So I'll talk about the first season as an initial preference. "Love By Chance" helped me through a lot of heartache last year when I watched it for the first time. It's sweetness and brightness was infectious and in turn it ended up becoming one of my favorite BL dramas. It set the standard for a lot of BL's to this day, as it should've! Everyone was on their A game during that season and I loved it. This second season took everything from the first season and threw it out the window. It was awful. If you enjoyed it, I suggest not reading this review because I won't hold back. Though I will sprinkle positives in the review of course.

Going in I was already annoyed with this season because I knew they would totally mess up the Ae/Pete storyline. Yes I've read the books and yes they did indeed mess it up. It was totally rushed and they skipped full plot points because of Saint's absence. Which I knew would happen and I know this is not the director or producers fault. However, it still kind of felt like a slap in the face to fans of the first season. Everything felt wrong. Can's character is even more over the top in this (not in a good way) and constantly confused, Tin is softer for some reason (dull tbh) and Ae is just depressed throughout. The life was literally sucked out of this series without Pete's character and without the proper structuring or writing. Tin and Can's chemistry btw is pretty much gone, it felt so forced holy crap! The series isn't bright anymore and I just felt sad watching it. I saw a comment that asked if everyone involved was injected with sedatives during this? And I understand that sentiment.

Where the hell was Tar and Tum? I don't love their characters (love Earth though so much), even from the first season but they were literally non-existent throughout this! Literally why even have them at all. The storyline timeline by the way is so confusing with Tin and Canin this because it takes place 3 months ago during LBC season 1 I think? It was confusing how they jumped around, added new scenes that weren't in the original and then tried to reshoot previous scenes poorly. Why even do that!? Like what was that first kiss scene compared to season 1? Much worse ya'll, much worse. So as I was trying desperately to try and focus on Tin and Can, they kept shoving Ae being depressed in our faces by showing him drinking and smoking. Wtf. Literally took 7 damn episodes for any new material to even show up. As much as I love Perth, I honestly think he shouldn't have been a character in this. Maybe an appearance and then show him go off to find Pete or something? But this whole having Perth act out this loss as Ae felt way too real and kind of messed up in reality since there's a very real situation that happened. Like the hurt is very much real and showing clips of the actors from before just sucked dude.

The way they went about Techno and Kenghla's storyline was just wrong. I don't care how you spin it, I wanted to skip every scene of there's because it just was gross feeling. Also whyyyyy did Chompoo show up 8 episodes in, come on guys! Before I move on past the negatives, I wanted to bring up 2 random things. First of all, the ads were mad annoying in this. Literally so cringy and again shoved in our faces. Season 1 had none of that and there are ways to do it that aren't so obnoxious. Secondly, the hell was up with the actors mic quality throughout the show!? They were turned up to a thousand constantly, like I could hear Mean (Tin) swallow when I shouldn't of had to lol.

Even though I really disliked this season, yes there were things I liked about it. One being Tin's brother being recast, this actor was just better. "Someday I will tear off your mask" this set the tension between the brothers well and I thought it was pretty good (though to be fair that plotline kind of failed by the end, but either way). I loved that Tin had more time with his nephew in this, there's more of an established relationship there. It was very cute, even if the nephew did kind of get in the way of scenes sometimes. Some of the reshot scenes were done better, very few but they were there. The phone buying scene was better, I liked seeing Tin smile more. I liked how Can learns about Tin's brothers story through the phone, it was so much more emotional. The sequence of the phone call and driving to Can's house, it was great and I would rewatch that episode for that scene alone. There was also Tin finding out his brother was responsible for the party thing, that was heartbreaking and also really well acted. I feel like Mean took all the energy he had and put it into those scenes. There was this weird random plot device thrown in of Can being gungho on sleeping with Tin all of a sudden lmao. At first I didn't like it, but eventually I found it funny. Can makes a comment about a line of men waiting to sleep with him and I was just like "there's no line waiting for you honey, there is a line for Tin though and it's longgggg so you better supervise him!" Also gotta say, Pond is the MVP of this season for real. Where is his girlfriend though...I was PISSED when she didn't show up anywhere.

I feel like if the events of this season took place in season 1 it would've been better, meaning the entirety of Tin and Can's story. Then if they really needed a second season they could've made this for Tin's brother and his side of the story. Literally Tul's kiss with his love interest was much MUCH better than our main couple, so I think my idea isn't crazy! Even if Tul's character I still don't like at all, it would've still been better than this. Finally, we will talk about the final episode. We love Pete's literal neck in the shot to show him crying lol wtf was that. I appreciate honestly though that they left it obvious that Pete and Ae will "reunite" from the message received on the phone, even if it probably will never be in an actual season. No matter how much fans want a third season, or spread around false reunion information. I just hope that the actors Perth and Saint can reconcile someday soon and get their management in order. I would totally be down to watch another season if everything was sorted out because I want so badly for everyone to do better and be okay.