I dropped the drama midway through/somewhere near the end of season 1 because it wasn't working, but I have to say I'm disappointed by the ending of the show. I was firmly on Team Sun-oh. Hye-young is nice and all, but he never said anything to Jojo, and she continued to suffer at the hands of her terrible family. Sun-oh, on the other hand, stepped up to be there for her. It may have been instalove, but over the course of season 1, it seemed like they were building something real and special, while Hye-young completely missed the timing. So for Jojo to suddenly break up with Sun-oh, and then a whole time skip later be with Hye-young (from what I read), makes no sense. [And yes, I'm commenting without having watched the show]

Other than that, the points @missvictrix makes about digital vs analogue and an overreliance on the app are so accurate. Frankly, even here, I wouldn't wish for Jojo to pick the analogue Hye-young, but I'd like to see her navigate something more humane and realistic with the digital Sun-oh. After all, technology is here to stay in our lives. We can't pretend it doesn't exist by going analogue, but we must try and find human connection through all the digital. So yeah, basically, disappointed (even though I didn't watch season 2 - actually maybe I didn't because I knew how it'd end, having looked it up when I gave up on s1).

Version 2.0 even shows, algorithmically, people that will love you in the future.

Next we need an app that will algorithmically tell us what shows we will love in the future.

It was six episodes long and all those episodes make it Jojo's mission to force herself in love with Hyeyoung...at least it felt like it to me. I know at the end she said it turns out she was already in love with him but didn't know...but as a viewer, it didn't seem like that to me. I feel like Kim Sohyun and Jung Garam lack some chemistry-filled scenes. Their scenes were too "comfortable" so it didn't feel romantic. I think that's why a lot of viewers are upset with season 2.

As someone who binged both season at the same time, I can't really connect with what people has been saying about the ending. On the contrary.... I really feel that the way Sunoh borderline forced his feelings and believes her feelings towards him kinda................. Annoying? (was gonna say disturbing but that's a strong word). I don't know but the moment Jojo started to try and find the developer to get rid of the shield, I do feel like that's when she started to believe that her feelings for Hyeyoung were there, otherwise why would she wanted to get rid of that knowing that it'd still ring Sunoh's? And like she said, at last she avoided confronting Sunoh (and getting the public informed) not because she was afraid of her feelings resurfaced, but she didn't want to hurt Hyeyoung. Which says a lot I think.

The paralel between Sunoh and his girlfriend with Jojo and Hyeyoung was actually interesting. Sunoh (unconsciously?) chose to not ring his girlfriend's alarm, while Jojo cannot ring any alarm but chose to find a way to ring Hyeyoung's alarm.

Also, Sunoh's girlfriend deserves much much much better redemption from Sunoh. She has been nothing but love and support.

I don't really like Jojo. In the first season, she lied to everyone important for her and the second she just continued. She knew how HY was hurting by this fact, but she never told him about the shield... HY was the only character I liked in the first season, so I was happy that he was the endgame. But they had no chemistry and looked super awkward. Jojo has feelings for him but broke the curtains to avoid his kiss but she had no issue with SH? Storywise and the acting failed to deliver this couple.

I found funny that Jojo thought that the big brother could be the developper... I mean you can change but at this point? Really?

For the app, the "If I didn't do it, someone esle would have" is not excuse. We didn't see the positive side of it. Who had a beautiful love story thanks to this app?

As I said about River Where the Moon Rises, this girl is a lousy picker of men.

I did watch few episodes of season 1 and stopped midway. I was going to pick it up after season 2 premier but it looks like it is not worth spending my time on. I will wait for next Kim So-hyun drama (River was a let down). Fortunately we have new Song Kang drama coming up in next week.

i was really excited for season 2 of love alarm because of the cliffhanger of the first season but i'm a little upset how they glossed over that bombshell of an ending and she's suddenly with Hye young. I didn't even know until half way through that she was dating him, i thought she was just testing the waters with him while he stays by her side like the loyal puppy in love that we saw from the first season, until she called him her boyfriends woops.

