Hey folks! You’re welcome to my fourth review of Abattoir Season 2. Just one more episode and we’ll reach the Season 2 finale. Alright, let’s review Episode 4.
The recap of previous events at the beginning of this episode was rather too long for me, being close to 4 minutes. In any case, there was a nice transition from the first scene to the second. It was nice to see Baba Gbenro’s family meeting Barrister Adegbola’s family for the first time in the series. Similarly, Dele meets Gbade’s daughter, Nike, who it turns out, is a secondary school student.
This episode offers enlightening perspectives on conduct in ministry. When Baba Gbenro regains consciousness, he admits that he had let his ministry to Martins consume him at the expense of his family. Mr Adegbola has helped Dele refrain from this dangerous consumption by making him see that he shouldn’t allow his busyness prevent him from spending time with his family. Though Dele has gone “international”, his father expects him to stick to the word of God. Gbenro also has placed an attractive offer above God’s will, and that case brought out the worst in him. He admits that something came over him, as the camera brilliantly portrays in Episode 3. His father encourages him to seek God first and we see that indeed, life is a race of priorities.
You know, I’m beginning to think that Flora is the protagonist of this season. In a subtle way, we learn more about her with each new episode and she’s quite a character. Flora is beginning to care and we see that beneath that hard exterior is a lady who has had a terrible past and is afraid of being abandoned so much that she gives in to speaking with her mum in a really, really touching scene. She ends up giving her mom more than a minute but concludes that her case is hopeless. From her mother’s story, we know that’s not true and we can only hope that it won’t be too late before Flora accepts Jesus’ offer of a new beginning.
With Gbade getting his wish for Flora to testify in court, it’s quite clear that he doesn’t want her killed, but with her fiasco at the restaurant, Gbade has now begun the process that might end in Flora’s dream of death coming true. It was nice seeing Adekunle Idowu who featured in God of Elijah (2013) and Neema (2018) here as one of the assassins. In those two movies, he took on different appearances and he’s done the same here.
In this episode, Durosanya takes another third dimension visit to Martins to the effect that his torment physically affects Martins and he’s adjudged to be schizophrenic. I just observed that though Martins regrets his bad treatment of Baba and Mama Gbenro and now knows it was his father and Gbade that planned for Flora to set him up, he still hasn’t restored his relationship with God. I don’t think I’ve heard him speak to God this season. That’s probably why his father still has that power to torture him spiritually and physically. Dele captures all we’ve been saying about Martins’ heart towards his father: “When you hold on tightly to pain, anger and bitterness, you cannot receive the gift of the Lord Jesus Christ; but when you release from your heart and let go, Jesus Christ will in turn flood your hearts with His pure gifts.”
Baba Gbenro has to step in again to help Martins, but this time, his approach is different. His method in this episode is clearly suitable for the situation and eventually, we see the picture of how things should be, the way Mama saw it, and it was more effective as the episode finished with a really nice overhead shot of Martins becoming conscious again. I can only imagine that Episode 5 is going to be hotter. Fingers crossed.
Alright, we’ve come to the end of this review. Have you seen the episode? What did you think about it? What is more important? Family or ministry? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below. Episode 5 comes up on Sunday, February 28, 2021, on DMB YouTube channel.
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