Grown women do grown-woman things. In the case of Kara and M.J., those things are getting their sexual needs met without any strings attached. Get it how you live!
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Here are eight things we learned from this episode:
1. Cutty Buddy: Kara and Gael are surprisingly still dating, but sheโs too busy with work and her kids. Heโs patient with her; she breaks it off anyway. Being a better mother is her new priority. Before sending him on his way, she gets hers one last time. M.J. is using Cutty Buddy as a distraction. Theyโre having so much sex she โbroke his penis.โ Heโs too tired for more.
2. Superwoman: Karaโs balancing act between work and kids comes crashing down. Her youngest son, Scott, is having trouble in math. Sheโs late to the parent-teacher conference. Her ex-husband, John, tells her she doesnโt have to be a superwoman. Her solution is to get the kids more, which turns into a chaotic mess. Scott pees in the bed. Max is hungry. The dog is chewing her shoes. Everyone is yelling. Max calls Dad in a panic.
3. Extortion: Cece is ruthless. Preaching to M.J. is her new favorite pastime. โI hate what the black man has done to the black woman. Abandonment is the direct cause of our masculinity,โ she says after M.J. says a few foul words. Not sure what all of Ceceโs knowledge-dropping has to do with her getting her money. M.J. asks Cece does she think about anything other than race or black people. Nope. โโCause weโre still at war.โ
4. No rules: Niecy awkwardly sees her auntie and C.B. skinny-dipping in the pool when she comes over to get help with her rรฉsumรฉ. Niecy has no experience, so M.J. tells her to make up an SNC mailroom internship. Niecy not only shows up to her interview late but also has the audacity to ask the interviewer if she is judging her for having two kids and a GED. Niecy pulls the โMy experience is being a black womanโ card. Niecy then drops the mic by telling the interviewer that she knows more about the products than she does. She lands the $7-an-hour job because this is TV. But ainโt no way in hell.
5. Moment of truth: Kara wants to show off with homemade brownies for her sonโs class instead of store-bought ones. But because sheโs always workingโbefore sex, after sex, while making browniesโshe burns them. She leaves the kids alone after midnight to rush over to M.J.โs to ask if she would bake them. Finally she breaks down. Kara says that she should never have had kids and sheโs ruining them. โI canโt have it all โฆ this is not fun for me. Marriage was not fun for me,โ she says through tears.
The reality is that Kara loves her kids but loves her career, too. And loving the kids and raising them are two different things. Sheโs worked her butt off so they can attend the best schools and have the best of everything, but sheโs not there for them the way she wants to be. M.J. comes through with the bomb brownies. For a minute you remember that M.J. is not a completely self-involved monster.ย
6. Survival: M.J. does her Googles (shout-out to DMX) to find the bookstore that Cece purchased with her extortion money. M.J. canโt believe sheโs being extorted so Cece can philosophize on slavery and the black manโs ease in walking away from his family and survival in spite of it all. M.J. tells Cece the extortion stops. Too bad Cece โpolitely disagrees.โ She knows all about M.J.โs prime-time dreams that she has the power to end. M.J. wonโt go away without telling Cece sheโs no better than the slave master exploiting black people for her own gain. M.J. calls it extortion; Cece calls it survival.
7. Horrible idea: Kara tells John that she wants to move back in with him and the kids. Technically itโs her house, which she gave him in the divorce settlement, and she still pays the mortgage. Doing this will cut some of her expenses. They both agree itโs a horrible idea. But Kara is committed to being a better mom, so he agrees. Now that Gael is out of the picture, it could work. Something tells us that this is either a setup for the two to get back together or a disaster in the making. Or both.
8. Blessings: M.J. finally opens the envelope sheโs been avoiding. Itโs an invite to a gala where Lisa would have been the speaker. Her Cutty Buddy finds her in tears on the floor. After her nap, he has a cigar and whiskey while waiting outside by the pool. It was his grandfatherโs tradition. His grandfather, the most peaceful man heโs ever known, owned a funeral home. โThe only way to balance out so much death is to live,โ he says, repeating his grandfatherโs wise words. C.B. realizes that he was meant to be a blessing to her in this moment. M.J. thanks him for breaking his routine for her. M.J. better not mess up this good thing, and by โgood thingโ I mean consistent penis.ย ย
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