E Nebună, Dar E-a Mea (2020)

BEST KDRAMA EVER

That title wasn't even an understatement. It's Okay to Not Be Okay is hands down the BEST kdrama I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of kdramas. Honestly if I even wanted to find a flaw with this show I couldn't because it was so masterfully created in every way. I'm still blown away by this show and how powerful it is. The messages they gave every episode, and the amount of topics they covered. Also how well they paced everything which included several mystery plotpoints, romance, and multiple romantic and platonic relationships. Each and every character had a purpose and message even if it was revealed later in the show. All of the characters had great character arcs with no real unanswered questions. Each episode was able to top the next to my surprise (the tears and smiles were endless with this one :) The soundtrack fit this show SO perfectly. AND DON"T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FAIRYTALES. The writers are literally genius for that aspect, each fairytale had such a powerful message and related to the story so well CHILLS. Also the mother storyline was actually quite satisfying. They didn't try to overdo her character because even as she was the amount of trauma she caused on Moonyoung was astronomical especially since she was a kid. I love how our perspective of her changes as we see her from child Moonyoungs memories and how Moonyoung sees her now. THE ACTORS MY GOD. Every single one of them killed it, and our main three shined so much. This by far my favorite drama from all of them. OH JUNG SE IS SUCH A TALENTED ACTOR GIVE THIS MAN AN OSCAR, AND GIVE ONE TO SOOHYUN AND. SEO YEJI AS WELL, IN FACT JUST GIVE THE WHOLE CAST EVERY SINGLE AWARD. Anyway haha, moving on from actors the crew was phenomenal. Cinematography was breathtaking the directing was seamless, I LOVED the editing, and the writers literally blew me away with this phenomenal story. They really outdid themself in the best way possible. This was really a one of a kind show that is extremely hard to find. Honestly its one of THE BEST shows I have ever watched let alone kdramas. I could talk about this show on and on, but I'll end this here. If you haven't watched this show you are doing yourself a HUGE disservice, and if you have watched it, please tell me how I'm ever supposed to get over this amazing show that is "It's Okay to Not be Okay". No but really, I'm never going to get over this show.

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Destructive relationship dynamic

Watching this drama was... often frustrating. I liked Moon Kang Tae's character, but I think he really vanished in caring about his brother. I wish he would've had a personality outside of being a caretaker, or given the chance to develop colorfully as an independent individual. There was some development, but there could've been so much more with him. Couldn't stand the FL and her chemistry or rather the lack of with the ML, which was horrible. Her sociopathic personality was such a destructive match to the ML's gentle demeanor and she benefitted from the relationship much more than he did. How is something like this romanticized? I only watched till the end because I enjoyed Moon Sang Tae's development and the amusing, likable antics of director Oh Ji Wang.

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What a fulfilling show

I've started to draft this review at the end of episode 11, my heart was so full, that I felt this urge to share my thoughts about this show with this community.

At first, this is just an weird, funny and exquisite story, very dramatic and eccentric. But boy... Was I loving it.
As the story unfolds, those eccentricities, that weirdness, is slowly replaced by findings, findings about one's feelings, realizations about the world around us, honesty, understanding, meeting each other halffway, buy mostly, this is a show about love, love in all shapes and forms. You know that feeling when you need to grab a pillow, and hold it against your chest, hide your face 🙈and make an huge "ohmmmmmm 😻😽" expression? That's what I've been doing this entire show.
Like I said, my heart is full, the actors chemistry is incredible, and I love the leading actress, everything about her and her performance is perfect in this roll.
Please, watch this show with an open mind, and let yourself fluctuate in this sea of discoveries.

