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Headline : “The Olive” Season 1 Review: How Accelerate TV Warmed Its Way Into Hearts

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In 2021, when Accelerate TV first aired The Olive, a story of family, relationships, secrets and espionage, on their YouTube platform, it must have taken viewers a while to grow into the web series. At that time, Accelerate TV—unlike the likes of Netflix, Showmax, and Amazon Prime Video with apparently more visibility and marketability—was still marking its filmmaking territory in strict terms and needed to warm its way into the hearts of Nollywood fans first.  So, having Dami Elebe (known for Up North and Skinny Girl In Transit, and later to be acknowledged for the bubbly YA drama series Far From Home) shoulder the screenwriting responsibility for the series paid off as that made the show narratively inviting.

Directed by Yemi “Filmboy” Morafa, The Olive follows the life of Anayo (Ibrahim Suleiman) and his three children Adaora (Faith Stanley) Kele (Phillips Francis) and Kosi (Angel Unigwe). Having lost his wife Ehi (Theresa Edem) to cancer, Anayo is forced to embrace life as a single parent, as he also keeps up with friendships. At some point, he decides to preserve his wife’s legacy, which is her restaurant business. Unknown to the all-too-good father and husband, his late wife has a string of secrets that includes links to the underworld, and his curiosity leads him towards an investigation. 

Even though it’s a hefty piece of thriller drama, there are two translucent segments to the first season as viewers come along with it: the dramatic world of Anayo’s family, which is infused with a considerable measure of love, innocence and ignorance; and the fuzzy, brutal, subterranean world of Ibrahim (who doubles as Benson Attah) and his cohorts. Ehi bestrode both worlds. 

The narrative structure of the series is engaging enough, as the director Filmboy, even while attempting to retain the atmosphere of suspense by unravelling Ehi and Benson in bits of information, keeps us in touch with Ehi’s dual existence as the scenes juggle her posthumous reality with flashbacks involving the storied woman. Interestingly, this is achieved by starting every episode with a moment culled from Ehi’s lifetime. The two-faced, dynamic depiction of Ehi contrasts sharply with Anayo’s predominantly straitjacketed personality. It’s easy to be in touch with people like Anayo as presented in this season because they look just noble enough in stature and simple-minded in thought to be taken for a ride. This is why when Adaora acts spoilt we often wish the man would really put his foot down. It is, for instance, annoying that Anayo cannot get his daughter to be cool with having to complete her education in Nigeria.

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