I cannot believe there is a second season of Bloodhounds! Even though I watched the first season almost a year after it was released, it felt like torture waiting for this new season once I learned about it. But, it’s finally here and you have to know I started watching it the second it dropped.
This season picks up a few years after the original, meaning we’re basically in present day. No more COVID to worry about, though I did love the element that provided to the first season. Now, Woojin is acting as Gunwoo’s coach, successfully leading him to be the lightweight boxing champion. What a contrast to almost that exact scene from the first season! The win is good and life is good for Woojin living with Gunwoo and his mom in a nice house. But all of that is set to change before the first episode is even over.
A once Olympic-level boxer, Im Baek-jeong, is leading a secret boxing ring that rakes in billions of won illegally on the dark web. He fights the best of the best, with the aid of metal wrapped around his fists, and it most cases, perhaps all, those fights end in his opponent’s deaths. Now that Gunwoo has cemented himself as the best, he naturally wants to fight him. Gunwoo, sweet and good Gunwoo, obviously declines. Even if he doesn’t know the extent of the organizations evil yet, he doesn’t like that they lied to his mom to get in the door. Suss.
But Im Baek-jeong won’t take the rejection lightly. In fact, he basically resorts to any and all means necessary. That means leaving both businessman Hong Min-beom and crime investigator Min Gang-yong’s lives in the balance at different times. And when Woojin is almost knocking on death’s door at the hands of a recently freed Kang In-beom, Gunwoo’s mother decides she needs to intervene. She agrees to be kidnapped, but at least we all know she’ll be treated okay if they want Gunwoo to actually fight.
Poor Woojin is beside himself, but this is the ammunition Gunwoo needs to feul himself to fight. They do eventually square off, and in Im Baek-jeong’s success, Gunwoo’s mother is not freed. It doesn’t help that Gunwoo entered the fight without telling any of his friends and protectors that he was doing so. They get a chance to fight again when Im Baek-jeong’s ego won’t allow Gunwoo to steal the spotlight from him in his own fighting club! There’s not much time to prepare, but if we know anything about Woojin and Gunwoo, it’s that they perservere.
There are so many other delicious details that I am leaving out, so you must take the time to watch this on your own someday soon. But fear not, the good guys always win in this series, though not necessarily always without casualties. I will say, in a mid-credits scene, they have definitely set up the stage for a third season, so I’m praying to the powers at Netflix to let that happen!