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Hey, I'm here and back at it again.
So during the first week of school, I decided to be dumb and binge watch an entire drama on a school night. Yea, I know amazing idea. So I started Love Alarm a long time ago and never finished it so I watched all of the episodes again in one night. The main point of Love Alarm is the story of an app called Love Alarm is able to tell the users when someone within 10 meters of them has a crush on them. So let's start one of my drama reviews.
Characters
Kim Jo-jo
Jo-jo is the female lead protagonist of the show. She is very much the typical Korean drama leading lady, she beautiful, hardworking, lower-class, and her parents have died in some tragic accident. She was a pretty easy person to route for, but kind of bland as a character. She had some development, but has somewhat of the personality of a piece of cardboard. I hope that we see Jojo grow more as a person and not through a relationship next season. It often felt like her only interesting moments were made interesting by other people around her rather than her being a compelling character. But at the same time tons of romantic drama female love interest tend to act and be presented like Jojo. Jojo's backstory is more interesting than her personality.
Hwang Sun-oh
Okay, I did not like him much at first. He seemed quite a lot like Jojo in the sense that seems kind of flat, but then there was a turning for him that I had that I didn't experience with Jojo. This kid's rat tendencies are something that I personally love about him. When he purposely went to the restaurant that Jojo worked at, I laughed. The smirks on his in those types of moments are something I can get behind. Sun-oh was one of the few somewhat flushed out characters in my opinion, tons of people were kind of stale in personality and he completely wasn't. I lowkey wanted to cry when he and Jojo broke up, for some reason I was invented in his happiness even though he is fictional character. Over a good looking man with very rat tendencies, but that's what made him entertaining.
Lee Hye-yeong
Lee Hye-yeong is the bestfriend of Sun-ho and last part of this love triangle in this show. This boy is everything we all need in life. He is such a caring person and sadly he pushed as the sweet character that has a crush on the main girl but loses her to another guy. I am not saying that Sun-oh is bad, I talked about him positively in the last paragraph but I need for Hye-yeong to be happy. He is always emotionally there for Jojo when she needs him and spends a lot of time trying to genuinely get to know her. The only reason he lost her to Sun-oh, is the fact that Sun-oh made the first move on Jojo. When Gul-mi tells him Jojo personally business, he remain good friends with Jojo; plus when Gul-mi threw Jojo's stuff out the window, he was there for her. He is solid love interest, but he just didn't have the chemistry with Jojo that Sun-oh and her had. But I would gladly take him.
Kim Jung-go
Jung-go was Jojo best friend at the beginning of the drama. Okay, I do not like this girl at all! She literally threw her friendships with Il-sik and Jojo just for a chance to date Il-sik. I understand that love can make you do stupid and crazy things, but girl how do manage to loses your best friend and your crush in eight episodes. I can't stand the fact that she got mad at Jojo for no real reason and left her because of what, Sun-oh? Wouldn't you be using this as a chance to get with Il-sik instead of having some vendetta against her? I don't know, she was just insanely annoying because I was beyond confused on why she was mad for so long. Terrible best friend and a terrible character.
Il-sik
Il-sik was Jojo's boyfriend at the beginning of the drama, but they eventually break up. I kind of found him slightly annoying in some ways. Because I hate people that insanely happy and vibrant, I personally don't like these people. He is an okay character, but the fact that he was her boyfriend and was not aware of her struggles is crazy to me. There's not much to say about this guy, and this is all I have to say.
Park Gul-mi
Gul-mi is the cousin of Jojo, and Jojo lives with Gul-mi and her mother. Jojo is one of the worst people I have ever seen. Everything that happened to Gul-mi was karma. She is an insanely rude person; she would threaten Jojo ever five minutes, she tried to get with Sun-oh even though he was dating Jojo, she made rude to Duk Gu to his face, and constantly did things to make Jojo feel less than a person. Gul-mi was a trainee in the first half of the season, but then when she doesn't debut in the last half during the time skip, she blamed Jojo. No hon, it's not Jojo's fault that you are a terrible person and people can see through it.
Cheong Duk Gu
Duk Gu is the developer of the Love Alarm app, and he made it because he had a big crush on Gul-mi and did know how to tell her. I love this guy, he is such a sweet heart and he deserved better. He was so hopelessly in love with the trash of a person, Gul-mi. I want to hug him!
My Personal Thoughts
I like the premise of this show and the idea of an app that can tell you if someone that likes you is nearby, but as a person that doesn't like people knowing my business and I would never download that app. I show was way too short in my opinion, I would like for more episodes. It starting to seem that Netflix's dramas are insanely short, I would like for more episodes because eight is really short. The suicide stuff in the middle of it when they were in Jeju Island was very unnecessary. The sudden switch gave me Riverdale shifting vibes within the plot, like this is a romance show, stay a romance show.
Netflix played with my emotions in this drama and I am not okay with that. Jojo and Sun-oh got together for like five to six episodes, then proceeded to be broken up for the last two. They really messed with me by doing that! And I'm still mad about it! The dumb thing with Jojo trying to find the developer to take the shield, she put on the app down, annoyed me. But the cliffhanger got me excited me for season two.
My Final Verdict
This was an over all good drama that would recommend to people that enjoy the classic love story drama
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