Sweet Home: Netflix’s hidden gem

Words cannot express how grateful I am to stumble upon this series, if I could go back in time to experience it all over again, I’d do it a million times.

I’ll be honest I never knew what a webtoon was until I watched this series, in fact finishing it was one of the biggest mistakes of my life. Sweet home is one of those gold minds you happen to fall upon whilst browsing through Netflix, and oh boy was it a fine piece of treasure.

Once I pressed that play button on the first episode, I was cursed to stay up watching it until the very end. I never knew Korean drama’s could be so engaging, every episode had a new problematic situation as well as each character being perfectly fleshed out. If the series is this good, imagine the webtoon it was adapted from.

Sweet Home is a dystopian series where humans become savage monsters that represented their temptations in life. The show mainly focuses on the residents within a building that contains different apartments.

We follow them through their day to day lives as they fight against various beasts and maintain their will to want to survive.

Throughout the series the story never ceased to amaze me, usually, I’m not a fan of zombie-like films but this one has its own added flare. Whilst watching it I felt like I knew every character since birth, so you could imagine how much it hurt seeing any of them die.

To be completely honest a story like this isn’t all that original, yet I was still left in amazement when watching. Not to mention the amazing performance from Song Kong who plays our protagonist Cha Hyun-soo. He was able to maintain the different attitudes and personalities his character had.

The show had a sense of warmth and kindness but never hesitated to remind us about the creatures that remained around them. Every monster introduced became far worse than the last and somehow every time they’re able to overcome it. Losing a few lives in the crossfire.

When scrolling through Netflix I didn’t think I’d fall onto my new favourite show, my only regret was binging the heck out of it in one night. You know when your mom told you to savour your food and not to scarf it down like an animal. Do that with this show because you’ll only want more when it’s done.