Alarme do Amor 2 (2021)

Don't even think about Love Alarm 1

Honestly, I feel SO BAD for the people for waited two damn years for this ending. I only waited a few weeks but it's not compared to what other people had to wait for.
Let me start off with Season One. This was my first kdrama so I had zero idea what were ML's, SML's, FL's and SML's. (Male Lead, Second Male Lead, Female Lead, Second Female Lead) I initially thought Sun-oh and Jojo were gonna have this happy ending sh*t because they got together in Season One. It wasn't clear that Hye Young was even a first lead in my opinion. Throughout Season One, Hye Young and Jojo had no screen time with each other. So I was puzzled on even how they got together out of the blue in Season Two. Honestly Sun-oh was some what of a bad friend. Sun-oh knew that Hye Young liked Jojo, no matter how much Hye Young said he didn't. Yet kissed her. Not saying I ship Hye Young and Jojo because those two have no chemistry with each other. They only have one thing, is that they're hard workers. That's it. Honestly, for my first kdrama that I watched months ago. It wasn't all that bad. It taught me that I have to now watch the hell out for other kdramas with the ML and FL.
Honestly, unless you didn't ship Jojo and Sun-oh, watch this if you want something to laugh at. And no I'm not giving it a bad review because Jojo and Sun-oh didn't get together. It's just that this shit felt like a different drama.
ALSO! Jojo was one of the worst FL's I've come across from. In Season One AND Two. Jojo NEVER told Sun-oh the reason they broke up. Jojo walked away from him for a lousy reason. My point across that Jojo never cared about Sun-oh's feelings to beginning with. I'm glad Sun-oh was at least with somebody who didn't give up on him. Not saying I love Yuki and Sun-oh but I'm happy for Sun-Oh.
-- Also, this is an old review so I might not agree with this so much but I'll keep it here and edit it sometimes! (6/25)

Leia Mais

A Hit or a Miss!

First of all, I would like to mention that the story of the second season would either be a hit or a miss for most people.

I usually avoid writing reviews as there are many already for this drama but since I really liked the story of this second season and there were mostly negative reviews I felt strongly to write it.

The second Season of Love Alarm portrays a highly sophisticated and mature theme, unlike the first season. As already mentioned in many reviews this could be a result of a change of directors but since I watched both seasons in one setting I did not feel that was the case and felt it natural as part of the time gap of the drama and that the characters are now older and mature.

Leia Mais

The most realistic and nostalgic drama that I ever watched

I understand that most of the views may be form teenagers, so I understand most of the frustration. But I mean it when I say that this drama is beautifully and sincerely made. The ending is so so real. And I thank to all the production for giving us this drama, as it is.

The story is strong and for some people it may be boring, but life is as boring as it is. We don't always know what to do or what to think about our feelings or others. Life is about choices and situations. And so it was for Jojo.

I'm really happy to watched this drama and I hope everybody can understand this story beyond the pretty faces.

Love,
Mariana.

