Yumi's Cells Season 2 (2022) poster
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After suffering a painful breakup, Yu Mi’s love cells have shut down completely, but a chance meeting with the emotionally stunted game designer, Goo Woong, changes all of that. Waking up a number of each other’s cells, Yu Mi and Goo Woong find themselves drawing closer, but even with the revival of their long-dormant love cells, their relationship wasn’t destined to last. Now a much wiser and more mature individual, Yu Mi finds herself willing to take on a set of challenges after an unexpected source of inspiration ignites her internal fire. Inspired by her co-worker, Bobby Yoo, Yu Mi and her hard-working cells set out to make all of her dreams come true. (Source: Viki) ~~ Adapted from the webtoon "Yumi's Cells" (유미의 세포들) by Lee Dong Geon (이동건). Edit Translation

  • English
  • Русский
  • Українська
  • Português (Portugal)
  • Country: South Korea
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 14
  • Aired: Jun 10, 2022 - Jul 22, 2022
  • Aired On: Friday
  • Original Network: TVING
  • Duration: 1 hr. 5 min.
  • Score: 8.3 (scored by 11,967 users)
  • Ranked: #1047
  • Popularity: #631
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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Completed
Ruwusmiles
18 people found this review helpful
Jul 24, 2022
14 of 14 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.5
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 8.0

A Warm and Feel Good Slice of Life

An ordinary story told in an extraordinary way. That’s what Yumi’s cells is. Beautiful Beautiful Drama. Recommended for those that love slice of life that is more sweet than bitter. I love love Yumi. She feels like a friend I have come to care for and in all her ventures I am rooting for her. I love how the drama focuses so much on relationships and real life issues. Such a feel good drama. The Actors and Actresses are eye-candies as well. I REALLY REALLY WANT SEASON 3 ?? ITS A MASTERPIECE OF A DRAMA ✨!!!
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manicmuse
12 people found this review helpful
Jul 23, 2022
14 of 14 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.5
Rewatch Value 9.0

I liked it less than Season 1, but I still appreciated the new season!

I was literally in the middle of randomly rewatching season 1 of Yumi's cells when season 2 finally appeared! Yay!!! If you were a fan of season 1 then season 2 tries hard to recapture that magic and continue Yumi's story right from where the last episode ended. I was glad to see all of the old characters and cells return, but I will also confess that I am unapologetically team Wung, and was rooting for him more than Yumi at the end of season 1. I say that so that my bias is clear, although I will try to not let that cloud my review too much.

I think the main issue I had with this season is that unlike season 1, which was a clear linear plot about the evolution of Yumi & Wung's love story, season 2 tries to possibly do too much. Yes, as you can see from the poster art, Yumi has a new main love interest, Yoo Babi from season 1. We do get to see their relationship turn romantic and get introduced to Babi's cute and festive cells, but a lot of time is also spent on Yumi's writing career, some new characters, and an appreciated update on Wung too. I didn't read the webtoon, so maybe they just tried to fit as much of the original content as they could into the story. Sadly, although Yumi's emotions and the storytelling overall is still super creative and often relatable, the actual plot starts to drag and get repetitive about halfway through. And although watching season 1 first makes the most sense, there are plenty of flashbacks for context just in case you skip to this season for Park Jin Young as the male lead.

He may not have been the ship I wanted to sail but he is cute, so I understand.

Speaking of Park Jin Young as Babi, I do think he played his role pretty well, but once Babi became the center of the story he also became super boring. He and Kim Go Eun do have some cute chemistry moments in the first episodes but there are also quite a few cringy-trying-too-hard-cute moments too. Their cells often have to save the day to keep the story fun, or make their fights much more engaging. Watching Yumi become super jealous and distrustful on loop was already annoying in season 1, but Babi always being even-keeled with the same bland smile or sad expression just made it worse. If you are a Park Jin Young fan I'm sure he will be sufficiently cute for you to enjoy but compared to the chemistry in season1 I was kinda disappointed. Side couples were often much more interesting than the leads were. Wung's character having a decent amount of guest star screen time helped a lot too, but he always wore a shirt this time : ( #imissedhisabs

The rest of the cast were the same quirky characters I liked in the first season with some good new editions. My favorite of the new characters hands down was illustrator Control Z. ("Zeeeeeeee" lol ). He was another character that saved me from wanting to drop the tedious love story parts. I was hoping Da Eun would be as involved in the story as Sae Yi was, but I feel like she was underutilized. I think because of the self-centered nature of the Yumi character some great performances are more like guest appearances than the feel of an ensemble cast. There were some literal good guest star moments too. Park Jin Joo's cameo was really funny.

And all of the voice actors were amazing once again! I truly missed their antics!

Another plot issue was, as inspiring as Yumi's writing pursuit was, without the cell's POV, that was boring to watch as well, and definitely started to feel like filler in the last episodes.

Kim Go Eun as Yumi grew on me too and had a little more life in her performance this time. Or maybe that's just compared to boring Babi. Bland Babi's character was never allowed to evolve much past pursuing Yumi. Or was the lined black and white version of Babi also a metaphor for his lack of a personality? Apparently, in the original story he's the fan favorite, but I had a hard time seeing his appeal in the show. Their relationship was shady from the start, which was also pretty hard for me to look past after liking Wung so much!

Would I watch this again? Sure. I would definitely skip past a lot of scenes but the same charm of the cells and getting frustrated at Yumi makes even this messy plot still fun to watch. The Cells are everything, and along with favorites (like naughty) they really got creative with some of these new cells... like the hilarious "hand"!

And yes, I still love the OST and the new song editions. I was very glad to hear certain songs again.

Overall, it's super hard to recapture the energy of a successful first season, which the writer even blatantly has Yumi stressed over during the show's last episode (very meta). What Yumi's Cells 2 does well is stick to what worked in season 1 without trying to repeat it exactly. I still never cried, but I LOLed often. It's still the perfect length to binge and re-binge, even if the story drags at times. I got some character updates that I needed. I still wished for more growth from Yumi, but through her chasing her dream I saw some. I was also satisfied with everything ending as it did, and how they implied what was next in Yumi's love life without me needing to see it all played out, but if they do decide to actually go for a season 3, count me in... again!

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Details

  • Drama: Yumi's Cells Season 2
  • Country: South Korea
  • Episodes: 14
  • Aired: Jun 10, 2022 - Jul 22, 2022
  • Aired On: Friday
  • Original Network: TVING
  • Duration: 1 hr. 5 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Statistics

  • Score: 8.3 (scored by 11,967 users)
  • Ranked: #1047
  • Popularity: #631
  • Watchers: 26,345

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