Forget You Not – Season 1 Episode 2 Recap & Review

The Review Geek

23-05-2025

The Most Difficult Person, Me
Episode 2 of Forget You Not begins with Le-le reflecting on her past relationship with her dad. Unlike the other kids at school, she never saw Kuang-chi as a superhero, and flashbacks to her childhood seem to show that he's absent a lot of the time, arriving late to pick her up from school.
We then cut to five years ago from our present timeline. Le-le works as a tour guide for seniors but she hates her job. She's also not married to Chang Kai just yet either, which helps to place this in the timeline. Her father tries to contact her but Le-le is flustered and bombarded with questions from the tourists so she ignores his texts.
An altercation at the hotel the guests are due to stay a causes drama when Le-le hits out at a customer. The whole ordeal is blown completely out of proportion but it also causes her to be fired. On the way home, Le-le stumbles upon an open-mic night at a bar and winds up on stage talking about her firing and job experience.
Funnily enough, this is also where she meets Chang Kai, a prospective businessman who's disappointed when he fails to make partner at his firm. He enjoys her set, which is surprisingly good for someone with no material. For a while anyway as Le-le soon gets emotional and winds up trauma-dumping, which sees Chang Kai take a shining to her.
The club's producer, Mark, wants to bring her onboard and he believes she's got potential. This is also where she meets Chang-kai too and the pair get along well. Through all of this, her dad is at home worried sick as he hasn't heard from her all day.
When Le-le heads home, she barely says two words to hr dad, much to his dismay. He makes up an excuse that he was watching TV and even attempts to make her a glass of milk but Le-le gives him the cold shoulder the whole time.
Le-le is still friends with Su-fei and Chai-yun here and in fact, the latter is pregnant! Her concerns have changed slightly as she's worried that their 'Period Club' needs to be moved to a different venue.
As time passes and Le-le winds up working at the FamilyMart to help pay the bills, Chai-yun goes into labour and both Su-fei and Le-le rush to help their friend. Now, Su-fei and Le-le haven't been speaking for a while given the incident at the hotel where Su-fei failed to stand up for her friend.
As they race to be there for Chai-yun, both of them manage to patch up their differences. However, Le-le forgets her dad's birthday and rings him to wish the guy a belated happy birthday. They barely talk though and she's quite blunt on the phone, deciding they'll do something together soon.
At the end of the episode, we cut back in time and see Le-le and Chang-kai meeting at the Mart again, giving us an indication of where episode 3 will go next.
The Episode Review
This episode works well to show more of the past and how Kuang-chi has been desperately trying to repair his relationship with Le-le, who has never seen her father as a superhero in her life. It's quite sad to see how their ties have been broken and the pair aren't on the same wavelength at all. It'sa contrast to Su-fei and Le-le though, who do finally manage to patch up their differences.
Seeing the start of Chang-kai and Le-le's relationship is a nice touch though and I'm sure we'll see more of that across the rest of the season.
For now though, understanding more of the past is helping to flesh out more of this relationship between Le-le and her dad. The overall theme about growing up and seeing your parents age is particularly resonant here too. Hopefully the episodes ahead will show more of this relationship.
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