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It's Okay, That's Love korean drama review
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It's Okay, That's Love
1 people found this review helpful
by bbchops
Apr 17, 2021
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.0

Thoroughly enjoyable drama in which the great cast overcomes an "OK" story.

A solid drama with wonderful leads and a great supporting cast. However, the meandering story in which one of the characters struggles with schizophrenia veers perilously close to a lecture on acceptance in a few places. Thankfully, those moments are few and quickly fade into the background while we get to enjoy the great chemistry of the cast. Gong Hyo Jin (When the Camelia's Bloom) plays Ji Hae Soo, a sexually repressed psychiatrist whose struggles with physical affection are well known to all of her family and friends (except inexplicably her mom). Hae Soo vacillates between an endearing vulnerability and a prickly self-sufficiency. Jo In Sung (That Winter, The Wind Blows) plays the dashing young author Jang Jae Yeol. Rich and successful (of course), Jae Yeol has a dark past that briefly explodes in the dramas opening scene. Sparks fly when the two appear on a television panel together to talk about human relationships, where Hae Soo is not impressed by the brash, self-confident author. On the other hand, Jae Yeol is intrigued (of course). Jae Yeol turns out to have much more insight into the human condition than might be expected from a dashing playboy. So much more, in fact, that his insight proves valuable to Hae Soo and her co-workers in the treatment of their patients, who suffer from an interesting variety mental health conditions. I found it all a bit implausible and the treatments seemed to me to gloss over how great a challenge recovery can be. But such is the world that kdramas exist in. This is ultimately a love story, and the chemistry between the leads made it a very believable one.
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