It’d usually be easy enough to speculate about what a show’s second season may look like, but that’s not the case for Chicken Nugget. The wildly eccentric K-Drama had a quirky enough premise to begin with, and a Season 1 ending that involved aliens and time travel, there’s no telling where it might go if it were to be renewed for Season 2.
Since Chicken Nugget was billed as a limited series by Netflix, the chances of a renewal are basically nil at this point. However, it’s always fun to speculate.
Chicken Nugget Season 2 Could Have a Stranger Premise
Chicken Nugget got stranger as it went along, which is quite a claim to make of a show that began with a character being transformed into a fried snack. Season 2 would have to up the ante even further, somehow topping aliens, time travel, and machines that transform lifeforms into whatever the last thing they were looking at happened to be. How would it pull that off?
A less direct sequel would probably make for the most compelling hook. Baekjung and the other aliens spent over 200 years trapped on Earth, and they presumably got up to many misadventures in that time. However, since so much of the oddness of Season 1 relied on the functionality of the extraterrestrial machines, and we know those machines aren’t re-discovered by Baekjung until the show’s timeline, some of the show’s essential weirdness would definitely be lost.
Season 1 ended in a way that provided a poignant resolution for its core characters, with Baek-joong rewinding time so that Min-ah could spend the years with her father that they both missed out on. Revisiting these characters wouldn’t make much sense, since Baekjung told Baek-joong that their destinies would all remain the same. We would essentially be watching the same story play out again with less conflict.
The most outlandish idea would be to explore Baekjung’s homeworld, though this is likely a bit of a stretch for a quirky comedy-drama.
Season 2 Renewal Chance
At the time of writing, Chicken Nugget Season 2 has not been officially confirmed by Netflix, and it is very unlikely this will change.
The streaming platform has recently started being more explicit about labelling one-and-done shows, especially K-Dramas, as “Limited Series”, and this is the label that has been applied to Chicken Nugget. With this in mind, it does not seem like a second season is in the show’s future.
Not that this is a bad thing. The plot very much ran its course, and the Naver webtoon on which the whole thing is based was also adapted in its entirety.
The fundamental appeal of Chicken Nugget is that there is nothing else like it out there. But, while there are precious few shows that feature people turned into fast food, tonally there may be a few shows that might capture a similar feel.
Yumi’s Cells features the emotions of a woman’s mind becoming personified in a bittersweet comedy romance. Extraordinary You is another quirky comedy featuring characters in a high school who discover they are living in a comic book.
A Good Day to be a Dog has perhaps the closest premise to Chicken Nugget with a protagonist that is cursed to turn into a dog when she is kissed. The only person who can save her is, of course, afraid of dogs.
Who invented the first chicken nugget?
Just in case you were wondering, the chicken nugget was developed in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented academic work.
The history of the chicken nugget is, funnily enough, a plot point in the series, since Baekjung Nuggets have been in operation, with the exact same recipe, for longer than the required chicken and cooking oil were readily available, even to nobles. This is one of the first clues that the Baekjung crew has been around for hundreds of years.
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