Alarme do Amor (2019)

doesn't deserve the hate it gets

i left my review in the comments, but im gonna post it here as well:

unpopular OPINION: the only reason why a lot of people claim this to be the "worst" kdrama ever is bc song kang didn't get the girl. hear me out...

if the script/plot stayed exactly the same but the actors were switched, a lot of yall would've ate this drama up.

watched this drama like 3 times and i still liked it as much i did when it first came out. not saying that everyone SHOULD love this drama but i think that the amount of hate this drama got, and still gets, is so forced. trust me, i've seen worst kdramas and this isn't one of them.

Leia Mais

When i first wanted to watch this I was super duper excited about it because it looks sooooo amazing and I was curious about the story... The first ep was mehhh... It was cute and good until one point... The story is wayyy to exaggerated... I've seeen many romantic Kdrama and cdrama and jdrama but the plot was more realistic... The acting was also mehh... Like if I can say "fake" especially the main role boy Sun Oh... I know he was very cute and trying his best to act good but it was nkt enough also the other actress were avarage level... Personally i expected more from Kim... I've seen her in other Kdrama and her level is more high than this one...
About the chemistry between the characters it was kinda cute and sometimes it will get too much... Sometimes it will look like they have a good chemistry between each other than you get that feeling its too fake..
The ost is veryyyy good I can say one of the reasons I didn't drop this Kdrama is bc of the ost.... I love itttt ❤️ anyway i would say its a 5 to watch it... Hope u find this helpful and after you watch it i hope (everyone who took the initiative to watch it bc of this review) to write to me to tell me what they think if they agrre or not... Thank yiu everybody for your time ❤️

Leia Mais

I'm confused

What the heck was that?

EP 1 and they already made out in an alleyway?????? when they LITERALLY don't know each other?????? and they don't give us ANY explanation as to why JJ followed Sun Oh.

Not just that but before the kiss, he knows that his childhood BFF fancies JJ. So why? how did Sun Oh fall for JJ when they only stole glances a couple of fucking times. Did Sun Oh just one night decided to be a dick and steal JJ from Hye Yeong? What the hell is this storyline. I thought it was going to get better and get explanations later in the next few eps but noooooo it just gets worse. JJ suddenly turns cold and breaks up with Sun Oh to protect him and all that crap when REALLY she was just being inconsiderate of his feelings. Things could've been solved way easier and faster if they had just sat down and talked it out. This drama is far from being realistic.

Leia Mais

This is one of those show where you will probably be frustrated 95% of the time while watching.

Okay, okay let's get this started, it starts off with us meeting our main characters more stuff happen, ok end of the episode we get Sun-oh asking Jojo if she want to kiss him. Weird but okay. But I'm like if you know she has a "boyfriend" and that your bestfriend likes him, (since you know he does). Then we get this whole monologue of there relationship together for like for like 2 episodes which was sweet and cute and Sun-oh was trying his absolute hardest, you know I don't know if I am happy of annoyed that the "boyfriend" beat Sun-oh up. Anyway we are past this whole high school thing with you know Jojo still having the shield, me wondering why see even put it on, but okay. Then let's move on to some of the other characters before we do this whole time skip thang, ok Hye-yeong bruh I don't get you sometimes why would you not just go after Jojo, or at least tell Sun-oh you like her, at least then maybe he wouldn't have kissed her, I mean I get why he didn't go after her but still (because you know she had a "boyfriend" and probably didn't wanna get a owwwwie like Sun-oh did) but he still got one. But you know I do see why everyone loved them Jojo and Sun-oh I mean they were the cutest while they lasted, and sweetest and Jojo broke Sun-oh's heart, didn't like her there, also am I the only one who cared to notice she didn't really put much effort in their relationship, only me ok. Also quick note am I the only one who tbh didn't like Jojo in the drama to me it seemed she was kind of a meh character. Anyway let's get onto the time skip. 4 years later, we see all of them reuniting on the street you know best way to, and we see Sun-oh has a new girlfriend proud of him for moving on, we also see that our boy Hye-yeong noticed Jojo but didn't say anything, oh and Jojo noticed Sun-oh, during the four year time skip, somehow Hye-yeong keeps running into Jojo (coincidence I think not) and you know he starts hitting on her you know after Sun-oh has a girlfriend, and you know 4 years later everything happened, but you know what Sun-oh gets mad at both of them. Well more like later in the story he gets mad at Hye-yeong and earlier he just tells Jojo to stay away from Hye-yeong so that she doesn't break his heart. Which I am thinking I don't understand you Sun-Oh. So he calls Hye-yeong that he was a word I can't say and calling him all these rude words trying to make Hye-yeong feel bad which I get and don't get, for going after Jojo and stuff like that, but I'm still asking, Sun-oh why do you care that much yes I get you still love her and miss her but you have a wonderful girlfriend, but hey Hye-yeong also did some wrong because he did kind of know he did Sun-oh dirty. But anyway let's go onto you know Jojo's cousin Gul-mi, see but like I still don't understand why she was even in the story since to me they are kind of going off of the webtoon you know by (cutting quite a few Hye-yeong and Jojo scene's not even giving him a chance) and also what right does she think she has to throw out Jojo's clothes and steal her money and like not even a little but like 3 million bruh I can't with that girl, but you know props to Hye-yeong you getting some boyfriend points for protecting her, anyway I don't want to waste my times talking about her so let's move on. Ok Sun-oh's girlfriend (who's name I can't remember off of the top of my head) she is a total sweetheart yo for once she is probably the only character who doesn't get annoyed or mad or throws a fit that Sun-oh can't ring her love alarm cause she wants her relationship to develop, and you know she seems like one of the only decent characters. Anyway we have the season finale, oh I got a lot to say, first off let's talk about the ending itself, we have Sun-oh, Jojo, and Hye-yeong in this like weird Love Alarm situation, and we have Sun-oh girlfriend next to him having no idea what is going on, we also have the "creator" talking about some new updates coming into play, and you know that is pretty much how it ended. As well as we have the developer talking about Love Alarm 2 while Anti Love Alarm people are about the pretty much barge in and ruin the whole event. You choose to end it like that but you know ok that's fine, anyway let's wait for this season 2 is gonna unfold, and If I will be screaming at my TV again. I mean if you want to rewatch it them maybe you won't yell at your screen as much and may notice new things.


