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Twenty Over again: Episode 1
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Information technology'south a promising outset for Twenty Once more, which starts off by putting our heroine in some sad places just does so with a nice bear upon of humor—she may experience sad, simply the show maintains a lightness and sense of comedy that promises a more buoyant future. I similar this approach, because I don't want to zoom likewise quickly past the setup phase of the show, but also don't want a first episode to misrepresent the tone of the rest of the evidence by beingness overly heavy or fraught. I'm certainly rooting for our heroine—Choi Ji-woo is adorable—to pull through and prove everybody what she's made of, and that keeps me on the hook and wanting more than.
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EPISODE 1 Epitomize
At a beachside festival, a young couple dances, enjoying a individual moment as the male child leans in for a kiss. Nosotros hear a voiceover of their introductions: She's HA NORA, and he'due south KIM WOO-CHUL…
…and they're on the cusp of divorce xx years subsequently, in 2013. Now all grown up, the couple (Choi Ji-woo and Choi Won-young) sign a legal document agreeing to be "divorced in practice," which must mean they won't be legally divorced just still.
Married woman Nora doesn't seem thrilled about the option, while married man Woo-chul has to work to hide his grin. He puts on a serious face to requite the advisable lip service to Nora about how the decision is hard, but for the best.
She nods, and he suggests going out for luncheon together. Nora demurs, telling Woo-chul she left him a snack in the car—she knows his habits and schedule so well that she's anticipated his needs. He remarks to himself that she ought to just sign the papers already, though we're left to wonder why she's reluctant to finalize the divorce.
Woo-chul is a psychology professor at Woocheon Academy, and as he drives to campus, he parses Nora's parting comments for every grammatical error—her speech is total of slang and mutual slips, while Woo-chul seems very uppity about his education. Also image-conscious, based on the way he tosses the sausage stick he's eating aside before a student sees him with it.
Thus far everything in Nora's life has been registered in her hubby'southward proper name, but now she's secretly registered for prep classes with the help of a friend, whom she repays in cash. RA YOON-YOUNG (Jung Soo-jung) tsk-tsks at the thought of Nora going to college at this belatedly age, that she'southward got aught in her proper name, and as well "for deciding to alive again with the jerk who made things that way."
Yoon-young finds the hubby ridiculously pretentious, always talking about Freud and Tolstoy and the State of war of the Roses, but Nora defends him and assumes the blame for being ignorant of those topics. Yoon-young rolls her eyes, and Nora points out, "See, you're tired of me too, because I don't understand your words." Aww, Nora, you're non the problem in this dynamic!
Yoon-young can't believe Nora turned out this way, and we flash back to 1993, when Nora takes a job working on a farm. She'southward bad at information technology but insists she can exercise ameliorate, although she simply ends up falling into the cow dung she'south shoveling.
Her grandmother gets angry when she finds out, even though Nora swears that she didn't have the job considering she's earning money for that arts school. Simply Grandma decides that information technology'due south fourth dimension to move to Seoul and go Nora to that school, since she knows Nora badly wants to go there.
Nora has dancer dreams, and is soon installed at the school, while Grandma runs a neighborhood snack shop (Granny's Ddukbokki). A snappish ballet student whines at Grandma to only serve her five pieces of the carb-heavy ddukbokki, and when she can't control herself and eats it up, she blames Grandma for information technology.
She tracks Nora down to order her to make Grandma only serve her five pieces, and Nora points out the obvious: She could simply eat v pieces.
Aha, the ballerina is young Yoon-young, and her atmosphere flares and the scene escalates. She pushes Nora effectually, but every fourth dimension, Nora just pops back up and says simply, "Merely eat 5." She's so indefatigable that Yoon-young ends up the scared one, calling her crazy.
Present-day Nora is confident she tin can succeed at her higher goal, fifty-fifty reciting husband Woo-chul's words most how in that location's nothing more attractive than a person who works hard. Yoon-young asks, "What if he still wants a divorce? Would you still go to higher?"
Nora looks glum and asks, "Why would I?" When asked what she'd practise then, Nora jokes that she could sell ddukbokki.
Turns out Granny's Ddukbokki is yet in business (though without granny herself), nearby the schoolhouse and frequented by a long line of students. A human being (Lee Sang-yoon) picks upward an order and delivers it backstage at a theater department, where the students gape in anaesthesia—he's their director, CHA HYUN-SEOK.
Hyun-seok directs his actors in rehearsal, talking the atomic number 82 through the emotions he should be feeling nearly his longtime first love. He adds a few cynical words about first loves in general, and how most people call up of them as a cute thing, although at that place are those that are pretty awful, too. That's immediate feel talkin' right there.
