Love Alarm Season 2 (2021)

Contains heavy spoilers!

I think I get it...

It was a sea of emotions. I wasn't a bit happy when it ended. The second season is surely *dark* in one word.
I have to say I did resent Jojo for being inconsiderate to Sun-oh. She never settled the tie between them properly. A "mianhe" doesn't cut it in my book yet, I can't blame her... Why? Because what I get is this story was mostly about perseverance.

Sun-oh could have fought for her but he didn't. Yes, he never stopped loving her but obviously he needed to act, take responsibility. Simply, do something.
Hye-yeong did. He was there no matter what. He helped. He didn't sit still and give up.
Yeok-ju too, she didn't give up on him till the end. There is a line between being clingy and hopeful. She did well in her own way.
And JoJo... she didn't give up on her life. Jeju story was so moving, the backbone of it was so strong.
What I liked the most is the way she found herself healing her childhood trauma. Hugging that little girl, telling her "it's okay." really made it worth.
But....
Can I get over how my ship was ruined ? No T.T

Minus is ; the last scenes about her love alarm... it felt off. They didn't need to convince us she did like Hye-yeong. Sun-oh coming back to Yeok-ju felt like he was looking for a band-aid. I just hoped for a better future for him rather than leading by his mother's example.
Dear writers I know it is about JoJo but don't you think this is unjust to a character like Sun-oh?

I will always remember my ship <3 JoJo - Sun-oh <3

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JOJO ENDS UP WITH HYEYEONG WTFFFF

OMG I WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE AND IT WAS SO BORING SO I SKIPPED TO THE END AND JOJO ENDS UP WITH HYEYEONG WTH!!! Wtffffffff I was expecting sunoh to end up with her like sunoh still liked her and she only broke up with him because she didn’t want to hurt him. Like if your breaking up like that you can’t hurt him again when your older like did he own you in his past life or something?!!! THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!!!!! SUNOH SHOULDVE ENDED UP WITH HER AND NO OFFENCE AND NO HATE BUT HYEYEONG AND JOJO DOESNT EVEN MATCH IN MY OPINION AND HYEYEONG SHOULDNT EVEN TRY TO HIT ON JOJO LIKE WHY ARE YOU DATING YOUR BSF’S EX LIKE THATS CRAZY! YOU CANNOT ABSOLUTELY NOT DO THAT IM SO PISSED AT THIS!!!!!!! The director should’ve went with the majority like 70% of the people wanted sunoh to end up with JOJO!!! Everyone is crazy!!!!

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Crying my eyes outtt

When I tell you I have waited half a year for this season just because I was so invested in Sun oh and JoJo I felt as if my heart was ripped out I love Hye yeong but there was simply no chemistry there to me and I am so disappointed I just felt as if this was a different drama same people situation I love the first season so much I cried for about an hour when I realized JoJo would not end up with Sub oh and Hye yeong deserves all love to but not with JoJo I feel as if his love for her was forced same for JoJo I really don’t want to finish watching this season because if I cried watching the first few minutes of the first episode I can only imagine what would happen watching it all but all love to the cast the season is just not what I was expecting!!

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Disappointing

Season 2 is so disappointing. If you’re team Sun o, drop this drama rn. Could’ve been better honestly. After watching season 1 and getting spoiled by season 2, literally disappointed. I just noticed how bad the FL is. Cheated on her ex, dumping her boyfriend without even an explanation and starts dating her bf’s best friend. Hye yeong was hella weird too. Stalking Jojo, always watching her wherever she is, and walking behind her when they didn’t even interacted many times in season 1. They should’ve change the ending after seeings the fans loving Sun oh and Jojo together. Now they better expect bad reviews.

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Season 1 was much better

It's kind of hard to continue watching this title since I have started to completely hate Sunoh and whenever I see him I get upset and almost the same thing happens to me with Gulmi. I still haven't finished it but I hope it ends good, Jojo picking Hyeyeong and the shield being removed so that he knows how she feels and all the thoughts of him having one-sided feelings disappear. If there's a third season I will probably not watch it though, maybe I will force myself to do it since I love Song kang and I want to support him in all of his roles but it's unlikely to happen.

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great OST and photography.

I must say as first thing, that the OST and the photography of this drama are great!!
I never liked Sun-Ho from the first moment, but he was sincere, so I couldn't hate him... Hye-Yeong is not very a good looking guy, but he had this charm that made me love him immediately.

Finally a drama that is not boring, that gives space to the second lead and specially... is realistic!
Not always your first love remains your lover for the rest of your life, things can change, feelings can change, people can change... finally a girl that changes!
I'm so bored of dramas where the girl ends up with her first love, those dramas are so predictable. During the watching I was always thinking... ok Sun-Ho will do something and she will change her mind, as always... but not this time!