Ps: I am more of a Hye-yeong shipper than a Sun-oh shipper so please don't come at me.

Leia Mais

So here's the review part:

This drama is the type of drama where you can see the flaws and not help but talk about them out loud, but also the type of drama where you wouldn't care about its flaws and watch non-stop otherwise. This drama was realistic and unrealistic at the same time; most of the realistic parts were about the hard truth of life and most of the unrealistic parts were mostly concerning the romance part of this drama. I may say that some romance parts of this drama were unrealistic, but that may be because I am used to the 1 season/16 episode format of most dramas. I am not familiar with dramas having 2 seasons or more; meaning, dramas like this are probably meant to be unnaturally fast-paced. The overall story was enough to pique my interest. This was probably due to the main(?) conflict of the drama; I kept watching every episode as I was curious to whom the main female lead would fall in love with at the end. This simple reason kept me wanting more (also why this drama deserves a score of 8.0-8.5), and why I am eagerly waiting for the release of a second season.


This is the rant part: >:(

I'm sorry but I can't believe most people prefer Sun-Oh over Hye Yeong. Besides Sun-Oh's romantic side, he's completely messed up. He has such a bad attitude and is a complete hypocrite. First of all, Hye Yeong fell in love with Jojo first; not to mention, Sun-Oh knew about it and still daringly flirted with Jojo. Sun-Oh keeps making Hye Yeong seem like the bad guy; saying he was never on his side (bich he took care of you ever since you were both little). Sun-Oh said at the 16:15 mark "You know exactly what Kim Jojo did to me. Yet how could you, of all people, do this to me?" (what a hypocrite this guy is); like I said before, Sun-Oh knew from the very beginning that Hye Yeong liked Jojo, Hye Yeong treated Sun-Oh very warmly and as mentioned in the previous episodes he was there for Sun-Oh during his hard times (unlike Jojo having no one). So how could Sun-Oh, of all people, do that to his dear friend, Hye Yeong. With the way things are going (with my personal preference in this drama), the only acceptable ending would be Jojo ringing Sun-Oh's love alarm but also love alarm 2.0 predicting that Hye Yeong becoming "the person you will fall in love with".

Leia Mais

My ramblings

Original story, beautiful/talented actors, excellent music, and gorgeous outfits. This drama touches on sensitive topics like homosexuality and dark things like teen suicide.

I really liked JoJo in the beginning.... towards the end, not at all and I can sorta see why her BFF started to hate her. She had a great relationship with Sun Oh until he doesn't respond to her for 2 days because he was recovering from a bike accident they had..? She decides during this time that it's best to break up with him because she doesn't want to be hurt. Four years later, she admits to being young and immature and regrets what she did, but does she try to fix it? Nope. She sees how broken Sun Oh is. She even has proof that he still loves her. The easiest thing in the world is to just tell him what happened so he's not blaming himself and unable to get the answers he needs to at least move on. At this point I really feel like JoJo doesn't deserve him now. He's better off with the girl he's with. How the heck is JoJo so full of regret but is now able to give Sun Oh's best friend Hye Young (who she didn't even know existed despite working with him until she got with Sun Oh) a chance but she can't give Sun Oh back his chance? As if she doesn't still feel something for him. How is Hye Young more deserving than Sun Oh?

