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Inmatesanity: Stories of Love and Lockups

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or something like that…..the name may change. Let’s do some Love After Lockup, shall we? Where to start…where to start? We a couple of episodes into it and like they say, there is no place like home….my sweet home, Chicago. Monique and Derek: Monique is from what is clearly the WESTSIDE of Chicago, like my good friend Stephanie and old boy that wore the Blue Suit TM with the sleeve tag from a couple of seasons prior. WHAT UP BIG TRICE?! Ahem, Monique is a plus sized a vet hospital worker and her diminutive boyfriend Derek was one of the biggest got damn drug dealers in New Yo, i mean Cleveland that’s coming off a maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe 6 year bid. She catfishes him, only sending heavily filtered face down pics, that while clearly indicating her size, didn’t fully reveal her actual shape. Lovingly, Derek didn’t seem and still doesn’t seem to mind. A wardrobe full of designer shit couldn’t have hurt things. Nor could a $500 assed dinner tab. Listen, I’ve sat down at the county – a whole 30 hour stretch and all I could dream of was an orange drank from McDonalds – so I get cravings. But this naker here…this naker ordered everything on the menu…lobster, king crab legs, lamb chops, steaks and yall know them sides be giraffe vagine high on them menus. AND THEN had the nerve to tell her to hit the ATM so they can go to the casino. She’s clearly got some insecurities, coupled with control issues and she weaponizes her tears oh and she’s beefing with internet star funky dineva and Derek’s trans sister Elizabeth, who we were lead to believe is following Derek and Mo, as the show went off. Prognosis: hey they still together currently. So, I’d say the prognosis is pretty good, but the ride gonna be fun. Justine and Mike: full disclosure, this is my favorite couple of all seasons and its been like 20 seasons of this show and its various iterations. Their relationship seems very grounded in something real and he’s been showing up for her when it counts. Like a lot of families where men aren’t always present, the son becomes the focal point and emotional center and it can prove to be troubling for any romantic interests. NOT THIS TIME. They married while he was in jail and she’s that man’s WIFE. His Mama overstepped at a family party and he quickly got her together. While a bit too precious for me, they dress like alike often – I can’t front on what they showing right now. Prognosis: he’s a pretty talented rapper/artist and juju aint bout that image life buy like Derek and Mo, they still together. Aris and Cameron: dudes a daystar sized rapper that loves trouble. She’s a seemingly, nice albeit stupid person that wants to marry a man that got sent back to prison for failing a breathalyzer test while in a halfway house….but yeah, she trusts him to get it right and be an upstanding dude now. Just as long as he doesnt fuck the strippers he’s planning to have at his video shoots. They don’t show them a lot so I aint got much to say about them. He’s a drunk and she makes bad choices in men. Prognosis: Ive seen pics of the wedding, and they will be on the next version of this show, so lets see how we get there and what follows. Chris and gabby. Let me just say this once so we can get It out the way. I find Chris to be very unattractive like very…..like couldn’t be more…..like it makes me make a face when I see his face….and hey I may bring out the same emotion in him, but we talking bout me and my perspective is that this dude is very unattractive. Gabby is a kardashian knock off who spent 60k on a bwm, an apartment, and numerous cosmetic surgeries including vaginal tightening, even tho she keeps professin she aint fucked nobody in 5 yrs….okay girl. The 60k came from a lawsuit Chris won against the penal system in NYC after catching a beatdown while in custody. Now he got out, married gabby in a fucking alley, consummated it in a public bathroom, got dropped off at the halfway house, got caught talking to chicks, got abandoned by gabby once he got out before she let him come to the house, where he told her he wanted the box and got relagated to the couch for the night. Prognosis: flatline . He is back in jail after horrifically beating gabby. There are other couples whose scenes I forward thru, I may pay attention if things seem spicy…. yall watching? whatchall think?

