Love Alarm Season 2

Beautiful Story about self-love and acceptance...

Okay, I normally do not write reviews, but since this second installment of the series is getting a lot of hate I felt I had to. First, can we just appreciate all of the cast members and production team? They worked really hard on this show and I fell in love with each of the characters. Seriously, they deserve some appreciation for their efforts.
Second, as someone who has watched the first season of Love Alarm, I can agree that JoJo broke up with Sun Oh immaturely, but I can understand her reasons. It was JoJo's defense mechanism to protect herself and the ones she loved. Imagine society ridiculing you and judging you just because you survived a traumatic experience. The pressure can be stifling. Can you blame her?! After watching the first season, I immediately knew that the moral of this series was going to be that feelings of love cannot be too dependent on machines and that feelings are complicated, this drama portrayed that beautifully. While I was initially angry at JoJo for using the spear to convey her feelings, it struck me that the spear symbolized autonomy and freedom of choice as long as you take responsibility for your choices. Others may have watched the reveal for the main leads and couples, but I watched it for the deep personal growth of each character. I absolutely loved the character development of JoJo. As someone studying play therapy, it is said that for us to move on as adults, we have to learn how to accept the pain and hurt of our inner child before we can move forward and grow. This scene absolutely had me tearing up. A message that I would like to leave for the young JoJo: "you did so well, it wasn't your fault and accidents happen in life. You are beautiful and deserve to be loved. Always remember that you are enough and worth it." Personally, this is something I have not come to terms with myself. I struggle with certain aspects of my disability and the concept of self-love just as JoJo does. My heart was overwhelmed when I found out Duk-Gu, the founding developer of love alarm was still alive. Thank you for remaining strong and a figure of support for the main characters. Thank you for being alive you are one-of-a-kind and cannot be replaced. I actually enjoyed the central plot twists in this show. The music for this series is astounding and I felt like it matched the scenes quite well. I encourage people to watch season 2 of this drama and they want a show that focuses on character development and growth. As the director said season two will mainly focus on the maturity of the characters and they did not disappoint. I enjoyed watching all of the characters overcome their personal struggles. It was something beautiful to watch and I will not forget it. Personally, I felt it was worth the two-year wait and they ended the series beautifully. Sorry for the long review, but I wanted to show my support for this drama because I cannot believe how much it is being bashed. I tried my best to keep it spoiler-free.
Thank you to everyone who worked on this show your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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When Waiting Two Years Doesn’t Pay Off

Unfortunately, a major letdown compared to the potential set up in Season 1. It feels like a continuation that struggled to find its purpose, and instead of building on the emotional and romantic tension, it ends up weakening it.

The biggest issue here is the story and pacing. The plot feels rushed and uneven, as if key developments needed more time to breathe but were instead pushed forward too quickly. Because of that, the emotional progression—especially in the romantic relationships—never feels fully natural or convincing. It becomes hard to stay invested when the foundation of the relationships doesn’t feel properly built up.

The main character decisions, particularly Jojo’s arc, are also difficult to connect with. Instead of feeling like a meaningful evolution, her choices often come across as inconsistent or frustrating, making it harder to understand her motivations or relate to her journey.

The romance itself suffers the most. The relationships feel poorly paced and forced at times, with little buildup to justify the emotional weight they are supposed to carry. Rather than feeling complete, certain pairings feel pushed forward without enough development, which makes it hard to become emotionally invested.

That being said, the acting is still strong across the board. The cast does their best with what they had, and they bring sincerity to their roles even when the writing doesn’t fully support them.

Overall, Love Alarm Season 2 feels like a missed opportunity. It had the foundation for a strong continuation but ends up feeling rushed, emotionally underdeveloped, and inconsistent in its storytelling.

Verdict:
A disappointing sequel with weak pacing and underdeveloped character and romance arcs.

Rewatch Value:
Very low — not something likely to be revisited...

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terribly executed

terrible. 0/10. giving it a six in my rating list just because sun oh wouldn’t want me to rate him lower than that and i love him too much. anything else: hated it.
the lights? what the fuck was up with that, director-nim.
the plotholes? smol boy comes wandering around after five years of minding his own business and instead of giving solutions he creates more problems. also where did he come from. where did he go. did he create the spear for the giggles, because that was the most useless tool i've ever seen.
the male main character? most boring, flat acting i've ever seen. at least you can actually tell apart emotions with sun oh.
kim flipping jojo? yeas dear go ahead and realize you've been a terrible main character and then proceed to do NOTHING to fix that. talk about character development there. poorly executed if you ask me.
this was a drama about choices; let me tell you, those were the most boring and terrible choices i've ever seen. breaking the boy's heart for nothing? bad choice. using the shild? bad choice. not contacting CDG to get your shield removed and instead using the dumb spear tool? terrible choice.
the reasons behind the whole thing were also ridiculous. "oh yeah you disappeared from his potentials when you kissed sun oh bc you were in lOvE with hye young." what shitty explanation is that. at least make it believable.
all in all i'm going to pretend like this whole show did not happen. wasted two years of my life waiting for it only to find out i hate it, after all.