I feel Jojo didn't really clear the air with Sun oh properly and it didn't help that she kept running away from him as well. I thought the show would go in the direction of her looking at her own feelings instead of an app even though i know the basis of their world is relying on an app to know who you like but it felt quite superficial.

Even though i'm a Hye Young and Jojo shipper and squealed every time they had interactions more episodes and development surrounding her previous feelings for Sun oh and the end of that could have been explored better.

Ultimately, I enjoyed this. I suppose I don't care about the contradictory messaging too much. Here are my main thoughts:

-I like how it feels like the show has found its missing half. The story didn't stand upright with just season one. There's now a symmetry - in season one, Sun-ho was the hero (because we're all the main character of our love story) and Hye-young took a backseat, and in season two the opposite happened. I like how, even though the show's main aesthetics of bus stops and cherry blossoms are still here, it feels different, as if to purposely contrast between the immature love story of the first season and the more mature love story of the second.
-I also liked where Sun-oh ended up. I thought the fact that he was a perpetual sadsack here was a little amusing (when he definitely did know how to smile at the end of the last season), but he gained a lot of perspective this season. In 2019, I saw him as a child in an adult's body, craving love from the people around him, needing their constant support but not giving anything back. I think this season saw him forced to move away from that mentality because Hye-young and Jojo weren't there to carry him anymore. He started to look at the world like an adult. He saw the nuances in his Mum's behaviour, because growing up means understanding your parents as people, even if you can't forgive them. He realised his behaviour was draining Jojo so he let her go, but I imagine he took some comfort in knowing he will always have the 18-year-old version of her. So yes, I thought his character arc was actually quite satisfying (perhaps I'm just filling in the gaps though, I don't know).
-I'm still laughing about how Gul-mi got everything she ever wanted without revising her terrible personality at all. Gaining 1% of sincerity was hardly a character arc, but hey, it was entertaining.
-I think it's pretty cool that Jojo was introduced as the classic Candy, but time and time again throughout the show has proved herself to be incredibly selfish, to instinctually protect herself over others. It's definitely her tragic flaw, and it knocks her down over and over again. And she gets called out for it by the show! I thought the resolution of her story was really good - even though she's made some awful awful choices, they led her to a point where she was brave enough to hold herself accountable for them.

I can’t be the only one who loves season 2 much more than 1. Season 2 far from perfect, but the message are much more important. I like the fact that JJ is trying to work o her relationship with HY. Instead of thinking she is forcing herself into him, i thought she is being appreciative to people who loves her. She Is a kind of person who prefer to being lonely instead of hurting or being hurt. But she open herself to HY. She can see, feel and grateful for love she received from him and want to give it back. When it is turned out that she loves him too, for me it is just a bonus. She loves the right and good person who obviously loves her back. What a happy ending right? And the message about loneliness is so thick in this drama. Can you imagine a future where the young generation depend on an app to look for love? And they are mentally incapable of seeing what love is to the point that what happen in their relationship with other people doesn’t matter but what an app says about this person loves you and that person not is.

I watched the first 3 eps of season 2, but it lacks vitality somehow. It is also so angsty. So I'll back Bruner this drama because I already know the ending and will go back later.

I started season 1 when season 2 was released, anticipating I could binge both. But I think I am going to drop it after episode 3. It just doesn't work for me, I don't get it. Why did Sun-ho go out of his way to go after Sun-ho in the first place? Even if his best friend denied it, he knew his feelings. He seeked her out, pursued her. Was it love at first sight? I have no idea. There are other things, but I am not a big fan of triangles, where the leads switched back and forth. Looks like that's where its headed.

The 2nd season doesnt hook me in like the 1st season did. Mainly because i just can't get into the premise. We can't understand our love anymore unless an app tell us?

In the 1st season, the app was just released and we're seeing a new way of communicating our like for someone. I see it being similar with the like of Facebook changing our way of communicating. In the 2nd season tho, in just a few years, somehow it is painted as the 'only' way to communicate love, without it there is no assurance of the sincerity of the feeling anymore? This is like without Facebook we can not tell anymore if someone is truly our friend or not. How ridiculous is that? Hence why i just can't get my head around the FL running around trying to undo what she did with the app. I don't know why she can't just say let us both uninstall this app and date just like, you know, ever other couple have been for the past millennia???

