So the season finale has come and gone, but I’m still writing these episode recaps… because I want to… and because I have to get them all done before Queen Sugar starts in a couple of weeks! You can also get episode recaps straight from OWN.
Noah invites Grace to dinner. Isabel asked him to ask Gigi. It’s Izzy’s effort to get know her fiancee’s old flame. Interesting scene. It’s evident Izzy ain’t having Grace, even though she’s properly proper. Her shade seeps through admiration’s guise when she learns Grace quit her TV job to move back to Memphis. “I wish I could be that recklessly impulsive…” she starts. If Isabel actually liked Grace, maybe she would have said “I admire your spontaneity! I wish I were more like that!” Izzy’s eye is on that sparrow… and I knooooowww she’ll-be-watch-ing-Grace like a hawk.in.the.sky…
Spidey sense says…
Charity and Kevin go to karaoke. Two men who appear gay sent over two drinks to their table after Kevin sang a warble-laden version of Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour.” I think the two dudes spotted a kindred spirit who don’t yet know he’s kindred.
Charity downs too many drinks and when she stumbles home with Kevin she insists on taking a pregnancy test with her drunk tail. Kevin even holds the stick while she pees… What a cute couple!
And guess what? It’s positive. They’z pregnant now!
Unreal moments…
Zora and Sophia attend this lock-in at Calvary church.Here’s what struck me as unrealistic. After Zora conferred with a friend while the other kids kept watching a movie, then came back and asked Sophia if she wanted to get high. Puhhhlease! Who, outside of a 1980s sitcom character, is really going to ask that? It seems far-fetched… not the fact that some teens actually got high at this church lock-in… That doesn’t surprise me one bit. The fact Zora didn’t say “Hey, old-boy got some weed…you coming?” or even “We’re going outside for some fresh air… you coming?” She was all straight up about it… but then again, these are supposed to be truthful churchy kids honoring their maker in all they do. They’re not supposed to lie, so I guess it’s reasonable for Zora to be upfront when inviting her cousin to smoke what came from their maker’s earth. (Sidebar disclosure: I’ve never been high, and I don’t recall anyone ever asking me if I wanted to get high… So my knowledge base on weed invites isn’t expansive.)
Get real moments…
Kerissa and Jacob dine with a married couple in their efforts to get to know church board members. This couple tells how they met and after one kiss and a first meeting with conversation that lasted hours and hours they meet for a date and he proposed. They’re visibly still in love and happy with their decision to marry. Kerissa’s lightbulb moment: Her marriage ain’t nothing like that. That flame was snuffed long-time ago. She suggests therapy. Jacob says ain’t having it. Kerissa the shrew sheds tears.
Moments of denial
Grace meets Danielle, the girl who recanted her rape allegation against Uncle Mac. Danielle sticks to her story and asks Gigi to leave her family alone… even after learning what happened to Faith. Gigi tells Danielle Mac went on to violate other girls because Faith didn’t tell the truth about what he’d done to her.
Mac visits sister Mavis…
Mavis tells him to get the hell out. Mac threatens to pull rank by threatening Mavis’ Beale Street club. He says he might pull some strings among his city contacts to not only derail her expansion plans but threatens to get the city to use imminent domain to yank the property, which was the site of an abolitionist newspaper. He says it’s on for the snatch…unless she tells Gigi to call off her probe.
Gigi’s revelation
She tells Noah why she broke up with him 20 years ago… and what happened to Faith… and why she returned to Memphis.
Will Noah tell Lady Mae?
If you watched all the episodes on Wednesday, you already found out before the season finale!