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?!
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
Its not for us. its not for them. its not for anyone I know. Even tho I watch a lot of tv, as is oft repeated in this space, I purposely avoid things that will affect me adversely. It may come from my background in working in news. I don’t watch hurricane devastation coverage. I don’t watch the lives of black men and women snatched from us on video live streams at the hands of those sworn to protect and serve us and I FOR DAMN SURE DONT WATCH THE COVERAGE OF THE TRIALS OF THOSE CRAVEN MURDEROUS ASSHOLES. I am not coming for, nor shading anyone that feels the need to watch these monumental events in our history. I promise Im not. It’s just not for me. I like my horror and scares on the big (or these days, the small) screen. Freddy Krueger, Yes Please! Lovecraft and that fine assed Michael K. White, Ill have a double order ma’am. Get Out is one of the best horror movies, maybe ever In my humble opinion. So imagine how excited I was to see the trailer for “Them”….its seemed like it was gonna comprise the elements of some of the aforementioned titles. I looked at the sneak peek, not as a knock off, like most of black twitter did. I wasn’t bothered by Dwights being the villain in this movie. I didn’t see another “Us”, I saw something that could be fresh and exciting….Lena Waithe’s name in the credits notwithstanding. Speaking of horrid creators and the horrid creations they create, Lena Waithe isn’t my fave. Queen and Slim was one of the worst movies ever- ‘cept for Uncle Bokeem. I can’t count the myriad ways that movie depressed my sensibilities and overall emotional state. The things that happened in that movie only happen in movies where people aren’t smart enough to make sane decisions id est going on the run with a Tinder date, who doesn’t seem to like you very much. I don’t like my black folks created by other black folks presented to black folks to be that damn stupid. I realize Im in the minority about one of her other creations, The Chi. I actually like it…but I don’t need my gangs to be the real gangs of Chicago, or for my street names to match….my brain operates on a larger scale than that. Art and reality don’t necessarily have to co-exist. If you think it does, please book a trip to Wakanda thru my travel agency, cash deposits only. NO REFUNDS. On to the reason for the season….the not so smartly named “Them.” Im not sure what crept into the mind of WRITER AND DIRECTOR Little Malcolm that made him say, “hey, you know what’s not been done on film before? the brutal rape of a black woman who sees her infant child being viciously murdered as she is being violated. Lena pass me my finest ‘I am not my ancestors shirt’ and lets get to creatin!” Yeah….thats not hyperbole….that shit actually happened in easily the worst episode of a horrid harrowing ride to nowhere. I, or someone equally as brilliant as me, coined the phrase “torture porn” and thats being kind to describe this fuckshit here. Rape, murder, some astonishing black blackface, an aborted lynching, some confusing dream sequences, extraneous plot lines take center stage. The only redeemable thing about this show, is the cast – gorgeous and talented tho they may be, they can’t save this drivel. Them is, on its face, a story about a upwardly mobile black family, escaping a horrific past, by heading west, to Compton, California to integrate a neighborhood. Soon strange things start to happen, aside from every white woman in the neighborhood setting up a desk outside the family’s crib to play their radios all day. (yeah). Supernatural things, which in my mind were a larger threat to the family, whose name I didn’t care to retain, than the white folks, but I guess when you throw everything against the wall to see what sticks, narrative storylines wont matter much. The younger black daughter is plagued by a malevolent force come to life in a book she is reading. The fact that that force changes from man to woman on a whim? DONT MATTER. The oldest daughter hates her mother’s trauma induced personality so much that she wishes to be white, and actually covers herself in white paint, after being befriended by a white girl that doesn’t exist. The mom is suffering the lingering mental effects of her rape and sons murder and believes she is gonna murder her own children, like some other black moms of Compton did before her. And dad….I really don’t know what the fuck was going on with him and his ever present friend in black face, but he does some crazy shit as he tries to hold his family together. And wait a minute, lest you think all the terrible shit was reserved for the blacks in the series, the lead Karen, is so desperate to preserve her whiteness, that she goes to see her wealthy estranged father for a loan to move off the block. Daddy dearest, agrees to finance her move, ONLY after she agrees to let her bathe him. She initially agrees, (LOL WHAT) but eventually decides to flee the scene to only be kidnapped, held captive and murdered by her friendly neighborhood milkman who she runs to for assistance in murdering the black family. YES BOYS AND GIRLS ITS THE FEEL GOOD MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!! So how does this all end up? FUCK IF I KNOW. The first five or six episodes and I hate to count episode 5, because thats where all the brutality takes place, at least provided a strong narrative. The ending is a clusterfuck of whogivesafuck. The penultimate episode goes into great detail explaining why the black families have such a hard time in this hood but comes very late in the
