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[Sear Sommerfeldt]

Afteran unexpected tragedy kills his entire family and leaves him as the only survivor, Cha Hyun-su leaves his family home and relocates into the run down apartment complex known as Green Home. One night, horrific monsters begin appearing and ravage the city. Hyun-su and his fellow residents band together within the confines of the complex and must fight for their survival against the new, otherworldly threat. Hyun-su starts having monster symptoms and has the ability to turn into a monster with wings whenever he desires. Others from the apartment turn into monster of things they desire.

The survivors of Green Home venture out into the ruined world beyond its walls. Meanwhile, governmental bodies and scientific institutions continue in their efforts to study the monsters, hoping to find a cure.

Director Lee Eung-bok "roughly" knew the ending of the Line Webtoon on which the series is based before the webtoon's finale in July 2020, though he decided to "differ a bit from the webtoon because [they're] showing on different platforms."[24] Ultimately, the live-action adaptation deviates dramatically from the original.

Although filming had already started, Netflix officially announced the series' lineup on December 18, 2019, with Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook and Lee Si-young in lead roles, andLee Do-hyun, Kim Nam-hee, Go Min-si, Park Gyu-young, Go Youn-jung, Kim Kap-soo and Kim Sang-ho as part of the ensemble cast.[26][27]

Lee Eung-bok revealed that, during Song Kang's audition, the actor reminded him of Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands: "an image of someone who has a pure and innocent soul but is holding a spear in his hand."[25] The actor was recommended to Lee Eung-bok by the director of Netflix's Love Alarm which propelled him to fame in August 2019.[28] Lee Si-young's character does not appear in the original webtoon but the director "wanted to add a female character who can pull off really cool action scenes"; the actress being a former amateur boxer. She trained for six months prior to filming the series.[25] Park Gyu-young admitted that she did not have high hopes about being picked for the series but "as soon as [she] left the audition set, the director called [her] and said to leave with a script."[25]

Designers from Legacy Effects, VFX Studio Westworld and Spectral Motion, who worked on films such as the Avengers and Avataras well as the television series Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, were recruited for Sweet Home.[31][32]

On November 18, 2020, Netflix released a trailer for the series announcing that Sweet Home would premiere on December 18.[33] In June 2022, the series was picked up for two additional seasons.[34]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has an approval rating of 83% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10.[35] The second season has an approval rating of 80% based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10.[36]

Joel Keller of Decider said that "despite its flaws and a premise we've seen before, Sweet Home distinguishes itself by its setting and its monsters. We will see if the drama between the survivors will keep us watching."[38]

Pierce Conran of South China Morning Post gave a rating of 3/5, saying that "despite a breathless opening episode and some grisly fun throughout, Sweet Home does not provide much of a story for viewers to get hooked on."[39]

In another mixed review, Meagan Navarro of Bloody Disgusting said that "what sprints out of the gate and sets up an exciting creature-filled horror series quickly comes to a slow crawl zombie apocalypse that we've seen many times before. It just swaps out the zombies for monsters."[40]

Sweet Home was the first South Korean series to enter Netflix's Top 10 in the United States,[24] reaching as high as third.[1] Three days after its release, the series ranked first in 8 regions and was within the Top 10 in 42 regions.[41] The show was viewed by 22 million paid subscribers worldwide in the first 4 weeks of its release and appeared in the Netflix top 10 in more than 70 countries.[42]

It was praised by viewers for its "high-quality visual effects" and "the deep human connections among the characters." However, many criticized the soundtrack which they believe did not fit with the story, as well as the lack of monsters in the latter episodes of the season. On this, director Lee Eung-bok said that "[he] know[s] some of the viewers were anticipating more gore, but [he] hope[s] they will understand why monsters were absent from some parts of our drama."[43]

Family is more important than possessions or places. Home is where the heart is. Home is just another word for family. One character complains her family makes her "anxious, furious, and insane," but she has to spend Christmas with them.

Pam and Jeff are loving parents and kind people who are pushed to the edge of reason by their financial circumstances. Max defends himself with violence, but really he's just a kid who misses his parents.

