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Hellbound returns on Netflix with a second season with six episodes on October 25, 2024. After a three-year break after airing its first season, the Korean urban fantasy series showing an alternate world about religion, damnation, and hell returned with most of its previous cast members and new ones alike.
Hellbound season 2 concludes with a significant statewide upheaval as the anarchy reaches a turning point. The sixth episode begins with the fanatic group Arrowhead kidnapping a Sodo member, Jeong Hyeok-sang, who has a decree and a scheduled demonstration. Meanwhile, Secretary Lee uses Kim Sung-jip to spy on Park Jung-ja and Min Hye-jin.
Just to rewind, in the end credit scene of season 1, Park Jung-ja was resurrected from her charred bones at the place where she died. Season 2 is about the anarchic group Arrowhead, the cult New Truth, and the Sodo organization trying to capture her for their own benefit. Meanwhile, Jeong Jin-su (former Chairman of the New Truth) gets resurrected as well; however, nobody knows about it.
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Episode 6 climax shows Jeong Jin-su turning into one of the Executors from Hell, which sends the Arrowhead into utter helplessness. Meanwhile, Hye-jin escapes with Park Jung-ja to take her to her kids. Sodo organization head Kim Sung-jip attacks Hye-jin in the end to kill Jung-ja; however, he fails. With Hye-jin's help, Jung-ja gets reunited with her son and daughter, who have grown up now.
The Netflix series ends with multiple angels from hell appearing in the sky and passing a decree to almost every citizen, Arrowhead members, New Truth members, and the police force.
Hellbound season 2: Is it the end of the world or the beginning of a new one?
Hellbound season 1 exposed viewers to an alternate future in which ethereal "angels" arrive to inform a person's death time and that they are going to hell. Three demonic makers known as Executors show up at the designated moment to burn and punish the person. Several characters from season 1 return in season 2, such as Park Jung-ja and Min Hye-jin.
It is important to note that in Hellbound season 1, actor Yoo Ah-in played the character of Jeong Jin-su. The actor was dropped from the project after he was imprisoned for substance abuse. Our Beloved Summer actor Kim Sung-cheol was cast for the role of Chairman Jeong Jin-su, replacing Yoo Ah-in, in season 2.
In the final episode of Hellbound season 2, the plot reaches a dramatic peak with significant revelations and intense confrontations. Season 2 focuses on the unexpected return of Jung Jin-su (played by Kim Sung-cheol), who was previously condemned and dragged to hell at the end of season 1.
In the Hellbound season 1 end credit scene, we find out that those who have been condemned to Hell may inexplicably rise from the ashes and enter the world of the living. Jeong Jin-su experiences the same thing at the start of Hellbound season 2. Ji-su's death is recapped in the opening scene of the new season to establish Kim Sung-cheol as the new Jin-su.
Episode 6—the final episode of season 2—shows Jin-su arriving at the headquarters of the New Truth. He tells the Arrowhead leader, Pinwheel (Cho Dong-in), that he needs to speak to Park Jung-ja alone. Pinwheel orders his fanatics to kill everyone in this way and make way for Jin-su so that he can meet Park Jung-ja.
Meanwhile, nobody knows about Jin-su being resurrected the same way as Park Jung-ja, as he had a silent death in season 1. People assumed that he had disappeared. Because no one knows what happened to him, he gains entry into the Arrowhead in order to assist in the alleged "rescue" of Jung-ja.
However, unlike Jung-ja, who could now see how people would die, Jin-su could see the Hell demons coming after him whenever he looked into a mirror. Hence, he wore sunglasses throughout to avoid any encounter. Meanwhile, Arrowhead, a militant wing, marches at the word of Jin-su to get hold of Jung-ja. Pinwheel goes on a livestream to show how Jin-su has returned from his sabbatical.
As the Arrowhead organization, the New Truth members, and the police start attacking one another outside the New Truth headquarters, Hye-jin tries to rescue Jung-ja. Meanwhile, Hye-jin's team member, Kim Sung-jip, who is also the head of the Sodo organization—the group that is trying to restore the world—conspires with Secretary Lee about sabotaging Hye-jin and killing Jung-ja.
However, Jin-su and the Arrowhead kill the New Truth's second chairman, Jeong-chil. Jin-su calls Secretary Lee from Jeong-chil's phone and offers her a bargain: if she tells him where Jung-ja is, then he could turn Arrowhead into a loyal faction for her government. Secretary Lee betrays Kim Sung-jip (Sodo head) and gives Jin-su the location.
