I think because emotional attachment can be very difficult for people that are on the autism spectrum such as…
Spot on. My son is on the spectrum and it's super hard for him to read micro facial expressions. If a person is tired, he tries to reason why they are mad, etc. I think what is really super interesting is Moon Kang Tae's feelings towards a cemented attachment as his brother's caretaker. Kim Soo Hyun's expressions to convey the emotions has to be the purest performance of an acting craft. I truly can't tell where the actor and character separate.
She really does, i cried when she told him the only reason she had him is because she wanted him to take care…
I am absolutely in awe of the writer(s) of this drama. They are quite literally spinning reality and fairy tales together for a multi-dimensional script and it makes me think and process each episode for hours after airing..
For some reason she breaks my heart more than him..
As a viewer of episode 1 -4, I'm trying to figure out who is the most broken (the why's are slowly being revealed at this point of the story). Through her actions, Go Moon Young is labeled as "psychopath" or a "crazy b$#@!", but the more I watch Moon Kang Tae and his interactions with others, I would say he goes through the motions of life without the emotions to live it.
I’m probably gonna get hate for this but “backstreet rookie” cannot compare to this masterpiece. I have…
I'm watching both dramas and Ji Chang Wook of "Backstreet Rookie" (which I also like) seems to choose more lighthearted genres to star in. So far, each episode of "It's Okay to Not Be Okay" leaves me utterly stunned in its complexity of characters and story line. In its first four episodes, I've yet to watch its equal.
Episode 4 summation - "As a society, we love the exceptional, the compliant, the pretender and dislike everything outside the norm. Unfortunately, humanity has yet to define what normal is". God, I love this show.
For now. I don't watch ongoing dramas because most of them end on disappointing note. Fingers crossed this one…
That's awful! I try really, really hard not to have solid objects close by when I'm watching the last episode. To have invested in characters and a story line for at least 16 episodes and have it fall apart in the last few minutes brings out some type of throwing fury that's hard to control.
For now. I don't watch ongoing dramas because most of them end on disappointing note. Fingers crossed this one…
The dramas that absolutely have me throwing things tend to end with the male or female lead taking a 5 year vacation overseas and then reuniting in the last five minutes of the drama. My inner 2 year old comes out in spades because this is just ugly, lazy writing. With this one, I'm not sure I care how it ends and am more interested in how the story and characters unfold. I agree wholeheartedly with you in hoping the quality of storytelling continues to the end.
In the Asian genre of storytelling, there exists the rare unicorn of actors whose chemistry can completely overcome the BS script handed to them (shout out to "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon"), ones that the script and acting carries the viewer into another place (hello "Incomplete Life" aka "Misaeng") and then there is "It's Okay to Not Be Okay". This drama exemplifies perfection in acting, script writing and production. Every nuance, every word and definitely every visual brings something brilliant to the table and I feel transported to a first person account of a narrative. If there ever was a "master class" for dramas, this deserves a permanent first spot.
I loved this and literally laughed out loud several times. Here's my short list: 1 - the heroine is so good that she allows the a) ex-girlfriend b) future mother-in-law c) frustrated bystander to slap her. I literally stood up and clapped on the first drama that had the female lead slapping back. Hard. 2 - the cold as ice but warm underneath misunderstood male lead that follows the ex-girlfriend to hell and back to protect his female love interest. Come on writers! It's fine to have the conniving ex but allow the male lead to have intelligence. 3 - in agreement with your assessment of the break up in the last two episodes.....either the female or male lead goes on a 1 to 5 year trip oversees only to be reunited the last 10 minutes of the last episode. There's been a few well written dramas that did this and, as a viewer, it was like driving into a car wreck. Willingly. Thank you so much for your article!
1 - the heroine is so good that she allows the a) ex-girlfriend b) future mother-in-law c) frustrated bystander to slap her. I literally stood up and clapped on the first drama that had the female lead slapping back. Hard.
2 - the cold as ice but warm underneath misunderstood male lead that follows the ex-girlfriend to hell and back to protect his female love interest. Come on writers! It's fine to have the conniving ex but allow the male lead to have intelligence.
3 - in agreement with your assessment of the break up in the last two episodes.....either the female or male lead goes on a 1 to 5 year trip oversees only to be reunited the last 10 minutes of the last episode. There's been a few well written dramas that did this and, as a viewer, it was like driving into a car wreck. Willingly.
Thank you so much for your article!