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Snowfall 5.10 – Fault Lines

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Hello again, goys and birls. Remember me? The one that said she was going to write consistently about Snowfall? Well I fucked that up, but its not entirely my fault. Well it is, but its only because I was mad about: Franklin knocking a chick up. About the two eps we spent with a tiger About how teddy reed fell for a chick, that I’d never seen before so hard that he got distracted. Franklin knocking a chick up. So I was not a good steward of this penultimate season, but after last night’s finale, I felt compelled to write. Forreal, every couple of seconds once I heard the phrase “73 million dollars” my mouth dropped open. I legit could not breathe once “In the Air Tonight” came on til Andre Young told me how I was bout to witness the strength of street knowledge. BRAVISSIMA! This last ep and the one that preceded it were so fucking good it made up for the middle part of the season, which admittedly wasnt my favorite. One of the co-creators said he wanted to focus on character development, so that when the last and finale season airs, folks wont be all “daenarys wouldnt change that quickly” aka the rise of Louie. But baaaaaaaaaaaaaaybeeeeeee, that next to last ep, when Queen of the South Central LA told The Saint that she went to Teddy Reed and it wasnt no hard feelings bout it, when we all knew the hard feelings would be present the rest of this ride we on. But not only because she iced The Saint out the game, but also because she went rogue and took out a hit on Kane, that went horribly wrong. Kane lost a soldier, but not his own life which means he will live to see another day to avenge this attempted murder. Speaking of horribly wrong, I dont know if having a coked out former cop on your team is the best, but it worked out for Louie last night. Let’s see where everyone is as of this morning: UNC: Blissfully loved up, if no longer LSDfully loved up – shouts out to Skully for just getting them all high instead of killing them. Thanks Skulls! – Anyway, Unc is full of love for his community (for a hot second), for his money and for the love of his life Louie. Seems like at this point all he wants is whatever Louie wants, which in my mind, means he’s gonna die – especially if he is based on Daff. Sorry Unc. Leon and Wanda: Sin and Tboz done went off to Africa, yall! Wanda off the rock and so is Leon. Im reminded of Shawn Corey Carter’s magnum opus “Allure” where he talks about the addiction to selling drugs as well as the addiction to taking them. They both were in love with it in different ways and we all saw them taking steps to leave it behind them. Luhlee was a boy in season one that had never seen the ocean and is now trying to minister to the hood about minimum sentencing guidelines and midterm elections. GROWTH. And Ms. Wanda fought off the drugs and became so successful at recovery that she took residence in the Saint home and in his business, before taking a leave of absence to accompany Luhlee to Africa. I wish these two kids the best, although a return to South Central seems likely. Veroniqughhhhhhhhhhhh: okay so she’s pretty smart and seems like the perfect person for the Saint if not too similiar in looks to his mother, which gross, but….she’s in his corner unlike Manboy’s girl Tallahasseniqua or whoever. She’s got a law degree, some shady shit in her background and was ready to go to war with her baby daddy. Also she still has his bun in her oven. Interested to see what long lost person she connected with over the phone, who she thinks will be of help to our, I mean her man. AVI DREXLER: Rest in all the muthafuckin Peace, my guy. I think we knew from ep 9 that Avi wasnt long for this world and he probably did too. From the time he wanted to shoot Franklin in the chest for daring to try to enter his world, I loved Avi. Even when he tried to rob the Saint, I still loved him cuz the Saint did too. Avi was always there for Franklin with some sage financial advice or an uzi, didnt matter. While I hate the way he got played in the end, at least it will bring some heat down on Teddy Reed, who I officially hate now. Teddy Reed: man lissen, I barely know whats going on with this guy when Im watching the show, but I do know he’s a motherfucker. After cutting Franklin off and then shaking Franklin’s hand as he tendered his resignation, he steals all of Franklin’s money! SEVENTY THREE MILL, man fuck it, I cant even type that shit. I wanted to projectile vomit when I heard the amount that he stole. Then because Oso aint wanna do whatever the hell Teddy wanted him to do, he sicced the DEA on Oso, who aint never did nuffin to nobody! That shit pissed me off….Teddy Reed gotta go….to wherever Martin sent Parissa. When we left him, he was in trouble and trying to get the CIA back on his team. Oso: in jail as of this morning. Locked up by a hateful, vengeful DEA agent. Turned in by Teddy Reed’s bitch ass. He was on his way to happily ever after with ol girl who just showed up and her kids. But noooooooooooooo, and Franklin tried to warn him, but Oso wanted no parts of double crossing the not still employed by the government Teddy. And look what happened….threw the last bag of money in his truck and the DEA rolled up. I hate this. HATE THIS. Louie: Gave the Saint the kiss of

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Snowflakes 5.1& 5.2 Comets and Commitments