I watch a lot of television. Its true. Yall know it. Its right there in the about me box over to your right. And this pandemic has turned me into a couch potato EXTRAORDINAIRE. I’ve seen so much shit, its all melding together. Shows with angsty white teens and their drama are indistinguishable. Shows with strong black women leads got me confused over whether they showcased the talents of Viola or Olivia. Did the girl kill herself or her friend and did they set it up or was her bestie really dead at the hands of her teenaged neighbor all them years ago? Why did that man let them crazy assed girls up in his house all damn night? These are the things that mock my reefah addled memory. But one show over this whole staycation from hell has remained at the front of my mind and that my friends, is one of the greatest shows on earth (not hyperbole), Gomorrah. Gomorrah is an Italian based and produced series that combines all the best elements of Breaking Bad, The Wire and The Sopranos. MYA! That cannot be possible. I hear yall….when I read the synopsis, I was too, like you dear reader, Incredulous. How on earth could anything be better than the aforementioned serials, upon which Ivy League level courses have been created. Well pull up a seat and Ill tell you. Gomorrah is the story of a crime family in Naples, The Savastranos, led by dead ass serious Don Pietro, his “Carmela could never” assed wife, Lady Imma, their neer-do-well son, Genny and Don P’s protege, Ciro. They oversee a criminal empire in their ultra violent northern hood, Secondigliano. With shifting alliances and zero pledges of sincere loyalty, the family struggles to maintain their hold on their empire from forces within and outside of the clan. Well MYA, if the show is so great, why haven’t we heard of it? Good question. In production since 2016 and available to watch the same year, I’d say the reason you haven’t heard of it is because you live in a shithole country. There have been 4 seasons and a prequel/sequel movie that were available first in the US on The Sundance Channel, then moving over to Netflix, before landing on HBOMax. But negotiations between Sky Italia and THE WEINSTEIN CO…..do I need to say anymore? Well thank ye Gods that it all worked out in the end because all 4 seasons, the movie and the supposed fifth and final season will all be available for us third world residents of this banana republic! The ratings for the Italian debut of season 4 slammed the debut of season 7 of Game of Thrones in Italy and the true crime book on which it is based, was so true to life, the author has been in hiding and the mayor of Naples says crime spikes in his city every time the show is aired. Now listen. Even though I’ve compared this show to some heavy hitters in the drama category, there are some stark differences. Don’t look for no moments of levity. Aint no pizzas on the roof. No Paulie Walnuts losing his shoes in the Pine Barrens. No McNulty/Bunk bromance moments. I was thinking back on it and I don’t think I saw anyone smile at anyone else in the entire shebang. This is straight up MOB ACTION. Ya sister can get it. Ya mama can get it. Ya cat can get it. Ya son can get it. Anyone can get it at anytime. This is Ned’s head on a stake EVERY DAMN EPISODE. You won’t necessarily cheer for or root for anyone cuz they are all so awful….although I do have a favorite. Those that know me will know who it is, even if its not apparent initially, but let me disess, cuz I’ve said too much. Lets do some light comparison. if you loved: or you will love….. Don P, as he is affectionately known is a humorless hardass of a mob boss, who won’t be sitting down in a shrinks chair to figure out why his mother didn’t love him. If what I know of this mofo is true, he’s more likely to have killed his mother than to beg for her love. He has the violent temperament of Tony coupled with the no nonsense-ness of Gus Fring. He loves his wife and his son and his hood and his power but dassit. if you loved you will love Lady Imma is what Carmela could have been if her husband looked at her as an equal, not a rib. She is cold, cunning, smart and commands the respect of her husband, and the begrudging respect of his generals. While she is a fierce mama bear, you won’t find her baking no cookies for the bake sale or cozying up to a unavailable priest, she got bodies to catch! if you loved: or you will love: He even looks like one of the cousins! This man Ciro Di Marzio is a fucking killer. He is loyal to Don P, to a fucking fault. He is a brother to silly assed Genny. He is respectful to Lady Imma. But he is 100% out for self. He has the best part of Stringer…smart and future minded, but sometimes finds himself cuffed to the ways of yore due to the old school stylings of his boss. Nicknamed “The Immortal” because he survives the unsurvivable, this is one capo you don’t wanna “piss” off. Thats for yall that have seen this masterpiece. if you liked, and lets be honest you didn’t….. then maybe you will also dislike, The lone heir to the Savastano Crime Family, Genarro Genny Savastano, will tap dance over every last nerve you have. I mean you will hate this grown boy the way we all hated AJ. He wants to be in the mix, begging his dad to let him go out and play but we learn early on
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.
