love alarm 2

you might ask, haven't i watched love alarm 2 yet? well, i have. in fact maybe two days after it's being premiered i already watched it. i skip the premiere date because it was my birthday. i don't like watching it on my birthday because the ending might not in song kang's favor. oh well.. i don't have any grudge against jung ga ram either, but still.. anyway.. let's talk about it.

title: love alarm season 2

cast: kim so hyun, jung ga ram, song kang

genre: romantic drama

love alarm 2 ended with a big question, which one would jo jo pick? sun oh or hye yeong? in this second season, we saw that jo jo tried to meet love alarm developer to get rid of the shield. at the end of season 1, we saw that jo jo agreed to date hye yeong. hye yeong promised to wait even though jojo might not be able to ring his love alarm. meanwhile, sun oh was still couldn't forget jojo. he still rang jojo's love alarm every time he was within 10 m distance with jojo even though now he has yuk joo on his side. he blatantly told yuk joo that he might not be able to ring her love alarm, and at first yuk joo was okay with it, until she saw sun oh rang jojo's love alarm.

jojo tried to search for duk gu to her almamater only to encounter sun oh again. her effort was failed since her teacher told her that duk gu has passed away. meanwhile, hye yeong learnt the truth about his father. apparently his father was a murder convict that was about to undergo parole review. hye yeong decided to go instead of his mother. while jo jo tried to meet brian chon (ki do hoon), a man that claimed to be love alarm developer. however, when jojo confronted him about the shield and asked him to delete the shield, brian had nothing to do with it, leaving jojo devastated as she thought any programmer could remove the shield. sun oh overheard their conversation and confronted both jojo and brian. he decided not to trust love alarm and seek the truth from jojo herself as he believed jojo still has feelings for him. on the side, we saw brian in his office, monitoring someone lying in bed tied to several medical equipments from his table. was that person duk gu? and what was his relationship with brian?

hye yeong tried to hide the truth about his father as he was afraid that he might turn out to be like his father. but at the end he decided to tell the truth to jojo. jojo accompanied hye yeong when hye yeong was scheduled to meet his father, and later she gave consolation to hye yeong. sun oh on the other hand, after finding out about the shield, tried to confront jojo at jojo's university. the whole class went into uproar when the famous sun oh dropped at their class, confronting jojo. once again, jojo's quiet life went into chaos as once again, people talked about her again.

that incident made hye yeong angry because sun oh has been thinking about himself first, and not jojo. both guys fought for the first time. meanwhile, there was a creepy man following jojo because jojo wa the artist behind "the ringing world" instagram page. there was another murder case related to love alarm again. this time the police demanded the company to hand over the record of the murder victim so they could find out who rang the victim's love alarm for the last time. but the company refused telling the police that they wiped the record regularly. but all the workers doubted that statement. 

after the fight, hye yeong gave jojo some time to think about her feeling. meanwhile jojo confronted sun oh and told him that he wasn't the one for her this time. broken hearted, sun oh came back to yuk joo only to find that yuk joo was about to go to US to take care of her contract. while jojo miraculously got a spear. the spear enabled the user to ring other person love alarm's by their choice. so jojo instantly met with hye yeong only to ring his love alarm. but later hye yeong found out about the shield and the spear and questioned whether jojo really like him or was it just to cast away sun oh.

at the end, the most wanted person throughout the second season, duk gu, finally appeared. jojo's hunch about duk gu being the developer was right. duk gu was the real developer and he gave jojo both the shield and the spear. while brian was duk gu's brother. at the end, jojo told sun oh about her decision and sun oh finally came in term with it. while duk gu met with hye yeong and explained everything about jojo, the shield and the spear. so you'd probably guessed who jojo chose to be with. yep. hye yeong. while sun oh tried to wait for yuk joo and he did the same thing as hye yeong. even though he couldn't ring yuk joo's alarm just yet, he would keep coming and believing that someday he would ring hers.

what i like:

- all characters were adult now, some character does mature. like hye yeong and sun oh. especially sun oh. i think his character matures more than others. 

- at least they didn't kill duk gu. but still... i can't believe he gave jojo a spear in addition to the shield. 

- gul mi got mature as well. she started helping out in the minimart even though at first it was only for getting more hearts so she could join the love alarm club. however, while doing that, she realized her mom has been doing that for years and then understand her mom better.

what i don't like:

- so many holes in the second season. so many questions. like why they make sun oh's mom suddenly cared for him? she even could see the different when sun oh started to see jojo again and not. why made her care when there were no more stories about her? like they didn't reconcile or such, so why bother? 

- talking about holes, why popping hye yeong dad as well? when at the end his dad didn't get out of jail on parole because hye yeong refused to do so. and the problem with the dad didn't affect his relationship with jojo much, so why popping the "dad" factor?

- jojo still wasn't honest with hye yeong. with sun oh, she could tell him everything at the end so sun oh came to term with her reason of choosing the shield back then. but why not telling hye yeong the reason she chose the shield back then and the spear now? why should duk gu tell hye yeong about it? it's supposed to be jojo who did that. 

- why bother making second season when they could finish it in the first season just by adding several episodes? 6 episodes in the second one is not enough to answer the holes in the first and second season. 

rating: 7/10

binge worthy: just so-so

recommended for: those who's fans of song kang, kim so hyun and jung ga ram, a fan of standard love triangle, and those who watch first season and interested in knowing the end.