S02.E10: If Y'Don't Know, Now Y'Know

[AntFTW]

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Decidedly his own man, Kanan strays further from his mother and sets up shop on his own on the corners of South Jamaica. Worried about retaliation, Raq questions Unique. Lou's rift with Raq grows when he makes a discovery.

Air Date: October 23, 2022

[AntFTW]

Zisa's beat sounded strikingly similar to "Real Love" by Mary J.

That's all I have for now. This is the whole post after watching the episode.

[mxc90]

Nice season finale when useless characters are gone! See ya Zisa, Worrell, Sam and Kenya! 

I don't think Marvin is dead. His talk with Juke made it seems like his time is up. But I think he will survive.

What was Kenya going to say to Raq about Juke? She was doomed either way. Raq was already pissed and would unleash some fury on her. She is lucky she got the bullets. Should have stayed home and watch some of the "artful videos" provided by the church.

No Kanan on Sal's hit list? He would have been the easiest to take out.

Sorry to see Tony Danza's career has fallen so low that he has to be on this show.

Raq knows Stefano Danza and goes to him. What was that conversation or what assurances did she get from it?

Why is Sal going to Stefano Tony Danza now? Did he go to him when he missed killing Marvin and killed Renee?

I'm sure Raq never purchased a fish tank. Sal fell for that trick.

How is that "balance and Karma" working for Sal now?

Raq wasted 3 cars to just go shoot up 3 guys outside a bowling alley. Sal should be the main target and take him out! 

Now Juliana (from running the corner store, watching her novellas, is the Queen pin?) is speaking at the table and her cousin Joaquin can't say a word. WTF?!!!!

Didn't take long for Traymont to double cross Raq. He has joined Juliana and Sal on Raq's shit list!

Did Nicole's father ever get real proof from Howard about Burke? Why was he so dead set Burke was dirty just on Howard's word? I guess I.A. will drop the case on her now after Juke's confession! Or will he cover for Juke and not tell the drugs came form her?

When the hitters took out the 3 in the car at Raq's house, why didn't they go after Raq at that moment? The just went back to their cars to get soda and pizza and waited for Kenya to knock on her door to make their move!!!!!!! Sal hired some terrible people.

Raq's building has terrible security. These mafia hitters made it all the way up and no one on the lower levels stopped them or called up to warn. Not sure which of Raq's security were worse. The fools in the building or the 3 fools in the car.

A car left when Kenya arrived, were they security too?

These Mafiosos are bursting in shooting everywhere quickly, and it had to be this one dipstick to slooowwwww walk up top Raq and took his sweet ass time to get his aim right. He delayed just enough for Unique to travel from New Jersey to Queens in 5 minutes to save Raq's ass. Unreal!

So the scene of the man opening the door when Famous shot Kenny was for nothing. He didn't talk to the police.

Poor Lou. Hearing his sister tell him "She Owns him", he was close to crying. I almost thought Lou was going to put hands on her after he she told him Scrap wasn't a snitch.

The poor guy shot with Sam got no mention. For all we know he could have been a store manager for "Macy's" and fell on hard times. Burke just assumed the deaths were all about Sam. 

Hmmm. At the diner, Unique asked Raq if she has feelings for him and later, he saves her life at the water cooler I mean her shot up living room. Are they setting up a love connection or just a hook up? Unique already has a wife/girl/baby mama (or will she conveniently disappear).

Famous thought Kanan suggest he sell his "ass" on the street.

Famous sees a cop, grab the drugs and runs without warning Kanan. Some friend!!!!

Zisa showed how much she cared about Cartier's death by lying to her parents and wanting to get back in the studio days later. 

Zisa's parents are concerned about her safety due to Cartier's murder and now she is dead. They are going to go nuts. I wonder if we will be meeting them next season. As they and the NYPD will try to tie Cartier's, Zisa's and Camacho's deaths to Lou and Raq's name is on the documents. This should be easy for the NYPD to solve. But they are inept on this show.

Good job Lou not locking the front door so the mob can rush in. Didn't learn his lesson when the Jamaicans rushed in.