Its time for my second or third movie review, where I watch and recap so you don’t have to! This edition of MYmovieAlogy is about Fatal Attraction or Fatal Love or Black Stars Doing Dumb Shit or whatever this latest Netflix offering is called. You know the one with Nia Long and Omar Epps, who must have some caucasian in his family, cuz he was looking real “whoo Chile, the ghetto” in this flick. He’s a couple of bad trips to the beach from looking like Trick Daddy, and those of you who don’t know me well will never guess how badly it hurt to type that last sentence. As a woman who once wrote Ricki Lake to try and meet Omar, I was not pleased with his visage in this movie. Anyway….here’s the only recap you need to read. The movie opens with Gabrielle Union doing upwardly mobile black woman things. She’s married to Morris Chestnut and Zendaya is their college aged daughter. Que Michael Ealy, who is her former flame, co-worker, mailman, landlord, etc. He’s clearly crazy, but Gabs can’t see it yet. They meet or reunite “cute” and agree to have a friendly drink/dinner/tea/brunch. So Sanaa, drunk offa them brunch mimosas, forgets briefly that she’s married to Taye Diggs, and engages in some sort o exchange of DNA with Shemar Moore, which floods his medulla oblongata with some sort of endorphins or dopamine or whatever you exercisers get and he says fuck her life, Im going for mine. I must have this woman who has re entered my life in the last 5 days. Meghan Good does her damndest to hide this indiscretion from her husband and family, but Michael Jai White keeps on coming and coming after her and her loved ones….including a very specially guest starred… BEYONCE! Yep…his crazy ass puts the moves on Beyonce (to get close to/enrage Tasha White), who goes for the mr nice guy crap Mekhi Phifer is offering, but she gets a little too close and before long, death becomes her. Its unclear how long it is before our black woman heroine du jour finds out her bestie is dead, cuz she has bigger fish to fry. So, resolute more than ever to stand up to this bully, Robin Givens sets out to turn the tables on her stalker. He becomes her prey. Whether this happens before or after she tells her angry yet supportive husband, Lance Gross, well that depends on what movie you are watching. She gets the evidence she needs and is headed to the police station, where Clifton Powell and Ernie Hudson are wearily taking her report. Cards are handed out. Eyes are rolled. She goes home, to her loving family, Darren Henson and Zara Yahidi, where all the doors are unlocked and all the windows are open. She likely does something like tell them to run to the store for dinner while she takes a shower. Unbeknownst to her, THE TYLER PERRY is lurking in the shadows, awaiting her slippery body to murk, cuz if he can’t have her…altogether now…NO ONE WILL. They run all thru the house, just in time for her husband <insert black actors name> to come home and fall victim to the ineffective black man trope..he slips/trips/stumbles into unconsciousness, leaving our heroine to save herself and her family, with a kill shot, stab wound or cliff falling. The <attractive black family> looks off into the sunset as they prepare to leave whatever circumstances brought this about. THE END.
