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It Is Okay to Not Be Okay (2020, 16 parts on Netflix) Episode 9

7/17/2020

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A Day of Escapade, One Kiss, and an Implosion 
​When KT embraces his onetime escapade with MY and his love for her, infantile dependency and a survival instinct pressure ST to lash out at KT, piling up accusations of parricidal wishes. Abysmal in an emotional level, the scene of KT's collapse forms a stark contrast with the upbeat optimism that earlier opened this episode, yet I hope ST's confrontation with his fear of abandonment ultimately serves as growing pains.  

(Ko, Dae-Hwan's narrative is not convincing in my eyes. Even if MY's mother is a monster who kills, that should not give him the right to dispatch her and condemn his daughter to the same fate.)


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The backdrop of this episode is a well-known Korean parable about a barber who purges his explosive secret by whispering it in a bamboo forest--"the king has donkey ears!"

MY goads ST to express his true feelings toward KT. Her prescription brings in surprise consequences and ends up snuffing out her budding romance with KT.

KT crumbles in despair and guilt. Life has dealt him a rotten lot. 

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