In “Comet,” Jerome buys himself and Louie their own personal horses to support her growing passion for equestrianism. Fingers crossed Franklin will do right by her and I won’t have to eat my words.Īs for the state of the most stable couple on the show, Aunt Louie and Jerome, things seem to be going strong. Overall, Veronique seems like a safe bet. “They just canceled Diff’rent Strokes I’m really sensitive right now,” she exclaims when Franklin springs some big news on her. When discussing Franklin’s fidelity to the promises he makes, she states that “a man worth his word is a man worth me.” Bonus points: She’s pretty funny. What we know about her so far is promising: She’s a planner (Veronique has meticulously organized their lives in preparation for the baby, even color-coding their calendar!), and she’s got a strong sense of self. Still, I am hopeful that Veronique will break the curse. If there was ever a Franklin Saint edition of Ghost of Girlfriends Past, I would be tuned in but also very afraid (Melody shot him in the back, so she’d undoubtedly be the final boss he’d have to face at the end). Now, we know that Franklin hasn’t had much luck in the past with lovers. The infamous “Family” man has even begun to build a family of his own thanks to a new addition to the cast(!): his current boo, Veronique, a charismatic woman with a law degree who runs the real-estate operations for Franklin’s company and is revealed to be pregnant with their first child. At the start of season five, we see that our boy Franklin has moved up in the world, having established a few “legitimate” shell companies in real estate, bought a new home, and earned his pilot’s license.
And yet, as he has done time and time again, Franklin rebounds. And once his parents, Cissy and Alton, flee to Cuba to avoid retaliation for Alton’s whistleblowing, Franklin ends season four without a stable support system in place. For starters, he begins to walk without his cane, an accessory and aid that he acquired after being shot back in season three. At the end of season four, Franklin must stand on his own two feet, literally and figuratively. In the first two episodes of the season, “Comet” and “Commitment,” we see how the show’s most beloved (and loathed) characters have been holding up under these circumstances and across a varied spectrum of allegiances to the state and one another.įirst things first, we have to talk about Franklin Saint. The flow of arms to Nicaragua has slowed, and as a result, the Sandinistas, also known as El Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, have been holding their own against the U.S.-backed Contras rebel group. What the show argues once began as an operation intended to fund the overthrow of the Nicaraguan government is at risk of jeopardizing its viability. With the opening of the southern border, the price of cocaine has decreased drastically. The entire landscape for the drug trade has changed. The tragedy of Bias’s premature death reveals the tensions that heighten the season’s stakes: Last season’s drug game is not this season’s drug game.
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Snowfall pulls from this cultural archive of the ’80s and situates the death of Bias within a larger story of shifting geopolitics, crime syndicates, and the War on Drugs as they facilitate the increased accessibility of cocaine within the U.S. Soon it is announced: Len Bias has died of cocaine-induced tachycardia on June 19, 1986, just two days after his draft selection. Panic washes over the scene as his friends scramble for help. After a few more lines, he grows quiet and grabs his chest. A bright future ahead of him, a 22-year-old Bias holds his green jersey up to his chest and saunters before his teammates with pride.
One of the bunch is identified to be none other than Len Bias - the first-team All-American college-basketball player who the Boston Celtics selected as the second overall NBA draft pick in 1986. Opening up to a scene at the University of Maryland, a group of young college athletes is doing lines of cocaine. The season-five premiere of Snowfall begins with the fall of a star on the rise.
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