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Teresa Mendoza in Queen of the South: Lo Que Más Temes (4x10)

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QOTS 4x10 Reaction Post

Characterizations--Making sense! Stakes--Raised!  Women--INTERACTING!  Someone send Mark Valadez and Jorge Reyes a damn fruit basket already!   

So who knows if it’s just in comparison to what’s been a massively mediocre midseason but...is it just me or was this an actual Queen of the South We Know and Love episode?! 

After the barren desert of female interaction this season it was SO great to see Teresa, Kelly Anne and Oksana in nearly every  👏 single 👏 scene 👏.   Oksana was FANTASTIC. She may be ruthless but she isn’t heartless.  I absolutely love her.  I also loved that Raul was introduced back in 4x01 saying he preferred money to murder but ignored Oksana when she pointed out the same thing and WELP.  The only way the Teresa/Oksana/Marcel team up at the end could have been better is if Teresa had told Raul to smile before Marcel pulled the trigger.  (Just think how much better this season would have been if we replaced half of Eddie and Javier’s screen time with Oksana?)

For all my wishes for a longer more in depth arc, I cannot believe they really pulled off the Kelly Anne and Teresa reconciliation with basically roleplay therapy during a hostage situation.  That had NO right to work as well as it did but it worked for me?  For the most part?  There was at least one scene cut---Kelly Anne waltzing into Teresa’s office talking about a trust for Tony like that’s something completely normal??--and obviously I would have preferred some actual outright conversation about the betrayal etc but I’m pretty happy considering.   It was so great to see Kelly Anne and Teresa in the thick of it again. (Just think of how much better this season would have been if we replaced the other half of Eddie’s screen time with Kelly Anne?)

How gross is it to not only have Teresa unwittingly pay for a prison the Judge plans to put her in, but one he used immigrant detention centers as a selling point for the other investor.  Also, I feel like Teresa paying off the Judge was triage while she dealt with more imminent dangers because once you pay someone 30 million in 72 hours what’s to stop him from asking for that every month?  I thought for sure they were going to accept the payout and then promptly arrest Javier but the writers blessed us with ZERO Javier/Rene bullshit this episode.  Hallelujah.  Maybe the judge is waiting to arrest everyone in Teresa’s cartel in one fell swoop once his prison is built.

As for the end.... In true S4 fashion--is someone on the brink of happiness? TIME TO DIE.  Range Rovers totally have remote start feature just FYI.  Seems like something that would come in handy in this line of work!!  Seems like someone should have included that lesson in Tony’s Driver’s Ed!!!  Sigh. Full disclosure: I was accidentally spoiled for this a few months back so I have had time to cycle thru the stages of grief.  While it’s extremely sad.... at least Tony had an arc?  Hate this for Teresa though.  I do wonder now if we’re going the GoT Mad Queen route to Queenpin.  (At this point if James shows up in the last five minutes of an episode I’m now conditioned to expect someone to immediately kill him.) 

Random thoughts:

KELLY ANNE WINE CLUB *drink*

Parallel parking as a team sport--god, same.

Hate to say it, but this ep really benefited from minimal Javier.  The Super Stache Bros (with honorary member Javi) were wonderful in action though.  

“Telephone tough guy!” lmao

Based on absolutely nothing, I really hope the other client Dieter stole from to pay back Teresa is Rocco de la Pena. 

Next week!  Pote having to make decisions, what could go wrong.  Also--Teresa’s Subconscious: The Real MVP? STAY TUNED TO FIND OUT.