Leia Mais

Not a satisfying watch

This is going to be more of a rant than a review so those who like this series please skip reading.
What worked well - the beautiful cinematography, ost music, new concepts being explored.
However instead of a feel good romantic drama as one would expect based on the title, this one turned out to be melancholic and weepy. Most of the time the FL is seen crying or silently ruminating. Sun Oh who was the main FL in the first season is understandably angry, confused and upset, unable to move on from the sudden end to his first close relationship - he never got closure from JoJo despite repeatedly approaching her to understand. All he wanted and was entitled to was an honest conversation with JoJo so that he could make sense of the past and move on in life. Kim JoJo was an immature coward, that too a selfish one who didn't care to give any explanation. Sun Oh was always kind to her and saved her from public humiliation by openly offering his hand to her in the classroom in the first season. However towards the end she is seen publicly humiliating him by showing that her alarm does not ring for him any more, despite having her own selfish reason she never clarifies why nor cares how much heartbreak her decision and lack of closure would cause. I couldn't empathise with her idiotic decision as Sun Oh had been nothing but kind and supportive of her all the while, and an honest conversation with him him would have been enough to keep the relationship alive.
As for Hye Young, he was the only character which had some development. From being a creepy stalker kind of person who loved JoJo without even being on speaking terms with her, he went to openly expressing his interest and courting her. He was also a lousy friend to Sun Oh, cutting off all ties with him and moving out of home without even informing him.
I felt all the sympathy more for Sun Oh character more than the JoJo or Hye Young. He lost his love, his friend, his smile and his girlfriend in between because of lack of open communication from JoJo. If JoJo could be excused for her fears, why couldn't Sun Oh be excused for his justified anger? If JoJo could love someone again, why didn't she choose Sun Oh who was still in love with her, someone she is attracted to and had left in the lurch. Why go for Hye Young?
Using the sword and the shield for selfish reasons is cheating. Hiding the reason from someone you like is also a kind of betrayal. I wished both Sun Oh and Hye Young had walked away from her towards the end and taught her a lesson to be honest to deserve a relationship with either of them.
The only satisfactory part is that Sun Oh deserved a warm and honest girlfriend rather than JoJo and therefore in a way it was good he didn't end up with her. The gloomy reticent JoJo and the morose glum Hye Young deserved each other.

Leia Mais

disappointed

tldr: im no drama producer but the change in director threw this show down the drain. don't change the tone to seem more adult and mature if you can't follow through with the character development and dont add dystopian type elements if you're going to leave the storyline hanging. oh and holy shit please give sunoh a real apology??

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i dont really write reviews but dear god do i have a lot to say about this drama. i dont know if im even going to bother watching episode six as i've read the spoilers but i still think i can express my thoughts without fully seeing episode six. i want to preface this with my problems dont come from the hy x jj endgame, i know a lot of negativity is being written off for that reason but for what it's worth my own problems with the drama are more than the endgame.

listen if you want to tell your writers to go off the rails and let your new director take a completely different direction i'm in no place to stop you but i dont think i've ever seen it be done as bad as this. love alarm is a fantastic concept (the forever unmuted phone problem aside) and im disappointed it turned to this. i knew it would feel different - they're adults and far more mature than they would have been in season one but it didnt feel mature. it felt like they were trying to make me think everyone had grown up and the characters had developed even though they were still being written as kids in adult bodies. that's what made almost everything about jj/so/hy's interactions feel so forced to me.

in season one i could feel bad for jojo. when she said she put up the shield to 'protect' sunoh i could acknowledge that was a stupid decision that could have been fixed with communication but i understood why she did it, especially considering she was a kid. in season two she never considered either sunoh or hyeyoungs feelings and yet jojo kept being written as the victim? like how could you expect me to feel bad for her? shes an ADULT now... why is she still doing all that running she did as a literal teenager? she put up that shield without considering sunoh's feelings but i wrote it off as her being a kid. then four or so years later she never actually apologises to sunoh properly and would probably have let him live with the heartbreak if he didn't confront her after finally finding out what she did after all these years. she never considered how hyeyoung might feel about receiving that spear. when he first talks to sunoh about it in ep5 he's clearly gutted and emphasies to jojo later on that he would wait for her as long as her actions were sincere, implying he understands how the spear's love (for lack of better phrasing) wasn't actually real.

there are going to be parts in shows where you get confused, where you think that a different direction should have been taken. but when i'm consistently confused as to why this character would keep doing this thing then there's clearly something wrong. by ep three me and my friend were barely paying attention. everything we saw just made us irritated and we were so bored of seeing jojo keep running from her problems but not before trying to 'fix' them exclusively in her favour of course! there was no attempt at all to develop her character, she kept running and adding more fuel to the fire and then running again. sunoh wasn't developed well either, he was kept as this sad teen boy who's life revolves around whether jojo likes him or not and i get that the shield situation broke his heart but they're OLDER and MATURED and DIFFERENT now. if you're going to change the whole tone of the show to try and make it seem more adult then you need to develop the characters too.

