“ He’s our exit plan,” she explains, adding that they’ll follow the basketball phenom to whatever team signs him. Monet’s clearly been thinking a lot about her kids and their future, because later in the hour, she announces, “I got a plan for us to get out of the life.” Dru’s shooting was a wake-up call, she continues, and so she’s going to have Zeke sign up for the draft this year - instead of in the future, as he’d planned - so that he can start raking in those sweet endorsement deals sooner rather than later. “I handled it just like you taught me: Smile a little, flirt a lot, make them feel like they can get it,” she tells her mom, who is very proud. (Ah!) They reload the car and have a close-call moment with the cops, but a savvy Diana saves the day. But then they make a beeline for Monet’s bar and dump all of the goods - huh? - so they can fill the shoeboxes and bags with product. Elsewhere, Cane makes friends with a high-powered connect named Mecca ( Rescue Me‘s Daniel Sunjata), but we’ll have more on that in a minute.ĭiana and Monet go shopping at some high-priced boutiques, and they buy out the place. And Dru is mad at his mom for her role in his getting shot last season, but I get it: His injured arm and hand are so messed up, he can’t even draw, and that is a huge bummer. Monet is on edge, thinking that she’s going to be the target of retribution for killing Rico. Meanwhile, things at Casa Tejada are tense. I know I should be more taken aback by the flames issuing from the stovetop, but MAN Yaz isn’t a baby anymore, is she? Anyway, Tariq puts out the fire and soothes Yaz, who tells him that Estelle’s drinking is getting worse. His morning freak-out is interrupted by Yaz yelling from other room when he runs out to see what’s up, we learn that he’s staying at Estelle’s, and there’s a fire in the kitchen. MONET’S NEW STRATEGY: BASKETBALL FTW! | When Tariq wakes from a nightmare about killing Jabari Reynolds, he immediately deletes the professor’s text from his burner. Up is down and right is left and MacLean is giving Saxe a glow-up? Read on for the highlights of “Free Will Is Never Free.”
(And I’m not just talking about how Yaz now looks like a damn teenager, seemingly overnight.) Only a few days have passed between the events of Power Book II: Ghost‘s Season 1 finale and the Season 2 premiere, which aired Sunday. It might work with TVs, but reducing two sentient personalities to that is a bit of a stretch.Outlander Season 6: New Opening Sequence Teases Tumultuous Era for Claire and Jamie - Watch Video You get the idea.Īnd what it’s all building towards as a dramatic conceit is the classic solution to every technological problem – trying to turn it off and back on again. The first season admittedly had a kind of case-of-the-week structure now and again, so it isn’t altogether off-brand for the show to introduce a new little mission out of nowhere, but still. With this in mind, Cas venturing to a habitable nearby planet feels like a contrivance diversion designed entirely to give Gabriel time to be even more mischievous, hacking into the oxygen supply and setting a new route for the Achaia homeworld, leaving Cas and co. Teleporting around the ship, antagonizing Iara – it’s all a bit obvious, no?
The idea, thankfully, isn’t dragged out very long, but the entire inclusion feels forced and inorganic. He’s so obviously antagonistic and such an out-of-nowhere development that really he has to fulfill the purpose of a villain, whatever his claims to the contrary. I can tolerate this chain of developments.īut I just never bought into Gabriel’s claims that William is really the inferior, unstable model. Nobody buys Iara’s confession, which leads them to William, which, eventually, leads them to Gabriel. Following the whole deal with the tether, suspicions fall on Iara, naturally, and there’s actually a worthwhile bit about how torture isn’t a justifiable means of intelligence gathering since people will say whatever you want to hear if they’re put under the right amount of duress. And it’s a shame since there’s an element of early paranoia that the show could have used more of.