Alarme do Amor 2 (2021)

Great Message and break the usual K-drama stereotype!

Tackle the aspect of moving on in life, healing from past wounds, and relying too much on application to determine one feeling.Despite the majority of outrage of the ending of Love Alarm 2. I really enjoy the show for what the message trying to convey.

The Characters

Jojo
This girl really went through a lot and a major guilt complex. Her flaw of running away, "wishy-washy" attitude, and lack of communication with other characters can cause a lot of frustration for viewers. Despite that, I'm glad that she make a decision and move towards being a better person.
For me, the highlight of her character when accepting her past and feeling of heaviness and moving on with life. I'm glad she slowly heals from her past baggage. She's actually my favourite out of the three.

Hye Young
Hye Young character takes some time to grow on you from season 1.He remains to be a patient and respectful to Jojo. His presence brings comfort and serenity to Jojo. His flaw is always sacrificing his feelings for others, which Jojo highlighted on. Moreover, this season briefly touches on his family which adds a nice character to him.

Sun Oh
To be honest for Sun Oh, acts the way he did is due to the lack of love in his family and getting hurt from Jojo. Despite his selfish behaviour I find his character quite endearing.
Though, he continues to act like a brat when things don't go in his way and in the process hurt both Jojo and Yook Jo in the confrontation scene.
I'm glad he gets the proper closure with Jojo in the end and slowly move on to have a proper "fresh start" with Yook Jo.

Gul Mi really grows on me this season. Her bratty attitude is still there but her motives to see the developer is hilarious and ironic. I do enjoy her character this season more.

I find the cast for season 2 shrinks by in size. For the characters, I do enjoy the 3 mains for their flaws and character development.

Cinematography
Continues to be good! The shots are beautifully taken. I stopped several times just to take a screenshot of the beautiful scenes.

Music
The new ost is great! Can't wait for the new soundtrack to be out.

Things I don't like
Several plot points got shafted and barely got enough explanation such as Brian Choo and Duk Gu. It will good to have a further explanation of the apps and their relationship.
Maybe it's just me there's a lack of proper explanation on The Ringing World plot. The stalker guy just got arrested all of the sudden. :/

Some parts of the show feel a bit draggy, this could be attributed to the slower pacing in season 2.

Most of the negative feedback due to the end ship :(

To those who are willing to give this drama a watch, please keep an open mind and try to understand the message and lesson behind it. You might truly appreciate it.

Leia Mais

Reality

I loved it as i thought it was fair enough in the first season they gave time for jojo and sun oh and in the second they gave time to hyehyeon and jojo it is pretty fair and really liked it also many always wish in love triangles the second lead wins the girl and now the second lead got the girls people are sulking i think it was wonderful many those are song kang are disapointed but if we take a step in reality we all believe it was fair enough and i probably think if i was in her shoes i would choose hye yeong as sun oh would remain in her memories as her first love but from starting to the end hye yeong was their for her when she liked sun oh when she broke up with sun oh and whatever it was so i would probable get over my first love and move on and if sun oh was that sad why did he get a new gf he should have done something like hye yeong did so i think it was relatable after it was a drama and the drama is oc=ver so nothing much will pretty happen from sulking.
Also one moral from the story I goy was dont believe in machines but believe your own feelings
Its just my own opinion

Leia Mais

It was nowhere near as bad as people made it sound

Unpopular opinion here: I enjoyed Love Alarm 2. I rarely do reviews for popular shows but I see no reviews expressing the same opinions as me. Before I started watching the second season I already knew who the endgame was because of countless spoilers on the internet, but I still wanted to experience the story for myself. And, boy, am I glad I did! Despite everyone saying that they didn't like the show, I binged it as fast as possible because I found it so interesting.

Storywise, I thought the continuation was brilliant. I don't understand why people disliked it so much. I got a little confused at first because it kind of just skipped what happened at the end of season one. But I was so invested in the story from the very second I started. Even though I rooted for the other couple, I did not mind this at all and ended up falling for them anyway.

