Who Wants A Baby? BB 来了 // Review

Overview:

Who Wants A Baby is a drama series produced in 2018 by TVB consisting of 20 episodes. Starring Ali Lee, Chris Lai, Samantha Ko, Stefan Wong, Lenna Yeung and more. Having an average rating of 28 points and reaching a peak of 32 points, this series is the second-highest rating series of 2018, after Deep In The Realm of Conscience.

Main Cast:

Ali Lee（李佳芯） as Ellen Tong （唐恬儿）

Chris Lai （黎诺懿）as Elvis Yap （叶致廷）

Samantha Ko（高海宁） as Katrina Hui （许晴）

Stefan Wong（黄长兴） as Frankie Lee （李冠中）

Lenna Yeung （杨卓娜）as Wong Kai Miu （王佳妙）

Plot:

This series focuses on the topic of confinement as well as the stories of novice parents. Specifically on the story of new parents, Ellen Tong and Elvis Yap. Expecting unexpectedly (get it? 😉), Ellen wanted to abort her child initially being scared that it would affect her job of being  a professional buyer. But she was soon talked out of it by her mother who had a hard time having her; teaching her the importance of the tiny live inside of her. Being in a constant war with her mother-in-law about how to raise her baby, Ellen quits her job in order to become a full time mom. Soon after doing that, she realises that their family wouldn’t be financially stable if she does so. Hence she decided to take over a confinement centre with her mom to take care of new parents just like her after her borderline-postpartum-depression confinement experience.

This story unfolds as her husband struggles to find a family-work balance between <1980> (a bar which he opened with his buddy, Frankie) and his newborn. Things then get more complicated when Katrina, a girl whom he tried courting who is also unexpectedly her wife’s junior comes into the frame as <1980>’s bartender. Relationship problems surfaces when Katrina and Frankie gets caught in countless relationship problems which they turn to Elvis for help which ended him up being suspected by Ellen for having an affair with Katrina.

Song Thoughts:

Theme Song 主题曲 — 《有了你》Kayee Tam （谭嘉仪）

Interlude 插曲 —《分分钟需要你》George Lam （林子祥）

Just to clarify,  the interlude technically, isn’t really this song. This song has just been sung by the characters throughout the drama which is why I’ve decided to include it here. I like the addition of this song as this song wouldn’t be unfamiliar to anyone that watches HK dramas or listen to Cantopop which makes the audiences feels slightly more familiar with this series. This song is also really suitable for this series and the situation which the characters were in I think that the theme song sung by Kayee Tam is really fitting for this drama because of her ever so sweet voice as well as the melodic tune of this song that makes it so endearing and the well written lyrics to really fit the context of this series. 🤗

Review:

This series was genuinely a good family modern drama that I’ve seen from TVB in a very long time. I really like it as I found it really close-to-heart (despite not being a parent myself 😝) and endearing in a sense where it doesn’t try to sugar coat anything or try to make the role of a parent to seem glamorous. The plot was nice as it was easy to keep up for the audience, but I think that this drama would discourage someone to have kids because of the state which Ellen was in after giving birth to her child.. which was rather scary to summarise it. One of the plot holes that I sort of thought about throughout the series was the fact that Ellen’s mother-in-law, Mrs Yap, still thought that it was Ben’s ex-wife’s fault that she didn’t have any grandchildren because she’s infertile/ unable to conceive. But she still held onto that thought despite seeing her going to Ellen’s confinement center to find a confinement while SHE IS PREGNANT and this all happened before Ben told her mother the truth that he’s impotent. Anyways, I think that this series may be the producer of a lot of award-winners this year along with Threesome because of its originality as well as the crap low quality dramas that has been coming out this year. All of the character performed really well in this series including the child actor who played Long-Zai as well as ALL 8 of the babies who played 允猪 who were all SO CUTE 😍. Moving along to individual reviews.

Ali Lee（李佳芯） → Ellen Tong （唐恬儿）

Being the female lead of this series, I thought that Ali did AMAZING in her role as a new mom. She fitted this character perfectly at the beginning of being a professional buyer with her gorgeous looks and her killer figure which was why I had low expectations of her or being a mom. But trust me, not only did she meet my expectations she completely exceeded it by miles. One thing that Ali is going to have to give up for this character would be her image – being the borderline 痴线 and over controlling wife, stubborn daughter-in-law, not forgetting the over-protective mother role which she also has to take on. She nailed all of these characters and the way which she portrayed this character was great as you can really tell the character development and that it was executed in a way where it wasn’t too ‘in your face’ at the same time you are able to tell that she’s growing as a parent at the same time which her baby is growing. Honestly I’m rooting for both Ali and Mandy (for her role in ‘Threesome’) for TV Queen at this point of time as I’m not too impressed with the other dramas. 🤗

Chris Lai（黎诺懿） → Elvis Yap (叶致廷）

I think that Chris Lai is really suited for the character of Elvis Yap and is able to pull off all of the roles that this character brings with it such as the filial son to his mother, caring husband and a reliable friend. His acting in this series makes it really believable that he is ACTUALLY a new father to his daughter and a caring husband to his wife. He manages to pull of this character as i think that he isn’t the ‘manliest’ actor out there which makes all of his characters extremely believable and the tone which he delivers his lines enhances the circumstances which he was in. It’s nice to see that he interacts with different people around him with different tones and posture depending on his relationship with them which was nice to see.

Samantha Ko（高海宁） → Katrina Hui （许晴）

Samantha really fits the cool, boyish bartender role which she played. Her styling in this eries really suited the role and Samantha managed to pull the slightly avant garde, cool, black and white wardrobe off. Her character’s personality can be easily understood through her first few scenes as well as the way she dresses. The tone which she speaks in is always very constant and slightly monotone throughout the series which I personally found boring at times even in front of the person she loves. But I guess that’s how Samantha viewed the character. To be completely honest, I think that the fact which her character was pregnant towards the end of series was rather forced and implemented just so that there would be a way which her love story with Frankie (Stefan Wong) can be saved. Be I think that this problem is more of a problem with the script and not so much the actress’s fault.

Lenna Yeung（杨卓娜） → Wong Kai Miu (王佳妙）

First of all, I’ve never seen Lenna Yeung’s work other than her cameo in ‘Angels In The Making’ which I never realised she was in until I went on her WIkipedia. Anyways, back to her role in this series, I feel like she fits perfectly with the slightly damsel in distress character and the knowledgeable confinement worker. She delivered her lines perfectly with the suitable tone of her character as well as communicated with each of the surrounding characters in a really natural way which enhances her acting and makes her character believable. I really liked the interaction between her and Ben (played by Tsui Wing) as he is the only character which she didn’t have a business relationship with hence why she is slightly more comfortable around him than the other characters, this difference was nice to see as it doesn’t slightlys how Lenna’s acting abilities and really understands her character.