Corey (BTW! Thanks for letting us know his name) got his ass whooped by Juke!

Did the police call for an ambulance for Corey??!! Seems they just put Juke in the car and left.

So when did Kenya decide to put Corey on Juke? He was eyeing her the moment he saw her. Did Kenya have doubts on Juke the first minute they met and came up with this plan?

So if Juke had gone to bed with Corey, Kenya would be OK that her daughter is into boys and "easy and loose"??!!!

"DAT" I think means Desk Appearance Ticket. Burke has some serious pull in the department to get Juke released but she doesn't have any friends there to warn her about I.A. investigating her? Also, Burke knows everyone that gets arrested in New York City? 

Curious why Juke never called Marvin or Raq to bail her out.

Was Unique's vision to get out of the drug business and go into the killing New Jersey Mafia business. Too bad Worell will never see his dream.

The biggest winners of this episode are KISS FM (Now they can finally stop playing Zisa's song, now that the fear of Lou shooting them is over) and Scrap's mother (Raq didn't pay her a visit after the revelation?)

Burke can't chase Kanan? Was she wearing high heels? Kanan is not in good shape to run that far. Burke is lazy!

I admit, I did cheer when Kanan knocked her on her ass!

How is Raq going to sell her house with all those bullet holes. I feel bad for her neighbors! The movers showing up will be in for a big surprise.

Next season will open with Raq holding her side, in pain and all she is concerned about is smacking Kanan over the head asking why he is stealing her drugs. No bullet wound is going to stop her from business and getting answers. 

Why is Raq nodding for "Southside" when she is packing and moving out of there?

No rap! The show ends with "AC/DC". Strange times we are in!

Edited October 23, 2022 by mxc90

[AntFTW]

6 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

Raq knows Stefano Danza and goes to him. What was that conversation or what assurances did she get from it?

I assumed the assurances were that he wouldn't intervene to help Sal if Raq and Sal go to war with each other.

8 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

Now Juliana (from running the corner store, watching her novellas, is the Queen pin?) is speaking at the table and her cousin Joaquin can't say a word. WTF?!!!!

Juliana's in the drug game now? I'm shocked.

10 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

Did Nicole's father ever get real proof from Howard about Burke? Why was he so dead set Burke was dirty just on Howard's word? I guess I.A. will drop the case on her now after Juke's confession! 

He doesn't want to believe Nicole got the drugs from Juke. I get the feeling that Nicole's father feels like Juke is one of the few connections he has left to his dead daughter so he doesn't have the hatred for Juke like his baby mama. He wants to believe that his daughter and Juke are these pure angels and some outside force is the reason his daughter is dead. That kinda means he has to accept that his daughter used crack.

15 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

These Mafiosos are bursting in shooting everywhere quickly, and it had to be this one dipstick to slooowwwww walk up top Raq and took his sweet ass time to get his aim right. He delayed just enough for Unique to travel from New Jersey to Queens in 5 minutes to save Raq's ass. Unreal!

There's no way. He teleported. There has to be a teleportation device in the Power universe.

17 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

Famous thought Kanan suggest he sell his "ass" on the street.

Famous sees a cop, grab the drugs and runs without warning Kanan. Some friend!!!!

RIGHT!?!? No warning! No yelling out "FIVE-O"! Nothing!

So I guess we'll have to wait until next season to figure out how Raq deals with Kanan stealing drugs.

20 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

Curious why Juke never called Marvin or Raq to bail her out.

Kids/teenagers/minors tend not to have a good track record for telling their parents anything in the Power universe, especially when it would be to their greatest advantage and the easiest way out.

23 minutes ago, mxc90 said:

How is Raq going to sell her house with all those bullet holes. I feel bad for her neighbors! The movers showing up will be in for a big surprise.

Was she planning on selling it? Keep it. Do some renovations. Clean some money through it.

[mxc90]

15 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

I assumed the assurances were that he wouldn't intervene to help Sal if Raq and Sal go to war with each other.

