NR’s Run-Through of Ndani TV’s “Skinny Girl in Transit” Season I

[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s some already know, next week marks the beginning of Ndani Tv’s 2016 week of premieres (I’m not even sure if that’s what they are calling it or if they are even calling it anything, but that’s what me I am calling it). So to commemorate that I decided to binge watch the entire first season of Skinny Girl in Transit (like the jahbless she-goat that I truly am)… and watch, I did!

When the show first came out, I watched the first episode and thought to myself that if the entire show is going to be a constant quote on quote “humorous” attack on fat girls then I don’t need a show for that. If I want that I can simply go and sit beside a congregation of Nigerian aunties at a wedding/funeral/wake-keep/birthday party/etc. and that will serve the purpose.

But this time, I made it to episode two and I finally met Tiwa. Tiwa is the main character; our main “Skinny Girl in Transit” (speaking of which, I wonder if she ever arrives at the destination of this transit sha… I guess we’ll see in Season 2).

Tiwa, played by Abimbola Craig, is living a life that mirrors that of most late 20s-working class-single-Nigerian females. She lives at home with her parents and her mother is fixated on getting her married come hell or high water. According to mummy, played ever so effortlessly by Ngozi Nwosu, she is tired of buying Aso-Ebi from everyone and it is time that others bought her own aso-ebi. So in an effort to achieve this, she emotionally blackmails her daughter (one early mor-mor) into agreeing to workout (I guess that was a good thing too).

So the next morning, Tiwa takes to the streets: Mainland bridge (or is it Ikoyi Bridge?… sha some very long bridge like that). She starts jogging all swift and easy and starts to think (like the rest of us do at the beginning of any new “healthy lifestyle” regimen), “this is not so bad. I don’t know what all the fuss is about”. This is until she finds herself passed out by the side of the bridge gasping for water all while calling out the name of her ex-boyfriend Kola.

Enter Femi.

Femi is a fooiiiiinnnnnnnneeeee drink of water that finds her passed out on the road and gets her a taxi to take her home.

Long and short, when they arrive home Tiwa’s skinny sister Shalewa, played by Sharon Oja, tries to make a move on Femi (who by the way is played by Kenneth Okolie). Then Femi announces that he only has eyes for Tiwa. All of this while mummy is sitting there in the living room. So you already know that mummy starts to plan a wedding in her head. Tiwa fronts. Tiwa falls. They enter relationship. Then insert compulsory drama and insert compulsory resolution.

Except!

Except that by the end of this series, they don’t want me to be great, so they just throw in a cliffhanger where… (should I ruin it for you? Me thinks not).

Skinny Girl in Transit is a light hilarious comedy. The actors are able to bring the characters to life so well that we can almost identify the real humans in our life that represent those characters. It is annoying that each episode only lasts about 10 minutes but if there’s one thing I have learned from this binge session, it’s that I am not going to be watching Season 2 of “Skinny Girl in Transit” until the entire season is over – my heart is not equipped enough to take those cliffhangers, no thank you. 

PSA: The second season of “Skinny Girl in Transit” premieres on Friday May 20th.