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Uma história terna e adorável, que traz ensinamentos muito importantes

Este drama é incrível desde o enredo principal, os personagens - tanto os principais quanto os com menos tempo de tela -, a arte para os livros da Mu yeong, o desenvolvimento dos relacionamentos e os passinhos para mais perto da cura, da superação. Não há palavras o suficiente para definir o quanto Mu yeong e os irmãos Gang-tae e Sang-tae evoluíram ao longo da história, e como foi lindo acompanhar suas pequenas conquistas. É extremamente realista como foram retratadas as reações aos eventos inesperados, como muitas vezes pessoas reais não são capazes de passar por tudo com um esclarecimento quase surreal, que elas também são cabeça-dura e vão ficar no canto delas por um tempo até alguém ir lá e mostrar apoio ou um outro caminho.
O romance, também, teve um desenvolvimento incrível. Em comparação com tudo que já vi, foi um dos relacionamentos mais adoráveis. Tanto o contato físico quanto emocional foi muito bem estruturado, é notável a química entre os personagens, muito bem representados pelos atores. Simplesmente não há como não dar uma nota 10 após uma obra tão bem feita e com tantos lados bons.

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Fresh and heartwarming!

This show swept the international community by storm, and to be honest, it didn't live up to the hype (for me). I felt uncomfortable and creeped out at times, but I suppose that was the point. At the end of the day, you come to understand these people who "aren't okay," and this story beautifully helps us increase our compassion for one another. I hate to admit that I was kind of weirded out by Sangtae at first, but it's really a testament to the story and Oh Jung Se that I ended up rooting for him HARD —  and I began to reflect on how to be a better human. By the end of the story, I found myself rooting for this sweet family, and lovingly remembering all the patients (both through the story and the "real-life" counterparts). Special shoutouts to Ahjussi looking for the door, the star-crossed lovers, and the politician's son. You were such gems, and the last episode did a great job at tying up these knots!

Some missing plot threads: what happened to Park Ok Ran? How did Mom make it through the ice? WHY DIDN'T THE STORY END WITH A LIL GANGTAE (kidding... but not really)?!

It took me a long time to watch this show. I didn't LOVE it, but I do appreciate the messages and the overall direction. The cinematography was stunning. Kim Soo Hyun is a beautiful crier, and I loved his chambray shirts (although his whiny way of saying "hyung" got grating). Also, I was completely in awe of KMY's outfits. If only I could pull off HALF of what she wears.

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If you skipped this show, I feel bad for you.

I'm not even going to lie, I've managed to watch this show twice now in a span of a week and I'm still watching clips of scenes here and there throughout the day because I'm happy it's over and ended the way it did but I'm also sad because it ended. I couldn't help but cry and have the tears that I did because everything about this was heart warming and heart wrenching at the same time. I really liked that this show kept you on your toes, I loved that there was never really any huge miscommunication and I just overall loved the relationships between every single person. I don't really know where to start with this but I can honestly say that I was not disappointed at all, like at ALL. I don't typically watch psychological type dramas because I'm really into rom-com's but this had everything you needed and more. You have the male lead that's just fantastic all around, he's an amazing guy, caring, a sweetheart and a bad ass female lead that was born into an unfortunate life and crazy background story and like your typical Korean drama, the two of them are in an entanglement that goes way back per usual which I like :) Gang Tae was awesome, a fantastic brother, hard worker, great friend and Moon Young was sick af, she was tight to me and the brother, ACTOR OF THE YEAR!!! I just thoughtfully loved the story, I loved how it never let me down, I loved how I had to keep going and going because I just needed more.

I can honestly say that every single person in this show played such amazing actors and actresses. The chemistry between the main leads was just wonderful and they did not let me down, I loved the brother, he was fantastic, the emotions I felt in this with the side stories and different kind of personalities was just wow. From the second mom to best friend to even the hospital workers.

I loved the music, it was great timing, calming, wonderful.

Overall, I would definitely rewatch this show, in fact, I have AND I love this show so much that I want everyone in my life to watch it with me. Lol. It was WONDERFUL. Everything about it was not disappointing at all, it had great pacing, it had great acting, the romance was the greatest amount, the family, the psychological part was even absolutely wild. I binged this in less than 24 hours, I chose this whole show over sleep. I'm not even exaggerating, that's how much I loved this whole show.

