(Click here for the Season 5 Premiere Recap/Review!)Morning all! Hope everything is good. After getting my hopes up on this little bit of snow DMV had, I'm in the office sighhhh lol. But it's cool.
Ok, so I just HAD to do my review of the Season 4 premiere of
The Game last night! It was a momentous occasion with the show being gone for two years. I can honestly say that I love BET for bringing it back. Sooooo before I begin, if you have yet to see the premiere, do not continue. Cuz I'm laying it ALL out after the jump!
All right, this is a long one so bear with me, or skip around. Set two years later, everybody on the show has a new life. Derwin (played by
Pooch Hall), is now a megastar on the Sabers, worth millions, has major endorsement deals, and everything. Melanie (played by
Tia Mowry Hardrict) has settled into the housewife position, caring for Derwin and his two-year-old son by baby mama Janay, D.J. Girl Melanie and Ding Dong have become quite the little power couple!
Tasha Mack (
Wendy Raquel Robinson) still works for Derwin as manager, and is doing a hell of a lot better than she did when they first started out. Malik's (
Hosea Chanchez) first scene is in the bathroom with him making out with Meagan Good, who plays Parker, the wifey of the new owner of the Sabers haha, one of many little twists.
Kelly (Brittany Daniel) and Jason (Coby Bell) are now officially divorced. Jason is hanging on a thread with his spot on the Sabers, while Kelly has become a reality TV star on the wack "Ex-Ballers Wives" or whatever it's called (correlation-Football Wives lol).
Of course, the premiere continued with several different twists and turns. Expected and major part of the whole episode, was Melanie still questioning if Derwin was really D.J.'s father. While watching D.J., she quickly swabs his mouth and sends it off to one of her doctor friends. This part was in debate on Twitterland, with The Game's official
Twitter account posing the question if Melanie should have done that. Ok. Here's my thoughts. Maybe it wasn't really her place, and honestly she was just doing it to try to get her and Derwin back to just her and Derwin. But can you blame her? And if you were in her shoes, wouldn't you do the same? She was with Derwin for YEARS, and now this baby comes in that Derwin is too in love with to even question. In my opinion, she should've done it sooner. Cuz if it were me, I would have been swabbing the baby and my man right after the birth lol.
Another twist was with Miss Tasha Mack. I was wondering how Terrence J was going to come into play, and apparently now he's Dante, Tasha's younger BOYFRIEND! When I saw this, I screamed to the top of my lungs: Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ewwwwwwwww!!!!!!! Tasha’s a COUGAR! With Terrence J!!!!! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!! Lol it's how I felt.
And Tee Tee quit Malik to own his own chicken truck! My people smh LOL but it was good to see Tee Tee doing something besides being Malik's errand boy, standing up to him. Malik just couldn't get it into his head that Tee Tee no longer works for him, still asking him to do things and getting upset when denied. Then to go and have a presumed threeway with Tee Tee's girlfriend and Meagan Good? Malik was mad foul. And I'd be careful. See Tee Tee has always been the funny character, but I'm feeling like he could be the type of guy that goes off when pushed to the edge...
Back to the paternity test. Of course, Melanie finds out that Derwin is not the father, and Derwin turns to mush since he loves D.J. so much. But the twist that Derwin really was the father was too predictable. It was too easy. Melanie got what she wanted just too easy. So the minute we found out "Derwin wasn't the father," I figured that he was. However, I'm glad they went ahead and knocked this out the first episode instead of dragging it out over the whole season. Now I'm interested to see how Melanie is going to tell Derwin the real truth, or if she even will...
There were definitely a few things that I was disappointed about. One was the predictability of things, especially with the paternity test, but it's all good. I was upset with holes in the writing. The first spot I noticed this was with Tasha and Dante. I can’t lie…Terrence J did pretty decent. His acting on
Stomp the Yard 2 did NOT impress me, so I was positive he was gonna be wack….but he wasn’t. He did well. I just can’t believe he’s dating TASHA!!!! Where is Rick Fox?! This was a major relationship for Tasha, and for it to just disappear without even a few lines to explain was disappointing.
I was definitely also upset with the change of Kelly. She got MAD annoying. I wasn't feeling her new reality TV stint, her new attitude, and definitely not that new haircut! Sorry Brittany lol. She's not the fun, borderline alcoholic Kelly that I know and love lol. Now she's just a bitter ex-wife. However, I know this will change. See, I believe that Kelly and Jason are going to get back together by the end of the season. You can definitely see that Kelly is still not over the whole divorce, and deep down, I don't think Jason is either. His relationship with Stacey Dash's character is over, which kind of opens the door to possibly go back to Kelly since he's not in a serious relationship right now. Again, that's another hole that the writers should have filled, but ok.
Oh, and speaking of Jason and Kelly, did anyone notice that teenage almost grown looking girl that's supposed to be Brittany?! Ok let's do some basic math. Brittany, the couple's daughter, was 5 turning 6 when the show began. So around the time CW canceled, she was about 9 or 10. Meaning that now she would be about 11, 12. That girl ain't EVEN look like she was a pre-teen. She looked like a high school junior to me! Writers fix that! It was reminding me of Bobbi Kristina (perhaps purposeful???? Alluding to Bobby and Whitney's breakup seeming to have messed up their daughter? Idk...) I just know that Brittany is still supposed to be kind of a baby, and she's not right now.
Moving on. Malik is going to get hurt by Tee Tee. I don't get Malik's deal. I mean, his storyline to me, was the most "hole-ly" I guess. I know that he's jealous of Derwin for receiving more attention and he's mad that the new owner is not going to kick out money for a better offensive line for Malik to work with. Maybe that's why Malik is messing with Meagan Good's character as a thing of revenge I don't know. I'm just not sure where his story is going. Everybody else, there's a sense of what's going on with them, but with Malik, I was blank. Jason's was a little blah too. I need more on his status with the Sabers.
The premiere was definitely more drama than comedy, which I didn’t really like. I expect that to get better. And some of it was a little predictable, especially the paternity test. The show got mixed reviews according to my Twitter and Facebook timelines lol Some say it was over the top, but I thought it was pretty good.. After two years, no table could be left unturned in my opinion. You had to know what was going on with every character. The good, the bad, the changes, everything. Like I said, I'm glad they knocked out the paternity test instead of making that one whole big to-do the entire season. And it was interesting to see how all of the characters had turned out over these past two years. I'm expecting it to get better as the season progresses. As of now I give it a
solid B+. I'm ecstatic and grateful that BET took this on! Just please don't mess it up!!! lol It's definitely going to be a dramatic season, with twists and turns that I'm sure Game fans will get into. In the words of Tasha Mack, "Game on bitches!" Haha
Meanwhile, Let's Stay Together? Uhhhhh....I tried it. I figure we always talk about not having black sitcoms that we need to at least try new ones that develop. Plus Ronreaco Lee (coincidentally Tia Mowry's boyfriend Tyreke from Sister Sister) and Erica Hubbard (from my show Lincoln Heights that ABC Family cancelled *anger!*) were in it, so I definitely wanted to support. But it bored me, honestly. Sorry. I'll try again next week, but that's the last shot. And I mean, at least I tried. Half of my Twitter TL changed over to
Teen Mom 2 after
The Game was done lol
What's your take on
The Game?
PEACE.
