Duty After School: Part 2 (2023)

SYNOPSIS with PERSPECTIVE of a HIGHSCHOOLER, empathize with them!

After binge watching the first part when it got released, I was so excited for the second part like most people!
With a 1month timeskip we saw some character development directly from the beginning when our beloved highschoolers take on missions all by themselves. Without their adults, they quickly adjusted to the dark world and independetly acted in their ways. They showcased many moments of joy and friendship, even though life is hard and got even harder after they lost contact with the military.

So, when everything escalated with a stundets loss and the voting-trust issues, those supressed and pent up emotions were overflowing, since the world is depressing and someday they have to face the hard truth of being left alone. They waited and survived for 1month and after hearing that all their expectations about their CSAT went on vacation, all hope fainted in addition to their trust issues. The cohesion was taken down.

Then when they discovered the corpses of the science students, we all knew that this could particularly happen to our group of students. So their moral or will to fight was weaken even more.

Following the cheerful moments, it already felt like "the calm before the storm" and with the rising tension between yongseo and his inner conflict, the sort of either happy/sad ending was set.

You need to empathize with them! They are Highschoolers, teenagers which were thrown into the cold water so they had to adapt quickly. They have no adults to look up to neither hope insight or a strength group moral. We already saw somebody going mad in part I when another platoon was betrayed by its sergeant and the surviving members being suspicious about the our platoons adults. One student went crazy shooting the vice sergeant... so similar things could have happened with this platoon right?

When Yongseo went on his final rampage, things were pretty realistic (except the ammount of bullets he can shoot with just one mag lmao). A small and closed room with a mass of students and one assault rifle with bascially infinite ammo since it's a fictional series, a massacre was most likely to be expected. That's why I'm not even mad about the author hooping 95% of II parts cast. But, the fact that some survived the first wave of his rampage was even better! They tried to take him down after mag dumping, but also failed in shocked conditions. Unlucky and realistic because if u aren't crazy nor totally emotionaless and shocked u couldn't pull the trigger unless u either done it before or were prepared to do so.

I think many people couldn't handle the end since many ppl wrote "last ep destroyed everything" but let's be honest. What were the options for the stories end unless u read the manwha/webtoon (idk). Happy but boring end, tragic last stand against those alien creatures, in my opinion lame and too cruel. But the final blow throughout the stocked up emotions and students going crazy? In my opinion the best option they had for a dystopia teenage scenario. Teenagers can't handle their emotions :o

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This literally isn’t that bad LOOOL

I’m assuming you have read all the negative reviews about this part but if you have watched part 1 it’s only right you finish this show. Sure it might not be what you’re expecting but it was still a highly entertaining watch for me. I enjoyed this part AND I enjoyed the ending … having said that could they have gone in depth about a few things ? of course (wonbins sudden disappearance, the aliens adaptions, what happened in the time jump.) but what was given wasn’t terrible at all and was good imo. It was quite clear at some point one of those kids would do something terrible and it was hinted it would be youngsoo for quite a while. From what I understand many of you just seem to hate the ending because you liked the kids and their friendship which doesn’t justify fully hating the ending since I liked the kids but also liked the ending. Had they given the ending which you all were expecting (spheres are killed by the kids themselves and everything goes back to normal) there would be 0 tradegy and would be extremely predictable and boring especially since there are many other shows of this genre (dystopian apocalypse). A happy ending just would not have suited this drama whatsoever so I’m glad they went for this route. It just seems this show was just cut short and they had to make do with what they had which I understand. This part isn’t half as bad as people are claiming and to put this on par with aouad (all of us are dead) is quite insulting to this series.

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Is writer mad or somthing?? Worst ending ever

What the hell.. is this alien story or just bullshit story about mad idiot...
when part 1 they alredy killed so many kids without even giving them wepons.. and there r dumb parts like when they grab that key with hand like that, even so there haf story and it is actually cool.. even i am not cried or scared i loved that story.. and this is the first ever drama thay i waited without patience for 2nd part.. but what the hell, only 1st episode aliens arrived then only few, then here comes prisonrs and then tht idiot go crazy...

Is writer go crazy or did he forget about story line. Why the hell they all should die.. its actully ok if they died becoz of aliens.. but no hell.............. worst ending ever.. this is not humans fight this is aliens story..

And 2nd part, story line is suck i think it would be more better if they end it in ep 6. There r no news about parent and there r still balls left and theire only kimchi write exm hell dude hell... and when some scenes come to end it is not ending cool way becoz next part started from other different sscene. Is writer drunk...??? i am so angry right now ??

As for actors no need to argue they are best every character did thire part superbly except writer ?

