It’s been an emotional, endearing and frequently hysterical journey, with only one major misstep that came late in the game – we’ll get to that in a minute. The romance worked like a charm, but this was the rare show that offered the full package.The side characters and friendships were equally important as the lead couple, the gags were great and the period detail gave the story a colourful and relatable backdrop.Twenty Five Twenty One Season 1 Download.
Setting the story in the world of fencing was a novel and extremely effective choice that supplied tension throughout its run and underscored the alternating rifts and bonds between the main characters.The story starts in the present, with Hee-do in her early 40s (played by Kim So-hyun), before skipping back to the late 1990s when she was a high-school fencer and about to meet Yi-jin, then a jobseeker in his early 20s, for the first time.Over 16 episodes, we’ve followed their professional and personal highs and lows and waited to see where Yi-jin and Hee-do would wind up when they reached the ages of 25 and 21 to which the drama’s title refers.
Sadly, perhaps inevitably, the title not only foreshadowed where the flashback narrative would end, but that their relationship would also come to an end.
Kim Tae-ri in a still from Twenty-Five Twenty-One.
While the break-up may not have been a surprise, the way it came about certainly was, and not for the right reasons. After kicking off the show in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s (an event handled carefully and well integrated into the story), the series-long flashback wound to a close around a questionable sidebar in New York, in the wake of 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001.