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oyaskii:
Yup..I am fully erect for this.....S1 was an unsurprisingly fun watch 🏃🏿‍♂️🎉

samistry:
Copy Pasta with same snide remarks and quippy characters.

oyaskii:
Yup..I am fully erect for this.....S1 was an unsurprisingly fun watch 🏃🏿‍♂️🎉

joseph1832:
quasi prequel or sequel to Spartacus you say?

abduleez1:
Yep. Like a "What If" Ashur hadn't died.

oyaskii:
Yup..I am fully erect for this.....S1 was an unsurprisingly fun watch 🏃🏿‍♂️🎉

Achilles100:
I'm asking again, why aren't you watching Smoke?

abduleez1:
HOT DAMN..... E be like say I don dey see vision. Isn't it few days ago I was talking about this Spartacus— House of Ashur TV series we were promised some years back and hearing nothing of it since we got a first look teaser a while back.


Now the trailer is here....

I WILL BE THERE!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1IMNO5dkP4?si=lGE-NXVpH_qtKDi-

abduleez1:
HOT DAMN..... E be like say I don dey see vision. Isn't it few days ago I was talking about this Spartacus— House of Ashur TV series we were promised some years back and hearing nothing of it since we got a first look teaser a while back.


Now the trailer is here....

I WILL BE THERE!!!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1IMNO5dkP4?si=lGE-NXVpH_qtKDi-

joseph1832:
HMm. Now I understand you better.

I'm sure this will be more gritty, bloodier and full of bress and unclothedness. Something you like.

oyaskii:
To Kill A Monkey (2025)


Idea...100%... Crass:100% Execution: 0%.

I didn’t want to be overly critical with this, but this was, in fact, a Kemi Adetiba imprint, a supposedly accomplished filmmaker in these parts and a Netflix-commissioned show, for that matter.

The title, "To Kill A Monkey," might actually be the most apt and cleverly thought-out aspect of the entire project. The euphemism was nuts, considering the supposed subject matter. Unfortunately, that's where the fun ended.

The central theme of the show was Cybercrime , which I thought was a very important narrative to explore at this point in time. But if you weren't paying close attention, you'd think this was just another gang/drug turf war flick. It follows two friends with contrasting personalities, who are driven by misfortune into the world of cybercrime. I thought that was a solid premise... only if they had stuck with it.

The show juggled so many plotlines, attempting to tell stories in layers that should have built toward something meaningful. The problem? They were just building , with no plan on how to stick the landing. By the third act, each scene felt like it belonged to a completely different show.

I liked King of Boys, but Kemi Adetiba is starting to behave like a drug dealer who struck gold with a bomb hit and now keeps flooding the market with the same formula, just in different packaging , too scared to evolve and find something new. You could clearly see King of Boys DNA all over this , and it felt wildly out of place for the story at hand. To put it in perspective, the opening scene was this elaborate occultic ritual, that ended up meaning absolutely nothing.

The performances were okay-ish. The two leads, Buchi Franklin and William Benson, had enough chemistry to carry the show, but there's this new-age style of acting in Nollywood that I personally detest , it’s overdone, overly crass, and just doesn’t feel believable. It lacks a certain refinement. The show was also filled with way too many unnecessary characters , chief among them, an “Old Taker” played by Chidi Mokeme. He had no business being in this. It epitomizes my feeling that this would’ve worked better as a movie rather than a show. Because with a series format and approx. 8 hours to burn, all the unnecessary characters had more time to waste and added zero value to the story.

The production value was clean, as you'd expect from a Netflix-funded show. The pomp and props were shiny all sitting on top of a bad, not-so-well-thought-out script. And maybe that’s exactly what I should start expecting any time I see Netflix attached to a local show. 😩

Each episode ended with “Written and Directed by Kemi Adetiba” , which might be the core issue here. These big-name filmmakers often get that coveted Netflix sit-down and the heavy seed money, only to turn around and deliver polished garbage. If only they allowed other creative voices into the writers' room, this might have gone somewhere. I’ve genuinely seen Zikoko YouTube short stories that are better written than this.