This is where it might get hard to express my opinions without spoiling the ending, but I will seriously try my best not to ruin the endgame. A lot of people are angry at Jojo this season. A lot of the time, I found it unnecessary. People were mad at her for starting a relationship with Hye-yeong at the beginning of the show instead of with Sun-oh. Of course, Sun-oh went through difficult times, which also made me as a viewer sympathize a lot with him. And of course, he deserves happiness. But he was quite selfish; he didn't care about Jojo's or Hye-yeong's feelings at certain moments, all he wanted was Jojo for himself. However, I understand what emotions can do to a person. Sun-oh and Jojo loved each other very dearly in high school, but Sun-oh was hanging on too much to how they used to be. Of course, Jojo definitely should've been more honest with Sun-oh, but most people who disliked the show blame her for being honest with her feelings about the two male leads. Was she supposed to lie to herself to make someone else happy?

Overall I liked the show. It was enjoyable and the plot was great. Don't let too many negative reviews shield you from watching. If you saw season one and enjoyed it, of course, you should watch season 2.

Leia Mais

Stop focusing on the love triangle people.Jojo simply followed her heart and not the app.

Y'all are mad that kim jojo dated hye-yeong but never got mad at sun-oh who dated Yuk-jo? The fact the sun-oh was the first one who dated someone else even tho he doesn't really love YJ.He could at least wait like what HY has been doing from the start.Why would you stay to a person who makes you feel so small abt yourself in many ways? Atleast choose someone who accepts you despite knowing every details abt you that you're scared for the world to know but accepts you anyway.HY didn't do anything when SO and JJ was dating back in highschool because he knew that she's happy,but after years he noticed that she is having hard time and became more miserable in the present which triggered him to make a move,to atleast make her happy w/o expecting anything in return.If that's not sincere,then what is?

about why she kept pushing away SO,isn't it obvious? HE IS IN A RELATIONSHIP. If it were you,is it alright if you ruin someone's relationship? If it's me then hell no.4 full years have passed and she know that the moment she broke up with him,it's already over. When they met again she felt guilty,that's all.The so called love or like isn't there anymore.And yes she's stuck in the past (abt her fam and SO) and kept blamming herself for everything. Y'all want JJ to consider SO feeling for her but doesn't give a damn to YJ who's doing the same thing for SO.

During S1,idk if it's just me but i felt that SO just want to challenge and tease HY.The fact that he bragged abt the kiss even if he knows that HY was head over heels to JJ. And SO first met and see JJ because he follows HY who's guiding her from afar.like it doesn't feel right for me.It somewhat shows that he liked JJ because HY like her and just fall on the process.

JJ choose HY because it's what her heart wants,she followed her heart even tho everyone's following the app.If that's not sincere,the what is? If that's not what "LOVE" really mean,then what is?

Leia Mais

DISAPPOINTING ENDING

Season one ended and Season 2 begun. All hope was on JoJo and Song Kang's character , Sun Oh getting back together.

Even though there was no rhyme or reason why they broke up, I delved into Season 2 with high hopes.

Only to be brought down back to earth, flat on my face! Lol What a complete waste of time!

Just fastwarded the ending and got it over and done with!

Totally disappointed she ended up with Hye Yeong.
The writers were probably going for second male and female leads getting their guys, but to be honest, it didn't work.

So lead male, ends up with second female lead and lead female, ended up with second male lead. But this is where the disappointment cones in!

Plain and simple, didn't work. Leaving most with a very disappointed take on Love Alarm!

Sometimes sticking to tradition is always better!

Leia Mais

DO NOT WATCH

Story is so bad, it distroyed the show. I wanted Jojo to end up with Sun Oh but I would have been OK with this ending if there was a better conclusion to Sun Oh' story and if there was chemistry between the leads. If you show the clip of leads to someone who never watched the show, he/she would NEVER EVER guess that they were in love because they do typical romantic stuff, but actors don't do a good job of showing emotions. And don't get me started on stupid side plots and side characters. Side plot lines that tried to mix in social commentary were distracting. This follow-up uses all the K-drama tricks in the book but does them extremely bad compered to other K-dramas. Once again, DO NOT WATCH THIS.

Leia Mais

If it doesn't ring it means he doesn't love me?

I'm a little bit confused, when I think about this drama. I didn't expecte much from it after season 1, but at the same time I wanted producers to take one clear direction in this history.