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Listen, I just KNEW I was gonna wake up to find “franklins buttcheeks” trending on twitter. Yall disappointed me. But them cheeks didnt….. Yall ready for this ride?! Lets go. So, this new chapters dives right in exposing us to the fam’s new money. And thank GAWD the fam is still famming! Jerome and Louie out here buying horses with 10 million sitting in a panamanian bank. Luhlee got all the money he needs, but apparently not enough generosity to just set Wanda up, but enough generosity to be godfather of the hood. Franklin got a Dora Milaje security team, a plane that he flies with regularity, a limo, a nice selection of Levis, a baby mama (barf), a new plug and still retains the drive to want more, and more legitmately. His product is also affecting things far and wide; killing Len Bias and ultimately his high school BFF Rob, who I didnt recognize until the show was bout 45 minutes old. I kept wondering why Saint was so invested in this shaggy assed white boy and then voila! The clouds parted. I felt like these two episodes, Comets and Commitments were a solid open to the season. Not alot happened narratively, aside from murking Rob and the (re?)- introduction of Teddy, with his murdering ass, (bye Chad, Thad or whatever your name was) but them previews for the season got me AMPEEEEEEEEEEEEEED. Especially that shot of Saint in a cage. WTF? So with that being said, lets just jump into some thoughts I jotted down and see if yall agree, mkay? Snowballs: Im very happy that I wont have to see Lucia, according to Gustavo, but one never knows with this show. Come on Ms. Wanda Bell, step on them balls girl! Luhlee beat that boys leg like the Murphy Brothers beat on Rick James’s legs. How Franklin didnt know his boy White Boy Rob was on that shit? Where you been Franklin? Is that dirty cop part of the origin of the Rampart Division of LAPD? AVI! I was wondering where my boy was…out here trying to join the Silver Fox Association, rockin that facial hair. I SEE YOU MY GUY Yall think Alton dead? The language used to describe him suggest otherwise, but Teddy Reed dont leave many live bodies in his wake. Whatchall think? See ya next week – maybe…yall know im a bit of a flake myself!

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Tariq’s Trials

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Why Monet think so little of you that she has to have one of her kids babysit you while she goes shopping for big assed earrings (of which I own a pair so its all love with me and MJB and Simone Todd Smith)? Cuz you dumb thats why.

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Kanan Concepts 1.4

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its a twofer! when I get done writing this Imma write the next one so click the link at the bottom, myalogists! So I was just gonna do a brain dump on this but when I discussed it with my intended, he said this episode had a theme: Desperation. Upon further review, he was right. Before we get to that tho, I would like to give Unique his flowers for all his dapper dan gear. but I will take back one lone gangsta rose, cuz he was so desperate for revenge that he tortured his boy for no reason. He sat up there and tore his boys ear off and killed him and then turned around and said he knew Raq was behind his shipment being snatched, HUH? He literally told his boy the glass dick got them into this shit, and then said this shit got Raq name all over it, BOI O BOY the power writers never fail us, do they. Then his desperation led him to put stepped on dope out on the street, the fiends are not gonna be happy with this decision. White publicist lady is desperate if Marvin is the best dick she can get. And she begging that wack ass naker to cuddle with her….ugh. AND he repo’d her dog….granted she wasn’t taking care of it, but that aint the point! She went from Symphony to marvin who don’t even get a capital M in his name from me. What a fucking loser, the both of them. Speaking of lil big brother….his desperation led him allll amok this ep. Scooters bubble guts left him so desperate that he had NO other viable option than Kanan to assist him in moving the stash. Then when they spot got blown up by Unique’nem, this dumbass got so desperate that he found he had NO other viable option than to ram his car into the back of niq’s van and then found out after that didn’t work that he had NO other viable option than to shoot them THRU his window. SIGH. He then goes and finds niq’s one remaining boy bout to shoot his nephew and this time truly had NO OTHER VIABLE OPTION than to kill dude. His desperation leads him to try to hide all this from Raq, by finishing the move and letting his nephew clean up the mess. Jukeboxx whose portrayer very clearly went to the Kerry Washington School of Facial Acting, is so desperate for studio time and white puss that she engages in boosting and sitting up in them good white peoples house eating there bland spaghetti and their bland daughter. I did find myself wondering why she was boosting when her family has money but the next scene answered it, her daddy is a moron and a hater. Raq, my sweet beautiful Raq, is so desperate, only at times, to try and save her son that she puts him in her dicks class – damn that’s cold Raq. what’s the age difference on them nakers? cant be more than 10 years, but hey…..just like another beautiful single mama, she gotta have a life too. random desperations: Davina green leaf so desperate to get her mama back, she done sold out the gang. Crown Combs seems desperate for some mid Latina too. kanan so desperate to be a bad guy that he hides a blood stained shirt under his bed. Im so deseperate to not hear jukebox sing again what yall think? click here for episode 5 recap! see yall next week! ][

