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Forget You Not – Season 1 Episode 1 Recap & Review

Time Is A Butcher's Knife Episode 1 of Forget You Not begins with us at a bustling market, where a little girl loses her father in the crowd. This is Le-le and her father, Kuang-chi, has a habit of putting others ahead of his own daughter. Le-le has always had a tumultuous relationship with her dad, whose whimsy and playful behaviour does not go over well with his daughter – especially on her wedding day when he's late and ends up crashing his bike en-route. Her husband, Chang-kai, does his best to support her while she stalls for time. There's also Lin Chai-yun and Huang su-fei, Le-le's two best friends whom we follow across the season. Furthermore, it's worth noting that Le-le has unresolved trauma with her mother too who left when she was 8. Unfortunately, as she trauma-dumps at the wedding through the medium of stand-up, it doesn't go over well with Kai's parents. Yep, Le-le is a stand-up comedian by trade and her awkward impromptu speech is interrupted by word of her dad, Kuang-chi, being admitted to hospital after falling off his bike. This is apparently a pretty regular occurrence and the mood soon changes though when Le-le finds out that her dad has started to exhibit the first signs of dementia. Le-le shrugs it off as her dad just messing about like always, but she hasn't seen him for 2-3 months so it's hard for her to say for certain. The thing is, she has a bad opinion of her dad, but according to him, he did a lot with her growing up. It's here we cut forward in time, but the show doesn't explicitly tell us this until later in the same scene. Over at Kuang-chi's, she finds the place a complete mess and her father has definitely been forgetting dates and people too. Included within those dates are Chang Kai, whom Le-le is apparently separated from now. Le-le works at the local FamilyMart during the day between gigs, but her comedy work is struggling too. She does a good job segwaying the set into the topic of her getting older, which appears to be the theme of this series ,and it also ends this episode too. The Episode Review Forget You Not shares some similarities with Navillera and other shows of its kind, leaning into the dementia angle and trying to bridge a severed relationship and heal past trauma. This show very much leans into the sentimentality and this father/daughter relationship that looks set to encapsulate this drama. Le-le's stand up comedy works well as a narrative device to bridge the different scenes together, although it's not always clear exactly what timeline we're in, given there are inconsistent scenes stitched together, making it a little difficult to follow the flow of everything. Whether by design to emphasize the confusion of dementia or not though is up for debate. Regardless, everything here is set up nicely for what should be a dramatic and emotionally charged series. Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!