Category: Recaps

Becoming Abi – Episode 5 – Leading is Easy? – Recap & Review

Director: Bolu Essien, Terrel Ejem

Cast: Bolu Essien, Juliana Olayode, Seun Ajayi, Biodun Stephen, Stan Nze, Ifeanyi Kalu, Opeyemi Akintunde

What Happened?

Abi is introducing Israel to Big Momma as they look to take their relationship to the next level. As Abi’s relationship is going well, she takes the focus off her career. This doesn’t stop her from getting another promotion to head the agency team.

As Abi takes a new role, she must deal with other problems between the employees. Dealing with fights between employees, needing to make the best decision for the team. This sees Abi address problems with clients and continue to show her leadership skills to her best friend at work Joyce. Only for it to leave Abi in a difficult position of needing to improve the employees around her.

Elsewhere Abi’s personal life is taking off, with a surprise from Israel. A dinner treat to celebrate her new promotion. The changes have shown how difficult Abi’s new role will become.

What to Expect Next Episode?

Can Abi handle the added pressure?

How will Abi and Joyce’s friendship change with the role change?

Final Thoughts: Leading is Easy? Ups the stakes in every aspect of Abi’s life. It shows how she handles the changes and leaves us waiting to see what happens next.

Becoming Abi – Episode 4 – Love Tingles – Recap & Review

Director: Bolu Essien, Terrel Ejem

Cast: Bolu Essien, Juliana Olayode, Seun Ajayi, Biodun Stephen, Stan Nze, Ifeanyi Kalu, Opeyemi Akintunde

What Happened?

Abi finally gets a chance to see how any potential relationship between her and Israel could go. Meanwhile, Shade has returned from her business trip and puts Abi straight back in the deep end with the next project.

Abi and Israel want to keep their relationship quiet, while Joyce is always wanting to make sure Abi is happy. This leads to Abi being worried about whether she can keep this from spreading through the office. When Abi finally confronts Big Momma about what happened to her parents.

Abi’s life gets more complicated when Israel is leaving for a new job in a new country. When she starts to believe a new member of staff Daniel has feelings for her.

What to Expect Next Episode?

Who will Abi pick?

How will things change with Israel gone from the company?

Final Thoughts: Love Tingles is a nice change of pace, focusing on Abi’s relationship over her career for the first time in the series.

Becoming Abi – Episode 3 – To Leave or Not – Recap & Review

Director: Bolu Essien, Terrel Ejem

Cast: Bolu Essien, Juliana Olayode, Seun Ajayi, Biodun Stephen, Stan Nze, Ifeanyi Kalu, Opeyemi Akintunde

What Happened?

Abi takes an interview for a new company only to hear a voice from her past and an uncomfortable boss. Reporting back to Joyce about how bad the interviews went. There is an unexpected twist for Abi, as she is asked to cover Shade for 5 months, leading her team along with Joyce.

This puts Abi down in another difficult decision, taking the pressure of working with her own team and not getting the work completed. This sees her stepping behind the interview table, as she looks for new recruits to help make the work efficient.

While Abi is enjoying her new role, an offer comes in that is bigger than she could refuse. Leaving Abi in a difficult position, sticking with the company that gave her a chance. Or going to lead her own brand-new team. Abi faces the biggest crisis of her career, and it is how she handles this that will make her career.

What to Expect Next Episode?

What is next for Abi?

Can Abi recover from the disaster for the company?

Final Thoughts: To Leave or Not places us in a position where we might see people struggle under pressure. It shows Abi to be a true leader, knowing how to get the most out of the employees around her.

Becoming Abi – Episode 2 – The New Boss Arrives – Recap & Review

Director: Bolu Essien, Terrel Ejem

Cast: Bolu Essien, Juliana Olayode, Seun Ajayi, Biodun Stephen, Stan Nze, Ifeanyi Kalu, Opeyemi Akintunde

What Happened?

Abi arrives at work to find everyone waiting to meet the new boss Shade, with her list of accomplishments being extremely long. The Employees must now adapt to a new boss, one that could make their lives better or worse, depending on how they do.