Characters are White, Asian, and Black. A boy teases a man about playing with dolls. The boy later tries on a dress. Parents speak to their young child occasionally in very basic Spanish because they're "teaching him Spanish." One family just moved to town from London. A family goes to the Catholic Church to celebrate Christmas. They're collecting gifts for needy kids at the church.

A kid sets up a "battle plan" to attack two adults who are trying to break into his home. They're after a doll, but he thinks they want to kidnap him and imagines the worst. His elaborate, painful traps involve heavy flying objects, fires, explosions, and pushpin-bearing darts. The two adults slip repeatedly on ice, sink into a covered pool, fall off a stone wall, walk on Lego bricks, run into things, are nearly impaled by falling objects, drive their car into a pole, and lose a tooth.

Parents need to know that, like its predecessors in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone has a lot of comic violence. A couple (Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney) are trying to retrieve a valuable doll they believe is inside the home of a young boy named Max (Archie Yates), who thinks the pair want to kidnap him because his vacationing family accidentally left him behind. To fend them off, Max sets up a series of traps that involve heavy flying objects, fires, explosions, and pushpin-bearing darts. The two adults slip repeatedly on ice, sink into a covered pool, fall off a stone wall, walk on Lego bricks, run into things, are nearly impaled by falling objects, drive their car into a pole, and lose a tooth. The beatings are played for laughs, but the motivation for the couple's desperation is financial hardship due to unemployment, and their economic problems are contrasted against other people's wealth in the film. Both they and Max ultimately learn that family is more important than possessions or places and that home is just another word for family. Secondary characters are Black and Asian. Language includes a use of "bulls--t" that's left unfinished, plus "crap," "stupid," "butt," "cretin," "idiot," "flabby," "booby," "heinie," "monster," and some bathroom humor. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.

Parents Pam (Ellie Kemper) and Jeff (Rob Delaney) are unhappily selling their family home since Jeff has been out of work in HOME SWEET HOME ALONE. At an open house, mom Carol (Aisling Bea) and son Max (Archie Yates) stop by, and Max and Jeff have an awkward encounter over Jeff's antique doll collection. When Jeff later realizes that one of the dolls is worth a small fortune, but then can't find it in his collection, he assumes Max stole it. Meanwhile, Max's extended family has left for a vacation in Japan and accidentally forgotten him at home. Jeff and Pam vow to retrieve the stolen doll from Max's house, but the boy believes they are out to get him and goes on the offense. Chaos ensues.

If you like seeing grown adults getting beaten, hit, pierced, set on fire, and tossed repeatedly on their backs, the Home Alone series is for you. By this point, after no fewer than five previous features in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone might not have much new to offer. But the characters here have a wholesomeness to them that was missing in some of the earlier films. Less home burglars and more desperate parents about to lose their own home, Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney are quite sweet as reluctant home invaders Pam and Jeff, who play Christmas songs on bells for the elderly in their spare time and apologize to inanimate objects when they run into them.

After an awkwardly paced introduction with some clunky jokes, the film picks up when the comedy becomes physical. Kemper and Delaney are believable victims with limber frames. A scene where they struggle to help each other climb a tall wall, complete with an ill-timed fart and set in slow motion to children's choir singing, is laugh-out-loud funny. Same with the sequence of hijinks Max embarks upon when he finds himself alone at home, including ironing-boarding down the stairs and building an ice cream sundae directly in his mouth. Admittedly, there's (still) something iffy about laughing along with a 10-year-old as he brutally injures adults, and some of the falls and hits feel particularly vicious. But the familiar formula has its appeal, and franchise fans will enjoy the expected echoes of earlier editions.

Jeff has lost his job and has to sell his house. When he discovers what his mother's antique doll is worth, he behaves in ways that seem to go against his own moral code. Have you ever felt forced by circumstances to do something you didn't think was right? Did you have alternatives?

It was not my most rational moment. But then, when it comes to love and real estate, few are. T and I had been casually looking for a home in and around downtown Atlanta for about a year, traveling from Tennessee, kids and dogs in tow, filled with the naive optimism of all families contemplating a fresh start.

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