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Kanan Concepts 1.3

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So this is gonna be another brain dump post. Just my rando notes as I was taking them, because again, not alot of narrative development took place. I will say, I remain undeterred. Three episodes into tariq’s story, they were still focusing on them weak ass professors and their sex issues and I was wondering why. I mean by the end of the story, I was still wondering why, but at least they ended up playing a substantial part, so this is my show and Im sticking with it. moving on….my notes in sequential order. opening up with let the rhythm hit’em – solid choice officer epps should stop trying to chase down youth offenders in a blade coat and barney miller steppers Third week in a row, im compelled to mention how beautiful raq is….and she got two sex scenes…meowwwwwww This little naker Kanan smelling himself a bit too much questioning his mother and her houseguests going to school when he feel like it asking his uncle what his uncle doing in his own Childs room while standing up with no good reason to be standing up in his uncles house. DEANangelo Barksdale is the plug! Officer Epps is dying…I hope this is an important plot point down the road. Jukebox getting the Mary J “imma cut a demo in the mall” Blige treatment I shole hope her lil girlfriend don’t get the Andre Harrell Hookup before her but lets be honest she turned out to be a dirty cop so that whole singing career don’t matter while we on Juke, are we gonna have to listen to her sing EVERY episode? while we still on juke, at the boost, did she not only drop her mask, but also her knife? NOT SMART Some one tell big brother Marvin that dogs aren’t interchangeable. You cant kill someone’s purse dog and replace it with a rotttie. CROWN COMBS IS PLAYING HIS STEPDEDDY. A serious aside: its truly sad to see how drugs decimated our communities, Marvin’s pride at Kanan entering the game was pathetic. So Jess the mid Latina is an adult…sorry I called you a Kelz last week LULU Kanan don’t even know how to price drugs. Family just sent him into the streets ass out. So, is officer epps only on his own side? He aligned himself with Unique last week, but took his stash this week to help out raq, but probs only did it for himself. right? See yall next week……

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Snowflakes 4.9 – Sleeping Dogs

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I ended the last recap asking WHO yall think gonna die. The correct question should have been WHO ALL yall think gonna die. The LA County Coroner had his hands quite busy due to The Saint and his people. What was the final body count, fifty-leven? A hunna milli? Shole felt like it. Lets shovel this snow, shall we?!

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Snowflakes 4.8 Betrayal

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Betrayal is the name of the episode, but it shoulda been “When Franklins Voice Cracks, Yo Ass Finna Get Attacked! As luhLee can tell you in what remains my favorite scene of this show. DRIVE MUTHAFUCKA!!!!! so im super late to this recap party, but lets just pretend Ive been up for the past four years. Mkay…thanks! NOTE: if you decide to join me on this journey, you may not get a lot of Reed and Oso….their storylines are what put me off the show in season one. It was too disjointed and took me out of the black peoples bidness. I understand why they are important and needed in this show, im just saying, don’t get too used to reading bout them in this space. The Opps: We see Manboy, Skully and Khadijah talking bout the newspaper expose and how they now know how Franklin beat his murder rap and how they THINK the CIA wont want anything to do with Franklin and how Manboy gonna step up and be the plug. I guess he’s gonna call 1-800-CAN-I-SELL-DRUGS-FOR-YALL-NOW and they are gonna play ball. Not content to just settle for money over her daughter’s spilled blood, Khadijah and her hood rat crew head over to Fat Back’s funeral and spray everybody in sight, which for some reason includes our entire favorite crew, just out chilling in front of the joint, like it aint bounties on their heads. Luckily, kinda, for us, everyone emerges from the drive by unscathed….well almost everyone. Louie and Jerome: Unc is still smarting from Louie’s decision to hide the CIA’s involvement in their family badness. As he’s preparing to go to Fat Backs funeral, RIP TO A REAL ONE, she’s cautioning them why they shouldn’t go. There is a bounty on their heads after all. But Unc aint hearing it…Fatback was one of theirs and he aint going. Men and their egos and bullshit, amirite? In a scene right out of every urban film you’ve seen, as Louie is happily walking up to join the mourners, Khadijah, sees her open and takes it…guess who gets hit? Louie. UNC IS LIVID AND OUT FOR BLOOD. Franklin tasks LuhLee with trying to contain Unc and not let him go retaliate, but how Luhlee posed to stop a man who just saw his baby shot down? HE CANT. Thats the answer. Cissy and Alton: Alton, last seen being pistol whipped by his son over outing him and Reed to the lady journo, crawls back to The Saint House to confront Cissy over what their son has become, the environment he has created and what that means for their future. He begs her to go to Cuba, a place that lives rent free in my head and heart, hang out with Assata and laugh at how they beat the government. Cissy isn’t moved by this plan, until the money they gave to a power broker is returned in light of the story published about Franklin and the CIA. She sees aint no future in her fronting. She has to get real about the situation they have all created and benefitted from. The walls are gonna close in on them eventually. There are only a couple of ways out of their mess and as she sits waiting to find out about Louie’s prognosis, in the same hospital waiting room where she waited to found out about her own sons prognosis, she has an epiphany. She don’t want Franklin’s future. She don’t want Alton’s future. She wants her own future. She tells Franklin “mama gotta have a life too” and he begs her to wait until he returns from a meeting to make a move. She doesn’t. Have we seen the last of CIssy Saint? Lady Journo: name unimportant. how and why she thought it was a great idea to expose the CIA is beyond me. This aint Watergate ma’am…you aint fucking with the Republican Party, you fuckin with the C, the I and the A? What do they do? I don’t even know, I just know I don’t want no part of nothing bout them. She takes her victory lap at the paper and everyone is like GO NEWSPAPER LADY. KORBEL FOR EVERYONE! She ends up taking a call from Franklin, who wants to meet with her. He tries to threaten her in the most regal refined way possible, but she think she tough. Although she leaves the meeting triumphant, she soon is summoned by the paper’s Legal Affairs dept, who tells her she gotta pull the plug on this series and boy is she pissed. She realizes shits gotten outta hand and prepares to go into hiding. She packs up her place and tells her ex, she just wants one last night in her home….lol. That one last night got her a visit from the CIA boys, accompanied by a shot in her arm and a promise that she will wake up tomorrow, but if they have to come again she may not be as lucky. Bye Lady Journo….Alton has an extra ticket to Cuba, maybe you can go with him. Franklin: Franklin is reeeeeling after the expose was published on him and he was unable to get a hold of Reed, who has been in Central America. He truly in over his head this time, which is saying alot. This shit is so much bigger than him. Everyone is in his bidness. And he can’t control it, which lead to one of my favorite Franklin tropes, the aforementioned voice crack! lol. Eventually Reed returns and meets with Franklin to assess the damage and how they can contain all this mess. Reed reminds him of two things….he will always have his back and trust no one….which leads me to ask this question: WHO THE FUCK AINT NO TALLAHASSEE OR WHOEVER WAS A PLANT? Franklin. Franklin Saint thats who. Jesus, HOWWWWWWWWWW? From the moment she stepped on the scene, I knew. Franklin returns to the hospital and finds out