And most funny part is i waited somthing happend and at last moment of lee n then he will come back... that what i hope but look at what we got not only lee but also won bin disappeared and all kids just dead.. poor us

(I write this again (edited riview) this part after thinking - When I was wondering why this happened to a story that had so many ratings, what I thought was that we were watching the story in the wrong corner.... We watched this with expecting a feeling like All of us are dead, but that's when we thought that we missed one of the most important points of the story. We watched the story based on the alien spheres. But the kids in story were not thinking it that way. For those children, whether they have the spheres or not, it doesn't matter to them whether the world is destroyed or not. Wanted to face the exam called CSAT. Those children went to military service because of CSAT, when their friends died one by one, when their parents didn't know whether they were alive or not, even when the lieutenant who was their bodyguard died, but those children did not want to leave this mission because of CSAT, if you look closely, all of them died at the last moment. That also becoz of CSAT That's why.... If you look at the story on the basis of CSAT, thinking that the spheres is actually a just in your mind , the the beginning, middle, and end are balanced....

In my opinion, the main purpose of the story is to tell how badly a competitive exam affects a child's mind... Even if it is not scary things like duty after school, even when we are doing competitive exams, when the exam is near, the books of the class top are lost. They have been working as if the admission is disappearing. As far as I know, such things are still happening today... If you look at it like that, there is a similarity between going after the competitive exams by trampling even the closest friend and the things that happened in Duty after school....

But overall i dont agree with writer becoz this is survival drama about aliens. Itz not survival drama about school kidsor somthing

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Are y'all insane?!? This is the best drama I've seen in ages!

Now, I expected just another All Of Us Are Dead but with aliens, and i never been happier i was wrong! This is not just an action shooter rpg gamelike eliminating monsters. This really is about war. Any war. And it doesn't matter who you fight against in it, it's always the same - crushing people's lives and minds and bringing death everywhere. No rules of an ordinary life work at war, and the show shows it in the best way possible.

?️I either was a bit confused by switching the setting in the second part. How could the kids be abandoned by all their commanders? 말도 안 돼. But once you forget about it everything starts to feel even more horrifying. The truth is, you are always by yourself, and having and maintaining friendship in such situation is incredibly hard. And we see that in the drama. I was shocked by how agonizing, wistful and painful the drama is. It's better than Saving Private Ryan indeed. Because I can associate myself with those highschoolers.

The sttudents are portrayed perfectly. They learn to cooperate, grieve and think like adults yet they are still playful and full of dreams. The conditions of the war itself are crystal clear. It's not an offensive but a defensive war. So you can easily imagine moral choices one has to made in it.

?️The intro gives me shivers every time. It's tragic, and wistful, and horrifying in a very subtle way with characters shown as columns in an album, with only a memory of their past presence left. Kids turning into soldiers, carrying arms instead of future. And you think one guy going mad is stupid? There are real cases in the army of such "accidents", and what lead to them, both the environment and the mental state, are explored here.

?️This drama is much harsher than any drama I've ever seen. Much better written as well. Isn't that what always happens at wars? There are so many of them happening right now, look around! Ukraine is right on the edge of Europe. Seeing kids in full military uniform having fun with guns lying around is not a TV show for some people. The atmosphere of this drama is absolutely unique. I feel like this is something I saw in a dream that I forgot right away waking up.

Masterpiece.

"Why did grown ups give us guns? They had to keep us from getting them."

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Don't watch the second part as it will destroy all your good memories with the first part!!

Okay first of all I love the first part, I was eagerly waiting for this one and it just totally disappointed me. It seems like the main writer wrote the first part, then he become sick and asked his pet to complete the second part as I don't think a person can write this much shits in one show. The vibe of two parts are completely different and second part is awful.

The ending is bad. Really bad and I will talk about it later, lets talk about other than the ending part first. So first we can see that the gang are doing their duty, they became pro in shooting and they finally become a team and doing great in killing spheres. They have a good shelter, a good amount of ammunition and food to survive. Everything seems fine. Right? To us but not to them. Maximum of them want to go back seoul to their home, because to them that place is safer. But in first part we got to know that in seoul there are more sphere, their patents went to shelter, so none's in their home! So why do they want to go back?? Just to get killed by sphere? May be. But after seeing so much things in front their eyes, after losing so many people how could they be this much childish? How?
Then a girl called Ha Na was telling lie to stay at their shelter and everyone was accepting that! that girl did not even guard the shelter properly, rather just did nothing, so my question is where is her consciousness? Is it even possible for a person who saw her classmates and platoon commander died while saving her to just do nothing and stay only at the shelter?? Really??
Dead of sung chool!! Sphere came and killed him! The sphere detectors were not well developed so it could not be able to detect the sphere, so it came and killed him, understandable. But then they just went back without attacking others! Why? Are sphere that much civilized! Or they kill one person at a time!! Others talked, moved even shouted in the same building, but the sphere did not attack them! LoL!
Na Ae Chol! OMG! She opened the prison without other's opinion despite knowing there are some deadly prisoners there! Okay! Humanity! But none even said a word to her! Like really! She disobeyed the team's decision and put everyone's life in danger, still she did not seem sorry or none told her a single thing! Huh! Everyone is just so great. But my question is not that. My question is the writer had only 4 episodes to complete the whole story. Does it really necessary to include this criminal angle? What does this angle mean to us? Nothing! This whole angle was for nothing but time wasting, boring and poorly written plot.
I even dont convinced with lie angle! It was also unnecessary . But as those babies love to stay at home, so they got angry with the clever ones and proved their dumbness. Understandable!
Now time for the mighty ending. Its bad! Its real bad. I am feeling sad, angry even disgusted after watching this. Just one thing i will say if I ever tell you to see duty after school, please forgive me for my ignorance. Dont waste your time and be happy.. I wish it was all Kimchi's dream. It would make more senses then this wedding.
I have ranted a lot in this review. This one is less of a review and more of my ranting session. Sorry for that. But i just cant sleep without writing all these. I am sure none will read this but if you do thank you.
Acting and background music were never the strong fort for this cast in this drama, story was. But as in this part, the story ruined everything so its useless to talk about acting and music.
Lastly, i am not trying to find plotholes or logic in fantasy drama. I am just trying to find the story which is necessary for making any drama.
Thank you.