I re-watched S1 last week before S2 dropped to remember what went down. And I think the issue here is both ML regressed.

HY went after Jojo without the app telling him, he knew he liked her before the app existed (I actually think CDC created the app because of him, not GulMi lmao) and SH was very much attached to the app, and then in S2 that gets switched, and placed SH's character into a selfish stalker position (my guy, following a woman like that is illegal). HY expecting the app to confirm things when S1 showed us he gave no fucks about it...mmm, why? lol. Jojo not telling SH the truth about the shield for the entirety of 4 episodes! all that issue with him could had gotten solved in like 15 minutes of screen time in episode one.

I was very frustrated with the way her character was handled, and how she literally had to be pushed to the limits to face her fears (girl, running a marathon ain't therapy, go to a therapist, please). If this Jojo had ended up with that SH... not bueno. Selfish boy x Insecure girl do not go well together.

Also what was that...plot with HY's dad..???? I mean, it happened and it got dropped so quick, like "I'm goody 2 shoes because dad was, but he isn't like that so I can be human".. It was just used to show Jojo cared (I mean, she already did, not need to diminish HY's character like that).

Yuk Joo, ma girl, she's a rebound and she deserves better. SH to me should have been alone, he needs to grow up a little more.

This season lacked script, KSH is a great actress, but she struggles with love scenes, which I believe is because she's young and hasn't had real life experiences in that department. Even tho, she was great in Tale of Nokdu, even the kiss scenes! heck, Radio Romance too, I just feel like the writer didn't know what to do with HY and Jojo's scenes because they did feel like they were, acting, which, mmm lol

All the events from this season could've been solved in 2 episodes. If S1 had been 10 episodes, that would have been the end of it, but well. I don't know whether to say this was a satisfactory ending or not, because it focused so much on the love triangle, that if you liked Jojo/SH like I do lmao, ofc you're not going to like it, but like I said, the SH from S2 is not ready for a relationship, and HY...my man HY, I still think had CDC not told him about the spear and all that, he would had not gotten back together with Jojo. He needed reassurance not just from the app, but from the developer himself, to believe Jojo did like him, I just, the whole waiting for them to love you, does not sit well with me lmao, it's just so weird this world where technology > love

I tried so hard to watch it all, but I got really upset when she chose to ring Hye-youngs alarm. I guess I liked the idea of the love alarm to an extent as like some how finding your soul mate through the an almost algorithm. I think it also bothered me that I felt like Hye-young was always kind of pushing his feelings on her. Also what about the person who would wind up ringing his alarm?
Then we have Sun-ho, who was suffering in his own regards.. When it was made very clear that he no longer smiled... that just broke me.

All in all I was really hoping for Sun-ho and Jojo to get their happy ending, but I feel that it was ripped away from selfishness.

I came in to this Sunho biased... I mean I watched S1 with nobody to root for really, Netflix was pushing it and I caved. But I'm a sucker for first loves and guys who make their move (but lo and behold cheating is still a no no) so I naturally finished Team Sunho. I rewatched S1 to prepare for S2 because I had forgotten everything (that should have been a sign tbh, a drama that's not memorable should speak for itself).

Alas, I went into S2 still rooting for Sunho and Jojo to resolve their breakup, for Jojo to be honest with Sunho and tell him that she deliberately shielded her heart for him to be "happy". In the end, Sunho was reduced to an emotional baggage that she had to let go, suddenly a part of her dark dark past. I had trouble accepting this because from the very beginning, it was her that broke an already emotionally unstable guy.

Still, Hyeyoung is a likable character. He was patient, warm and sweet, I literally swooned for him that first quarter of S2 episode 1. So rooting for him in S2 was natural. But I had too many questions for his and Jojo's relationship. It felt forced even though they had supposedly matured, and this coming from someone who prefers adults over high schoolers' love stories. And whatever happened to that vanishing Jojo from the list of someone who will love you in HY's app? Did I miss how that part concluded? That scene gave me a glimmer of hope for a turntable but ehh. It got lost somewhere.