“Now here come all the armchair television writers” – some arrogant blue checker. YEP! HERE I AM, FROM MY COMFY ARMCHAIR! GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS BITCH! Now, when I first arrived at Insecure Season 4, I sat down with my reefah and my notepad and pen ready to take notes and recap the season for you. But from the moment Issa told an unknown-til-later Nathan, that she didn’t really fuck with Molly anymore, I felt this season would be different for me personally. You see, two of my oldest friends and I aint really fucking with each other right now and I wanted to experience this journey in the purest means possible. No notes, no recaps, no echo chambers, just a straight hit. So imagine my dismay at whatever in the Name of The Game fuckshit Prentice Perry, show writer, director and producer of Insecure, dumped in my lap last night. Oh Insecure Finale, how did I hate you….let me count the ways. Where do I start? HMMM how bout just off the top of my head, in no order of true significance. Firstly, that scene with the cops? What the fuck was that? A tip of the hat to current events? A sly ‘not all cops are bad” move? It felt weird as fuck in the middle of what was happening. Plus didn’t we do the whole cool cops shit a couple of seasons ago? When the cop pulled Lawrence over and then let him go as they bonded and ki-ki’ed over college rivalry? Is this a cop propaganda show? I get enough of that from the internet and its bounty of cops hugging lil black kids/nakers doing the line dance du jour with the boys in blue. Now’s not the time…stand down. Secondly – this show and its depiction of mental illness, while laudable, needs some work. Nathan’s clinical diagnosis was just a one or two line off and although the bread crumbs off Tiffany’s post partum issues were left out for us to follow, I don’t think it was covered to the degree of time that the FUCKING FINALE dedicated to it. Like SERIOUSLY, we had so many issues to follow up that dedicating 20 minutes of a fucking 30 minute show was a fucking no. And how many of us wanted someone to come from behind that door behind towel clad Tiffany.* *An Aside a last night Penny was on Twitter stating how Derrick was def the daddy of Tifs baby. Does anyone remember when they were watching the finale of the slave show and derrick said tif was at Issas, when she clearly wasnt? Why dey do dat huh? If it wasn’t important why throw that our there?so yeah, I wanted tif to be having an affair, if they wanna blow up anybody’s relationship, blow up dat one…NOT ISSA AND LAWRENCE. Dear Producers, Writers, Directors and Cast of Insecure, I will not suffer thru the indignity of y’all trying to make me relive Melanie/Derwin/Janay. That dynamic destroyed a show I loved and I will not watch you take you from me. Love, Mya Why would they do this? How fucking lazy a trope is the baby daddy shit? Why saddle Lawrence with that moniker? And to all the father’s getting their tighty whities in a bunch, im not talking bout you and your great parenting, okay? Im pretty sure Lawrence would make an amazing dad like each and every man reading this right now but why use it to introduce conflict into his newly re-formed relationship with Issa? Couldn’t the distance have accomplished the same? And again, didn’t The Game do this same shit? No one wants and nobody asked for no got damned break baby! Some of us have lived this, watched our friends go thru this, or know somebody who has. When folks say they l like to see themselves on screen, I doubt this is the experience most of us want to relive. The bus shit was dumb. Why the fuck would they have been on the bus? Even Issa, as the “broke” friend has a car. Nothing that happened on the bus was funny and Dereks friendship speech that was meant to telegraph Issa and Molly fell flat for me. All the overt knowing glances Man miss me with that. And im not even gonna address that button shit. Nathan and the shop? Don’t get me wrong…I like ol social justice warrior in real life Nathan and I find his presence sooting on the show, but again, in a finale, what the fuck was that stop in the barbershop for? Nathan had already told her how he felt and she told him how she felt ONE EPISODE ago, so why we need to see the very small back room of his shop where, she’s….gonna have an event? Or was that the meeting space about the event? Lets go with the latter over the former in the interest of my mind not totally exploding. Molly’s situation with Andrew was satisfying….if he walked it out on her. Molly’s a trash person – I implore you to watch the show again if you disagree, and after watching if you still disagree, hit me up and Ill remind you how she fucking igged the fuck out of her father for having an affair while she was having one – and she’s displayed zero growth since she Toni Childs’ed her ass up on this show. Getting a new job aint growth fam. Finding a purpose, as Issa has, is. Molly is super selfish. That shit with Andrew’s family was so overwrought. He shoulda left her in Mexico. And he certainly should have left her after she denied his brother the opportunity to apologize. I hope to fuck he left her ass….which leaves her…. Caling up Issa….girl gone. These two are the epitome of the type of relationships that form from long term friendships. Trauma bonds what they call’em. They love the bond they have
