Premiere Watch: Forecasting Love and Weather, Twenty Five Twenty One
by missvictrix
Finallllllly! Our new dramas are starting to roll in, and just in time, because you could hear a pin drop in dramaland. The premieres this weekend both come with quite a bit of buzz — one a retro drama that screams “I will be a hit!” and the other our rom-com queen’s return to the small screen. I have no doubt she will continue her reign.
Time slot: Saturday-Sunday
Broadcaster: JTBC
Genre: Drama, romance, workplace
Episode count: 16
Reasons to watch: Park Min-young makes her return to dramaland, the office romance genre, and our hearts — and this time she’s paired with the ubiquitous Song Kang. I will not try to hide my skepticism over this pairing, but also, if anyone can make me forget my Song Kang fatigue (along with the butterfly phobia), it’s Park Min-young. The drama takes place at Korea’s Meteorological Administration, so it’s full of weather patterns and people taking the forecast quite seriously. I’m sure they’ll have fun with that. Also here are Yoon Park (yay!) and Yura — they create the other lines in our romance quadrangle, and they’re sure to keep things interesting at the office.
Twenty Five Twenty One
Time slot: Saturday-Sunday
Broadcaster: tvN
Genre: Youth, drama, romance
Episode count: 16
Reasons to watch: Kim Tae-ri and Nam Joo-hyuk team up in Twenty Five Twenty One, and we follow these two when they first meet in their youth during the IMF Crisis, and then later when they are — whomp — 25 and 21 years of age. The more I see of this drama (thanks to the steady release of promos), the more excited I get. It’s become elevated in my brain to Answer Me + Start-Up + Our Beloved Summer level of script writing and storytelling so yeah, that’s a pretty high bar I’ve just set. Hope I didn’t jinx it. But, with Kim Tae-ri’s acclaim, and a Nam Joo-hyuk who’s captured my heart since his stint in The School Nurse Files, I’m ready to be wowed.
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