PS: the pet completely forgot that, they had an ajhusshi who stayed with them in first season. So he could not even give him a closure or an endind in part 2.

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Watch this drama Till 9th ep...

Honesty saying please do not watch the 10th episode.....the drama is very good till 9th ep but 10th ep ruined everything....I am regretting watching the last ep....there couldn't be any worse ending than this.....
If you wanna watch 10th episode watch it on your own risk...

After reading few comments I realized the webtoon version is Good...so it's better to read the webtoon instead of watching the 2nd season.

After watching first season I was eagerly waiting for the 2nd season and was curious about what will happen... if there will be a happy ending? or who will survive? etc.....But Now I regret watching 2nd season

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If TRASH is personified, I know it's this one.

Honestly, i could write a list of headlines to describe this work but it's not even worth the energy.

DO NOT WATCH.
(Or do but be prepared for the disappointment)
Can you guess where it belongs? A GARBAGE BIN because it's a pile of ABSOLUTE RUBBISH.
I didnt read the webtoon but maybe it's better written there even with the same narrative? i dont know...

This 2nd season has no relation whatsoever to the first. If this was supposed to show me how the classmates have become a true one unit highly dependant on each other, cooperative, considerate, then it's done so really badly. The pace is unbelievably slow with noooo real progress in the depth of their connections. Suddenly people are a couple and there's a love triangle like what? What situations led up to this in the first place? We definitely do not get to see that. The villian at the end? No true long time build up; it just escalated like that out of the blue because the writers forgot there's got to be evil to get a closure.
The post-credits scene was unnecessary and should have been in the first season. The addition would have been great as a comedy relief and as a nostalgic tribute. After the ending of season 2, it's almost pointless to see.
I like to believe, as many others I'm sure, that the true ending of the series is either episode 6 of season 1, or the pre-credits scene.
I gave points solely to honour the idea that on our Earth there's something much more worse than human-eating aliens, and for highlighting the pressures of being a high schooler in Korea (albeit extremely dramatic really). But story wise, direction wise, acting, everything was terribly executed. There's even an episode or two that are entirely useless..

P.S. If you really want to watch it, do so at 1.5x and save yourself some time instead to use on a better written work.

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Who are the real monsters really?

Ok, I get the bad reviews. Really, I do. BUT!!! On a deeper level, this drama (and especially the ending) is genius level and to be fair, has been building up since the previous season. Ever since the CSAT's were cancelled, we have seen this guy spiral. The madness in his eyes grew ever larger and his paranoia was truly outrageous. I was surprised nobody noticed or looked after him. Goes to show how much of an outcast he really was. The focus from the monsters in/from the sky (who were sort of manageable in the end) shifted to the monster on the ground. When you think of the fact that these monsters are very real and appear just about daily, should we not actually focus on this irl? I'm not saying that the drama is a social complaint piece, but I do feel this is what is supposed to be the message: Monsters Are Real, They Are Everywhere, They Are Human.

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Don't watch it

i don't know what happened to the writer but he really killed the drama , it was going so well, i liked season 1 like hell, even the first 3 ep of S2 was good but i didn't understand the last ep how can the writer be so bad how can he really kill all the characters, even if he is killing them except for few it would have been a lot better if they have died fighting the aliens rather than dying by that crazy's hand , the writer choosed such a idiotic ending and so rushed too as if he was dying to finish the drama , why kill all of them so survived so hard till the hand or should I say why did they even survive if they had to die from that bastards hand , what the heck was the ending , so disappointed, because of the ending the whole series seems to be a waste. oh man !! i liked it so much at the first , why did the writer did it mannnnn

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