parts i did like and things that could have been tweaked a little to become better imo. i thought gulmi was super funny, especially when she was going so out of her way to gain hearts. sure she's not really a good person but i found the things she did and her personality quite fun despite being as irritating as she was in season one. somehow she feels like the only character they tried to develop. i also found the dead bodies thing and the whole ringing world instagram account interesting but it felt like they just left it at what we had in season one. they threw in a couple shots of the dead bodies in this season, had a couple scenes that referenced it when jojo looked at her drawings and that was basically it. overall, i felt like the show was structured quite poorly? parts of plots were thrown in and moved on from too quickly and some like the dead bodies were just left undeveloped. but i think that's just a me being stupid thing lmao. oh i also liked yukjo too, i wish they built her up a bit more rather than just being sunoh's girl because this whole thing must have had a huge effect on her. this was truly such a waste of a great cast.

final thoughts, im incredibly disappointed as this had so much potential. nothing felt logical, jojo did things for what felt like no real reason and there was no real apology from her for literally everything she's done. there wasn't enough character development and i really felt like i was watching a different show. in season one i was absolutely jj x so endgame because they were just so happy together but now i would've just preferred no endgame. i couldn't see her and sunoh happening again from the beginning but i really don't get why they put her back with hyeyoung? no chemistry no real love no nothing between them. it felt so forced. also dont throw in dystopian type elements (the ringing world, whatever dukgu and brian had going on?) if you're not going to pull through.

edit: just finished episode six and my opinion still stands.

Leia Mais

Worst kdrama ever

This is what happens when Netflix gets involved. It revolves around money and their need to make a season 2 out of it. It was so slow paced and boring that I had to skip the endless flashbacks, slow motions and scene cuts the whole time. There is no character development and they skip over important parts pretty quickly, but drag out the unnecessary parts where the characters walk in slow motion. Also, all characters except for the one who’s getting nothing out of it, seem to be bad people. These characters are far from realistic.

The only reason I kept watching was because of Sun Oh’s good looks. I hate it and I don’t want to watch Netflix Original kdrama’s again.

Leia Mais

I'm speechless

It's the worst kdrama I've ever seen. It's heart breaking, my waiting for 2years gone waste. Hate the story and end of this drama. Worst ending. So guys it's better not to watch this drama it really can break your heart. I hate jojo's character the most cause she ruined everything I really hate her. Why director didn't think about our feelings, expectations. Everyone wanted to see jojo and sun oh together but at the end sun oh got hurt. They didn't placed the end well. He also loved jojo and it was jojo's fault to leave him and why he suffered this much why jojo didn't give him a chance if she didn't ruin everything then it would be a happy ending

Leia Mais

So lame

It shouldn't have ended so badly, I didn't watch last 10 (ten) minutes of the last episode because I was so over the storyline. Why does a review have to be so long? Anyways, it was so, so bad. I thought things would get resolved in second season and it would be a happy ending. Which kind of did happen. Everyone who's curious should check out for themselves if you're confused by my review. I guess I still don't have 500 (five hundred) characters. Will this be enough now? Omg, what else do I write, I don't want to spoil things for people, just wanted to voice my displeasure over what happened, this isn't why I stayed up all night?

Leia Mais

Wasted opportunity...

I get why everyone is so upset with the show and how it all turned out but I still think that there are things that should be appreciated and people seem to miss that fact... (So I really felt the urge to write a review for the first time)

I watched this show in a marathon yesterday and I didn't get bored. That for me means that the story is catchy and that itself is a great thing in kdrama. I personally loved the atmosphere, cherry blossoms, red and yellow ... the scenery, and the work with a camera made the drama look like a high-quality drama. It is overall darker than season 1 but I honestly didn't mind that much.
So now the highlights in the cast. Many people were disappointed that Hye Yong didn't get enough screen time, well he got more than what I expected in the second season! So if you are team Hye Yong you should watch it. I honestly fell in love with Jung Ga Rams acting and I will be waiting to see him again in another drama. The next character that grew on me is Gul Mi. I think she made big progress from being a school bitch to a more responsible and appreciatable person.

