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[HanCinema's Drama Review] "It's Okay, That's Love" Episode 16 Final

Now that Jae-yeol's conflict has been mostly resolved, what else is there for the drama to do? We're not going to see the long, drawn-out recovery process, since that would be boring even if it's obviously important. And yes, it needs to be noted that there are in fact two timeskips here, and while Jae-yeol appears to have dealt with his problems by the time we get to the true ending, there's nothing particularly magical or unrealistic about his portrayal of happiness.

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It's the kind of happiness we see that bothers me. Surprise surprise, now that the main interesting dramatic issue of "It's Okay, That's Love" has been resolved, it's right back to all the little annoyances that drove me crazy for the majority of the drama's run. There's more jokes that mainly consist of characters treating each other like total garbage for about 90% of the time they're on-screen, because of the other 10% where they say it's all just a joke and ha ha wasn't that funny the way I just pretended like I don't even remotely care about you.

By and large this episode is just filler- hence why two timeskips and no apparent conflict. Well, there is conflict, it's just resolved so haphazardly that there isn't anything to really get worried about. Other conflicts appear and disappear out of nowhere for no clear reason. I suppose the whole bit about the tomato fight was just...so we could watch everybody have a tomato fight? Or maybe it's a metaphor for how even though something is obviously messy and unpleasant as long as everyone's having fun it will be all right in the end?

...All right, I can actually kind of see the appeal of that metaphor. At the same time it's still pretty badly undermined by the fact that this drama had almost no focus on its subplots, yet gives all of the characters a happy ending anyway. Literally everybody ends up paired off and still friends at the end of the episode. Even Hae-soo's cheating ex-boyfriend, whose name I don't remember mostly because he hasn't done anything relevant story wise since cheating on Hae-soo.

Whether you'll like this episode will probably depend on what you've thought of the series as a whole. If the aggressive jerk behavior didn't bother you before it's not going to be a problem now. Personally I'm just glad it's all over with, and that the later episodes had enough of an emotional center that the experience didn't feel like a complete waste of time. Oh, and I should probably note- the music in the drama's pretty good. There's never really been a good chance to bring it up, since I fundamentally don't see "It's Okay, That's Love" as really meriting that kind of tone, but they're nice enough tunes.

Review by William Schwartz

"It's Okay, That's Love" is directed by Kim Kyoo-tae, written by Noh Hee-kyeong and features Zo In-sung, Kong Hyo-jin, Sung Dong-il and Lee Kwang-soo.

 

 

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