso, ainda foi uma continuação muito boa e que faz jus a primeira.

Achei interessante também o final. Depois de tanta luta do Joon Ho e dos outros membros do D.P, após o julgamento, nada mudou efetivamente. Provavelmente porque tenta espelhar a realidade, mas ao menos "foi um empate" para ambos os lados.

Fico feliz de ouvir que o exército coreano tem se esforçado para melhor o tratamento de seus soldados e muitas das barbaridades retratadas na série já não uma realidade. Espero que séries como essas sejam um constante lembrete para que situações semelhantes não se repitam.

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PERFEIÇÃO!

A segunda temporada não tenho nem palavras, a história foi bem desenvolvida e assim como na primeira temporada fomos envolvidos, torcemos pelo jun-ho, entendemos sua dor, percebemos como o sistema do exército é pior do que se imaginava, o quanto o ser humano é podre e que apenas uma pessoa pode desencadear todo uma diferença.

Os personagens foram bastante desenvolvidos e trabalhados, podemos ver mais do parceiro do jun, mais do soldado lim, o park tendo um desfecho bom e o final da temporada sendo um dos pontos mais positivos. Enfim perfeição, já to com saudades dos meus bebês.

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Perfeito!

"Eu sei que você precisa de mim ao seu lado." - Han Ho Yul pra Ahn Joon Ho

Não tem como descrever o quão bom esse dorama é! Achei que seria difícil superar a primeira temporada, mas conseguiram!
Foi tão impactante, ri, chorei e surtei! Han Ho Yul e Ahn Joon Ho meu bromance favorito! Os personagens secundários que formavam o squad foi muito bom, o quanto desenvolveram entre as temporadas! Atuação PERFEITA do Jung Hae In e em especial ao Choi Hyun Wook que arrasou!!! Vou sentir muita falta deles!

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confuso e incrível

Personagens:

A história não muda drasticamente de uma temporada a outra, mas também contém bastantea personagens novos. Eles conseguiram retratar cada detalhe de como a história se molda em 6 episódios, então eu não fiquei entediada em ver personagens secundários em uma boa parte de tela, na verdade, se não ver a história fica bem confusa

História:

É um tipo de dorama que você pode se perder facilmente, tantos personagem, e muitas histórias, e algumas se interligam entre si, oque dá continuidade para a segunda temporada, e eles não explicam, tive que voltar algumas cenas para saber oque acontece, porque simplesmente de um caso que já é confuso eles entram em outro caso sobre o governo e o pendrive que o jeon hu estava, mas não fiquei entendiada em ver, mas que plot foi esse que o cara cometeu suicídio tava vivo? eu até entendo porque não mostraram nenhum tipo de condolencias ao cara e que ele estava o hospital militar, mas precisa entender para saber o porquê ele estava vivo, me senti enganada.
enfim não é uma grande história, e eles dão continuade a alguns caso e participam de outros, então eles não fogem do principal, mas ainda sim eles contam os casos que ainda não foram solucionados e terminam a história principal.

Nota: Eu não sei se haverá alguma terceira temporada porque ainda falta 364 dias para a dispensa do jeon hu, mas se tiver vai flopar demais, o final não é aberto, oque era para ter consequências teve, o amigo do jeon hu foi dispensado, o jeon hu foi transferido, então vai ser uma temporada desnecessária se tiver outra.

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Nothing really changed, but at least they tried, and they are still trying to change the system.

I don't know where to start because right now I am experiencing all kinds of emotions. D.P.2 didn't disappoint, it was actually a level up from Season 1.

I didn't watch Season 1 when it aired as I was very hesitant to watch military style drama, but when I watched it in 2022, it instantly became my favorite. After that, I eagerly waited for Season 2, and finally, I can say Season 2 was actually worth the wait.

Season 2 picks up where Season 1 left off, showing the aftermath of the Suk Bong incident and its impact on the lead characters, especially Han Ho Yul, who is dealing with PTSD. The incidents in Season 2 escalate to the point where our D.P. Jun Ho hinself becomes a deserter to expose the harsh realities of the military.

