‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’ on final chapter
The final chapter has begun to reveal why Aquino’s character is fearful of butterflies and cannot even get himself to draw one.
Catch the now reeling final chapter of It’s Okay to Not Be Okay on Kapamilya Channel, Kapamilya Online Live (KOL), A2Z and TV5, weeknights at 8:45 p.m. Watch it in advance on iWant.
The series must have been planned to be a short one just meant to break the long hibernation from TV of lead actors Anne Curtis, Carlo Aquino and Joshua Garcia. ABS-CBN is most likely preparing a series that either has all three of them or three separate shows that give the title role to each of them. Those forthcoming shows will be for 2026 airing.
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay really showcases the character-portrayal mettle of the three actors that deserve longer exposure than just three months or so. It is an adaptation of a South Korean series of the same title, but our three lead actors in the adaptation deserve original Pinoy-conceived storylines, not adaptations of foreign narratives whose major details and twists have to be retained. Pinoy viewers of an adaptation of foreign materials could not help but detour in their minds if a scene that moves them was presented the way it was in the original or the scene is a handiwork of the Filipino cast and artistic team.
Carlo Aquino, Anne Curtis and Joshua Garcia.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ABS-CBN
The final chapter has begun to reveal why Aquino’s character is fearful of butterflies and cannot even get himself to draw one. The character has autism though he is functional. All three lead characters reel from traumatic childhood events. The final chapter reveals what those events were even as some characters from their past linger in their grownup lives narrowed by Aquino’s character who has autism. There are love angles to resolve.
Also, some forgiving of evil ways have to occur in It’s Okay to Not Be Okay. In real life, forgiving people who caused suffering and terrible difficulties does not mean they do not have to do restitution of what had enriched them. And we do not have to allow them to freely live with us. They can be banished in jail. We should not hate them because that hatred will cause us to attract similar characters amid us sooner or later.
The series actually has a huge cast that includes Rio Locsin, Ana Abad, Francis Magundayao, Bobot Mortiz, Michael De Mesa, Maricel Laxa, Agot Isidro, Enchong Dee, Kaori Oinuma, Bodjie Pascua, Sharmaine Suarez, Xyriel Manabat, Louise Abuel, Alora Sasam, Alyssa Muhlach, Bianca De Vera, Aljon Mendoza and Mark Oblea.