Yup. I guess she couldn't entice him to help kill Sal.

Which makes it more curious why Raq didn't make sure Sal was killed at the Bowling Alley. Could have finished it in New Jersey and don't spill any blood in Queens.

17 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

Juliana's in the drug game now? I'm shocked.

Makes no sense how she elevated to a big player now. 

If she has all this juice, she could have kicked Raq out the corner store the moment her husband was killed.

20 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

He doesn't want to believe Nicole got the drugs from Juke. I get the feeling that Nicole's father feels like Juke is one of the few connections he has left to his dead daughter so he doesn't have the hatred for Juke like his baby mama. He wants to believe that his daughter and Juke are these pure angels and some outside force is the reason his daughter is dead. That kinda means he has to accept that his daughter used crack.

I understand he doesn't want to believe Juke. But him already believing Howard about Burke without any real evidence, is a stretch. I could see if he had blamed Nicole's white friends from school before he believes Burke was involved.

23 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

There's no way. He teleported. There has to be a teleportation device in the Power universe.

Yup. Tariq, Tommy and Ghost made some magical leaps in this universe. LOL

It was nice for Unique's valet to help put on his fur coat so he could teleport in style!

23 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

RIGHT!?!? No warning! No yelling out "FIVE-O"! Nothing!

So I guess we'll have to wait until next season to figure out how Raq deals with Kanan stealing drugs.

Famous is terrible! He will sample some of those drugs for sure!

Ugh! A long wait. Raq will be reaching for the belt to get Kanan.

28 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

Kids/teenagers/minors tend not to have a good track record for telling their parents anything in the Power universe, especially when it would be to their greatest advantage and the easiest way out.

Juke would have been there a while if Burke didn't intervene.

I am sure if she had called Marvin, he would have easily understood and not be upset!

29 minutes ago, AntFTW said:

Was she planning on selling it? Keep it. Do some renovations. Clean some money through it.

I didn't see a "For Sale" sign. 

I had assumed she was leaving for good. 

I am sure her neighbors want her gone. Wasn't there a shooting at her house last season and Scrap beat up body dumped there?!

[Scarlett45]

I was sure Marvin was going to die after he and Juke made amends and really mended their relationship. I’m glad we got a resolution as to what happened to the dog! (I had wondered all season)

I like the actor that plays Unique, they are writing some good stuff for him. Did his baby momma leave him or what? Is she still around? He and Raq make more sense than Raq and Cartier who made no sense. 
 

Raq needs to speak a little more softly to her family members sometimes. She had no right to tear into Lou like that- Lou shows up and does his part, he’s always been loyal to her. No need to bruise his ego and tear him down- he IS her little brother, don’t let resentment fester. 
 

As always I’ve enjoyed watching this season with you all- Book II will be coming back sooner rather than later (no date yet), I’ll see you over there!

11 hours ago, mxc90 said:

Now Juliana (from running the corner store, watching her novellas, is the Queen pin?) is speaking at the table and her cousin Joaquin can't say a word. WTF?!!!!

Does Juliana not remember Raq killed her husband for her? No questions asked?

[AntFTW]

5 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:

As always I’ve enjoyed watching this season with you all- Book II will be coming back sooner rather than later (no date yet), I’ll see you over there!

This is the first time Starz has kept me subsribed for a solid 12 months with no downtime. They have replaying the old hits, and bring new ones. It was season 1 of Book 3 (and unsubscribed after that); then picked it back up on season 2 of Book 2; then season 1 of Book 4; and then Becoming Elizabeth; then season 2 of Book 3; and then the Serpent Queen mixed in with all of that.

Starz is not letting me rest.

Edited October 24, 2022 by AntFTW

[Joimiaroxeu]

I'm surprised Sam was still alive. If only he hadn't let the pipe take him off that bus Marvin had put him on. And it sure didn't take long for Marvin to correct his error.

Lol, Unique hitting on Raq. I don't think he could handle her, push came to shove.

Called it, Kenya did put that kid on Juke. But he didn't know who he was messing with.