Arrowhead members ambush Hye-jin, Jung-ja, and Sung-jip at the parking lot. Jin-su asks Jung-ja if she can also see the Hell demons whenever she looks into the mirrors, but she denies it. This makes Jin-su furious, and he starts to vent out on her and forces her to be honest. Jung-ja tells him that she can see why Jin-su was resurrected; he didn't have a sense of self and was a coward.
She tells him that she cannot see the demons, as even when she was in hell in the past, she knew that she was Hanyul and Eunyul's mother. Jung-ja caresses Jin-su's face and tells him that he has been chosen by Hell to be one of their Executors. As soon as Jin-su hears this, he feels a sharp pain in his chest. A symbiote-like creature comes out of his body similar to how those demons look.
Hye-jin seizes the opportunity and grabs Jung-ja to escape the place. Kim Sung-jip gets a car, and the three try to drive outside the parking lot. Meanwhile, Pinwheel's phone captures the entirety of how Jin-su turns into a demon from Hell himself and vanishes into thin air. This breaks the Arrowhead's sense of purpose as Jeong Jin-su—their savior—goes to hell.
Later, in Hellbound season 2, Hye-jin, Jung-ja, and Sug-jip arrive at an abandoned car scrapyard. Over there she sees a painting of a cartoon elephant on a car door and remembers how Jung-ja warned her in the past about her death. Hye-jin immediately ducks and fortunately misses the bullet that Kim Sung-jip fired at her from behind.
Hye-jin and Sung-jip get into a physical altercation as he tries to kill Jung-ja. After a lengthy fight, Hye-jin saves Jung-ja and handcuffs Sung-jip to a car door. She takes Jung-ja to another car where a man is waiting for them. Jung-ja hesitates to leave, but Hye-jin assures her that she should believe and trust the man who has come to pick her up.
Jung-ja part ways with Hye-jin with a last message where she tells Hye-jin that the world will end soon. Hye-jin rushes to her orphanage where her office is located and goes to the 5-year-old Jae-hyeon—the 3-day-old baby who got a decree in Hellbound season 1 that she would die within three days of her birth.
Jae-hyeon survived the decree as her parents sacrificed their lives to the demons to protect her. However, no one knows how she survived it. Meanwhile, in Hellbound season 2, Hye-jin takes Jae-hyeon and drives into the unknown, telling her how much her parents loved her before they died. She asks Jae-hyeon if she could be her mother from now on.
Simultaneously, the man driving the car with Jung-ja sitting beside him starts to sob profusely. He tells Jung-ja that Hanyul is waiting to meet her, which makes Jung-ja realize that the man is her son. Jung-ja starts crying as she had died four years ago and says that she is grateful that she was able to see her kids again before the world ended.
At the end of Hellbound season 2, thousands of angels from hell appear in the sky and pass decrees to people on when they will die. Secretary Lee was one of those thousands of people who received the decree of her death.
Hellbound season 3 renewal possibilities explored
Hellbound season 2 ended like a proper story where Jin-su becomes one of the demons, aka Executors, and goes back to Hell. Hye-jin saves Jung-ja and drives off with Jae-hyeon, deciding to raise her as her own daughter. New Truth's new chairman, Jeong-chil, gets killed by the Arrowhead members, and Arrowhead meets their end after they witness their savior, Jin-su, become a demon.
Furthermore, Detective Jin Kyeong-hoon from Hellbound season 1—who had only a couple of scenes in season 2—watches his daughter, Hee-jeong, take her last breath and succumb to cancer. Meanwhile, Secretary Lee Suk-young receives a decree herself that she will die in 2 years at 7 am.
Hellbound season 2 has no end credit scene like its previous season; however, the hope for a season renewal has not completely vanished. Possibly, the series might get renewed for a third installment, as in the end we see the truth of how Jae-hyeon survived the decree of her death as a baby.
Unlike Jung-ja, who came back from hell after four years of her death, and Jin-su, after eight years, Jae-hyeon was the first to get resurrected within seconds of her death. Hence Hellbound season 2 could explore the aftermath of what happens to Hye-jin and Jae-hyeon after they leave. It could also explore if the Arrowhead and the New Truth cults disbanded or not, and more.
However, nothing has been officially announced by the series' director or Netflix.
Hellbound season 2 is streaming on Netflix.
