Insecure
It's another episode and the Insecure characters are feeling Lowkey Thankful. The episode starts off at Lawrence's place. Lawrence invites Condola for Thanksgiving dinner at his friend's place but she declines as she already has plans to host her own Thanksgiving dinner at her place. This comes off as a surprise to Lawrence and he asks if he could attend hers instead. Wasn't she going to invite him if he didn't ask? 🤷
Lawrence finds out one of the investors at work sold out his shares and this puts fellow coworkers at risk of losing their jobs as there are talks about downsizing already. He however isn't bothered about losing his job because he's the only black person on his team and who fires the only black person?. He's worried about not getting promoted and being stuck in the same place instead of moving forward.
Lawrence runs into Issa at the coffee shop and they make movie jokes like old times but Condola doesn't seem to catch up on the jokes as she joins Lawrence. There's a moment of awkwardness and Issa quickly bids the couple goodbye as she leaves and catches a glimpse of them being lovey-dovey on her way out.
Issa and Molly are out shopping for Thanksgiving and Molly points out Issa is acting like everything is alright with Condola but Issa says it's all round love and talks about Molly's situation with Andrew. They come at each other at this point and both agree they have been off for the past couple of months. They decide to talk it off at pie time after Thanksgiving dinner at Molly's parent's house later.
Issa and her brother Ahmal are at a Mexican restaurant for their little dinner and the siblings have a deep conversation. Issa opens up about feeling like Condola is reaping off all her investment in Lawrence. She dated the guy with potential,the work in progress and someone else is enjoying the results. Her brother tells her it's okay to feel that way and be herself, everyone else can deal. She texts Molly she was going to be late for pie time.
Molly is at her parent's house and she tells her mom about her boyfriend Andrew, she's surpised her mom would have loved to have Andrew over for Thanksgiving as she thought that'd be doing too much. Her mom let's her know she'd never be too much for a guy that likes her.
Over at Condola's place, Lawrence is getting along fine with her friends and they're having a good drink. Lawrence finds out from a drunk guest that he is Condola's rebound after her divorce. Lawrence confronts Condola about this after the dinner. Condola tells Lawrence drunk Nicki was just drunk and she had no idea why she would say that to Lawrence. Lawrence asks if she's still getting down with her ex and Condola quickly says she should be the one worried about Lawrence because he still had Issa around. She then asks if he'd still be with Issa if she hadn't cheated on him and Lawrence has no answer.
Issa drops off her brother at his place and then texts Molly to cancel on pie time for the night. An already frustrated Molly replies, "yup, that's fine" as she tries to bond with her family. She hands her father a cake which signals a journey to forgiveness as she had been pissed at her old man from season three after finding out he once cheated on her mom.
Lawrence is sat on his couch watching instagram stories of all his friends' Thanksgiving moments and he comes across Issa's dinner with her brother, a Mexican band playing for the siblings. He sends an emoji and Issa replies immediately. A song A Case of the Ex plays off into the ending credits of the show.
Pheww....this episode had me glued. The friendship between Issa and Molly seems to be wavering and I like how they both identify that and agree it needs to be talked about. Most often, friends know there's a problem but never really want to face it off. I look forward to the girls talking it out next episode.
On Lawrence and Condola, the grounds of the relationship are being tested. Finding out Condola actually intended Lawrence as a fuckbuddy and ohh, she doesn't want to ever get married again?? I didn't put that up there but yeah, at the dinner Lawrence also found out she has no interest in getting married and that put him off. So let's say maybe she initially wanted Lawrence as a rebound but now she really likes him, how about not wanting to start a family? It doesn't seem to fit in with Lawrence's plans and that's a problem right there.
So there's been a debate on this episode, does Issa have a right to feel the way she did about Lawrence? She spent five years with Lawrence, she paid the rent, got food, she was the supporter the whole time and Lawrence sat his ass home all day holding on to dreams. She fucked up and she cheated. Now Lawrence had it going well for him and he's doing all the things he never did for Issa with Condola. I can't fault Issa thinking this way to be honest. But she gotta let that man go, it is what it is.
I am excited about the next episode unlike how I felt after this episode. I'm loving Lawrence's character development, he's got a better life now but still insecure as he might not be getting promoted at work. We can't tell for sure if he's over Issa but the next episode might just be our eyeopener.
Thanks for reading, be sure to stop by during the week for the next episode.
