Twenty Five, Twenty One Breaks the 10% Ratings Mark in Episode 8 as Forecasting Love and Weather Does its Usual Swing Up from Saturday Ratings

The return of the on Olympic hiatus weekend K-dramas slowed the ratings increase for the two new arrivals Forecasting Love and Weather and Twenty Five, Twenty One but now two weekends in it’s clear these two will be set as hit and bigger hit under its belt. Twenty Five, Twenty One broke the 10% ratings mark this Sunday with episode 8, a huge accomplishment at 10.900% with a genre (youth growth and romance) that doesn’t typically bring in high ratings. This is what Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo could have been if properly promoted, and both dramas having Nam Joo Hyuk as the male lead is just *chef’s kiss*. I adore him so much and seeing such praise and validation with this drama washes away all that miasma from the second lead shipping antics of his last drama Start-up. I’m still only watching Forecasting Love for now and this Sunday’s episode 8 hit all my happy nodes – Ha Kyung continuing to put Ki Joon in his place, the continued emotional verbalization and discussion between Si Woo and Ha Kyung, and the viewers watching the two couples work through their issues and understanding why Ha Kyung and Si Woo could work and why Ki Joon and Yoo Jin are just bandaid-ing their own insecurities and needs with each other.