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Just Finished "Voice Season 2" - A Potentially More Brutal Season!

Voice Season 1 had a dark atmosphere - this one attempts to go darker. The first season more or less had enough padding to develop the characters in the first season. The second season had the Kwon Joo leave the scene and was replaced by tragic police officer Kang Woo who was WRONGFULLY ACCUSED of a crime he didn't commit. Has it always been a cliche in crime drama to have somebody falsely accused? Well, it's a real-life cliche that some people in jail are INNOCENT. I was thinking Kang Woo's backstory is really that tragic especially when he's linked to the criminal Bang Je So. Season 1 had a creepy villain who was obvious but no, not Je So.

Bang Je So is a complex villain. You may feel sorry for him when you know his backstory but that DOES. NOT. JUSTIFY. HIS. CRIMES. He's such a playful sadistic manchild with planning skills that you're better off not trying to fight him head-on. I could still shed a tear knowing he was an illegitimate child born of rape, he had a bizarre attachment to his dead mother whose corpse he keeps (and it was embalmed), and he runs a sinister website of hatred where he encourages people to give in to their hate. Actor Kyon Yul has a very innocent look in contrast to Jae Hyuk's role in the first season. This guy is REALLY creepy especially when you know he has a fetish for body parts. Think of Robert G. Durant from Darkman except with more body parts. Just imagining he's got that dark room where he trolls the police from filled with preserved human body parts is THAT disgusting. He cherishes those human body parts like a child cherishes toys. Fortunately, a lot of mutilations were done off-screen to avoid getting a Double R rating.

The common ground is revenge. Jin Hyuk (who left to care for his ailing child) had a grudge with Tae Gu. Je So also is the object of hatred for Kang Woo. In Kang Woo's case, it's because of a frame-up and Kang Wo wants to clear his name. It's amazing to see how Je So has managed to learn various tricks that actually framed Kang Woo. Je So's such a maliciously evil Internet troll that can't be dealt with just blocking. In fact, Je So knows how to manipulate the emotions of people that if you fall for him - getting out is almost impossible to none. How he developed a fetish for collecting the body parts of his enemies is something. Je So also hates law and order believing policemen are generally no better than criminals. In the end, it's been more personal as Kang Woo actually ends up standing out more than the protagonist Kwon Joo in that regard. 

So far, a word of caution is that it's not for the squeamish even with some generous censors. I mean, you still need to keep yourself ready when a lot of mutilations happen even they're (thankfully) done off-screen. There's still Season 3 which I'm hoping to watch to understand the events of this second season. 

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