I see so many people dislike Sun Oh but I personally like a man who knows what he wants. I get that he and Hye Young were best friends but I don't believe Sun Oh intentionally went after Hye Young's crush. Sun Oh even gave Hye Young several chances to confess to JoJo and Hye Young denies it/never does. I love that Sun Oh went for what he wanted and he got the girl until she became stupid. I'm sorry but Hye Young was so annoying to me. He missed his chance and now he needs to leave Sun Oh and JoJo alone - whether they are together or not. The only other character that I REALLLLLYYYY FOOOKING hate more than JoJo is Gul Mi. That girl is awful! Nothing she said even makes sense. How is it JoJo's fault what happened to her parents? Worse, how is JoJo believing that crap? Just seems like everyone started on drugs half way through this drama because it became a bunch of bad decisions with no clear explanations.

Leia Mais

Love Alarm Did it. They made like no main character in the show at all.

I already wrote a review on LA2's (Love Alarm 2) page. But I'm here to talk about the 3 of the main roles.

Jo-jo: One of the WORST FL's I could ask for. First, she cheats on her boyfriend by kissing Sun-oh. It was clear Jojo never loved her first boyfriend we saw, (I forgot his name) I have NO CLUE why she never broke up with him in the first place. Basically leading him on. Then don't even get my started with her relationship with Sun-oh. She broke up with Sun-oh for a lousy reason. Because she was scared and that she couldn't deal with the damn problem. She literally ran away from the boy who loved her the most at that time.

Hye-young: Don't even get my started on this mf. THIS DUDE WAS A LITERAL SHADOW IN SEASON ONE. Meaning that he barely had ANY screen time, not even with Jo-jo. And let me remind you, she's the supposed Male Lead. WHAT MAIN LEAD IS GONE THE WHOLE DAMN SEASON?! I swear this mf was lurking in the dark. And barely had ANY communication with Jo-jo at all! I assumed Hye-young was going to be that one shy second lead guy who was the friend of the female lead's but no. Hye-Young is a nice guy but to be a male lead? Not much. I would prefer him as a second lead or even a support role at most.

Sun-Oh: Ok. People might not find anything wrong with Sun-oh but their is one thing that I hated about him. When it came to friendship or love. He picked love. Meaning that Sun-oh and Hye-young's relationship was eventually broken up in Season Two. Sun-oh KNEW from the start that Hye-Young liked Jo-jo yet he tells her that they kissed. What kind of friend is that? You might say that Hye-Young literally told Sun-oh that he didn't like Jo-jo with a blank face. But they were literally friends for YEARS. Since they were kids! And you're telling me Sun-oh can't tell when Hye-young's lying? Okay.

In the end, Jo-jo was a fucked up FL, she could've been better but wasn't. She ended up with the soft guy who literally lurked around the shadows throughout Season One. Nobody deserved Jo-jo in my opinion. Two cute guys ruined their friendship over a dumb FL who doesn't consider anybody's feelings to heart and always ran away from problems cause she couldn't face them without somebody protecting her.

Leia Mais

Lackluster

The idea is an interesting one for a plot. It's not one you would consider thinking through because when you do then it doesn't make sense. However, while the idea piques interest, the execution falls flat. The main characters are not interesting. I don't think I can pinpoint any personality traits from the main girl other than being sad, being awkward, or being regretful over her actions. She's bland and one you can insert yourself with but that is not a likable character. Issues with the love interest fall in terms of miscommunication which is an annoying trope at this point. And despite an impact where the characters are forced to change, the main girl remains the same which she shouldn't.

Leia Mais

I'm conflicted about this one. I did like it and watched it quickly (it does only have 8 episodes) so I was invested, but the concept of the Love Alarm app and how it impacts the characters and their society was what interested me the most (Black Mirror is shaking). I really liked the friendships as well and how it briefly talked about homosexuality and how such an app outed people against their will. But the romance didn't make sense to me. At all.

From Jojo's point of view, it's normal, but as viewers, we know that Sun Oh only knows that Jojo exists because Hye Young likes her. It feels like the only reason he tries to seduce her is because his best friend likes her, he probably wouldn't have noticed her at all otherwise. So, it doesn't make sense to me... and it's also a dick move. The friendship between him and Hye Young is obviously strong, but it looks like Hye Young is the only one actually doing anything for Sun Oh. Everytime Hye Young decides to do something for himself (like twice during the show lol), Sun Oh gets mad. It sometimes felt like the main relationship of the show was between them, to be honest, and it probably would have been better (a love triangle I could get behind, for once). Because, aside from his behaviour, I do not dislike Sun Oh that much. But he's a selfish baby, sometimes.
There's not much to say about Jojo, she's a cliché, but the way her best friend treated her was really disappointing. Her friend could learn from Hye Young.

