Revised by Ajibare Abioye
Hey folks! You’re welcome to my review of Abejoye Season 5 Episode 2. I like the leisurely pace it adopts, which makes it an episode you just sit back, put your feet up and enjoy. It has a few good laughs, especially from Baba’s retelling of the David and Goliath story to the “council of elders”.
Ajibare Abioye
The episode begins with the US scene from the trailer which is remarkably portrayed as a dream, due to the queer mannerisms of Dedun and Bamidele. When Laide tells Daddy Gboyega about it, he pauses before responding. That was a defining moment where he’d show us whether he’d learnt from his past mistakes. If he’d said something like: “Hmm…Actually dear, Dedun called me just a few minutes ago”, that would have been a wiser Dele. But, classic Dele said, “God forbid”. At that point, I knew he’d just taken a first class ticket to chaos island.
Episode 2 largely shows the audience challenges of long-distance marriages. It shows husbands the need to listen to their wives and to be more spiritually sensitive. While Dele kept scrutinizing his wife’s dreams, I wondered if he’d had even one dream from the Lord in the five seasons of this series. Wherever Dedun has been involved, Dele has always been elusive. If he doesn’t change that, we might yet revisit unpleasant memories from Season 1.
Damilare as well isn’t so much of an omo gidi gidi as Baba thinks. He calls his wife a business partner; imagine that! Lack of transparency in marriage thus, is a recipe for disaster. He also validates the saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his tummy; that’s why strange women keep bringing him food.
I’d like to commend the extra work done to translate the dialogue in two incantations-heavy scenes that might have caused some audiences to zone out.
Lastly, a statement that struck me in this episode, similar to another made by KKY last week, is (subtitled): I cannot eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus and still be eating trash and dirt. I saw this as, having tasted the goodness of God’s word and the power of the age to come, we shouldn’t then feed our hearts and minds with anything ungodly.
So, those are my thoughts on Abejoye Season 5 Episode 2. Have you seen it? What do you think a couple living apart can do to bridge the gap? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section.
Till the last article of 2021, stay blessed!
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