Tide of Love Season 2 (2026)

those blinking xmas lights were my brain cells dying while watching this

Overall: the first 2 episodes were so bad they were funny, but episode 3 was not enjoyable to watch at all nor was a lot of what happened after. 8 episodes about 30 minutes each. Aired on iQIYI https://www.iq.com/play/tide-of-love-2-episode-1-q7bb46xfuk?lang=en_us and GagaOOLala https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/6193/tide-of-love-2025-s02e01 (not available in the Americas, Spain, Portugal, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Japan or Korea) Here is my review of season 1 https://kisskh.at/profile/blcompilations/review/512672

Content Warnings: drugging, sexual assault, intimate partner abuse, slap, manipulation, past intimate partner abuse, rape? (it did not look consensual at the time), violence, drugging

What I Liked
- unintentionally hilarious in the first 2 episodes, wth was that ankle bracelet thing
- visuals

Room For Improvement
- episode 3 was full on intimate partner abuse, preventing him from taking his class, taking his phone away (isolation is a classic abuser tactic), tracking him, chaining him without consent/refusing to let him leave the house, that slap, ugh, none of it was sexy or fun to watch
- mismatched kissing, one guy went all in and the other kept his lips shut (even during times when he allegedly enjoyed it)
- I don't normally take off points for production value for indie series, but this is egregiously low budget feeling with so many continuity errors
- practically had a mustache twirling villain (with super zoomed in close ups of his "alcoholic" beverage)
- love rival
- worst "punch" ever
- that drugging

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As bad as season 1

OMG, you'd think they'd do a better job the second time. But it was just as bad as the first season.
The only thing that was a little better is that the scenes didn't look like random scenes thrown together, this time there was actually a storyline. It was stil excuted very bad though. So many unresolved things.
The only really good thing were the visuals. The music was extremely anoying, that irritating pianotune that kept repeating throughout the whole drama...

The sounds were really bad too. The voice overs were not good. There were also random sounds that didn't fit. Extreme loud foodsteps, kissing sounds very out of sync with the actual kissing.

And then the acting... Kim Hyeon Seo is a very bad actor, he doesn't know how to show feelings. Same with the friend that played the psychotherapist.
Jung Myeong Cheol isn't fantastic at acting, but still good. The best actor by far was Kwak Geon Hee.

The mains hardly have any chemisty, the bit they have is because of the hard work of Jung Myeong Cheol. The kisses were soo bad!! 90% of the time Kim Hyeon Seo just holds his lips tight together, he doesn't even pout them. The other 10% of the time he opens and closes his mout with no emotions and like a fish on dry land gasping for air...
Why play such a role if you are afraid to kiss someone. Or maybe it's because he is kissing a guy, well then he souldn't act in BL's... It's such a shame because Jung Myeong Cheol kisses are quite good.

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