March 2023

Dear Snowfall Writers room, thank you for taking your foot off the pedal this week so that we could all send Unc home in peace without spending the whole episode with clenched cheeks. Cuz didnt we need that after last week? I know I surely did. Now come, Myalogists and pull up a seat tween me and Uncle Clifford Laurent down to the repast where down in the valley all the girls….we dress in all black like the devil himself, Franklin Saint. Louicifer: we pick up shortly after where we left off last week…with the remaining members of Team Save Louie are escorting our beloved Unc’s remains to a funeral home. At the very moment, Louie has to hand his body off, she loses it. Lee sweetly takes her home and offers to stay the night with her or call bunky crackhead ass, but she declines. She wants to be by herself to process….she takes a long look in the mirror at her jagged face and the k branded into her chest….grisly reminders of her last couple of hours. She takes in the photos of her happy day and all the gifts that remain unopened. She accepts a visit from Cissy, during which they ruminate over their shared losses with one noted exception by Louie – while Cissy got shit to still care about, Louie is fresh outta fucks. Plagued by memories of her abuse, Louie takes to the streets to the one person that she feels can understand: Skulliver. Listen, prayers to that man. He just joined forces with the men that killed his girl and their daughter….and is listening to the wife of one of those men, advising her on coping mechanisms. She tries to take his zen advice to heart, but Louie is still too raw, too angry. She fields a call from Teddy Reed, who demands to meet, but Louie on her KingShit….she tells the white man to wait until she gets ready. They eventually meet, she tells him Jerome died and what he wants, Franklin, will have to wait til she buries her husband. We next find her at the funeral, where she shares a minute with Cissy…before being approached by The Saint, who channels his real life chick’s ex with an “what you need from me Auntie?” Louie wants the truth, even tho we all know it. Write ya congressman if ya dont agree, but that man came back out of love for his family…although as he admits he is the devil himself, he says he came back for the promise of catching Teddy Reed. The Saint: our mans was really quiet and pensive this episode. He handles the business of sending unc home, before heading back to Camp Saint to update everyone on the fates of the fam. Cissy questions her brothers whereabouts and The Saints face says it all. They go down to the funeral home so Cissy can say a private goodbye. Our man is getting more and more desperate to find Teddy, so he goes to Leon asking for a loan. Who would have ever thought we would see the day The Saint would need a loan. He needs the money to give to Oso, so he will lead him to Teddy. All of this shit leads us to see our mans in the most vulnerable position possible….he’s having night terrors and panic attacks….and rightfully so. He went from working at Cho’s to watching his uncle be killed in about 4 yrs. Teddy Reed: After getting bitched out bout his living conditions by his girlfriend, Teddy is joined by his wife – his pregnant wife, Julia, She confronts Teddy about putting his family, especially his son. Give Franklin the money back, so all of them can be safe. But Teddy Reed is bout that action so he aint going. Julia says cools….Ill just out your dumb patriotic ass. Good for her that the CIA is already finding Teddy dispensible, him and his niggER, so she may not have to do much. Oso: My people’s champ is continuing to go thru! Rueben shows up at his door, scuse me, his breakfast table making his same fucking threats…where was all that MOUF when Teddy threatened your ass, RUEBEN? Fuck outta here….but it scares Oso and more importantly Xiamarra, who tells Oso, the jig is up and she is planning an escape of her own that does not include him. He goes to meet Franklin and reveals each and everything that is happening to him, CIA, FBI and KGB. How did a poor wrestler find himself in the middle of all of this shit? Franklin says he can buy Oso a day or so, but he needs Teddy NOW. They talk of setting a trap…and from the looks of next week……. Now listen, below Snowballs im gonna talk about a major spoiler for a major character, dont look if you dont want to know. Snowballs: – Sad to see Wanda go from her african braids to her black girl bob.– How much time do we think has passed since the stated start time of 1983? How long since Louie and Unc’s wedding?– LOL at Ximarra locking the door behind Rueben…maam you woke up with him in your house.– WANDA IS LEAVING!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!– Louie’s talk with her friend was heartbreaking…..– We love a black mama and from Cissy braiding lee’s hair a couple seasons ago to her offering Wanda a path forward in life, we love Cissy– The instrumental of “ready or not” as the Saint family walked in was so emo to me. – What war is Lee still prepping for? Kane’s folks? Teddy? Big Deon, who was casket sharp (all puns intended) in his plaid suit…..– Why was Oso and The Saint dressed like the Blues Brothers at the funeral?– Bunky get your dope fiend ass outta here! – So nice to see Uncle Clifford who is known in south central at Laurent, Louie’s cousin who we first see hosting a