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Completely pointless season

I have hundreds of complaints about this season but I don't have the energy to go into detail about everything so I just want to say it was so pointless to make this season if all the 4 leads would end up with their original relationships. Jojo and Hyeyeong had no romantic chemistry whatsoever, she always looked guilty around him and like she was with him just because he liked her and she didn't want to be lonely, other than actually loving him. It made no sense that she didn't stop Sunoh from kissing her if apparently she rang HY's alarm multiple times before that. The whole shield and spear was so stupid, annoyingly pointless and made no sense at all. The closure they gave Sunoh was so dumb too but at least he ended up with someone who actually loves him dearly and made him smile and try to become a better person. But still, he smiled only like 3 or 4 times through the whole show... Everything was so ridiculous, this season was literally unnecessary. The only storyline that actually mattered and was more interesting than whatever went on with the leads was Gulmi, I'm only not giving it 1 star because of her, but even her character can only make it go up as 2 stars.

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It is not what you were waiting for.

Um well, I don’t have many good things to say about this show, I wasn’t really mad about who Jojo picked, I was more pissed about how they showed it. I was going into season 2 expecting a lot obviously because season 1 was great. But then when the trailer came out it felt different. I don’t know the vibe and how the characters were portrayed also the plot none of it felt proper. It was 6 episodes I don’t think that was enough for this show or even the plot. I hate how Jojo never had to explain one thing to anyone, she would just walk around and hurt both of them. In the end, Hye-Yeong getting her was obvious but why did she pick him. The plot, in general, was missing something and in the end, Sun-oh’s character was completely told off basically he had no part in it in the end. There was no development to him or to any of them in general. In the end, Jojo played them both and sometimes it felt that she was just going with Hye-Yeong because she felt bad. I wished the writers would have put a little bit more effort into why, WHY SHE WAS DOING EVERYTHING. AND THEN SUN-OH they tried to give him this PITY HAPPY ENDING, but in the end, his feelings weren’t resolved. I feel like I wasted 2 years waiting for this show and I only got Jojo explaining nothing to Sun-oh. AND THEN THE PLOT WITH THE MURDERER HUH WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT, IT WAS 6 EPISODES AND SOME OF IR JUST FELT USELESS. I am going, to be honest, and say that I just watched this for Sun-oh and every time this poor boy was hurt. I fucking cried with him, this show did nothing for him. I don’t recommend it if you are expecting it to be like season 1. I will give credit to the scene of this show the OST wasn’t the best but the scenes and camera angles made up for it yk.

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SERIOUSLY???

I have been waiting for Season 2 and all I get was that??
Honestly, I didn't really felt like finishing Season 1. At first, I was like, what in the world is this? The plot is a little bit cliche but the content of the story isn't. It took me about 5 attempts to finally move on from Episode 2 of Season 1 but as the story progressed, I became invested in the episode. I sincerely loved it! The ending left me hanging and so as disappointed as I was for not being able to move on to the next episode, because -- really, I learned to love Jojo and Sun-Oh, and Hye-Yong. I loved where the plot was heading and towards the end of Episode 8 I was reallllly invested and could not wait for Sun-Oh to get back with JOJO but what the heck??

Season 2 was sooo dry and the storyline was so bland. If the director, writer, or whoever f*up the story, wanted it to be different they could have just made at least a tiny bit of justice to Sun-Oh and Jojo's romance!!

I think I can understand what the writer is trying to say about the story.

The shield, the complete switch of love interests but the heck to this!!
I'm outraged. 😡😡😡

We hopped to kdrama's because we want to separate ourselves from the reality and feel all giddy and just forget about how unfair life can be most of the time.

No matter how cliche things are, my heart will never get enough of scenes like Season 1. Forget Season 2!! I will never watch it again!

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DISSAPOINTMENT

Hiii, I have never really written reviews but after watching Love Alarm S2 I really feel the need to.
For the acting the potrayal of emotions were top-notch, but the storyline really made me feel uneasy.
It is not about the fact that she ended up with Hye-yeong, but the fact that she DID NOT EVEN HAVE GENUINE FEELINGS FOR HIM FOR ALMOST THE WHOLE SHOW.
When I watched S1, tbh I was still not very happy with Jojo's character, but I still did connect with her at some point, but S2 was just not it, it was almost like playing with two guys. If she loved Sun-Oh she should have been with him or not anyone else, staying with Hye-Yeong just made it worse.
It was very cowardly of her to run away from the one she loves not once but TWICE.
They really need to do Sun-Oh some REAL justice as he was a genuine guy who knew who wanted and loved Jojo without any conditions and not toxic or rude.
We all knew that the one he really loved was Jojo, they might have showed that he ended up with his ex, but its not that easy to suddenly get over someone you really love.
But the show did show each of their happy endings, but its just me who is not satisfied with it.
No hate towards the cast, they did a terrific job!!