They be acting saditty over at Sam's smoke spot because they had a heater.

Tony Danza. Wow, I don't think I've ever seen him play a stereotypical gangster before.

Whoo, Raq got hella played. And they even paid her for the service of removing Cartier for them.

Burke. For manhandling Kanan like that, Howard will end you.

Raq way underestimated Juliana. She doesn't seem to realize Juaquin isn't the connect, Juliana is. La Reina del Norte.

Marvin was so happy Juke moved back in he could barely talk.

I couldn't read the note, who were those flowers from? They definitely didn't cheer Raq up, lol.

Oh boy, I think Raq's days are numbered. Lou is over her. She should've never talked to him like that. The question is whether he'll do it himself or tip off the Italians.

Wow that hit was surgical, with nods to the Godfather movies and Breaking Bad.

Poor Marvin, just when things were turning around for him and Juke.

At first I thought Kenya was there to kill Raq herself. Was she drunk?

Unique coming in clutch for Raq. I would not have had that on my PBIII Surprises bingo card.

I also would not have expected AC/DC on the PBIII soundtrack. Wonder how much 50 had to pay for the rights? That's a classic rock song.

At the end, Raq, Kanan, Lou, Howard, Unique, Juke, and Burke are still alive. Marvin took two in the chest and his status is questionable so maybe the actor's contract is being renegotiated. Also, where was Famous?

This was quite a season finale. Bravo.

[mxc90]

10 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Oh boy, I think Raq's days are numbered. Lou is over her. She should've never talked to him like that. The question is whether he'll do it himself or tip off the Italians.

There was a scene in Power 1 where Kanan told Ghost and Tommy he visited his mother. This was before the idea of Book 3, so Raq should survive the series.  I say "should" cause you never know these writers could Retconn her fate. Or he visited her grave.

10 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

I couldn't read the note, who were those flowers from? They definitely didn't cheer Raq up, lol.

The note wasn't signed. I guess it was from the realtor. Certainly not from Lou!

21 hours ago, Scarlett45 said:

Does Juliana not remember Raq killed her husband for her? No questions asked?

Weird how they made her from a sympathetic to an asshole character so quick.

Edited October 25, 2022 by mxc90

[Scarlett45]

4 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Called it, Kenya did put that kid on Juke. But he didn't know who he was messing with.

I still think this is a plot hole. WHY?? We could've had a scene with Juke flirting with a cute girl at the church and Kenya seeing something, and making her suspect Juke was gay- hence the test.

Or have Juke checking out an attractive woman, and Kenya seeing that, but the story gave us NO REASON for Kenya to behave the way she did.

Additionally, Juke not liking ONE dude wouldnt make her gay, that boy wasnt even all that? It just felt inorganic and really not culturally appropriate. Black church going teen girls were not expected to date in the early 90s- if they did date other boys from church it wasnt necessarily forbidden, but I have notice the black community isn't as focused on dating for teens as the defacto socialization the way other communities are. I am 10yrs behind Juke, and none of the girls I knew who's families were heavily involved in church were expected to date (some were expressly forbidden until 16 or 18). Not wanting to date one boy wouldnt make any of the elders assume said girl was gay.

4 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

Oh boy, I think Raq's days are numbered. Lou is over her. She should've never talked to him like that. The question is whether he'll do it himself or tip off the Italians.

I think Lou feels betrayed, but that is his sister. He is angry, but I dont think he will kill her. Especially now that everyone is after them. But they are broken in a way that might not be able to be fixed. Isn't Patina Miller first billing? I dont think she will die until the final season. 

[luckyroll3]

On 10/24/2022 at 2:57 PM, mxc90 said:

There was a scene in Power 1 where Kanan told Ghost and Tommy he visited his mother. This was before the idea of Book 3, so Raq should survive the series.  I say "should" cause you never know these writers could Retconn her fate. Or he visited her grave.

If Raq was still alive, you know she smacked talked Kanan good when

Spoiler

she found out Ghost and Tommy stole the business.

Love that they got rid of all the non-important characters. The only one they missed was Famous.