That dark, Nora welcomes her son and husband home, though both are indifferent to her care. Son MIN-SOO (Kim Min-jae) rejects her food, while husband Woo-chul rejects her wifely gestures, like looking afterward his clothes. He separates their beds and pulls off his wedding band, and though she gets teary-eyed at that, she reluctantly follows suit.
In the ensuing days, Nora juggles her normal housework with the prep classes she's taking in secret. She studies on the side, staying up late in the bath to proceed the family unit from communicable on. A full twelvemonth passes, and the following autumn, the large solar day arrives for university archway exams. Nora sends son Min-soo off in the morning with motherly business concern… and then her BFF Yoon-young assumes the mom function for her, taking her to sit for her own exam.
When results come in, Nora slumps in disappointment, but Yoon-young says it's a decent score. Woo-chul walks his son through the application process, and Nora chooses to apply to Woocheon University, where her married man teaches and her son is also applying. She calls it her rubber choice.
And so the day arrives for admissions results… and to her dismay, she'south denied from both Woocheon and another school. She cries to Yoon-young over the telephone, "What do I practise if Min-soo'south dad takes that document to the court?" Ah, is she counting on college to save her marriage from divorce, considering she'due south likewise stupid for her hubby? Oh, dear!
At habitation, the mood is equally dire: Min-soo gets rejected from his outset choice school. But he does get into his rubber—Dad'southward school—and Woo-chul is satisfied with Woocheon University as Plan B. Furthermore, now that their son is heading to college, Woo-chul tells Nora to brand preparations for divorce. They've kept upwardly appearances for his sake, merely they can soon put that to rest.
Nora glumly contemplates her divorce papers while watching the latest news about a Woocheon professor defenseless for taking a ransom from a student for access. Just and then, she gets a phone call from Woocheon congratulating her on her admission—it'south tardily (did the briber lose his spot?), only she's now in. Yayyyy! I mean, I knew this was coming (obvs) but I'thou just then glad for her.
She bolts up in excitement and heads to schoolhouse, where she stops someone to ask for directions. It'due south our theater director Hyun-seok, and his face freezes at the sight of her—and and so he turns and walks away without a word. Nora chases subsequently him and asks if he's really Cha Hyun-seok, treating him with casual friendliness when clearly this means more to him. She says he's changed a lot and that it's good to see him, while Hyun-seok is all brusqueness and bad manners.
She thinks he must non recognize her, and he says curtly that he vaguely recognizes her, perhaps from loftier school or something: "But I don't want to know who you lot are now, and I'm very busy. Got it? Get."
She's left wondering if she'due south actually inverse and so much that he can't recognize her, and what turned Hyun-seok then mean.
Meanwhile, Hyun-seok is mortified at his overreaction, berating himself for non acting more cool and merely maxim he didn't know her. Ha, he was so very much the opposite of cool.
Nora pays her eolith to the school, then gathers the family at dinner to make her happy announcement. Only their reaction isn't so much happiness; instead, they stare with dropped jaws and horror.
Min-soo does the typical (simply totally hurtful) teenage thing of lashing out at his mother, request, "Did you requite birth to me simply to embarrass me?!" Yes, son, everything is e'er most you. The thought of entering the same course as his mother is so terrible that Min-soo says he'd rather take a yr off to reapply next twelvemonth.
Woo-chul takes her to chore for sneaking effectually for the past year to prepare for higher exams. She says she wanted to surprise them, but Woo-chul calls information technology suffocating, that she would waste her time in the wrong place and still fail to understand that their issues aren't just a thing of teaching credits.
Nora says it makes him unhappy to exist stuck with someone he can't talk with, then she wants to become that person. I actually experience a teeny bit sorry for Woo-chul, whose frustration at her thinking is palpable, and he pleads with Nora to permit him go—he's 43 and doesn't desire to live the residuum of his life meaninglessly. "Give me liberty, please," he asks.
A month passes, and Woo-chul reminds Nora to go in to go her physical results. On her way in, she sighs that it would exist nice if she had a final illness, because her life seems so blank in front of her. Simply it's not a sentiment she actually means, because when the physician tells her that her stomach pains are tardily-stage pancreatic cancer, she's stricken.
When he tells her to return with her guardian, Nora wells up in tears and says she doesn't have anyone. She leaves the room distraught… and we see that the name on the nautical chart isn't Ha Nora, but Han Ora. Pwahaha.