Each and every story left a very, very deep impression on me. I can relate to the main victims in each story and feel their pain. None of them deserved what they went through, and they all deserved a happy ending, but unfortunately, they didn't get one.
The perpetrators totally ruined the victims lives, and the last scene itself showed the reality of it when Suk Bong was still hospitalized while his perpetrator Jang Soo, was enjoying his life. That scene totally broke me.

My favorite story in Season 2 has to be Jang Seong Min's story, who underwent an identity change to become Nina. The guy was a theatre artist who used to play female characters, which led his seniors to bully him in military and eventually run away from the military. He was on the run for years, living a difficult life, and when he finally got chance to make his career outside the country to escape this hell, D.P. started chasing him. He got injured and died due to excessive blood loss. This story has to be one of the most heartbreaking in the D.P. franchise after Suk Bong's story.

All the stories in this season felt like they were speaking to the world, showing the suffering they endured. Every story made me teary eyed.
I have no prior experience of military service, but I can totally, totally feel the pain of those who have gone through such pain after joining the military.

I love how South Korea never shies away from showing the realities of the military. If some other country had tried this concept, Im sure this show must have been banned long ago for insulting the military. But honestly, we need such shows to shed light on the harsher realities of the military.

In this season, Captain Im Ji Seop's character saw significant development, from a grey character in Season 1 to a totally positive character in Season 2. He came a long way. The way he and his wife Lieutenant Colonel Seo Eun tried to expose the realities of the military and prevent such incidents from happening was commendable. I really didn't think he would go to such lengths to help the D.P.s. His bromance with Sergeant Park Beom Goo was damn good, which was another new aspect from Season 2 that I enjoyed.

Jun Ho's character also underwent significant growth, from being unable to do anything for victim deserters to finally trying to help them. It was a really big growth for him character-wise. Jung Hae In's acting in the last two episodes was exceptional. He is totally born for this character.
Han Ho Yul is definitely my favorite. Every time he mostly shows his comic side, but the Suk Bong incident left a big scar on him as he was dealing with PTSD, which showed how sensitive he is. But even with such seriousness, he really never failed to make me laugh in various situations.

The victim characters of the various stories actually stole the show, from Kim RuRi to his mother to Jang Seong Min to Ah Wi; everyone's acting was just a chef's kiss. All of them deserve to win awards for their performances.

Even the villain characters Gu Ja Woon and Oh Min Woo made you hate them to the core, which proves how good actors they are.

In the end, neither the deserters' victims get full justice nor do their pleas remain unheard. The case is not solved and our D.P. will continue to fight for them until the end.

In the end, I will say nothing has really changed, but they tried, and they are still trying.

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Discipline, Punishment, Morality and Art

What do I even say cause I am left speechless by the brilliance behind season 2. While season 1's entire premise is moral chastatization of the individual and their place within a systemic cycle of abuse and revenge, season 2 does the brilliant thing of not brow beating it's audience into submission and cutting all that sanctimonious nonsense. It **BRILLIANTLY** highlights that the issue ***IS SYSTEMIC*** and not individual. Such an sentiment I'd like to say in retrospect was undergirding the brilliance of season 1 with season 2 bringing it forth and flourishing it into existence.
DP's artistic direction is another thing worth noting. Too often I feel like K-dramas are retreading old ground and it's easy to feel like you've seen every plot line and every trope and every character archetype but goddamn do I have an immense respect for the directors and writers direction with this. An actual critique of the pejorative system facilitating the our society and the military industrial complex. From the Anton Chekhov story line to the gothic horror of EP 4 every single thing is a breath of fresh air. Artistically wonderful with a narrative that is spiritually animating.
This isn't a shallow over exaggerated look at things. From the opening soundtrack and film that shows the gradual fall into disillusionment and nihilism of the world as Jun Ho looks at you dead inside to Nina's determination, hopes, and dreams being crushed by the system just like how a seagull is shot down in Anton Chekhov's play, it's all wonderful. An interplay of art, politics, love, morality, and responsibility.