And Jojo, my dear dear Jojo. Why is she always caught up cheating. I mean --- BUT. Sometimes she's okay, sometimes she's not okay. Glad she realized how she has hurt the people around her, by pretending she's okay. By keeping things to herself, she hurt people. I don't suppose she'll change though. HY liked her even before, so I don't think she'll ever change.

I have to admit, I got disappointed because my ship didn't sail. I'm never a fan of love triangles because that would mean a 50-50% chance I'd also end up disappointed. But I stayed for this drama precisely because I don't know what I'm going in for, the love triangle was central to the story so I had to deal with it (and let's face it, I was sure Jojo and Sunho would get a decent closure, but this wasn't the closure I was hoping for!!!) and dystopian is always attractive to me. The drama had so many fillers and plot holes and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought -- we waited almost two years just to get this weirdly written 6 episode drama. I mean, some web dramas are better written than this!

While the concept of love alarm is mainly build around our triangle, I would have love to see further the side arcs that they have introduced but was too big to delve on, like the impact of the app in the society, how it shaped the society's view of love. Like what Dong Guk said, the app suddenly became the new norm as how to confess, how to show your love, how to receive love. It became embedded in everyone's lives that it was a second nature like breathing.

And what about Dong Guk and his brother's debate on the version of 2.0. Brian made a good point that "probability" lessens the impact of feeling alone but in Dong Guk's perspective, in as much as it gives you hope, it limits your free-will to love because it ties you to the idea, that you have a higher chance of finding true love among these people shown by algorithm. As a creator, he doesn't want to play god among the app users and yet, that's exactly what his app did to the society. A conundrum to itself. And when he further explained that disappearing in the "probability section" doesn't actually mean you no longer will love the person but it might actually mean that you are in love with that person, is again open to different interpretations depending on a person's perspective. So many points made, so few episodes.

The concept is refreshing and apt to our times. It's the kind of story that spurs several alternate endings, good for fanfiction.

What you say @missvictrix about the heavy tone tone is true. It felt almost unbearably heavy and slow, and I had to force myself to keep watching. Then when Kim Jojo says "You were too heavy", I didn't know what she meant until she reconciled with her past as a little girl. I'd actually forgotten about the family suicide and her escape. I'd forgotten what a damaged person she was. Once I remembered that (only in the final part of the final episode), I didn't feel so frustrated with her. I'd spent most of the second season wanting to shake her into saying something. So many close ups of her dumbstruck, unable to respond or to explain herself. I partly blame the gap in time between the two seasons for my losing track of her story.

Ultimately she was a damaged and unlikeable person who did indeed "lie for her convenience", even though her convenience was for her self protection. She says at the end that she didn't want to hurt others or get hurt. Ironically she hurt several people badly. It's also hard to believe she was so desirable that two guys were fighting each other for her.

For someone who had spent her whole life believing that she didn't deserve to live like an ordinary person and running away from relationships that really touched her heart and put her at risk of being hurt even further, running the marathon was an important thing to do. It was like joining in the stream of life, being like everyone else who was living in the here and now. It was turning running away from others into running with others.

The other thing that bothered me was the use of conversation/words. Her inability to explain herself (or even respond to what people said to her) fits nicely with the fact that the Love Alarm made it unnecessary for people to actually take the risk of saying "I like you" or "I love you". I also found the voice overs, which we were supposed to understand as verbal exchanges, but left room to believe that they were only unuttered thoughts, also unbearably exhausting and frustrating. The drama ended up making the point that there was a vast difference between expressing things and letting technology do it for you (or even letting it tell you what you feel or want to say). It's deeply ironic that using technology to speak for you in order to alleviate the risk of rejection, in the end led to so much unhappiness and loneliness for so many people. Even a mass suicide. I found it terrifying to think of a world of adolescents growing up with Love Alarm and not knowing anything else. As Duk-gu points out to his brother, if our apps tell us who to date, our portals tell us what to read, and our algorithms tell us what to watch, countless possibilities are eliminated. LA also shows us that technology can be made to lie. Instead of self-protecting lies, sincerity is what counts.

