TWICE THIS IS FOR World Tour — London, The O2 — The Last Night Before the Last Night

This review is based on press coverage, verified setlist data from the Amsterdam Ziggo Dome performances on May 30-31, and the tour's documented four-act structure across 78 shows. The London O2 show on June 3 was still in progress at the time of writing.

Tonight at The O2, TWICE plays the 79th show of the THIS IS FOR World Tour. Tomorrow they play the 80th. Then it's over - or at least this version of it is, before the Seoul finale in July. The European leg they've been building toward since Lisbon on May 9 ends in this building, in a city that sold out their 2023 debut here before most of the UK had fully absorbed the idea of a K-pop group headlining The O2 at all.

The THIS IS FOR tour is a machine that has been running for eleven months and 44 cities. At this point in any arena production, the question is whether the polish has calcified into routine or been refined into something more useful - precision without distance. Based on every documented night of the European leg, and the Amsterdam shows four days ago that represent the tour's most recent verified performance, the answer leans toward the latter.

The four-act structure has held across every stop since Bangkok in December. Act I opens with "THIS IS FOR" - the title track, the statement of intent - and moves through "Strategy," "MAKE ME GO," and "SET ME FREE" before the first transition. The opening sequence works because it doesn't ease in. "THIS IS FOR" was designed to fill an arena; from the first bar it assumes the room is already committed. What's notable at this late stage of the tour is how little adjustment that opening requires. The crowd at Ziggo Dome picked up every fanchant within eight bars. London, where TWICE has played twice before and where ONCE has had longer to rehearse, will do the same.

Act II is where the show becomes interesting as construction rather than setlist. The solo stages - roughly 90 seconds each across all nine members - are individually modest and collectively effective. The logic isn't to showcase a front-runner; it's to establish that this is a group of nine people. By Amsterdam, that architecture had been running long enough that it felt less like a segment and more like the show's actual argument.

"I CAN'T STOP ME" and "MOONLIGHT SUNRISE" arrive mid-show as the tour's clearest concession to the global back-catalogue. "The Feels" closes Act III with the kind of crowd response that makes the 2021 English-language single look less like a commercial calculation and more like a recognition of where the audience was already going.

The one consistent soft spot across the European leg is Act III's midsection, specifically the stretch around "MARS" and "OPTIONS." Neither track is weak on record; in a concert setting, back-to-back, they create a dip in energy that the production tries to paper over with stage lighting. The 360-degree in-the-round setup - TWICE's first arena tour built entirely around a center stage - means there's no "back of house" sight-line problem to hide behind. When the setlist breathes wrong, the whole room feels it. Amsterdam's footage shows the crowd reconnecting fully when "I GOT YOU" arrives, which suggests the sequencing works as a recovery arc, but it's a dip that has appeared consistently enough across the European data to be structural rather than incidental.

"Gone," the Act IV closer before the encore, is the best argument for why this tour sounds different from Ready to Be two years ago. The emotional register is lower and more controlled - less celebration, more reckoning. The production lets the song breathe rather than reaching for scale. The encore, which has included "Feel Special" as an option since the Hong Kong dates reinstated it, is the show's most consistent moment of pure fan service, and it earns that description without the usual pejorative weight. Eleven months in, playing the second-to-last night of a run that drew 550,000 people in North America alone, TWICE knows exactly who is in the room and what they came for. "Feel Special" is the answer.

The timeliness question for any review right now is also the touring question: what does the THIS IS FOR era mean when it closes? The Seoul finale in July wraps a tour that broke the group's own records on every continent. The next TWICE era will have to contend with the fact that this one peaked in a 20,000-seat arena, for two nights, in every city that matters.

TWICE's THIS IS FOR World Tour concludes its European leg at The O2 London on June 3-4. The Seoul finale runs July 10-12 at KSPO Dome; ONCE presale opens June 9.