‘Dangerous Bonds’ goes into the dangerous territory of making you lose interest in the majority of the episode. Or certainly, that’s the way I felt about this week’s episode, which did little more than feature the same few songs over and over and over again while creating some strange developments in a range of storylines.
Let’s start positively, though. Taraji P Henson is at the top of her game as usual. Cookie finds herself in a different situation this week – there’s a lot more for her to worry about than just Jamal’s career when Carter pushes her to testify. Needless to say, this puts her in a considerable amount of danger (“You gonna get me killed”, as the previously reiterates). What ensues are some very intriguing scenes showing how Cookie handles herself in the face of a threat – hint: it doesn’t go well.
Aside from a nice scene between Lucious and Anika near the beginning of the episode, there’s little else I can say about this episode that I liked. This episode felt like it was thrown in having jumped across multiple episodes in some storylines and not in others, and at points I wondered if I had been following the same show as the writers have these past four weeks.
The relationship between Hakeem and Tiana is hitting new levels of ridiculous. Twice before the title card I had to pause the episode to consider what the hell was going on, and not in a good way. The way they interact with each other this week made no sense to me whatsoever, and it quickly began to bore me.
Still, everything that revolves around Andre tops everything else in terms of wasting screen-time. What he does this week was out of character, especially given that he didn’t appear to be being persuaded into doing it by Rhonda – that would have been more logical. I’m still failing to see the point of Andre, and I wish they’d either give him something better to do, because it’s using up time that could definitely be better spent.
This week’s episode feels like a step in the wrong direction in terms of story progression. This was definitely the weakest of the season so far and I’m really hoping that the show can bounce back next week. ’Dangerous Bonds’ airs on FOX on Wednesday 4th February at 9PM. Additionally, if you want to help SpoilerTV win an award, make sure you vote in the Shorty Awards below.
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