Only Nora doesn't know this, and sheds tears at the bus terminate, thinking she only has six months left to live. She sits there in a funk for hours, not even noticing when a homo sits down adjacent to her and pockets her cell phone.
Upon arriving dwelling, she checks on Min-soo, but can't bring herself to tell him she's dying. She broaches the topic with Woo-chul indirectly, asking what he'd exercise if she died. He doesn't accept the question seriously, thinking she's just wasting her time worrying and maxim that in the case of dying young, you should do more things for yourself. All people die, and humans are ultimately lonely beings, he says.
"That seems and so," Nora whispers. She spends the night brooding to herself.
Meanwhile, director Hyun-seok reads the reaction to his announcement of his new theater production titled "Y'all and Now Project," which is about healing and condolement and doing what you can for yourself in the present moment.
At abode, Nora receives a call from the school reminding her that today is the deadline to register. The human adds that the reminder isn't customary, but considering she's a bit older…
At that, Nora snaps, request what'due south so old about 38, and if people her age shouldn't go to school, and if she should just dice and then. LOL. I know that in her mind this is very serious, but she's and then adorable as she exclaims that she doesn't need their school merely she wants her money dorsum and volition go in today to have her deposit. Harrumph!
Nora storms onto campus, only that indignation fades equally she watches a operation—it's theater majors celebrating their graduation. Nora watches, transfixed, and sees her own high school self running past, leading her into a flashback.
Nora and her dancer friends put on a ballet-inspired operation to a pop song (Kim Gun-mo's hit "Bad Coming together"). Aw, is that geeky boy belongings the sign a young Hyun-seok? He's adorable.
And so, present-day Nora reads the words printed on the back of the theater students' shirts, and the diction is remarkably familiar. Twenty years ago Hyun-seok's sign read "Arts school is not a tactic to go into academy," and today's message reads "We did not come to university just to get jobs. We get to university one time, and we live one time."
She sighs, "Who doesn't know that?" But then one last message displays: "The pick is ours to make." She takes off running, and nearby, Hyun-seok sees her dashing off and thinks of loftier schoolhouse Nora.
She tells the employee that she's not canceling her registration later all, only now needs to come up with the residue of the tuition in under two hours. It makes her think of how her grandmother used to stuff a pillow with cash intending it to be her college fund, and she goes home to pull out that pillow (…from inside some other pillow. Unproblematic Nora cracks me up).
Starting to cry, Nora thanks her grandmother and tells her she's going to school with her coin, and that Grandma must feel proud.
Then it's fourth dimension for freshman orientation, and Min-soo's part of the MT festivities for the politics and economics section. He's terrible at games and gets progressively drunk, and his sunbaes aren't about to let him off the hook. They cascade cups and cups of punishment drinks, and as he's swaying looking queasy, a daughter pops in and offers herself to drink for him. She downs drinkable after drink, impressing all the guys and thoroughly winning Min-soo'southward admiration.
The guys ask her proper name, only she hears that this is the incorrect department and hastily excuses herself and gets the sunbaes to promise non to punish Min-soo with more drinks. The boys nod similar fools, considering she'south pretty.
Min-soo finds her vomiting outside and offers his handkerchief. She's OH HYE-MI (Sohn Na-eun) and displays a actually beautiful mix of confidence and uncertainty ("You lot came to see me… right? I saved you… didn't I?"). Min-soo's surprised but not displeased, and when she asks for his phone, she says, "If you give this to me, we're dating."
Yoon-young hears about Nora's health and scolds her for not telling her family. Nora says she couldn't do that to Min-soo, who'due south worked so hard and simply barely started higher. She gives it 3 months—she'll let him bask the college experience fully, and not nag him almost annihilation, and requite him all the coin she can. "It's his youth, our Min-soo's 20-twelvemonth-old youth."
Yoon-young asks, "What about yous—practise you even know what youth is?" Nora tells her that's why she'll exist going to schoolhouse after all: "Now that I'thousand dying, I want to do the things I couldn't do before I die. I'll attend without Min-soo knowing."
Side by side upwards: Picking classes. Information technology's a race confronting the clock (and other freshmen) to enroll in classes earlier they fill upwards, and she picks (among others) a psychology class (that happens to be taught by married man Woo-chul), a marriage and family grade, and a theater class (taught by Hyun-seok).
Hyun-seok has been told of another project in the works elsewhere that resembles his You and Now Project—and interestingly, the "Healing to Overcome Trauma Projection" is written by a psych professor, Woo-chul. Hyun-seok looks over his course roster, and Nora's proper noun catches his heart.
