I enjoyed watching 6 episodes in just less than 7 hours straight. Kim Jojo ended up with someone whom she really loves and I am so happy about it. Though I am rooting for the other guy since Season 1 episode 1, I am glad he still have someone by his side.
I salute Yuk-jo. She definitely deserves a virtual hug for everything that she’s been through since the latter part of Season 1.. and the whole part of Season 2..
“When you promised to protect me... if anyone gave me a hard time. But who do I go to... if that person is you?”
“I won’t be here for a while. When I come back, if you still say it can’t be me, I’ll stop liking you.”
“Liking someone... isn’t something to be sorry for.”
Waiting for this for almost 2 years were all worth it!!! Go ahead and watch it, I bet you won’t stop until you’re done (in just less than a day).
synopsis: Joalarm is a new app that will ring if anyone that likes the user is within a 10 metre radius of them. Kim Jo-jo (Kim So-hyun) is a high school student who lives with her aunt and cousin. In order to pay off her mother’s debt that was passed onto her aunt when her parents passed, she saves up money by working multiple part-time jobs. Hwang Sun-oh (Song Kang) was born into a wealthy family, his mother was a popular actor and his dad is a politician. He grew up living with his best friend Lee Hye-young (Jung Gu-ram), the son of their family’s maid. They both attended the same school as Kim Jo-jo and when they discover that they both like her, they use Joalarm to see who she picks.
my response:
!!! SPOILERS !!!
OKAY. So I just finished this drama and usually, I do spoiler-free reviews but I have to discuss this ending. What. A. Cliffhanger. Like seriously I feel like I’ve been abandoned - there better be a second season or I’ll be left curious forever. Before I discuss who I prefer with Jo-jo, I’ll give a quick review of the drama as a whole. So I really liked this drama. The idea of Joalarm is so interesting to me. I think the drama shows how society would react to an app like this quite well, showing both the positives and negatives it would introduce. One thing I feel passionate about is my hatred for Jo-jo’s cousin, Gul-mi. I’ve found that multiple times she’ll seem quite nice actually but within a few seconds of me thinking this she’ll do something that will legitimately make me rage i.e. her treatment of Duk-gu or when she started THROWING JO-JO’S STUFF OUT THE WINDOW. Major respect for the actor who plays her, Go Min-si. Anyways, overall the plot was super addicting. It definitely felt like it was moving along too fast at multiple points so I do think it would be better if they spaced it out with more episodes. And so, now the major dilemma: Hwang Sun-oh or Lee Hye-young? Now I can definitely see both sides but my choice as of right now is Sun-oh. I feel like most people probably feel the same way about this because legit the whole drama was about Jo-jo and Sun-ho’s romance so why spend so much time setting it up and then not following through? I got quite annoyed after the whole motorbike-accident-and-then-cut-to-4-years later thing. It was just getting more interesting and then WHOOP time skip and guess what? They’re not together anymore. It was super unsatisfying and I really don’t like it when this happens in dramas bc it feels like we’re leaving behind the characters we’ve grown to know. Before the time skip, Sun-ho and Jo-jo were honestly the cutest and I wasn’t even thinking about Hye-young. But then after it happened, Hye-young was definitely creeping up but still Sun-ho is first for me. ALSO I’m just gonna say, if what happened with Jo-jo and Sun-ho in the first episode, like the whole staring at each other, Sun-oh following her and then them going into a laneway and kissing, were to actually happen it would honestly be the creepiest thing. So because of this at the start of the drama I didn’t really like Sun-oh bc he was just…. idk way too weird. Hye-young was super sweet throughout the drama and I could tell that towards the end of the season, they were setting it up so that he would be with Jo-jo. I wasn’t really happy with the idea but I was preparing and trying to convince myself that it’d work. And then that ending happened and now here I am. I’ll continue to wonder about the direction the drama will take in the next season but for now, I think this drama was really enjoyable to watch and I would recommend it to anyone. Feel free to leave a comment about your opinion of the ending and who you prefer with Jo-jo.
rating: 4.5/5
Also, does anyone know if there’s an English translation anywhere of the webtoon this is based on??? I really want to read it.