I still think that the story had a great opportunities to comment on certain social issues. With the Love Alarm apps as main theme, I was hoping to delve into the subject of love and loneliness. The problems of today's world, when relationships and feelings fall into the background, take on a new meaning, when in the end it isn't us who have to confess our feelings, because one sound will do it for us. But what if all this comment is only mentioned here and there during the show. If not the character of Duk Goo, I would have lost hope that the writers wanted to show more than a dramatic love triangle.

Out dear love triangle... I think the story of each character was interesting, but the potential was not fully realized. Our Jojo - a girl with a trauma who can't trust her feelings, having the thought in the back of her head, that they might hurt her. Sun Oh, a rich boy who needs genuine concern, not being a crush. However, he is based only on app, not paying attention to what his heart tells him. Finally Hye Young, who understands that it takes time to really love someone, but living in the world of Love Alarm, he feels pressured for his phone to ring. It sounds great, but in a drama we get maybe 40% of it. I think the character development could be presented much better.

The biggest mistake of this drama was divide it into 2 seasons. It is difficult to fully tell such a story within 8 and then 6 episodes. The writers had a problem to present the main characters and their problems well. Side arcs were only touched, and the social commentary was practically omitted. I would love to watch 16 episode version of Love Alarm.

But to be honest, despite so many disadvantages, I enjoyed season 2 a lot more. Shots and scenery looked amazing and beautiful. Music has been adapted to each scene perfectly. I would change some things, but overall I recommend this season.

Remember that you don't need app to love someone. Maybe app appeared at the right moment, but not to replace the true feelings, but to remind you of them.

Leia Mais

All is fair in love and war

The Soundtrack is a class. The cinematography is a class. The actors is a class.

The story telling is a chaos. Maybe it is the bewildered rendition.

Jojo and Sun Oh has intense and anticipation scene in each encounter. The passion is there. Raw. Suppressing.

Sun Oh still got that fearless conviction. As he was in season 1. Here he’s more fueled with anger too and beaten black and blue.
Hye Young with all the perks he earns, still found himself running in circles self-effacing. Jobs and Girl not sufficient enough to braved grim past life.
Jojo is not ‘trying’ to get caught by her love triangle had she not shielded her Love Alarm years before. Closure is a closure whatever the form she needed.

There are some loose ends here and there. Odd occurrences. Peculiar disappearances. Some characters are like missing puzzles.

So the ending is an ending. Let’s hope this is Fin.

Leia Mais

I liked

I must say that I generally liked this second season more than the first and these are my reasons:
1. The female character had a good development in this season, while in the first one she was always closed to what she thought was "right" without overcoming her traumas.
2. The male characters also grew and in this season we get two totally different male protagonists.
3. I feel that the female protagonist stayed with who was the best option for her, since that character grew along with her.

4. Also the change from school to a life outside of it, makes the drama itself should be more mature and I think people were expecting something more of school and it is something that could not be given by the context.
Overall it had a good closure in all the plots it proposed.

NOTE: Can you imagine a series of suspense with the theme of love alarm, it would be good because although it does not touch the subject talks about the extent to which the app tells you that only likes you or that person is obsessed with you.

SPOILER

5. While it didn't stay with who most people wanted, I think it's still a good kdrama, since as I said before there was a better character development, the story is not dramatic, but still intriguing a bit.

Leia Mais

Not up to rhe expectations

Even in a real it is not okay to stay with a person because you pity them and think they are lonely.
The FL didn't consider sunoh's feelings since the first episode in season 1.
I am not sure this season will be as watched as the first season was.
If you wanted to create a love story, it was better to keep the prince as prince instead of turning him into a frog in season 2.
Personally I didn't like this season and I am never gonna watch it again on my Netflix.
Who evem approved the script? There are so many points that are not clear, she breaks with sunoh with no clear reason.

Leia Mais

I actually really like how the story developed.