The new semester opens, and Nora is dismayed when Min-soo launches himself into his studies right away, wanting him to enjoy more of his college life. Only Dad advises him to do well at present to pave the manner for the residuum of his life, and Min-soo agrees.
Information technology's just now that Nora drops the bomb (casually) that she has a class to attend too, and makes her way to an English lecture. She'due south dressed nicely for the occasion—and then much and so that the moment she steps inside, the students repose, bold she'south their instructor, and snicker when they realize she isn't.
The students are assigned in groups for a homework assignment, and her teammates are eager to piece of work without her, telling her merely to follow along when they nowadays. Backside her back (or rather, under her nose) they text back and forth virtually how much this sucks and how erstwhile she looks and how she doesn't even have a phone.
Nora leaves the grade wondering if there was literally a memo she didn't get, a fiddling in awe of all the things she doesn't know. She gets to her next class a niggling early, listening to the conversations around her and frustrated that there's then much slang she can't encompass.
Then Hyun-seok enters, to her surprise, and she dips her head in dismay at the thought, recalling their last meet. Even so thinking he didn't recognize her, she's expecting him to exist shocked, only to have him barely glance her way.
He asks his class whether they're aware of his grade'south famously cruel flaw, and the majority happily confirm that they know, but enrolled anyway. He means the iii squad assignments they'll have to complete, and Hyun-seok singles Nora out to ask whether she knows and why she took his class.
She repeats her name, waiting for that moment when he'll remember her, but he continues in his cold manner, and after he makes her take off her lid, he feigns surprise and asks if she'southward a educatee'due south parent. Aw, is he trying to strength her to quit by being extra mean? He repeatedly calls her ajumoni, and at starting time she thinks he doesn't recognize her, which gives way to the realization that he does.
He tells her to leave if she can't answer his questions, then roars, "Go out NOW!"
COMMENTS
Aw, why ya gotta exist then mean, Lee Sang-yoon? I know, I know, yous're harboring twenty years of hurt and you're actually nonetheless in love with her and you're probably just trying to become her to drop out of your class, merely come on. Be mature.
Really, I don't really want him to be mature, because I find his immaturity and pettiness hilarious. I merely don't desire him to hurt Nora's feelings also much, when she's just a sweet, proficient-natured, caring person who wants an didactics okay? I actually experience casting was a winner here, because I'm not sure I would care about anyone more than than I practice the manner Choi Ji-woo plays Nora, in that curious mix of vulnerability, insecurity, and affair-of-factness. It'south almost amazing to think of Choi's long-continuing paradigm as a glamour queen, all sophistication and designer brands, though her real-life personality has come through hither and there.
I also appreciate that the characters don't seem like bad folks, only selfish ones. I was hoping that the husband and son wouldn't be too terrible to her, and so far I similar the residuum that's been struck—they have Nora for granted and wait downwards on her for being uneducated, but their dynamic seems fairly true to life. Min-soo'due south bratty but not a mean son, embarrassed of his mother in the way all teenagers are, proverb mean things that I'm sure we've all said or thought virtually our mothers, which brand us wince given the altitude of time and maturity. I desire for the drama to give him the adventure to make things right and evidence his female parent more kindness in the moment, rather than looking back later with regret, and I'm hoping that the prove draws that relationship out with poignancy. 'Cause I'm totally all ready to cry about information technology!
Even the husband doesn't seem terrible, even if he is a pretentious twat much of the time. It feels like their marriage was more a mismatch than anything else, and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt in presuming he did his all-time upon knocking up an 18-year-old daughter when he was 23. And I concord with him in believing that their marital issues are much more complex than Nora believes—she's grasping at straws by thinking that she can turn herself into a partner Woo-chul will want more if she educates herself. It's understandable that education is her great regret and likewise great insecurity, the thing her grandmother always wanted for her. Just she's treating her spousal relationship/divorce with tunnel vision, and I sympathize Woo-chul's frustration at non even being able to concur with the wife on what'southward incorrect.
But in the long run, that'south what I like most the setup, because if she's gonna have a new love interest, it helps to know that her matrimony was already not working, and that the affair that makes Hyun-seok our hero is that he'll get Nora in a way that she'southward not existence gotten by anyone else. She shouldn't have to reinvent herself to be worthy of love or respect; she tin can reinvent herself for her ain sake, but it shouldn't be for her homo. That said, I wouldn't mind seeing her twist Hyun-seok up a trivial before winning him over, 'cause come up on, he's being really mean! He's earned himself a little punishment, no?
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