TRIGGER WARNING this was one of the roughest hours of television ive ever kinda watched….I say kinda because for roughly 75% of this show, I had a good view of the tv blocked by my hands, my feet, my ovaries, a blanket, my dog – anything I could get my hands on to not have to witness was was going on in a garage in south central LA. Before we get into this, I’d like to offer some folks the chance to leave because a violent sexual assault took place this episode. Saint, Lady Saint and her OG: we catch up with this scamming assed crew moments after Saint murked Teddy Reed’s dad and burned the house down. The ladies are standing on the tarmac waiting when Young Oracle decides she wants to have a mother daughter talk. She wants Lady Saint to leave her baby daddy and come run away to a life of safety with her. She cautions her daughter that she will never know a day of peace with him, neither will their child. She aint wrong, but Lady Saint tells her to beat her feet, he may be a lot of things, but he aint never let her down nor lied to her, unlike her mother. That’s her man and she gone stick beside him – that the time that Vee is on. So Young Oracle is sent off into the night and Lady Saint returns to LA to warn the remaining members of Team Saint that the murderous duplicitous Teddy Reed is on the warpath and aint nobody safe. Teddy Reed: After letting his “grief” wash over him, he gets into GO mode. He warns his wife and kid, before getting to Parissa, who somehow seems giddy at the thought of life on the run with a hunted man….a hunted man with $73 milllion but still hunted nonetheless by a worthy adversary. He then goes to Ruebens house to demand that he make him coffee, threaten to out him, listen to his sob story and then have the unmitigated gall to tell him how Rueben’s presence has made him feel less lonely….THIS MUTHAFUCKA HERE. He did this all without a gun, with a gun being held on him and still managed to threaten Rueben’s whole existence and left alive. Man fuck them neighbors and what they heard….Teddy woulda got what he was looking for…. Louie and Jerome: Their story also picks up shortly after last weeks events. Jerome has slept off his drunk and wakes up to tell Louie that its all over for him. He’s done, he wants out….apparently his notion of bliss is Kingston, Jamaica – cuz thats where he tells her he’s headed. This leads Louie to share her vulnerability with him. She tells him how she feels undervalued as a leader, because she’s a woman. This is a theme thats been featured a number of times this season, and last ep Jerome even played into it asking her to leave the room so he could talk to Deon. She feels under appreciated, when in actuality, it was Louie that saved Franklin from being killed by Avi; she held the whole operation together when Franklin was in jail; she talked Skulliver off the ledge and onto the team; she expanded the operation east; she had the money and the power, she just wanted the respect, and she admits how that turned her into a monster. Jerome counters by telling her he stayed in this because he loved her, now its on her to prove her love for him by leaving this all behind. She says she needs more time…and then they get an alert that its time for her to meet Skully. Jerome tells her to take some time, he will make the drop. Louie heads off to the stables, where her me time involves – taking off her gun while Kane is looking for her – telling her security to fall back while Kane is looking for her. Im sure you all can imagine how well that worked out for her. So Kane’s folks get the drop on her and this is where the nightmare begins….. Kane’s folks take her to a garage where they party and hangout, but Louie aint there for a good time or a long time. Kane wants Buckley, possibly more than Louie, but for some reason Louie wont give him up. I’d like to think this has more to do with her not wanting to be a snitch as opposed to her not wanting to give up a crackhead, but hey, its her choice. Say what you want about Louie, she may bend but she dont break. She is abused in a myriad of ways before Kane calls the Saint to witness the brutality and offers to let Frankie finish the job. Frankie declines and asks to speak to Louie alone. He tells her to give up Buckley and then pray for a quick death, but she still aint going. She offers Teddy up to the Saint, but Oso already gave him an in so she’s worthless to him. Its the anti “hey auntie” for our girl Louie. Kane has threatened her in the way the weakest of men do: with threats of sexual violence from some of his friends “fresh out”. Franklin coldly walks out and drives away…..but them family ties be the ones that bind and he pulls over and calls Jerome, who is at the drop with Skully. He wont return his nephews pages, so The Saint has Lee hit him up and tell him whats going on…..the ANGER in that mans face holding that hamburger phone…Saint purposely give him the wrong address because he knows his Uncle’s wrath. They all meet up and now Im dropping the one lone gangsta tear at the sight of my boys all working together with SKULLY in tow. They head out to rescue Louie, who is now actually getting raped by one of Kane’s boys

