Our Best Friend's Wedding (abbreviated as OBFW) is a 2017 RedTV, and TCN Africa original Nigerian

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, created by Olawale Adetula, and executively produced by Olawale Adetula, and Bola Atta, for the first season, with Obinna Okerekeocha joining the second season as an executive producer, starring

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, Adebola Olowu, Oreka Godis,

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, Timi Charles-Fadipe, Marycolette Unamka, Wendy Lawal, Sarah Boulos, and Theo Lawson in the first season, with Maurice Sam, Martha Ehinome, Oshuwa Imoyo Tunde, Marycolette Unamka,

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, and Adekanla Desalu, joining the main cast for the second season.

Plot

Our Best Friend's Wedding tells the story of a young man who panics and buys an engagement ring on a whim. He recruits his two female best friends to help him go through a list of potential candidates and sets off a series of events that leads to a wedding. In the second season, three best friends, Charles, Jade, and Kemi navigate life and adulthood and the emotional rollercoaster that comes from unrequited love, betrayal, and true friendship.

Cast

Main

Guest

Episode

Season 1 (2017)

Season 2 (2021)

Production

Casting

On 7 November 2016, the cast was reported when the trailer was released, with a line-up of

, Oreka Godis, Adebola "IllRymz" Olowu,

, Timi Charles-Fadipe, Marycolette Unamka, Yewande Lawal, Sarah Boulos, and Theo Lawson. On 9 September 2021, TNC Africa (fka. The Naked Convos) replaced its main-cast with the following: Maurice Sam as Charles (formerly played by Adebola Olowu), Martha Ehinome as Jade (formerly played by Oreka Godis), and it recruited

, who played Kemi in the first season for the second season as her main-character - Kemi, with a lot of other changes, including the production team changed by TNC.

Premiere and release

On 27 January 2017, OBFW began streaming on REDTV. On 29 January 2017, RedTV and The Naked Convos held an exclusive screening of Our Best Friend's Wedding, with the crew, including the Nigerian Minister of information

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, chairman at

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, Group Managing Director UBA, Kennedy Uzoka, Group MD/CEO at Filmhouse Cinemas, Kene Mkparu, media personalities

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amongst other notable influencers were present at the event. On 26 June 2023, the second season of Our Best Friend's Wedding was released in over 35 African countries through

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, as the first season of the web series, re-released as a television series in 2023, through

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as the distributor. On 2 July 2023, Our Best Friend's Wedding second season began airing on Africa Magic Showcase, with its first season released internationally through

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Reception

Critical reception

Reviewing for Pulse Nigeria, the movie critics Chibumga Izuzu said: “Beyond lackluster performances, "Our Best Friend's Wedding" is watchable, and the most beautiful part of "Our Best Friend's Wedding" is the soundtrack. It is uniquely beautiful and put together that it hits hard enough to leave a mark. It lightens up the show, skewing across familiar tones. At the end of every episode, you would have new songs for a new playlist. The romance and acting in the series aren't convincing, but while "Our Best Friend's Wedding" doesn't break the mold, it's a fun watch, perfect for a Thursday evening”. Reviewing for

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, the magazine credited Oreka Godis as the best actress on the first season of the TV show, and wrote in its review of season one, which is made up of eleven episodes: “I’ve been saying it since episode 2 (episode one of OBFW was perfect) that the show was going to end up a clusterfuck. With every successive episode, instead of resolving subplots and glaring omissions, the showrunners and writers chose instead to focus on IllRhymz who basically spent the entire season acting like he’s a jock in a high school movie instead of a smart adult. So I came into this finale with zero expectations, after all, if you have none, you cannot experience disappointment, or so they say. Well, it turns out, you fucking can.” Ending the review pointing our its 3 major facts, which include: SPOILER ALERT, SHIT THAT MADE NO SENSE, and Ignored Sub Plots.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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