I found the cinematography interesting when it focused on reflections, especially when Hye-yeong looked at himself in the mirror to see what...

This drama makes me hate Netflix's style of dividing dramas into sessions. I waited 2 years only to see my ship sunk in the worst possible way.

I also don't understand what this drama is trying to tell us. I thought it wanted to tell us that you should follow your heart instead of over-relying on some app. I thought the Shield is the catalyst that will teach Sun Ho and JoJo on how to trust their heart and not the app.

In S1, Hye-young is shown as someone who would trust his heart and does not need to rely on the app to make decision. On the other hand, Sun Ho was overly dependent on the app. So I thought the introduction of the Shield a good catalyst for Sun Ho.

in the first 3 episodes of S2, we were shown that Hye-young is perfectly okay without JoJo ever ringing his alarm. Then he is shown to be very upset with the use of the Spear and is very much concerned that JoJo did not 'naturally' rang his alarm. The shift in his character is very weird and unwelcoming.

I shipped Jo Jo and Sun Ho since S1, but the first 3 episodes managed to convince me of Hye-young and JoJo's relationship. However, when Sun Ho found out about the Shield and decided to no longer trust in the app, I saw this a monumental character growth on his side. At this point, I was convinced that Sun Ho and Jo Jo would be the end game because his independence from the app aligns with what (I thought) the drama is trying to tell us. But no. The drama decided to become weird again and the downtrodden Sun Ho is ditched. At this point, believed Jo Jo no longer deserves Sun Ho's love. Yuk Jo deserves him better.

In the end I am disappointed with this drama. I waited 2 years only to find out that my ship is mercilessly shot down in the worst possible way.

Sun-Oh was a really sweet boyfriend to Jo-Jo in S1. So it really made it hard for me to move on to Hye-Young even though I do like him as a character as well.

Sun-Oh was so much happier and animated in S1 when he was with Jo-Jo. Then the show decided to make him a 'sad boi' throughout the entirety of S2. So his character ended up regressing.

On textbook, Jo-Jo and Hye-Young definitely suit each other. I actually liked the new confident and proactive Hye-Young in comparison to his extremely passive self back in the first half of S1. But I don't know what it is that made me not feel as invested in their romance. It just felt really bland. I don't know if it's the writing or the chemistry.

hate this season, I already found out about the ending, that's why I'm not going to watch it, a real waste of time after waiting so long for this one...The worst season ever

I don’t even know where to start. At first I felt sad (and frustrated AFTER WAITING FOR TWO WHOLE YEARS – this is not a James Cameron production!) we were getting only 6 episodes, but when I saw it couldn’t wait for it to end. I wish I just had only looked how it ended up instead and not watch this at all. HOW CAN I UNSEE SOMETHING?
It was the most tiring, slow-paced, boring season ever. I have watched season 1 probably over 5 times. It was my first k-drama and that’s why I was so invested. For someone to wait for almost two years and checking every month to see if there was an update, this was a letdown.
Let me just start by saying that the characters were all completely different (in a negative way). We knew none of them really. There was no character development. Sunoh was pretty much non-existent (like how can you give the most important character so little screen time while he was the one that made almost everyone watch and like this show?). They knew what they were doing from the start. They knew from season 1, that they needed the views for next season if HYxJOJO would be the endgame, so they took advantage of Song Kang’s image and SunOHxJOJO love story, so in S2 they really pretended it had never existed.
JOJO was the most toxic, indecisive FL I have ever seen. How can you still be like that at that age? Is she 10 yo? She was only hurting everyone around her for no apparent reason. She had no characteristics and no evolvement. No goals, no dreams, nothing. She was never studying, never caring for her friend (seriously what was the purpose of putting her in the show?) or anyone around her. Yet she always felt like everyone around her was hurting her. Instead of wanting a boyfriend (I think her having 3 bf’s in a k-drama is a record), she should’ve just let the brothers alone to avoid their friendship to break. She just toyed with them. They did Sunoh so dirty, both Jojo and Heyyoung.
Heyyoung grew up with him and let a girl come in between them. Yes, maybe he liked her first but that never means he should’ve had her from the beginning. He worked with her FOR YEARS and she never, ever knew him, never cared for him – how people can come up with the idea of, BuT hE LikEd HeR fIrSt! SHE DID NOT EVEN KNOW HIM AFTER YEARS LOL. That says enough about him. He was a very passive person. When Sunoh wanted to communicate about where they went wrong as friends (because Sunoh REALLY did care), he just had the audacity to completely disregard him and just walk away without saying anything. That was WAY worse than what Sunoh did to him (even though in s1 Sunoh was like “Jojo is not an object, let her choose”).
They both broke the bro-code. Heyyoung was the most boring character ever. When characters are silent and shy, they usually have an inner quirky-ness. Heyyoung had nothing. I still don’t know what Heyyoung was doing at his internship or what he wanted to become in life. Just like Jojo; no dreams, no goals- nothing. His only obsession in...

