#second 20s

[valleryrose]

I'm watching Second 20s on Netflix.

I hope No Ra dumps both the male leads and follows her own path. She needs neither of those jerks.

[yemme]

Yes No-ra walk right past that little spoiled brat you call your son... I don’t know your ass on Campus is her middle name.  Ha No-ra you got this girl!  Proud.

[thedenofravenpuff]

Has this joke been done yet?

[vermaxen]

Second 20s (2015) - :)

Being a target audience is a funny thing.  There’s definitely media I consumed as a pre-teen and teen that I just didn’t get.  I thought it was pretty cool but I had no idea why someone was sharing it with me or why it touched them so deeply.  In specific there was a lesson in a high school class one of my teachers did on the Pink Floyd song Time.  During the lesson I could connect with the thematic pieces of it, even the intellectual enjoyment of it, but I didn’t feel much of anything.  As I got older, though, it started to hit harder and I kept circling back to that moment since it was such a touchstone.  I feel like this drama has some similar qualities to it as the Pink Floyd song.  Let me explain.

Ha No-Ra is floating through life, living for her husband and son, when her personal universe is upended by an impending divorce and other life shaking news.  As a result she decides to go to college, an experience she missed out on from getting pregnant way too young, and consequently runs into her childhood friend Cha Hyun-Seok who is a professor at her school.  No-Ra and Hyun-Seok start out antagonistic due to Hyun-Seok’s issues from the past, but for every weird petty thing he did there was also the realization that he was acting a fool and then improvement in their current relationship.  He was a great foil for No-Ra’s deadbeat husband Kim Woo-Chul, as well.

The story of a person like No-Ra discovering themselves and finding love isn’t new and is pretty universal, but there’s a lot of things here that I think won’t connect with people until they’ve experienced some of things that make this situation in specific heartbreaking.  No-Ra starts off the series washed out as a person, without much personality and adrift.  We come to see how she became a doormat, and the points at which her spirit was broken again and again as she tried her best to be a good mother and wife the only way she knew how given her own family situation.  Most people won’t have the touchstones of personal loss or toxic long term relationships that No-Ra had until they were older, and I don’t think it will be as interesting to a college age or younger crowd because of that.  It will be entertaining, sure, but this drama was really made for people approaching forty and feeling nostalgic.

[queenhippolyta]

The future is always uncertain. Once the future becomes your present, you have another uncertain future waiting.

Twenty Again

[katswatching]

118. Twenty Again

“People who choose to drown themselves ultimately plea for help at the end. That is being human. To live because you can't die, or to find something as you live. The choice is yours.”

★★★☆☆

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Relatable. Asian parenting is borderline abusive.

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I loved the progressiveness of this character in Second 20s. Need more of this in media and in real life.