Overview (Spoilers Below): Yuuri has gotten used to living with Lilith, but he’s still suspicious of her. One day, he spots her leaving the building seeming somewhat anxious.
Our Take: The first episode has undoubtedly lived up to the title’s expectations by introducing us to a beautiful maid with peculiar motives. It may not have generated a ton of laughs and unique ideas, but it’s somewhat enjoyable regarding the main characters. So now we see if its second episode can generate more interest in its basic concept or make us want to hire a replacement. This week’s episode again sees Yuuri attempting to reveal Lilith’s true motive. When Lilith leaves the mansion, Yuuri follows her and finds that she’s playing with a stray cat. Yuuri expresses his fear of felines but wants to conquer his phobia. Later, Yuuri sketches a portrait of Morning Glory flowers, and he asks Lilith to teach him to cook, believing that Lilith’s cooking contains her “love potion”. If you can’t already tell, the second episode offers another series of small events involving Yuuri investigating and embarrassing his new maid with little to no progression to the seasonal plot. Based on what I’ve seen in this episode and the previous one, it looks like this episodic structure may have been the main selling point for the series. If that’s the case, then I’m afraid it still has ways to go before its finale to maintain my interest. As usual, the humor in this episode consists of Lilith fooling around with Yuuri, which makes him even more suspicious of her. She makes him believe she’s trying to win his affection by buying him gifts, including a console resembling a Nintendo Switch. So Yuuri embarrasses her by declaring he will win her over instead. He also embarrasses Lilith with his praise of her cooking, stating that it makes him want to marry her. I still can’t decide what to make of the show’s comedy. It’s got a couple of moments that made me smile a bit, but they’re not enough to generate huge laughs from me. I think it might’ve been the concept that left me divisive. You have a maid teasing Yuuri in a seductive manner and Yuuri making embarrassing comments towards her, including one involving them being a married couple. The problem is the age difference between the two characters, in which Yuuri is way younger than Lilith. So, the dialogue felt off-putting to me, whether it’s out of context or not. I would say that “The Young Master, the Cat, and the Morning Glory” is another watchable episode in this suspicious series, although it is a minor step down from the previous one. It might’ve been due to how quickly I realized how the concept works. Besides that, its brand of humor and narrative structure didn’t click for me yet.