I have Thoughts about the Love Alarm app but that would include too many spoilers, but I really want to see how it's going to be treated in the next season and if someone is going to do something about it or not.

This being said, I wasn't rooting for Hye Young until the time skip. I mean, he's a sweet boy but it's not like he ever talked to Jojo. I definitely am not rooting for Sun Oh, though, so as much as I'm curious about the Love Alarm app side of the plot, the romance and how it might "evolve" doesn't make me that excited for a second season.

Leia Mais

I honestly don't get why some are rooting for the man-child Sun Oh. He selfishly went after his best friend's long time high school crush, and even after growing up he blamed his best friend for using him while caring for him all these years. WTH??? His character is so annoying, as if the world revolves around him and if anything doesn't go his way or people reject him - it's an immediate betrayal. HY and Jojo doesn't need that negativity in their hard-working life. I'm glad Jojo dumped Sun-Oh, so his ego will deflate a bit. HY is more of a man than he will ever be and deserves the girl so much more. The scenes between them are more fluttering and innocent, while the scenes between her and Sun-Oh are always so dramatic & she always ends up sad. Honestly, who needs that baggage in their life. Him & Gul Mi should be together instead.

Leia Mais

I heard this show through Instagram and thought it was quite an intriguing drama. the concept was really unique and I loved how the developer of this supposed app ''Joalarm'' wasn't an individual high up in the hierarchy, but rather an ordinary high schooler that developed the app from the comforts of their own home. As I am a sucker for high school romance dramas, I might as well have given this one a watch.

The storyline wasn't something I was very fond of. The falsehood of how the characters acted in certain situations within the series made me frustrated with the drama. I'll start with Kim Jojo. Although I did moderately empathise with her feelings through the series that led her to break up with Sun-Oh on top of her family circumstances, I thought it was an idiotic and quick-witted decision to make before considering other factors like how her partner would feel and the position it would put him in. Jojo didn't outright give a clear explanation as to why she did it and she could have easily spoken to Sun Oh about her situation. He clearly told her to speak to him when she is worried, but she didn't take that chance and now things ended up for Sun-Oh's misinterpretation. I understand maybe it could have been difficult because they haven't dated for that long, but then again we can see she regrets it later on; why doesn't she bother to even fix it or at least talk to him about it within the 4 years time-lapse?
Next, I'll speak about Sun-Oh. When he was first introduced to the drama I knew instantly what kind of a character he would be. And I was not wrong. the drama portrayed him as romantic and cool. But he's immature and selfish, not once did he think about his childhood best friend, he just thought of him and Jojo. Sun-Oh is aware that Hye Young had a crush on Jojo from the very beginning; Hye Young didn't openly admit it, but he did make it clear and semi-obvious, but no, he decides to chase her instead and pulls her into an alleyway to kiss her, show each other's love on Joalarm and boom they're a couple. Another thing that ticked me off about him is that he had the decency to claim that Hye Young was using him and is even saying Hye Young is moving out because of Jojo. like I kinda get he feels betrayed in some way because someone who has been by his side and entrusts his life with is leaving, but seriously, that's what happens in life and to question his decision really shows who is actually the true friend
Hye Young is a sweetheart and is the most loving character from this drama, however, I don't quite understand why he didn't tell his viewpoint on the real reason why he is leaving and actually stand up for himself because like with Jojo, he could have been understood by Sun-Oh if he told the truth. The drama didn't do much justice on his character as he was quite silent in the beginning, but only really got the spotlight when it came to the end. It bugged me throughout the drama that there was barely any interaction between him and Jojo, maybe that was the whole point.
DESPITE my long-winded rant about the storyline as well as the characters, I quite enjoyed this frustratingly good drama. The cute romantic scenes of SuhJo were definitely a highlight, but I also treasure the adorable moments that we got with HyeJo . I loved how they touched upon society perspective and made us viewers aware of the fact that

I thought the cast was amazing, everyone played their roles well and I wouldn't imagine this drama without them. The acting was immaculate for a high-school drama.

The music was really nice and suited the drama amazingly.

Although the story did bug me and there were plot holes throughout the series, I would rewatch the drama again for the moments we had with both male leads and Jojo.

Overall, in my opinion, I think it's an okay drama, definitely a cute one, but a frustrating watch and if you are that type of person that likes to watch a frustrating romance, then I would recommend it. I hope that there is going to be a season 2 soon

Leia Mais