Please, if you can't see its beauty at least try to respect and appreciate others work.
First of all the reality of Jojos life which is basically like ours even though she lives in the ringing world. The struggle of understanding and accepting her past and that none of it was her fault. Past is always gonna be a part of her. duh. cause that’s her memories. She was really hurt and we have to sense that. I know that sometimes it was hard not push her and make her talk about how she feels and what she thinks but it was her choice and we have to respect that. She was just not ready yet.
Season one was about her love life, relationship with Sun-Oh and with Hye-Yeong. I fell in love with that plot and I was expecting the same from the season 2, but season 2 was on a whole different level. Center of this season was who she is and that she has to accept herself in order to move on. She literally had to hug the kid version of herself. If this won’t grab your heart idk what will.
Jojo is the perfect example of the situation when you first have to love yourself if you want to love someone and create a healthy relationship with them. I also think that relation with Sun-Oh was TOXIC for both of them. They loved each other but it was painful FOR BOTH OF THEM . As for Hye-yeong, their relationship was more like they were improving individually and in the end they were healed together.
Sorry for my bad english…Hope this was helpful ;)Thanks for reading <3

Leia Mais

A good amount of people will hate this but I gotta say.

First of all: the second season is better than the first. Period.

To be honest I've only watched the second season because I was very excited when I've heard about this drama where the second lead actually got a shot. I was sick of dramas putting an unecessary love triangle that everybody knew the second lead had no shot (still suffering from True Beauty). I got through the cringey plot, the corny scenes and problematic characters only for that. In 2019, when the drama was first released, I watched. I barely could finish the first episode of so bad I thought it was. Yes, I did only rewatch the first ep, and then watched the rest of the show (2 years later) due the buzz of the second lead having a shot.

This may escape from being a critical review, it's more like a "defense" of an unjustified attack this drama got. I can't get why people are so in love with Sun-Oh. Is due his looks? (I personally don't find him attractive, neither of both, but I do think in fact Hye-Young is better looking than Sun-Oh). But really, you guys should revalue your concepts, that's not what love is, that's not a healthy relationship, not in terms of friendship or romantic. He only expect and demand from people. He's what we call a rebel with no cause. I've heard one of the reviews saying "Jojo had no regards of Sun-Oh's feelings".... DID SUN-HO HAD REGARDS OF JOJO'S FEELINGS? Hyn-Yeong' feelings, his allegedly bestfriend? His girlfriend who always stood beside him? NOO. He did not have regards for anyone's feelings. Potential? No, he had no character's potential. The writers didn't ruin him, he was already bad written in the first place.

The drama itself only revolves about the relationship between these three. To be honest, it's more Jojo trying to live her relationship and Sun-Oh going after her time after time hurting Yuk-jo's feeling over and over. Interesting enough, I didn't think it got dull to watch, and look, I'm not a very romantic kind of girl, I do think it'd be better if they had a plot beside the love triangle, so many wasted material: Jojo's art thing for instance. The characters didn't have bigger aspirations in life, what Jojo was studying? What Hye-Yeong wanted to do as a career? Many unanswered questions. It had a lot of loose stitches, not gonna lie. But still, I liked watching it, maybe because I was keen of the main couple, they really grew on me. I thought they look good together, it had a lot of cute scenes too. Hye Yeong was always a very supportive and respectful about Jojo's life and decisions, while Sun-Oh would only be shouting at her demanding answers, acting like his life was the worst of all. So entitled, he thought the world was only about him. It truly made my day when Hye-Yeong punched him in the face.

Back to my point, I tend to drift away from my subject. In the second season you're more used to this whole love alarm idea, and you kind get why this is so important for them, although it may seem silly at first. Once you get used and set your mind for this concept, the actions and story becomes better (or at least less frustrating and less: "why they care so much about this?"). Although it could be better developed, there is a message behind it, about the issues/bad side of social media, technology and algorithm.

The OST here is awesome, it really made everything better and more emotional. A lot of depht. As you can read by know, I developed a big aversion of Sun-Oh, however, his last scene with Jojo was very good, very emotional, full of nostalgia. It touched me. People change, the heart changes, love change, life moves on. Another thing that usually annoys me in k-dramas is this scenario where someone you dated for a month in high school and that you're still madly in love and it makes impossible to you to date anyone after that (or worse: to feel you don't deserve love again). Gosh, you're not a penguin, it's not only one love for life and that's it. You can have crushes, you can love again.

Overall, is not the best drama ever, obviously is not. But this season deserves way better. I just needed to say these things. Thank you if you read to this point. :)

*I'm rating this keeping in mind the last season *

Leia Mais