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The most irritating characters but it's a good drama

So I'm writing this for both season 1 and 2 sooo you might get spoiled like a lot. I actually thought this will be an OKAY kdrama so I watched it and wtf. Literally, ep.1 (season 1) was already problematic. (WELL FOR ME)

Sun oh just decided to be a jerk and kiss his best friend's crush knowing that SHE IS HIS CRUSH... like wtf is wrong with him.
ORRR, maybe.... JUST MAYBE, he likes Jojo too. ><

I like the story of the love alarm app thing... but WHAT THE FAK just happened...

Jojo is the person who just chooses wrongly. Her choices are the absolute worst in my entire kdrama experience. She likes Sun oh. They got into an accident so NOW. She breaks up with him even if Sun oh doesn't blame her for what happened and smiles at her all the time. She even use something to block him (I won't tell you what something). THEN..

She says that she broke up with him so that she will not take away Sun oh's smile WTF. There is really something wrong with her... She will just take away his smile if she break up with him because he loves her >< ... SHE'S NOT FUKING THINKING...

YEeeeh....

Season 2 was okay... I GUESS....

Jojo is dumber in season 2 and now I just keep on saying why? to everything she does... :)))

YEAHHHH watch till the end to see what happened... WATCH THIS ON YOUR OWN RISK.
because you'll get irritated.

Just jam with the music ig.

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What I feel, what is my choice, what actually I want to do, I really alone?

If we just watch the drama as unrealistic story ,just for entertainment then it is beautiful love story having little pain and regrets but unknowingly many people get hurt without any fault . The fault is unrequited love , love ia very beautiful feeling ,it is a feeling just to imagine that person give thousands of happiness and In return want nothing. Just to watch that person happy ,doing well and living well are enough but still somewhere in heart wants to live side with by that person .
I really don't like the love alarm concept that believe on app but not believe in your heart as I prove that someone loves you but it is make on the basis of entertainment then whole drama I like it. Actually since starting I wanted her to ended up with him ,starting from the first season and she was actually ended up with him . So I am happy to see the ending.
Music as well as background songs were good.
Though it is slow but not at all boring .

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Not that great, but not bad either

I started watching Season 1 in April 2021. After finishing all 8 episodes of Season 1, I immediately turned on to Season 2.

Season 2 brings us to see how some of our characters have matured, particularly Jojo and Hye-Yeong who eventually became a couple. However, Sun-oh still remained the immature, demanding and possessive guy (although, yes, I could understand his frustrations throughout these years, not knowing why Jojo suddenly broke up with him with no strong reason). We even get to see Gok-Du who has matured enough, even when facing Gulmi.

It was also interesting to see changes in how each of them viewed love. Sun-Oh seemed to really take Love alarm seriously in Season 1 (which explains why he wanted to know so much about Jojo's love for him), but in Season 2 he insisted that Jojo was in love with him just by looking at her (this was never said in nice, romantic way. Sun-oh still had those temper tantrums and showing how possessive and self-centered he was). On the other hand, Jojo and Hye-Yeong who didn't care much about the application, were now so much into it in Season 2.

The ending on season 2 was more bearable and realistic to me compared to other Korean dramas. There was no fairy-tale happy ending showing wedding of our protagonists.

I liked the soundtrack songs in this drama (most of them were in English). I'd like to google and listen to them again.

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An underwhelming sequel to a phenomenal predecessor

Love Alarm 2, how should I remember thee?

The execution was okay, the actors were great, but this season felt like a whole different drama. Had this not been introduced as a sequel to THE phenomenal Love Alarm (2019), I would have not set my expectation high, only to be let down big time.

Could it be because the director changed? Perhaps so.
This new guy/girl really had a different take and interpretation of the story from the previous director. Even the filming style, cinematography, and scoring that we really loved during the previous season (which were even considered the catalyst to the success of it), was not followed through properly here.

This sequel just felt so underwhelming in a lot of ways.

Now, regarding the script. I understand that the main author of the webtoon already decided the endgame, but making or watching it in live-action just wasn’t convincing enough. Not even to me who understands Jojo’s plight and the choices she’s made thus far. Here, her relationship with Hyeyoung just felt too contrived and Sunoh was deliberately written to be more rude and emotionally challenged than he was 5 years before. If this was the writer’s intention then he/she nailed it, at the expense of good storytelling.

Moreover, I just wish there’s more depth to Jojo’s love story with Hyeyoung as I honestly enjoyed their quiet and little bubble. Maybe the sudden introduction of them as a couple who is already together for quite some time, has started the disconnect of the audience from the story. In the first season, we were still at the part where Jojo is starting to consider Hyeyoung’s feelings towards her. We’re still AT THE BEGINNING PHASE, and yet here, the two have been clearly together for quite a while which possibly threw most of the audience off. Not everyone is as ecstatic to join the “very sudden” boat as nothing has been laid down yet for people to understand how it all reached such point.

Nonetheless, this is still a pretty enjoyable end to the great Love Alarm story. However, I still definitely prefer the first season more in terms of filming technique. That was really a very good high school drama worth remembering for the great scenes it gifted the drama-land.

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