The whole show revolves around a boy trying to help out his family by paying off his delusional aunt’s shark loan debts and a middle-aged woman navigating through the aftermath of her husband’s infidelity. So of course they find each other.
I would also like to put forward the stress I went through to watch this surrounded by people. It’s not like I anticipated it to start off that way. I had to convince them that “No, it’s not porn. Shut your ears and look away!” Could I have just put on my earphones? Yeah.
No further question, your honour.
Granted, the scene’s not very graphic, but the sounds, man. they were kind of disturbing. A lot disturbing, actually. This is also where we catch a glimpse of our heroine, Datin Safieya (played by Fasha Sandha), having been forced to listen to the whole thing because she had unfortunately caught her husband at a bad time.Kepala Bergetar
But anyway, the scene afterward walks us through what kind of life Rizal leads, being an orphan and living with his aunt and sister. From here, we get to see the stark contrast between his life and Datin Safieya’s.
It was an interesting comparison, to say the least. One that foreshadows the type of relationship that these two main leads would have in future episodes.
If I’m going to be honest, the first episode was quite engaging. There were scenes that could have been cut out like a scene about a “Datin Karen” that can’t read the Open and Close sign yet still demands to be treated like royalty. And then we never see that lady or her creepy, leering husband ever again. So I didn’t really understand why she had to be introduced at all. Tonton Drama
And we get to see a little bit more about Datin Safieya and her relationship with her husband. It looked like the opening scene was some sort of foreshadowing because Datin Safieya was all lovey-dovey with her husband and had not shown any hostility towards him (yet).
Even their daughter seemed to be on the sidelines and showed her annoyance that her parents were only paying attention to each other and not her.
But then to make the drama more scandalous, we find out that the husband’s mistress, a.k.a. his secretary (colour me shocked) is insanely jealous of Datin Safieya for taking all of her husband’s time and vows to make Datin Safieya pay by stealing her husband right from under her nose.
Or it could just be that a middle aged lady, Dfm2u tired of her husband’s lies finds comfort in the innocent all too pure country boy. Is she going to try to seduce him? I don’t know, it looks like it. And I’m lowkey scared to watch what happens if she succeeds.
It’s like watching a train wreck. You know it’s going to end badly but you just can’t look away.
The dialogue in the show could use some work though. If there is something to complain about, it’s mostly that. It’s always the same “I wouldn’t have thought that it would be this way.” and “You lied to me!” Maybe try some new lines? Something a little bit more out of the box?
I’ve only watched four episodes so far and I’ll be honest, I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch the whole thing. It’s the kind of ridiculous that grips at your spleen and refuse to let go. But also has an overwhelming amount of cringe, so I’m not sure where I stand.
Episode four ends with the knowledge that Rizal might have accepted Datin Safieya’s offer to be her sugar baby. Please know that I am screaming as I’m typing this because there’s no other way I can express what’s going on in my head right now. Other than ew.