Bad Monkey
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Bad Monkeywent a littleLoston us this week.
No, I dont mean the potentially magical island or the wild character matchups.
Im talking about meaningful flashbacks that provide rich and unexpected backstories.
This week, the narrator makes a point of calling the queen by her given name, Gracie.
Gracies mother dies, and Ya-Ya wants to train her granddaughter in the magical ways of the family.
The flashback sequence is almost painful to watch.
She curses him, hoping he chokes to death.
And then he does.
Doubting her power, Gracie chalks it up to coincidence, but we all know whats really up.)
Gracie takes her heartbreak as a sign that she is ready to level up.
Ya-Ya trains her, Miyagi-style, with lots of rules for the first phase of her training.
She must speak with no one but Ya-Ya for a full year.
She must wear white and stay out of the sun.
Its isolating for a young woman, and the rest of the community begins to form opinions about her.
As her life flashes before her in Eves trunk, the loneliness is what she remembers.
she and Eve have a chat.
Its a terrifying retort, and Gracie realizes how badly shes read this situation.
Shortly thereafter, she decides to sell the land to Eve and Nick.
Ya-Ya, on the other hand, knows better.
Gracies resentment toward her grandmother clouds her ability to hear her words in the present.
Ya-Ya tells her, in no uncertain terms, You have stepped into the middle of your own curse!
That will be most difficult to undo!
Gracie, like most rebellious children, doesnt listen.
Egg finds her there, and they hook up.
I could seriously talk about Ya-Ya and Gracie all day, but other things did happen in this episode.
Yancy has had quite a day.
He and Rogelio stake out the vet where Mendezs cat is being assessed.
Rogelio gets shot in the leg, and our old friend Donald gets shot in the arm.
Its all hes ever wanted, and he also has Rosa by his side.
Meanwhile, Yancy meets with the Feds.
A woman called Director Rhodes steps out of a black SUV and gives Yancy the rundown.
This is half understandable and half infuriating.
Has Evan Shook finally lost his mind?
Did the Striplings spend some extra cash to eliminate Yancy once and for all?
Did Mendez call in a favor to some friends after getting nabbed by his rival?
Yancy has quite a few enemies, so itll be a real guess who until next week.
The camera then quickly shifts to Neville who says, Me too.
The Striplings are causing all sorts of chaos!
Gracies bold and luminous eye-shadow choices are constantly on point.