Abi finds herself being put on babysitting duty. Something she isn’t prepared for. This leads to things going very wrong and her almost getting in trouble at work, but it was worth it, as she got the deal done. However, she doesn’t get the credit she would like for the work, as Shade takes the meeting. Leading to Abi questioning whether she wants to stay in the office under a boss that takes credit for her work. This spins from the happy positive ending of episode one. To a downer ending for episode two. Showing that life is filled with ups and downs.

What to Expect Next Episode?

Will Abi stay?

How will Abi react to losing the credit for her work?

Final Thoughts: The New Boss Arrives takes Abi into a comfort zone. One she wants to go further for and believes her work will get that. It shows the reality of office work, where the workers don’t get the credit, they deserve for the work they put in.

Becoming Abi – Episode 1 – Am I Ready? – Recap & Review

Director: Bolu Essien, Terrel Ejem

Cast: Bolu Essien, Juliana Olayode, Seun Ajayi, Biodun Stephen, Stan Nze, Ifeanyi Kalu, Opeyemi Akintunde

What Happened?

Creative Lens Group employees dive back into their workstations when Abi arrives in the office. With a mix of fear, expectation and reality being seen by their boss. This is Abi’s journey to becoming one of the household names in the marketing industry.

This takes us right back to her first interview for the role, meeting the important people going forward, Joyce and Mike. It doesn’t take Abi long to make a new friend in Joyce and learn the boss is over-demanding, as she learns to navigate the office.

When things change suddenly in the office, Abi is thrown into the deep end, replacing her current boss with a massive presentation. One she nails creating massive celebration throughout the office. This impresses the real department head Grace, landing a bonus and promises of a bright future.

What to Expect Next Episode?

Abi now enjoying her work, where can this take us in the future?

Will she get bigger opportunities?

Is Israel going to become a bigger part of Abi’s life?

Star of the Episode

Abi (Bolu Essien) – It is the most important episode of a show, the first, the one that makes us want to learn more about our leading character. This first episode does this with ease and Abi is the most important part of the early steps.

Final Thoughts: Are You Ready? Is a great start to the series, giving us an introduction that shows the high-pressure role that Abi has taken. It has established characters that we want to see more from and the journey to show how far we might go.

Devil’s Hour – Episode Two – Prime Video Series Review

Director: Johnny Allan

Writer: Tom Moran (Screenplay)

Cast

• Jessica Raine
• Peter Capaldi
• Nikesh Patel
• Alex Ferns

Runtime: 58 Minutes

There may be spoilers in the rest of the review

Story: The Devil’s Hour Episode Two picks up in the aftermath of the shocking revelations in Episode One. Lucy (Raine) is left feeling relieved about what she discovers is one of her client’s homes. While Ravi (Patel) goes in search of the local Lucy Chambers.

As Lucy continues to deal with her own problems connecting to her emotionless son Isaac. Meanwhile, Ravi finds himself going through many locals in search of clues to which Lucy Chambers he is after.

Verdict on The Devil’s Hour – Episode 2

Episode Two gives us a chance to dive into the big two cliffhangers left after Episode One. While most of the detective side of the story is following small clues. It is everything on Lucy’s side that becomes most interesting. Seeing her difficult relationship with her son starting to take over her life. She has been doing everything she can to understand why he is different. Add in the strange interactions he has and his emotionless delivery it leaves us wondering what is going on.

This becomes the most interesting side of the whole story. Having the question, why is he like this and what is with the strange interactions? The haunting delivery of believing he sees someone in the house despite his mother seeing nothing. Completing this episode off comes the conversation between Gideon and Lucy. The question is, what is going on between them?

This show has given us two strong episodes that have left us with massive cliffhangers that want us to come back for more.

Where to Watch:  The Devil’s Hour is available on Prime Video from the 28^th of October 2022.

Final Thoughts – The Devil’s Hour continues to keep us guessing, leaving us on the edge of our seats.