Mama Tiwa accompanies Aunt Dupe to the children's home to follow up on her adoption process, and Tiwa throws a surprise party for Mide's birthday. The countdown starts now!
“There is fire on the mountain! Run, run, run! A big big fire! Run, run, run!”
Ladies and gentlemen, what an episode it was and most of the fire of the episode was located at the latter end of the episode. But before we get to the question on all of our minds, let’s run down this episode.
The episode starts off with a phone call between the love birds, Tiwa and Mide. It is Mide’s birthday and his darling fiancee is doing the needful with that “clock strikes 12” phone call so that she can be the first to wish him. Turns out that she had preemptively placed a gift for him inside the drawer of his bedside table too. We go love oh! And thus the episode begins. The tables are turned a little bit here – which we love – and we get to see the receiver become the giver. Episode after episode after episode we have seen Mide put on surprises and full on aww-gushing events for Tiwa, and this time we get to see her attempt to reciprocate. If we are being honest, Tiwa is still learning in the romance department where Mide is concerned, but we don’t fault her for trying.
We see more of Aunty Dupe in this episode and we get the low-down on her adoption story and why it is stalled. The episode does a good job of running down some of the many issues that plagues the adoption industry in Nigeria and also highlighting the irony; because as Mummy Tiwa rightly said “there are many children littered across the streets begging to be adopted”. This is one of those episodes where Mummy Tiwa also gives you cause for your chest to rise because it was definitely gratifying watching the woman who always made fun of her little sister finally stand up and defend said sister.
And then there was Didi. Oh our sexually liberated lover girl. Home girl has taken to the streets of Tinder with her search for “entertainment” and has found solace in the right-swipes. This time she has swiped right on to a confused wanna-be rapper played by Akah Nnani who simply wants to use her to get air play for his songs. Now, we’ve seen Akah in a few things from “BIG” to “Isoken“, but this is possibly the least convincing he’s ever been. It’s hard to say if its just his impression that was unconvincing, or whether it was because his aesthetics didn’t fit what we have come to associate with the “rapper image”.
As the show moved along, the episode did a little bit more to elicit more of our hatred towards Derin, to give us more reasons to fall in love with our Kenyan Chocolate Nick Mutuma, to bring Folarin Daniel Effiong’s character back again to complain about his kids some more (come o, what even is the purpose of this character sef), to highlight Mohammed’s pressures from home about his betrothal (by the way, did we call this or did we call this), and to show us that Wosi is still not reading for her jamb.
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However, the most exciting thing was at the end. Just when we started to wonder how this overly happy couple will manage to morph from this into the situation in the trailer where Mide was asking to cancel the wedding, then came the text. The tackiest construed revelatory text you will ever see “Guess what? You have a son”. Thunder fire you there!
Or in the words of Tiwa as she responded to Mide’s question asking “what if there was a Sandra” we all say, “she would have died since, [Mummy Tiwa]’s prayers will kill her”. Not that we are out here trying to kill people o. We are just killing the devil’s plans.
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