This drama has been one of the most awaited season 2 of Kdrama I know. People have been talking about it since season one aired in 2019. This drama brings this kind of vibes of your first love in high school besides the problems and trauma that Kim Jojo has been through. Season 2 itself has been premiered on March 12, 2021, and makes a lot of feedback. A lot of people like it, It has a lot of calming soundtracks and beautiful scenery. Other people just don’t like it. It just a matter of taste.
In my opinion, I like this season better than the last one. That doesn’t mean I don’t like the first one, I still love the vibes it gave me. I watched the first season about 11 months after my break up -I haven’t over him yet- but it makes this sudden urge to move on and find a new person to be passionate about. Even though I didn’t really like Sun-Oh, I mean you can not just kiss the person you barely met plus it’s your best friend’s crush, right? I also always hate these kinda characters who can not just express their feelings and thoughts, maybe that’s because it’s something that possible to happen to you.
Season 2 itself, A little less cringe but bring a lot more emotions. That’sexhaustingd, but I like that. Some people don’t like it, maybe they hate that this season even more realistic. You can’t just meet a rich boy and marry him, you can’t make the CEO –or in this case CTO- fell in love with you from the first sight, you cannot just move out from your aunt’s house to a rooftop room –because that’s where the main female lead lives on romance drama-. Sometimes, we have to deal with our trauma like Kim Jojo without anyone knows, all we can do is made a secret account for babbling the clout on our mind. Sometimes the fears and insecurities dispel us to think clearly and lead us to more heartbreaks and loneliness. Sometimes we do wrong things and being selfish until we hurt other people without realizing it. We might hate how Hye-Yeong and Yuk-jo behave like a fool and waiting for someone who is not really available emotionally for them, but yeah we are a fool sometimes.
A happy ending doesn’t mean you have to be united with your first love. The real thing is, a lot of people can not really ended up with that kind of story. Love is always a journey. For some people it only needs one story, otherwise, for other people, it might need 2 heartbreak and a lot of tries.
Also, I like the idea of Love Alarm is not just a basic romance drama. I also have this thought about it being some kind of dystopian drama. I know, dystopian might sound like a lot more science fiction, a lot more like 1985, Divergent, or Maze Runner. But the meaning of dystopian itself sometimes leads us the understanding where it takes place in the future and there is a huge difference of how people would behave. How if the differences don’t have to be huge? It doesn’t have to be a survival show of a zombie apocalypse or a group of teenagers escaping a corrupt government who controls the society with the technology? How about the chaos comes from a simple thing such us not believing in our own feeling just because the society tends to believe on what technology formulates for us. there’s an anti-group, there’s a lot of people who left behind. I think it’s bad enough to think that some kind of technology know our feeling more than ourself. And the worse part is, it is more possible to happen than a zombie apocalypse.
You know what? I am sorry, it is supposed to be a drama review, but I am babbling about life, trauma, heartbreaks, even to fearful future. I just think about a lot of things while watching this drama. Overall I really enjoy it and just want to share my point of view –or maybe more like opinion and imagination-.
Next time I will write a lot on this platform to pour all of my clout on my mind because I can’t draw and post it on The Ringing World –not funny right?-. I will be writing about a lot of things, movies, books, my passion, my dream, random thought of mine, I also planning to make a chaptered story. But just see if I am not busy or lazy hehe. Yeah.