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The Rush, The Drama

I truly like the storyline and the screenwriting. It's for the mature audience. However, episode 4 lost my interest, but I quickly regained my focus with episode 5, and the start of feelings evolve into strange chemistry. That was a mouth full. Actually, you'll see this building in episode 1, but it seems to be stagnant for a few episodes, but the drama and the character flaws and issues will keep your interest long enough to wait for the romance. This drama is also funny. I genuinely love the acting and the character of Mr. Lee, the publicist. He's not on the screen often, but he leaves an impact on the audience with his comedic dramatics and care for the lead actress. Now, there is always someone with unrequited love... This is boring. It's not even amusing anymore with any storyline. It doesn't bring anything but an annoyance and time fillers.
Nevertheless, the leads, Gang-Tae and Mun-Yeong, are too darn attractive together in this series. I believe that's why I gave it another go after episode 4. I want to see their strange chemistry and how they overcome their past hurt and heal.

I'll have to update my review after the series end.

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Search for feelings

Not having feelings or not knowing that you have them? It was this question that I asked myself when I heard Gang-Tae's speech about Mun-Yeong's supposed lack of feelings. I believe that many people know that for healthy development, as healthy I include good mental health, it is necessary to grow up in an environment that provides this, but that did not happen with the main character of this drama. Aware of this, can we say that she has no feelings or that the set of situations she experienced made her an emotional mess? Mess she shows in her actions that look more like a cry for help ...

I think that the discovery of feelings, as well as the healing of the main characters' traumas, is a point as or more important than the possible romance. For like Mun-Yeong, Gang Tae also needs help, only he hasn't realized it until now.

To show this "search", I believe that the choice of how the narrative is shown is interesting, as well as the references to Tim Burton's style. Representing the feelings, desires and aspects of the characters' lives from the fairy tales written by Mun-Yeong besides enchanting also allows a greater immersion of the spectators, as it is a creative way of seeing reality ...

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Did not live up to my satisfaction.

This drama follows the genre of romance as well as other genres such as psychology. The plot sounds very interesting but the pace of the drama is just too slow. I don't enjoy dramas that are slow paced, resulting in me longing for the climax or just the rising action. The cast is good, the acting is pretty decent. I understand that the main male lead's character is portrayed as shy, quiet and reserved to himself however, there wasn't a depiction of outstanding acting as these types of characters composition don't contain of heavily influenced acting or dialogue. Overall at the most I would recommend this drama to someone who has just started watching kdramas.

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I've been waiting for this drama since it has seo ye ji and the comeback of soo hyun, and so far it has yet to disappoint. the plot is great and they already have spectacular chemistry(I'm assuming because they have already been a couple in a commercial a few years ago). I hope this drama stays having it's plot intact cus there are plenty of dramas that stop being good half way through. But yea, i would say this is a interesting and cute drama so far. I'm really loving the new female roles they are making leads now a days, rather than the female lead role always being some hard working girl that is poor or is dating her boss and is a push over lol. New and fresh i love it. At first it reminded me a bit of IU's drama of last year. Mainly because the ending when soo hyun appeared and now hes in this ? Wow... episode 4 is BEAUTIFUL i cant

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Not for me.

Hated the dynamic of the main couple, and knowing they end up together made me drop it. I liked the characters, but did not want the main couple to end up together at all. Usually I wouldn't mind all the problematic stuff that comes with characters like these, I might even love it (if they go through character development etc.) but the fact that Sang Tae was involved made me hate it. I didn't care about the main relationship, I only cared about Sang Tae and wanted him to be okay. There were way too many episodes left for me to keep on watching just for a relationship I don't care about. I googled the important plot points and dropped the series instead.

The acting was good though, very nice production. If you like the main couple's dynamic you will love this! It just wasn't for me. (Why wasn't it Moon Young x Joo Ri?)

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