Was lowkey forced by my girlfriend to watch this and the first season (we finished both seasons within around 3 days) and I surprisingly enjoyed season 1 mainly because of the beautiful female lead and the incredible chemistry between her and the rich dude lmao
It was surprisingly a bit deeper than what I was expecting too.
Season 2 was quite boring though, I mean I liked the nostalgic vibe and everything, and the FL's story arc, etc., but apart from that it fell flat to me.
I think it's a good thing she chose the other dude though, she's the type who just attracts drama in her life for some reason, and she needs a stable, calm, comforting, lowkey dude like him.
But anyway, I think I'll definitely check out the main actress other works now. She's beautiful and certainly can act

What a freakin waste of time! I agree there would've been some vindication in the scene when Sunho asked JoJo to look in his eyes-I like your ending much better!!!
And JoJo-I kept wanting to shake her-give the girl some dialogue! All that withholding when both guys & friends were just trying to be close to her-I felt she was -though I get she was wounded & all-just pathetic & frustrating-very disappointed in Netflix's choice of show here !!! Thumbs down

They are so sloppy with their CGI :(

https://imgur.com/a/jb7UZQH

Unpopular opinion here, but I think Jojo's choice was right. Imagine being in a world where Love Alarm is the norm, and where people are literally getting married and showing off their alarms ringing. If it's this prevalent, maybe you want to do what other couples do, too. Hye-young loves Jojo but somewhere, it must be tiring for him, too, Jojo not ringing his alarm. Think of it as any gesture of love you do. Giving flowers to someone's point was going out to the field and doing hard work just to get you that bouquet. Now we can just order flowers. Flowers don't mean anything on their's own, neither does the charm bracelet your boo gave you, or even a wedding ring. It's just a way to show your love. In a world where showing love is so easy as ringing an alarm, the expectations must be higher than we have. Getting that ring, getting that alarm...I really don't blame Hye-Yeong secretly wanting to hear that bell or Jojo really, really wanting to show her love and she trying so hard to find the developer is nothing but sincere. We can act like we don't care about that stuff, and maybe we personally don't but that doesn't mean our partner feels the same way. I actually really like the ending. Except the Sun-ho saying I'll trust your eyes part. If that was scratched and Sun-ho realises that Love Alarm doesn't matter AFTER she says it is her own volition, then I'd love the ending more.

Love Alarm 2 was crap. I was so disappointed..I couldn't even bare to finish episode 6. You can definitely tell there was different writers from the first season to now. Like the 2nd season made absolutely no sense. She literally just settled and forced herself to be with HY. Like I do believe she LIKED him but she didn't love him. She LOVES Sun Oh. Everybody can see through that BS writing. It was just messed up. Both her and HY were trash to me.

This show has dragged on endlessly, and I became quite bored with it last night in the middle of the second season. I then searched the Internet for a spoiler on the ending, and I have to say I’m quite disappointed. I feel like the ending embraces ignoring your feelings, or worse, hiding your feelings. The ending further seems to embrace pursuing relationships simply for the sake of the relationship, rather than nurturing the feelings for a long-term relationship, or resolution and finally closure of one’s true feelings. A very empty ending for me.