Man this orange piece of shit is really blowing the life out of us collectively, literally and figuratively. Scan any form of social media or terrestrial media and at any moment you will definitely find someone cursing this shit out his name and wishing his mama had used him to style her weird assed hair ala Mary in the movie that had us wondering just what that something was about her. So yeah, I’m sure we can agree, that you, as a Myalogist and me being Mya, that that piece of drug addled mental illness wrapped up in a 300lb bag of pus, that naker ain’t shit. So to witness so many folks getting all wet in their nether regions over Don Lemon’s most recent take down of dump was no big surprise. He literally does it every night. Anytime someone goes at Donny, especially those visible ones of a particular hue, the deck aka Black Twitter goes up. So for my less than current frands here’s (briefly) what Don Lemon had to say bout his name twin… What is it about President Obama that really gets under your skin? Is it because he’s smarter than you? Better-educated? Made it on his own, didn’t need daddy’s help? Wife is more accomplished? Better looking? I don’t know, what is it, what is it about him? That he’s a black man that’s accomplished being president? That he punked you on the whole birth certificate thing?What is it about him? Just wondering.” Don Lemon with zero fucks left.pic.twitter.com/kbC0zghhzB — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 4, 2020 This was in response to a not very well publicized town hall event dump held on Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial, hosted by Fox News. Feeling the abject coldness he’s experiencing due to the loss of his vaunted rallies and reeling from the sting of the public rebuke of his daily pressers, dump sprung into action and arranged this town hall that, honest to god…wasn’t as bad as you think. It contained video questions submitted by a good sample of the population. It def contained some psychophants. And it also featured tired weary black folks, but it was the person I’m about to speak on next that deserves the Beyoncé treatment the title of this post brings to mind, spoken by he who will no longer be named. So a meemaw appears on the screen and began with this opening salvo: “President Trump, my husband and I thank you, your family and your staff for your great dedication to our country. We pray for you every day…” Before I could even get the blunt up to my lips, the words “this bitch” escaped them, but then she went on….. “The question I have is about your manner and presentation…..” I then inhaled and listened further. “Why do you use descriptive words that could be classified as bullying? I blew that shit out and continued paying attention. “And why do you not answer questions that are asked to you by the press, but instead speak of past successes and generally ramble?” I then went back and hit the record button cuz I knew this moment had to be captured for posterity. SHIIIIIIIID, yall put the Ether beat under Don’s distract….well what the hell song does Karen’s meemaw deserve? HIT’EM UP? Y’all, this was the moment I’ve dreamt of every fucking journalist who crosses that White House briefing room having. WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU RAMBLING?! Speaking of rambling….you know that’s just what he did in his Palinesque manner of answerif we calling it that. “That was a great question, but was it really a great question?”I felt absolutely no need to record his response, just know it was stupid and talked about bare cabinets and cupboards. Now you may be asking yourself, Mya? Why does this “trump” Donnie L.’s video? And my answer is simply this…..this represents an awakening of minds in our post Barack “science is for losers” society. This woman can pray for and laud this absolute festering oozing sore of a male and still hold him accountable, something his magites have been unable to do and FOR ME, Im holding out a glimmer of hope for you, me, yours and ours. His reign of ineptitude can end this November. So yeah, now Don, I’m really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Karen’s meemaw had one of the best questions of this orange rotten jack o lanterns entire presidency……
