Forget You Not – Season 1 Episode 4 Recap & Review
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Episode 4 of Forget You Not starts with us back at the comedy club as a male comedian discusses the differing reactions to marriage from men and women. Turns out a VIP has bought a seat for the comedy club that night but they haven't bothered to show up. It's not Le-le's set here and Mark shrugs it off, believing that they may just show up late.
Back in time, we see Kuang-chi playing Mahjong with his friends back home but you can see the strained relationship with Le-le building from a mile off. She shows up at the door without being picked up from school and she's fixated on her schoolwork. From her dialogue, it also appears that Kuang-chi has been jumping between different women with flings or short-lived relationships.
In the present, Le-le does her set but she focuses on Chai-yun's birth but she's not getting the same reactions she was before – and Mark knows it. He encourages her to use the divorce she's going through as material, given it's rife for exploitation, but she doesn't want to be cliché. However, the real issue here is that last time she ripped into Kai, it caused the downward spiral of their relationship and she clearly doesn't want to make matters worse.
Le-le is flustered when she shows up at the hospital later on with Kuang-chi. Her mother has been brought in and is deceased. This causes all sorts of memories to come flooding back for our titular character, who heads outside to get some air.
Our flashbacks this time jump back to see how Kai and Le-le's mother, Hsiao-fang, met. She was initially very flamboyant and worked as a singer but after Le-le's birth, something changed. It looks like post-natal depression at first glance. Kai isn't exactly an attentive father, and he heads out for military service, leaving Hsia-fang to handle a crying baby all on her own.
Unfortunately, this is a mainstay as Le-le grows older, and Hsiao-fang is never happy as a mother. She doesn't converse with her kid, she barely plays and eventually, she packs her things and leaves. It's a heartbreaking way to go, especially as all Le-le wanted was love and her mum was never able to give that to her.
This explains why things are so fractured between her and Kuang-chi, which doesn't make the job of clearing Hsiao-fang's place out in the present any easier.
Kuang-chi and Le-le show up and hash out their issues while working through the possessions. Le-le has never had closure here and even worse, Kuang-chi saw Hsiao-fang a few times behind Le-le's back. None of this helps with Le-le's already fractured relationship with her father.
Le-le lets her troubles out on the mic, spilling her heart to the room while Mark watches on. Thankfully, it's an empty crowd and Mark decides to take a chance and go for it with Le-le's new direction, but is quick to remind her that these people come to the club to forget their worries, not to be completely depressed.
I's here where we see the truth of the matter. Apparently, Hsiao-fang did try with Le-le and wasn't completely depressed the entire time as we'd been led to believe. She smiled and spent time with Le-le and when she left, Le-le actually let her go willingly. Le-le has been keeping all of this repressed for a while, blaming her dad for the way Hsiao-fang just left, and also explaining how this big chasm in her heart has never really been healed.
Finally confronting this now, she puts to rest the memory of her mum, signified by the ketchup lids she's kept, a reminder of when her mum used to cook and taught Le-le how to do the same thing.
The Episode Review
So Forget You Not confirms that Le-le is an unreliable narrator and sometimes it's quite tough to work out what's the real story here and what's been fabricated. However, this does work well to flesh out more of Le-le's story and her complicated – and oftentimes tumultuous – relationships.
The show has managed to showcase the difficulties in nurturing said relationships and how our own memories and perceptions of events can be shaped over time.
Forget You Not has been a compelling ride so far, leaving the door wide open for the second half of this drama.
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