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Kovu; Season 1; Episode 4-10

Patience! It is the single word I would use if you want to go on watching this series. I was very hopeful with episode 4 and it started beautifully: tension, action, emotion the works – all hands on deck – for a minute.   after the first few minutes that was it for the rest of the episode. By season 10, I can say my initial judgment of the series was not wrong.

Kovu is available on Showmax.

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The Story

As highlighted before this could possibly be a beautiful story however the delivery is wanting. The script has lots of scenes that are not adding anything to the overall story making the series drag unnecessary. Episodes continue to end nowhere so there is no reason to look forward to the next and honestly now that I have got to episode 10 since there is nothing memorable happening I can remember vividly two scenes.  One when the dad was super mad at his son and shouted the house down; this was good acting and the second when the mum went to attack the groundsman for letting the son out of the compound – Chei! hmmm! Abeg! I will not talk. This one you have to see for yourself to decide what grade of bad it falls in, Sho!

The Actors

Once again casting director got people who look but many who cannot do it naturally as is necessary for a drama. There’s not much difference in the quality of acting than seen in the first episodes. The good actors are good and the bad ones just confirm how bad they are. Actually, maybe this could be a good series for actors to learn – know what to do and what not to.

But once again, you just have got to watch this to get what am talking about.

Technical Construction and score 

The lighting except for a few scenes was good so was the sound and camera angles.  Some of the good shots and the aerial shots as well as the pools in both compounds but since nothing much is happening they are just beautiful shots.

The score is not well thought out as in the first 3 episodes. For example, there is some tense music when someone is going into Lola’s room and we are there expecting action …. nothing happens. Sorry, actually the action comes to a few episodes later. Like earlier episodes, these 7 episodes could have been crammed into – maybe three episodes cause the action is so spaced out. Nothing much changes from what we knew in Episodes 1-3.  The changes are that Jaffar’s children have made an enemy, Jaffar has made amends with his son, Carlos has fallen in love and we get to know he does community service. Question is, did we need 7 episodes to say that?

The many scenes that have no extra information, leaving nothing for the viewer to think or engage with just make this a very hard series to watch.

Let me know your thoughts, maybe I am too harsh.

Conclusion

I have given up watching this. I am sure it will get better because of all the possibilities given the stage that is set, but it requires more patience than I have. If you would like the title ‘King / Queen of boring’ this is where you earn it. However, please let me know what you think of Episodes 11 moving forward. You may just pique my interest once again. All the best to the good actors. I definitely look forward to watching you on other gigs.

Rating

I think this series could be much, much better. The bearer of the idea had a good thing but somewhere between script, casting, and production something is not coming together.  I just wasn’t entertained; hardly laughed, learned nothing, kept dosing off, and having to rewind in the hope that I will find a good moment that I missed, but finding nothing had happened each time. My overall score is 3/10.
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  • Annabel Onyando

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