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Honestly would have gotten a 0 if it weren't for this.

I am not surprised at how this turned out. I actually marked it in my "Not Interested" list because I didn't enjoy the first season at all but then got pressured to watch it anyways.


Firstly, the story was very questionable. It feels the screenwriters decided to pave the way for a new story without more character development. I get that season 1 had most of the character development, but if you want to re-use the character development from season 1, you have to stay consistent with your plot in season 2. At this point, it just felt like they were trying to appease the general public with the way they set season 2 because we all know who Jojo really liked. If you didn't watch season 1, you would know that the public was rooting for HyeYoung (me included). However the thing that comes with second leads is that they are sometimes better off without winning the girl's heart (e.g. My First First Love 1 and 2 being the exact epitome of this series). If they stuck with Sun-Oh, then this drama might have had more popularity. Now, public opinion is basically this: "You can't just change the first season's male lead into the second lead in the second season." Also, one thing thing that was probably the film maker's worst fail was spacing season 1 and season 2 too far apart. It may be just because of COVID delays, but by the time I watched season 2 (which I binged on March 14 2021) I already forgot all of the character's names and who they were except Guk Do and Gul Mi.

As for the cast and characters, it wasn't half-bad. Let's just say I was very confused at Kim So Hyun's acting. I couldn't get the emotions she was trying to convey. It might be because I had the first season imprinted into my brain, though. Song Kang's acting was actually quite good this time. I could feel the emotion behind his character, though I still think SunOh the character was too crazy and abusive with the Jojo situation. As for the whole "Brian Chun" situation, I just felt like that was uncessecaryy. **As what my title probably click-baited you to read, the only thing that saved this was Sun-Oh and Yuk Joo's relationship. I fell WAY too hard for Yuk-joo. She was just such a pure and innocent soul. She's the only character that made my heart act up.

Overall, I would NOT RECCOMEND.

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In need of Season 3

I can't help but write a review for this.
Waited for almost a year and this is the ending I received?

Firstly, I expected that Season 1's ending will link to Season 2's starting, from the presentation part. Unfortunately, no one knows what happened after that scene. Season 2 jumped straight to Jojo and Hyeyoung being together? I am so confused.... I was really still hoping that there will be a chance for Sunoh and Jojo to get back together :(

I feel that Jojo is really selfish in her decisions. Getting together with Hyeyoung (Sunoh's used to be best friend) when Sunoh was still upset over the fact that Jojo did not ring his alarm in Season 1. The fact that she used a shield to hide her feelings. If the shield did not exist, they will probably still be in love. Sunoh still rings her alarm... and if Hyeyoung did not persist to chase after her, Jojo will probably still ring Sunoh's alarm. Sun oh really loves Jojo though...... :( Did Jojo choose Hyeyoung because Yuk-Jo was with Sun oh?

Yuk-Jo...she is just too in love with Sun oh that she doesn't even care whether if Sunoh likes him back. and the drama ended with Sun oh wanting Yuk-Jo back? I think Sunoh is just too comfortable with Yukjo...poor girl, she should find someone better.

Hyeyoung should find someone better too...

Overall, I am so disappointed with this ending. I will still prefer Season 1 over 2 of course.... Can we have a Season 3 where Jojo broke up with Hyeyoung because she finally knows her real feelings (using Duk gu's in-progress application of the lie detector) towards Sun oh? :) Since Jojo installed the Shield to hide her real feelings towards Sun oh and she installed another to ring Hyeyoung's alarm on her own assumed feelings towards him. So probably Season 3 with an ending of Jojo and Sunoh, finally being able to get together? :DDDD or else, I am just gonna imagine it myself...

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Disappointed in the story

I normally do not write reviews for any dramas. But i was very disappointed with the second season. Jojo never took sunho feelings into consideration at all not one bit made no sense as to why she couldn't like him again when she told him that she would never love anyone as much as she loved him. I dunno how the second lead deserved her more didn't make any sense. Like they didn't really explain as to why she had to put the shield to begin with just cause she didn't want to get hurt but how did sunho hurt her in any way.

Either way I wouldn't rewatch this drama. Very dissatisfied

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Regret of watching S2

Seriously, it's a rare when I was writing is review... I haven't watch the trailer and just watched the whole of season 2. I thought Jojo would ended up with Sun Oh because the chemistry was no joke, better than when she was with hye yeoung... JJ and SO looked natural together but when with HY, felt like being forced, it lack of chemistry. The story should not ended up like this. Duk Gu character development is somehow quite lack of something but Gul Mi is worthy to watch in this season but she can be develop more actually..

For those who are fan of Jojo and Sun Oh, better drop this season and just imagine the best ending of your own with Jojo and Sun Oh happily find their love back.

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