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Although (Nothing) Changes, The Last Wind Breezes By

First, I'm grateful to catch up on every single thing in this sequel. 'Nothing Has Changed, Unless We Do Something' pinpoints out that they're not doing this for nothing. They did, for the betterment of all generations' future, even include the next as well. All I can say for sure is that they exceed my expectations, that I thought "oh, they're still not disbanding DP?" and I felt relief to watch. It's all good. And for the best

And definitely... I'm awaiting for the final season. It's gonna be a trilogy one, surely. And that wind (stands for wish and hope in Hangul), will passes to the rightful ones

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not as good as the first season, but still worth watching

This season of D.P. felt like a completely different show from the first season. Suddenly, we have a Big Bad and a looming conspiracy that the good guys are dealing with. Suddenly, Junho feels like a different person and is apparently Jason Bourne in the last two episodes. I still loved Junho (and the rest of the gang), but he just felt different in this season. It was like he had a ton of development that the audience didn't get to see and was more confidant than the last time we'd seen him. Though, I should mention I have only seen the first season once and it was when it first came out, so I might be forgetting things.
This season also seemed less grounded in reality than the first season, which felt gritty and very real and knew exactly what kind of story it wanted to tell. This season seemed a little more out there in terms of reality and like I said the whole train/Jason Bourne thing was kinda wild.
All of that to say: I still watched the whole thing and was interested to see how it would all turn out. Plus it was nice to see all of the characters back on my screen (all of the actors were fantastic). I just think this season was a little lazy and not quite up to par with the first season.

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A great follow up to season 1

I just binge watched the whole of season 2 in a day. The season was slow to begin with at the start and I thought maybe it could be a disappointment as some season 2's commonly are. However the brilliance of the case and of course the main character Jung Hae in shone as the season carried on. I personally loved how they showed different views and then showed the truth of what happened.

The last speech that the captain at court in episode 6 really gave me goosebumps. I believe the cast was really well picked out from season one and the additions of choi hyunwook and cameos from great actors such as go kyunpo and won ji an really helped the series to surpass my expectations and season 1.

Overall was a great watch and I would recommend to everyone the series to any kdrama lover!

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not again

I liked the first season of this show for several reasons. It was an important topic to show the partly awful circumstances in the Korean military. It's a topic that was still taboo and it was important to show the (for the show probably) worst sides of the system and what consequences it has on individuals who had to endure all of it, and what non-consequences it had on those responsible for it.
Also it had great acting from several actors, the soundtrack was good, the background story of Jung Hae-in's charcater made sense, it all climaxed in a horrible finale in the last episode of season one - great.

Soooo, as with so many formats, they smelled money when the first season was extremely successful and popular - and effed it up with the second season. Everything just goes on, the bullying starts again in the first minutes of the first epsiode of season 2, - sorry, I am not masochistic, I really do not want to watch another several episodes again seeing people being the nastiest and lowest of the low to each other - I got that message that this is an extreme problem in the Korean military, and the tragedy behind this IN FULL in the first season. I'm not into torture porn.

The story and script are getting weird and unlogical in sesaon two, time jumps back and forth, conspiracy stuff, some severe plot holes, oh, and as some icing on top at least Hae-in without a shirt - sorry, not enough.

It seems like (as in so many other cases where a first season of a show was great) that they just wanted to milk the success no matter what and the second season just lacks in every aspect.

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DP2- Disappointing Part2

I came for the issues, darkness and Jung Hae In (+ the rest of the cast) and well all the stuff that made season one great including it's PPL but all I got was confusion.

Season 2 is honestly the most confusing season I have ever watched, time hops, oddly cut and instead of great repetitiveness and PPL humour I got silly fights and conspiracies... Some kind of A few good Men ordeal without Jack Nicholson yelling "You cant handle the truth" but with some nice kicks and Jung Hae In´s naked upper body... but non of that could make up for the silliness and confusion in this so I am sorry to say this (I really am) as I gave season 1 a 10 this one barely makes it to a 7,5 saved from an even lower rate by it's cast, music, issues (it does touch a few issues, just not enough) and the slight feeling of desspair that I appreciated from season 1.

If you loved season one I would recommend you avoid this season as it may take away season ones magic and ruin a fond memory, and honestly this season is redundant as it ads nothing to the story at all...

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