It’s Okay to Not be Okay Nominated for an 2021 International Emmy Award in the TV Show Category

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• Pretty sure this was a 2020 drama and it also won a technical award at the Baeksang Awards. There are only 4 nominees in this category, I wouldn’t be surprised if it wins, given the praise it got from the international audience and how Korean content is making waves in the international scene these days.

  • The cut off for 2021 Emmys is Feb 2021 so yeah all the nominees as basically 2020 dramas it's just airing this year so they call it 2021 Emmys. Surprised It's Okay even got a nomination considering the recent scandal with SYJ which kinda ruins the dramas watching experience.

    • Lmao that’s such a naive comment. You do realize that the Emmys is American? If they start considering personal scandals of actors “ruining” dramas - they’d have nothing left in the non-international category. Hollywood doesn’t give any fs to scandals - especially something as tame as this by their standards.

    • Yes, but here Koala is calling it a 2021 summer k-drama, which if it was, would make it ineligible for this year’s nomination. Also this drama not about Seo Ye Ji, why should her personal scandal override the effort of over 100 people who worked on it. It certainly didn’t ruin the watching experience for the award committee that selected it as one of the nominees.

    • Why would it be ineligible for nomination? The time period is all dramas that completed airing between March 2020 to Feb 2021.

    • Ah the orchestrated scandal you mean ?

• Wow!! Congratulations kim soo hyun and its okay to be not okay team. This is such great nomination. Even if they did not win it, the nomination is already an achievement.

• Well I did re watch it recently and I enjoyed it just a much if not more than the first time. The way she is in her private life with her boyfriends are none of my business...

  • True. Its none/nobody's business her personal/my personal we're ligit watching Enjoying dramas/movies genres whatever each likes. Love you all???

• Oh wow, that’s huge. Good for the team behind this drama because it was honestly my pick for last year. SYJ might be disgusting in real life but honestly I don’t mix reel and real. I can still watch Princess Man without any issues today despite everything and the same goes for It’s Okay. This was such a solid and brilliantly directed/acted drama. Lead actress being problematic or not won’t ever change that.

• This is a case where real blurs into reel for me. I can no longer tell if SYJ is a good actress or if she was just acting herself out. I thought the FL was very toxic and problematic, and now there's an added layer of realism to that toxicity.

  • @Ophelia

    Thank you. Her character made me soo uncomfortable. I hated that she was seen as badass too ugh

  • Exactly. She was just playing herself--problematic and toxic. If she pulled off an innocent and kind character, then I'd be impressed lol.

  • Ah the orchestrated scandal you mean ?. She was cleared by the lawyer she’s been silent and people kept on dragging her to the issue that supposedly she was not into lols.

• congratulations. deserve this so much

• This is the best Kdrama of 2020 for me. It was much needed when covid hit and brought hope to fans of the show based on the message. Congrats to everyone who was a part of it.

• I agree. I really want to rewatch this drama bec it was one of my favorites last year but I just can’t. I cringe everytime I see SYJ on the screen. I know that’s on me. But I just can’t.

  But congratulations to the cast and crew and all the production staff. Really well deserved!

• I wasn't much of a fan of this drama besides Oh Jung Se's excellent performance. The last few episodes and the storyline around her mother were just laughable.
  The drama's approach to mental health was extraordinarily problematic. Also thought the chemistry between Kim Soo Hyun and Seo Yea Ji was dry AF. Seo Yea Ji is an abusive, power tripping bully in real life so she was perfectly cast for the abusive, power tripping bully female lead!

  • 100% agreed. I really enjoyed it as I was watching it but the last few episodes where they reveal the mother's backstory was awful and weak storytelling.

    I also find it ironic to call this a healing drama when their approach to mental health was oversimplified and full of cliches. And SYJs character was totally toxic. It was fun to watch her antics but not great writing.

    The only good thing about this drama was the acting from all three leads. It doesn't deserve recognition for its actual story. There were other dramas from last year that are more worthy.

  • Who told you that the all “alleged” articles lol

• PBIO was last year’s best drama by far and large to me. It also featured in NY Times for best 2020 series or something so very deserving indeed. I thought the acting was fantastic, specially but the two brothers. The PD elevated the whole thing too. Big honour. Maybe it’s slipping my mind now, but I can’t remember the last time a kdrama was nominated for Emmys.