This is probably why the technical aspects of our filmmaking haven’t progressed as much as the social media clout would have you believe.

Anyway, this was a tedious watch and honestly, I wouldn’t have missed a thing if I hadn’t bothered. So I truly wonder what all the praise I’m seeing littered across X is for...

A special... special... mess. 🚮✨

4/10

pu7pl3:
You never watch he ones wey you pack finish but you will be there for this one😒

joseph1832:
HMm. Now I understand you better.

I'm sure this will be more gritty, bloodier and full of bress and unclothedness. Something you like.

abduleez1:
So, in essence, all na shite??
Make I kukuma rest my case for industry wey I barely care about.

oyaskii:
Proper shite 😞😞.

My Achilles heel be say i too care about this damn industry fgs, i go always form nonchalant when dem dey drop these their garb, but after a few days, i don cave in, fall for their gimmick 😩.

I just hope say, one day the industry go actually wake up and get sense 😭😭

oyaskii:
To Kill A Monkey (2025)


Idea...100%... Crass:100% Execution: 0%.

I didn’t want to be overly critical with this, but this was, in fact, a Kemi Adetiba imprint, a supposedly accomplished filmmaker in these parts and a Netflix-commissioned show, for that matter.

The title, "To Kill A Monkey," might actually be the most apt and cleverly thought-out aspect of the entire project. The euphemism was nuts, considering the supposed subject matter. Unfortunately, that's where the fun ended.

The central theme of the show was Cybercrime , which I thought was a very important narrative to explore at this point in time. But if you weren't paying close attention, you'd think this was just another gang/drug turf war flick. It follows two friends with contrasting personalities, who are driven by misfortune into the world of cybercrime. I thought that was a solid premise... only if they had stuck with it.

The show juggled so many plotlines, attempting to tell stories in layers that should have built toward something meaningful. The problem? They were just building , with no plan on how to stick the landing. By the third act, each scene felt like it belonged to a completely different show.

I liked King of Boys, but Kemi Adetiba is starting to behave like a drug dealer who struck gold with a bomb hit and now keeps flooding the market with the same formula, just in different packaging , too scared to evolve and find something new. You could clearly see King of Boys DNA all over this , and it felt wildly out of place for the story at hand. To put it in perspective, the opening scene was this elaborate occultic ritual, that ended up meaning absolutely nothing.

The performances were okay-ish. The two leads, Buchi Franklin and William Benson, had enough chemistry to carry the show, but there's this new-age style of acting in Nollywood that I personally detest , it’s overdone, overly crass, and just doesn’t feel believable. It lacks a certain refinement. The show was also filled with way too many unnecessary characters , chief among them, an “Old Taker” played by Chidi Mokeme. He had no business being in this. It epitomizes my feeling that this would’ve worked better as a movie rather than a show. Because with a series format and approx. 8 hours to burn, all the unnecessary characters had more time to waste and added zero value to the story.

The production value was clean, as you'd expect from a Netflix-funded show. The pomp and props were shiny all sitting on top of a bad, not-so-well-thought-out script. And maybe that’s exactly what I should start expecting any time I see Netflix attached to a local show. 😩

Each episode ended with “Written and Directed by Kemi Adetiba” , which might be the core issue here. These big-name filmmakers often get that coveted Netflix sit-down and the heavy seed money, only to turn around and deliver polished garbage. If only they allowed other creative voices into the writers' room, this might have gone somewhere. I’ve genuinely seen Zikoko YouTube short stories that are better written than this.

This is probably why the technical aspects of our filmmaking haven’t progressed as much as the social media clout would have you believe.

Anyway, this was a tedious watch and honestly, I wouldn’t have missed a thing if I hadn’t bothered. So I truly wonder what all the praise I’m seeing littered across X is for...

A special... special... mess. 🚮✨

4/10

abduleez1:
Lmao....kpele my dear. 😅😅
E go better.

E get one wey look like say e go make sense wey I been dey watch for my padi house a month ago. I no watch am from the beginning sha.... The Party or something like that. The cinematography and crisp look capture me sha.