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Teresa Mendoza in Queen of the South: Amores Perros (4x07)

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QOTS 4x07 Reaction Post

Plot progression? What plot progression? Bueller? Bueller?  

Guys.  To think they cut all those scenes from previous eps and we got this Less Plot More Filler speed bump of an episode this week. You would hardly miss anything important if you only watched the episode preview!  Nearly every character ends the episode right where they started.  Other than the body of Rene being discovered, every “plot point” could have been taken care of with about five minutes of screen time sprinkled across other eps.

Think I’m lying?  Have the sicario die in 4x02 (no new info provided by him this ep, it’s still Cortez sending sicarios from the grave!), have Teresa break up with Eddie last week because of the war with Marcel, have Tony pointing a gun at a napping Pote in any other ep and VOILA.  Time for stories that actually move the plot along!

I saw the Teresa x Eddie romantic getaway writing on the wall last week and mostly came to terms with my James sicario scenario being a pipe dream BUT--  Why go to all this trouble and have Eddie STILL NOT FIND OUT ABOUT TERESA’S REAL LIFE?!  

Like...Teresa manages to survive a brutal attack and MURDERS a guy FIFTEEN FEET away from Eddie and he doesn’t even notice b/c the 25 fans that showed up for his performance wanted an encore. Musicians I swear.

They went to the trouble to set up that parallel between Teresa x Eddie and Javier x Emilia last episode and ...totally dropped it this week.  I don’t get what they are doing with Eddie’s storyline.  By keeping him out of the loop, it keeps him from contributing to the plot at all, grinds the story to a standstill when he’s on screen, and prevents Teresa from being able to fully open up to him preventing any possible audience investment in the relationship at all. 

The writers say they wanted Teresa to think she could still have a “normal” relationship with someone outside of the cartel life.  If they were determined to do the Eddie storyline--why not have it contribute more to the main plot? 

I wish they’d have gone full on Guero/Teresa reversal and had Teresa “rescue” Eddie from a bad situation, either by giving him an opportunity or financial support. They could have made Eddie a recovering addict (maybe his friend overdosed and it scared him straight) and have Teresa feeling an almost personal responsibility with being tied to the drug trade performing a sort of penance by funding his church restoration. Feelings could become involved and it get messy when he finds out just how she got that money she’s giving him.  Just spitballing but seems like that could have been another great opportunity for Teresa to Look in the Mirror™ on her journey to Queenpin.  HIRE ME QOTS.

Anyway that’s enough Eddie talk.  What else?

Poor, poor Emilia.  Maybe the TxE and JxE parallel really is the Fooling Yourself for Love.  Still love how Javier and Emilia only speak to each other in Spanish.  I love realistic details like that.

Nice callback to the pilot with the Tony video game scene just like the one before his dad got killed.

Teresa is small yet MIGHTY.  Our girl is a fighter.  I was screaming at my TV: FINISH HIMMMMMM.  There’s no one on this show I’d want in my corner more than Teresa Mendoza.

I laughed out loud at Javier’s face when he realized just who Rene was related to.  That one bad decision has basically turned into the Indiana Jones boulder of doom running down Javier (and by proxy Teresa) this entire season.  That body count is up to six now? Rene, his pal, the bird watcher, Bobby, (shit, sorta Birdie too!), the tow yard worker and the cop?  Yikes.

And for as much as I complained that nothing actually happened with the Tony/Pote screentime, I LOVE that Pote was really awake at the end.... 

Just in time for next week...Secrets & Lies!   Which I am speaking into existence will have nothing to do with Eddie!  I stg if his screentime increases AFTER being dumped I don’t know what I’ll do.  Any guesses who the FBI informant is?