Let’s take this ride, Myalogists, as we dry Unc’s one lone gangsta tear…. Wanda: Wanda Bell, you in trouble, Girl. SincereLEE is gone and LuhLee has returned, and that shit hurt like fuck. We pick right back up where we left them last week, LuhLee down but definitely not out. He done Craig’ed the Deebo of the projects and is preparing himself to assume a leadership position amongst the bitter thieves. They come to his door and demand he take over or step aside, cuz everyone got to eat. This leads Lee to hold court in the courtyard and announce his return and assert his dominance. To see Lee go from sitting in awe in our ancestral homeland to two weeks later calling people bitch ass pussies made me tear up harder than Wanda. Our dear sweet Wanda, again, why this naker got her living in the jects, where she will never again know value, love, respect or safety. Why is he doing this to her? She is fighting with all her might to maintain her sanity and he plops her back in a situation where the odds are not in her favor. Im rooting so hard for her…but now Im re-watching and Im wondering why Ms. Wanda Bell aint doing nothing to advocate for herself. She told lee she aint wanna come back, she can tell him she wanna go back. Unc: I want to call him a victim of this drug shit, but at the end of the day, aren’t we all a victim of it? SEE JAYZ’s ALLURE But in the show, he’s been the most reluctant from the start…telling franklin to beat it when he came to the crib with the key, giving louie hell when he found out about the CIA connect, pushing back on the country cousins, not REALLY wanting to kill his baby nephew etc. But money CAN be the root of all evil. Big D comes to see Louie and Jerome to demand that they not do any business with Leon and they laugh in his face and let him know business is business and Leon money spend just like his. After disrepecting Louie, D is invited by Unc to sit for a spell for a drink. They have a conversation that leads Unc to something he’s always known….this life aint for him no more and it never was. Its passing him by. The OGs gotta make way for the young bucks and the way they do things: no honor, no code, no respect. Unc takes to the streets for a glimpse of his old lifestyle and heads to his homey Hollywood’s (shouts out to queen sugar) garage where he can sip something brown, get his hands dirty and engage in what Tony Soprano calls the lowest form of conversation “remember when….” A car circling a time too many makes Hollywood and Unc take notice and Unc heads to the trunk. Hollywood stops him and tells him he gotta make it home tonight and he aint bout dis life no more. Unc, understandably hurt, drops that aforementioned gangsta tear and bids his friend farewell. He hates it. but he gets it. He is a man with a fifth in one hand, a pager in the garbage and no country to call home. THE OTHERS: EL OSO: one of a few people I pray makes it out this whole thing unscathed. After being approached by KGBRueben, he goes to Ximena to tell her the truth about everything, The CIA/DEA/KGB sandwich he is apart of and she tells him she wants no parts of a life on the run. She wants a regular life, but I fear that is out of reach for her. Oso smartly goes to Teddy Reed to tell him how Rueben approached him, a move that likely saved his life. He tells Teddy to move the duji, oops again, wrong show, the cocaine and Teddy tells him he already did. Oso then calls the DEA and tells them to hold off on the raid. Not sure how this one is gonna end, but its getting scurry. DA SAINT: my mans is full monster now huh? Aint no glimpse of that youngling with dollar signs in his eyes. Now all this time I been wondering how Young Oracle (cuz dont v’s mama look just like a young version of the oracle from Matrix) was gonna assist with getting this man’s money back and the plan has come into focus! She’s a scammer! Wigs, Hips and Lips are the order of the day as she and Lady Saint take off to Kansas City to seduce Teddy Reed’s daddy from a retirement home to a secluded cabin where The Saint will meet them as the focus of this nefarious plot comes into view. The Saint calls Teddy and lets him know whats going on and how he wants his money back NOW. Teddy feigns distinterest in his daddy, but his bluff is called. He warns The Saint that killing a CIA agents dad could be bad for his life, how blah blah blah, how woo wap de bam, how blase skippy woo and The Saint is unmoved. He tells him he has one more time to acquiesce to his request and Teddy says the wrong thing for the last time….the last time he will hear his dad’s voice….or better yet his dad’s last breath as that last excuse made The Saint slit Teddy’s dad’s throat, tell the Young Oracle and Lady Saint to beat their feet and he burned the crib down – but not before threatening Teddy’s whole existence. RIP Teddy Daddy Snowballs: – Anyone else think Unc was gonna tear that bar up when he was talking to Deon after sending Louie away?– 3rd time mentioning it, but seeing Unc cry broke my heart. – What the fuck is up with Saint Mama always talking bout not running. You wanna live? You might wanna run, fucking with Teddy Reed you