Well we’ve reached the end of the line kiddos…kinda. And what a ride it was. Remember Lobos – how funny he was? Remember when they used to have hot sex scenes on this show? Remember Shawn and his dumb ass face? Remember Milan and his bespoke suits? Remember when they made Jamie an alcoholic and he killed that drunk driver? Remember the first time you heard Big Rich Town? Remember the first AUSA, nah, me neither. Anyhoo…during my reflection on this show, I realized that most issues could have been solved if someone just shared the tiniest bit of information, like say um, if some shithead kid woulda said “mom, I blackmailed Saxe into blaming dre for dad’s killing” instead of “its cool, I handled it, go to bed”, we would have never been treated to the sight of Tasha sans wig, but Courtney Kemp and her writing team have a love/hate relationship with their fawning public and a fervent need to remind us that “Power never Dies” or “Power never Ends” or whatever. So lets get into this final Power recap. Whooooo lawd this finale sucked ass. I dont think we needed to be treated to alternate versions of scenes like Tommy going to kill Tasha or Dre threatening her at the day care, or the Elisa Marie diner scene – we’ve seen these ad nauseum at this point. I will concede that it was interesting was thatOne thing I did take note of and with this show, im not sure if its lazy writing or brilliant, to have Jamie turn into……*cue dark music* BOY THIS NIGGA HERE HAD SOME ONE LINERS! “….and stop selling drugs.” “…tasha green, the half smart chicken head who’d still be in the hood if it wasnt for me.” “…and I cant believe you got your sister killed” “nigga how many times you lied to me?” “….very disappointed in you….again.” He was so purposely evil, it didnt even seem like the same person we’d grown to love/hate/lust after and I wondered if that was how he really talked to folks or if that was there perception of him. One thing I do know is that in that Tommy/Ghost death scene, my ears heard and my eyes saw (thru the magic of closed captioning, which I cannot watch teevee without), that he said “let HIM go.” We all know who him is now. Now on to the second pic of this recap…..which we will be using to describe plots points as weak as…… Tasha’s Edges Her fear that Ghost running for office would expose them all. Hasnt Ghost been investigated to death already? Dre gives Tariq the gun BEFORE he takes him to Truth cuz Tariq is so trustworthy. Tasha just got proof of Lakeisha’s duplicity on the kitchen table. The whole Tariq goes to school/teacher selling drugs thing ….that nigga dont go to school. A security guard just gonna ask Tariq if he knows anything bout a teacher selling drugs…yeah okkkkkk. THE ENTIRE Q RELATIONSHIP When it happen? How long its been going on? Why it happen? Why was she shocked to see him with a gun? Why she need to be there fucking dude when the cops came a knocking? Why they drive past a very visible Truth? Why Tasha tell him she knew a short cut when they’d past Truth 45 minutes prior? Does Truth have not ONE security camera? Does Truth have not ONE locking door? Tariq just gonna change his murder clothes at Truth with sirens blaring? And why did he leave said clothes and his bookbag AT Truth in a fucking garbage can with Saxe and Det Rosie Perez RIGHT THERE TO SEE HIM? Why would a person trade away their shares to a club in exchange for a college education that he clearly could have gotten without trading away a financial future? How in the ENTIRE FUCK could Saxe be welcomed back into office, Mak’s cosign notwithstanding. HOW does a married woman get NOTHING? I could go on with the Tasha’s Edges Plot Points, but why? TARIQ KILLED HIS FATHER That’s really all you need to know. Myalogy Minutes: Soon as I saw Q in the credits, I knew how this was gonna play out. Oooh look, Tariq in a durag – he’s a tough lil gangsta aint he? Tariq: just dont hang her off a buildingTommy: thats just for family. I FUCKING HEART TOMMY. If Pink Panther dont get her ass up outta here in that fugly assed suit. Werent the feds supposed to leave Jamie alone after that whole wrongful murder conviction? These people have never heard of the state of Illinois if they think holding political office will shield you from the long arm of the law. Here this lil bitch goes with the “you confess dad” why does he think he’s entitled to know his parents past misdeeds? why he aint mad at his mama like he’s mad at his dad? NIGGA YOU AINT EVEN KNOW BREEZE…chill your balls, lil one. Who else was hoping for Ghost to dogwalk Tariq just one time for our minds? How Tasha get her keys back to Ghosts whip? Q – like Paz – should have known better than to have a gun just laying or is it lying around when he has a true toddler in his home? Tariq displayed some smarts by not texting his mother a murder plot. 50 and them day glo chiclet teefus just had to show up, didnt he? GHOST? How your son gonna go on the campaign trail with you when he’s in prison, make it make sense WRITERS. Ghost shoulda tackled that fool soon as he saw that gun. All this agita cuz Tariq’s daddy left his mother for another woman. What the fuck was Saxe doing at Truth? Do we REALLY have to suffer thru Saxe trying to take Tariq down in the BOOK OF GHOST? So Jamie had time to include Paz in his will, but not
