Love, Take Two episode 10 review—Spring and Spring Again—Romances bloom, family wounds resurface, and surgery looms ahead

Love, Take Two enters its final stretch with episode 10, which opens under the title Spring and … only to reveal by the end its full name, Spring and Spring Again, a narrative trick that sets the tone for an installment thriving on revelations: new romances budding, old wounds surfacing and being faced, as well as the looming surgeery that casts a shadow over what lies ahead.

This episode feels like a deliberate pause to honor tenderness before diving into what promises to be emotional final episodes.

Ji-an and Jeong-seok embrace new beginnings

The slow-burn chemistry between Ji-an and Jeong-seok finally finds its rhythm here, where their scenes together shimmer with playful intimacy, from the date punctuated by helmets with little cat ears to the candid conversations that signal trust taking root.

Their bond, once hesitant, now feels inevitable, as if they've been pulled toward one another by a steady current of fate. Love, Take Two uses their connection to show that second chances aren't just possible, they're vital.

Hyo-ri and Bo-hyeon against time

Meanwhile, Hyo-ri and Bo-hyeon navigate their own fragile reality. Their travel together turns almost comic when Bo-hyeon's stomach betrays him, yet the aftermath is anything but trivial.

Hyo-ri opens her heart with clarity, confessing her desire to live fully despite her illness. Their tenderness speaks to the urgency of borrowed time, a romance that burns brighter for knowing its days may be numbered.

The episode frames their story as a meditation on courage in the face of inevitable loss, a theme that Love, Take Two has explored with unflinching honesty.

Family ties as the heart of spring

Beyond the romances, Love, Take Two grounds episode 10 in family bonds that shape the characters’ sense of self. Ji-an’s quiet resilience and her partnership with Sun-young in running the restaurant are framed not only as economic survival but also as emotional anchoring. Their solidarity, built over years of struggle and compromise, is what allows new relationships to bloom around them.

By weaving family into every corner of the narrative, the drama insists that love is never separate from kinship, heritage, and the daily rituals of care that sustain people through loss, a thread that resonates most powerfully when Hyo-ri’s fears of surgery intersect with her determination to protect her loved ones from grief. Her choices underline that family is not simply inherited but chosen and reinforced every day, a message that prepares the audience for the final emotional hurdles.

Sun-young and Tae-oh find unexpected tenderness

The emotional core of the hour belongs to Sun-young, Ji-an's steadfast friend who now runs a restaurant alongside her, and Tae-oh, the free-spirited surfer whose warmth softens every scene he touches.

Their tentative romance takes a poignant turn when she leads him to visit his mother. What begins as hesitation soon unfurls into revelation: his mother, once thought distant, greets him from a wheelchair, and with her comes the truth that she always held affection for him.

It's a tearjerker moment, one that shifts sorrow into acceptance. As Hyo-ri wisely notes, memories of romance can replace the painful ones, allowing love to reclaim space once occupied by grief. In Love, Take Two, this shift shows how tenderness can rewrite memory itself.

The symbolism of spring again

The reveal of the full title, Spring and Spring Again, is more than a clever twist, it is a declaration of intent. Spring is not treated as a fleeting season here but as a promise of renewal that can return even after devastation.

For Ji-an and Jeong-seok, it signals the courage to begin again after past failures. For Hyo-ri and Bo-hyeon, it underscores the bittersweet urgency of living while time allows. For Tae-oh, it offers the possibility of reconciliation and healing with a mother’s long-hidden affection.

By choosing spring as both metaphor and reality, Love, Take Two ties its narrative to the cycles of life itself: pain followed by rebirth, endings followed by tentative beginnings. The title becomes prophecy, assuring us that even as surgery and uncertainty loom, hope will insist on coming back, again and again.

A cliffhanger before the final storm comes in Love, Take Two

Just when the episode seems content to rest in these small miracles of connection, it delivers its cliffhanger. Hyo-ri's long-awaited surgery is moved up, leaving both the characters and us with little time to prepare.

The air thickens with anticipation, signaling that the final two episodes of Love, Take Two will test both resilience and the fragile joy built in these spring days.

Rating with a touch of flair: 5 out of 5 spring showers on a sunny day.