Thursday, April 23, 2015

Singles Ladies Binge Blitz Recap Pt. 3: Season 4, Episode 5



"Truth" (Episode 5, April 15, 2015)
On the Sharon Love Show (Sharon Love is played by Queen Latifah), a musical competition is announced, followed by a discussion on women having love and careers. And of course Felicia is watching. She turns everything off to wallow in what I suppose is sadness over having a career, but no love/family...or maybe it's just a migraine as Omar suggested. Omar comes in, and she instructs him to get Triple Threat on Sharon Love's 500th episode. He suggests she could do it easier, but she claims she really doesn't like Sharon Love.

In the club office, Austin receives a phone call from her father (she only picks up b/c  he called from someone else's phone). He calls to tell her he saw a picture of her in a magazine, same picture she was just on the phone about b/c the designer had her in the same dress as a "kid" (Karrueche's character) who is in the same dress in the pic next to the pic of Austin. But her father didn't call about her wearing the same dress as Samantha Gray, he called to tell her the only thing she has going for herself is how beautiful she is, and then he adds she had nothing to do with that (b/c she was born with beautiful genes). Wow! Sheesh! That was harsh and unnecessary.

Back at her place, Bri has an older man, Rollover, come over. They smoke his weed and discuss how he can make her a star. And what does he want in exchange? A threesome...ummm ok...

Later, a doctor comes to check on Felicia in her office, and apparently she hasn't been taking care of herself. She's not even taking her prescribed medication.

And I guess Austin decided to move in with Ro. She and a young guy go into the condo and start messing around, but Terrance comes in to get his remaining stuff. The guy leaves. Before leaving with his stuff, Terrance tells Austin she needs to grow up and that he is starting to understand why her father thinks so little of her.

Karen goes to Bri's house to talk to her, in an attempt to play Bri against Tara. She tells Bri she has a deal for Casey at another label and can possibly bring in another artist. Bri declines, saying she has her own thing and is only waiting on some cash. Karen suggests maybe she can help her get the cash. Bri bites, and asks how. Karen tells Bri, Casey can only get out of the deal with Felicia if the group disbands. So she asks Bri to help make Felicia fed up with the group, and in exchange she will get money for Bri. Bri agrees. Later, the three girls are meeting at Bri's home, and Casey is the voice of reason...complete opposite from her mother. Bri then tells Casey that her mother was begging her to sabotage the group.

Back at the office, Omar is still trying to get the girls on the Sharon Love show by making calls. Omar goes in to talk to Felicia about it, and she instructs him to get on a plane and fly out to see Sharon! And he does just that. He asks Sharon Love about having Triple Threat on the show, but she says it's a contest. But then he offers to create her a dress (Felicia's dress it turns out). And she agrees to have her producer find Triple Threat a spot on the show, outside of the contest.

When Omar returns to share the news with Felicia, he finds a pamphlet on in vitro fertilization on her desk while waiting for her to come to her office. After he leaves, Felicia gets a call from her doctor saying based on her blood work she isn't a candidate for in vitro.

Austin goes to see her father in the hospital. He tells her she's like her mother, wanting to live a fantasy with no consequences. She tells him to leave her mother out of it, noting that she was a bipolar manic depressive. She then tells him she saw him giving her mother extra medication, and said her mother may have taken her own life but he killed her soul a long time ago.

At the office, Felicia is on a tough call about the label's budget. Her assistant sends everyone home and tries to get Felicia to let her take her home.

Later, Terrance confronts Austin on whether she wants to continue to be his business partner. She calls him out for being judgmental. They leave planning to dissolve the partnership.

Bri has lunch with Karen and tells her she's decided to do the Sharon Love Show. Then when Karen goes to meet with Omar, for what she thinks is a styling meeting for the Sharon Love Show, she finds Casey there with Omar. Casey tells her she knows about what she tried to do to the group. Casey tells her she's not in it for the fame. Then she fires her mother. It's kind of emotional, but I really wish Casey's eyes at least got a little red if they weren't going to water up. C'mon!