Going into the final episodes of this season of Mob Wives, you had to know that things were starting to wrap up. The storylines that had opened up for each of the wives, all relating to change in their personal life, would be met with one of two endings. Either they would dry their final tear and move on from the pain brought to them by their husbands/fathers, or there would still be that rip in their psyche from yet another setback. As much as some of the wives annoy me, I have to admit that I’ve been rooting for everyone to find the inner peace, emotional strength, and admirable resolve that they’ll need to healthily move on.
In the penultimate episode of the season, it felt like a majority of the storylines were cleared out in preparation for the finale showdown between Drita and Karen. The second season of Mob Wives may have focused on everybody’s individual stories, from Renee’s family problems to Carla’s reunion with Joe, but it’s been centered around Drita v. Karen, a conflict that stretches back into season one. Aside from a couple of minor conversations about their nervousness in meeting, the finale looks to be where we’ll get any hint as to the nature of their relationship; in it’s place, though, was a lot of material relating to how disappointed the men in their lives continue to make them.
Carla, for example, found out that Joe had a new girlfriend, which is the reason he’s not been seeing his kids as much. I can’t lie, I was a tiny bit disappointed in finding out that the idea of Joe and Carla is over, as their flirty, jokey interactions were one of the highlights of the season. You saw the spark that they had and the ease that their conversations contained, so it’d be a happily ever after type of ending, right? Carla will get her handsome prince and ride off into the sunset of old age, her family unit restored to full strength. The end. But not quite. I get that Joe’s out in the world for the first time in more than half a decade, so he has a lot to catch up on and a lot of people to reconnect with, but come. on. You can’t spend a couple months (or so) heavily involved with your kids and then think you’ve completely patched up the hole in their lives that developed due to your absence; a few all day trips with dad don’t make up for six years and Joe pulling back just reopens the wounds that had, maybe, just started to close in his kids. They just got him back and before they can even get used to the scent of his cologne, he’s off skirt chasing?
Drita got more disappointment from Lee after finding out that he wouldn’t be getting to transferred to Brooklyn. Instead, he’s off to Pennsylvania to serve the final year of his sentence, the latest bummer in a very rollercoaster season for Drita. Though her professional life is booming, rap verses, modeling, and all the like, her personal life hasn’t been the best, providing constant instability for her children. Divorce, moving, Lee not coming home – it’d be a lot for anyone to take, let alone someone not even a teenager like Aleeya. And Drita, as we’ve seen through the season, hurts as her children hurt and there’s been a lot of pain at Casa Drita lately. It may make her resolve to merely be friends with Lee more steel-y, since their recent good terms had been reminding her of why they loved one another, but you have to feel for the amount of bummers they’ve had in recent weeks. Most interestingly, some of her final comments brought out the major dichotomy about “the life”; paramount above all is the idea of not being a rat and serving your sentence like “a man”, but the jail time that gets served really messes with the children that are involved. Maybe all of this could be solved by not doing illegal activities in the first place, thereby taking yourself out of harm’s way and keeping you home with your children.
Renee, a child of a mob father, seemingly put the nail in the coffin of her and Junior tonight. Of all the ladies on Mob Wives, I’ve been most impressed with Renee recently; she may have had to fall completely apart in order to put herself back together, but the most important thing is that she is, indeed, putting herself together. Slowly but surely, Renee’s come a long way and it was nice to hear that she’s divorced herself from the Renee/Junior fantasy she kept trying to make him live up to. At this rate, the Renee of season three will be vastly different than the Renee of season two and I’m looking forward to seeing the difference, as putting this painful, exhausting, important chapter of her life behind her is a great step toward moving on and letting go.
If there’s a major lesson one can take from the Mob Wives, it’s the power of doing just that. Sometimes it takes completely purging someone from your system in order to finally get over them; it may feel extreme, but progress and growth are more important than trying to live in the past and hurting yourself in pursuit of the “ideal” life. With only one episode to go, it looks like it’s down to Karen vs. Drita one more time and after a fairly introspective, downbeat penultimate episode, I say bring on the foolishness.
Thoughts, Quotes, & Observations:
-“We got you a chain and you’re done. Now it’s about me and my diamonds.”
-“That was a strike. Except there’s no pins there.”
-“I’m going to be chewing on her face like a leech.”
-Renee’s line about wishing Junior “a hundred million angry Renees” was awesome.
-Karen had the only thing resembling happiness tonight, with Dave coming to New York and them, ahem, reconnecting. But even there, he didn’t commit to moving and he’d been dating other people.
-Carla’s green shirt when she went for drinks with Ang and Renee’s hot pink confessional number (with the side-swept hair) gave me everything I needed tonight. Very pretty.
-I loved Big Ang comparing Lucky to Drita. I bet her pig knuckles are to die for.
-Renee’s interview with Cherry can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.
-AJ got involved in a massive street fight, but it looks like he played peacekeeper.
-Reviews for Karen’s book are decidedly mixed. Which side are you on?
-Next week on Mob Wives: Karen and Drita are in the same room at the same time for the first time since the brawl at the beginning of the season.
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