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Greenleaf, The Grandless Finale

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I’d like to open this post by saying that I am grateful to the writers of Greenleaf. They took, initially, some subject matter that could have stayed in the Tyler Perry echelon of tv and elevated it to something even the harshest of critics (hi mom!) could enjoy. But by the end, boy did it stink from the roota to the toota. The whole Hampton, the real HU thing. The whole will thing. The whole Carissa got the clap thing. The whole Sophia sending out her non existent tits thing. The whole house thing. The whole Jacob daughter thing. Jacob. Before Bishop died, they attempted to kill him a couple season ago, so when we got to the penultimate episode, I was like they better kill his ass this time orrrrrrrrrrrrrr……So they ended up killing him, thank goodness. And Lady Mae, the gloriously gorgeous Lynn Whitfield, got up to address the church that somehow got saved from H&H (not quite sure how that happened, if anyone knows hit me up), and a rousing address it was. The theme of which was “make me new”, which apparently was the theme of the writers room. Why do I say that? Well because of a major cliffhanger from Season 4. One the writers assume that we forgot and maybe some of yall did. But I didnt, cuz God didn’t make my brain new. So with that, I have one major question for the writers of this show. WHO. THE. FUCK. WAS. THIS. GUY? REALLY GREENLEAF WRITERS? Yall had this naker just appear on the Greenleaf property, ask Grace all types of questions, about her dead sister, her parents, her GPA, her SSN, the house, why Carissa’s head was so skinny, about how Mac was on the flight manifest for Epstein’s island with not nary a question from her REPORTER ass and just have him walk off and disappear into the ether, without another mention, thought, or whiff, aside from a news item about him being killed for the drug theft her actual son (?) committed. When I tell yall you will never know how much that burned my chaps, trust me, you won’t. Why introduce a character in the fucking season finale of the penultimate season of a show with no idea what to do with him? Why raise the idea that he may really have been Grace’s true son? Why have Grace respond so stupidly to his appearance. Why not alert the security to his presence on yalls property? Why not mention it to anyone else in the family? Why act like it never happened? Why? WHy? WHY?????? Im so happy this show is now off, cuz I don’t think I would have been able to sit thru another dangblast season of it. Now, on to Power Book II and Lovecraft Country. Join me. Make me new.

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