“don’t cry. i won’t cry either.” // love alarm 2 (2021)

love alarm 2 (2021)

K-Drama Review: Love Alarm

I had just finished watching Descendants of the sun and I was not ready to move on from my post-kdrama-depression, so I figured I’d watch a lighthearted drama. Bruh, I was not prepared for this roller-coaster of emotions. I literally started watching it last night around 11:30pm thinking I was only going to watch 1 episode…BIG MISTAKE.

In hindsight, a way to describe this drama is as ‘The Heirs’ on crack! It had overall a feel very familiar that I’ve seen before in kdramas and of course it included the technology theme plus hot surprises that I rarely see in korean dramas. 

As I was watching episode 1, I didn’t find that leads that attractive. I found Song Kang to have an attractive body and beautiful lips…but nothing special. And usually when I can’t find the leads attractive, I don’t get invested in their romance. I was also super sleepy since I had only planned to watch one episode….and halfway through episode 1, nothing exciting had happened so i contemplated in going to bed instead……well i didn’t, and when the final scene occurred, suddenly I didn’t know what sleep was!

DIVING INTO IT:

In episode one we get introduced to these 2 guy best friends. Sun-oh immediately finds out that his best friend is IN LOVE with this mystery girl. Why on earth does he start pursuing her then??? He knows how deeply his friend feels as he watched him stalk the girl. Then he goes on ahead and kiss her? That was really effed up! As the episodes go on, we are showed how good of a friend Hye-yeong is towards Sun-oh, which only intensifies my annoyance on what Sun-oh did. The only thing that kind of redeemed Sun-oh (I guess) was that he never hid it from Hye-yeong, he told him straight up that he kissed her. On the last episode though, Sun-oh is upset that Hye-yeong wants to pursue her…like how DARE HE!!!!!!! After what HE did. 

Furthermore, the love story... even though what I said above has me livid, the way the romance emerged had some themes that are truly my guilty pleasures. We have some stalking, dominance, jealousy and cheesiness. All which I loved in The Heirs and which Sun-oh did VERY well. When Sun-oh and Jojo went to the alley and the first thing he said was “do you wanna kiss” I GASPEDDDDDDD. The way he said her lips were beautiful and didn’t care that she had a boyfriend……ahhhhh……it had me more excited than i care to admit. One of the best scenes I see played out in episode 1 of a kdrama! Usually the boys hide their interest in the girl for at least 3 episodes before they start acting on it, but Sun-oh went straight for it and it had me weak in the knees! Overall it kept me begging for more. 

Side notes:

• -The theme about su***de scares me a bit, especially because its being portrayed more than once…but hopefully they’re able to give helpful advice on it in season 2.
• -the bullying when it came to jojo and duk gu …and even the lgbt boy had my heart break.
• -this drama has me super stressed and on the verge of tears when I wanted it to be lighthearted and cute. 

Season 2

• It appears to be delayed and it scares me that they will not come through it. Hopefully they do, because I’m left on a cliff hanger and not sure where to go for comfort .
• Predictions: Well, not really predictions but what I hope happens:
• Jojo to date Hye-yeong for like 2 episodes because he deserves it. However, in the middle of it, for Sun-oh to start stalking jojo and aggressively kissing her(sorry thats what i’m in to), I wanna see Sun-oh act like he did on episode one, only more passionate. I want Hye-yeong to find love elsewhere and be happy. And of course, I need a Sun-oh/Jojo endgame! (Is a se* scene too much to ask?)

Send me Kdrama recommendations!

PS: I now find Song Kang HOT AFFFFF.