Another thing that caught my eye is how writers tried to put reality into the story as well, like how people who like each other don't need to stay that way forever, that people can change. Also, I'm glad that they tried to avoid some cliches (- Gul Mi and Dok Gu for example don't end up together like in a fairy tale). There were some wise words that made me think too. The story itself is good.
And the most important thing... Have you ever seen a kdrama in which the second male lead doesn't end up being the second male lead at the end? I have never seen a thing like that and the writers have my respect for that decision because that really blew my mind! I have never expected it to turn that way ... BUT

A the same time (this morning when I got over the fact that my boy won) I realized how messed up this thing is and how they could have done a much better job when they kept us waiting for 2 BLOODY YEARS!

I will keep it short because many reviews basically already said what I had to say.
First thing, I am a Hye Yong stan but for the whole time, I felt so sorry for Sun Oh. They made him look like a wreck. He got only a little screentime, much less than he deserved. Also how he ended up was literary sad, he seemed forced into a relationship that didn't work for already a really long time, and in my opinion, he didn't look happy at all!
The story is a mess. Not only they didn't explain what happened at the end of season 1 it looks like a whole different show. And also what the hell was the thing with Hye Yong's dad I still don't get it and it is not the only one. Jojo looks pathetic and I just can't sympathize with her at all. I really pity her friend at the school. And the last thing WTF was the whole Brian Choi thing and what actually happened to Dok Gu?! These are the main things that really angered me and there is more.

I wrote this review because although this drama is not the best it has its highlights and I honestly quite enjoyed watching it!
I just feel that with what they had they could have done a real masterpiece... This all is just my opinion!!!


(I'm not English speaku master so if you find some mistakes I'm sorry)

Leia Mais

Never felt pain like this

I have never felt more frustrated and annoyed with a Kdrama before, I literally have an assignment due in 2 days, which I have barely started FYI, but I chose to watch Love Alarm instead, BIG F****** MISTAKE. I waited 2 years for season 2, only to find out that Jojo doesn't even end up with Sun-oh, are you kidding me????? The two people who were literally made for each other and had the most chemistry didn't end up together? And you wanna know how I found out??? I googled it. because when I got halfway through episode 4 something felt off to me so I gave in and googled, only to find out that the ending is complete BS. I really wanna sue Netflix for this emotional trauma. I may sound like I'm exaggerating, but oh my god if you saw the look on Sun-ohs face, I felt so bad for that poor puppy, he suffered the entire two seasons, his friend literally stole the love of his life and his dad is the worlds biggest prick. And to be honest, Fricking Hye-Yeong was a shit friend, as soon as he saw Jojo again he jumped at the opportunity to go after her, despite what had happened between her and Sun-oh. Hye-Yeong's character felt forced and honestly he was so boring, and what was the need to bring his dad into the picture, it just felt like they were trying to make the storyline interesting which did not work at all. I haven't even finished the drama, I can't bring myself to finishing it because I know that all I will feel is anger and disappointment. I didn't like Sun-ohs girlfriend either, like grow a damn backbone and go after a guy that will return your feelings. And as much as I liked Jojo, she pissed me off too but let's not get into that.
This drama was toxic in a way, it was kind of teaching us that it's okay to be with someone who doesn't feel the same as you, which honestly isn't healthy at all, that type of pain isn't worth it. You should be with someone who loves you for you and doesn't inflict any emotional or physical pain on you.
Rant over I guess, probs gonna cry myself to sleep.

Leia Mais