I waited #24 hours to write and post this out of respect to one of the greatest to ever do it….Kobe – and all the others who perished, you will be missed. Larenz got LAHmaRD or whatever his name is, a job. A job where their probably real life dynamic played out. The blessed older brother clashes with the workhorse younger brother. A stretch if ever one existed. Thanks for reading, thats it. God Bless. Kidding..kind of. Upon first viewing of this ep, I thought it was another wasted opportunity, kinda like Paz, but with more investment, cuz we’ve been watching Alderman Larenz do his thing for a couple seasons now. Howsinever, I watched – for the first time – Power Confidential, where they essentially told me, explained a couple things, like how powerful Larenz’s performance was. Which led me to re-watch and I agree. I love Larenz Tate and why he doesnt get more flowers, Im confused about. One of our earliest scenes is with Ceddy Bear and his son Ceddy Bear Jr getting their literal Shylock (look it up) on by securing a pound of flesh from a child molester, who they soon go on to kill. They soon get a call from Larenz asking for the Ceddy Bears to come kill Ghost. They happily accept! This ep finds Alderman Larenz and his requisite Black Man Hoodie on the run! He goes to see Lorette, goes to the Church House of the On The Take Reverend. He goes to meet with the Ceddy Bears to get them to stop the hit on Ghost after a visit from Det. Rosie Perez, who wants to work with Larenz to jail Ghost. The meeting with the killers doesnt go as planned, as Ceddy Bear Sr was all “I aint ride all the way up here listening to Charlie Pride for no damn reason. Either we kill the target or we kill you.” Seems like a pretty easy choice. We then get treated to the full scope of the warehouse shooting. Ceddy wasnt working for the EYEtalians…he was freelancing! And got killed for all his trouble, which sends Ceddy Bear Jr (CBJ) on a murderous mission. All this time, for some reason, Larenz is staying with his brother, earnest NYPD Cop, KaHMaRD and his family after a drunken night. This is where CBJ catches up with Larenz and gives the big villian speech about killing Larenz and why and why the caged bird sings and what Tribe is saying on Electric Relaxation, before KaHMaRD gets the drop on him and sends him to see his daddy. Awww, I love family reunions. Oh, I forgot to mention him swinging by Truth to give Jamie the heads up about the hitters coming his way, which Jamie HILARIOUSLY rebuffs. “You bitch ass just dont know when to quit,” Jamie tells him and one squirt of pee came out as I laughed at that line. Ahem….So Alderman Larenz and Cop KaHMaRD are going to report the shooting, which was clean as far as the cops are concerned, when little brother gives big brother the speech he probably wanted to give his whole entire real and acting life. He tells him how lucky he is and how things have always worked out for him and it occurs to me that any one of these characters could be talking to Ghost. I wondered if thats what drew them to each other. Ghost always wins….until this whole getting murdered thing. After leaving the police station, KaHMaRD gets a call about a shooting at Truth where they learn of a fatality. Larenz is shook as he just paid Dre to go kill Ghost and its looking like thats what happened. He gets interviewed on scene and gives a rousing speech that his prompts a “this nigga” look from his brother, who can smell the bullshit a mile away. He later gets a visit from Lorette and the DNC guy who offer to make him LT. Gov in the wake of Ghosts death and he laughs in their faces….the DNC now needs him, he dont need the DNC. Its GOVERNOR or nothing. DNC agrees. Alderman Larenz gets the nom and gives a rousing Obama like speech. NEW YORK LEADS THE WAY! Myalogy Minutes: Larenz looked like he came on himself when Det. Perez came and said she wanted to work with him to take down James. That coffee shop bukkake scene was some mess. The Return of Stern! I LOVE TO SEE IT. It was nice to see him get back at both Ramona and Curly Head Light Skin. He straight told her to get her shit and try to catch Ramona. LOL I’d like to mention the part where he learns dre has been killed in jail, but I saw it so long ago, I cant remember where that falls in the ep, but yes, he learns Dre was killed in jail, which clears the way for him to get to Albany. So here we are, at the end of the line, with only one ep of our show left. MY PREDICTION: Tariq shoots him, Tasha arrives and snatches the gun from her son, just in time for Tommy to look up and see her holding it, which prompts his angry reaction. Whatchall Think?