The Cousin of Death

I love how they're playing nas first album illmatic a lot. That's my favorite album and it came out almost 30 years ago. Ruth is so good and can't wait to watch the rest.

I'll educate you. In the beginning of the episode with the flashback...Wyatt and Ruth are talking about classic hip hop albums. Wyatt mentions Nas' Illmatic. For those who don't know, Nas is widely regarded as the goat of hip hop and Illmatic is regarded as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. Sooo that's why Ruth puts in Illmatic in her car and is listening to it throughout the episode. And the title of this episode "The Cousin Of Death" is a direct reference to one of the songs off Illmatic "NY State Of Mind."

Episode 8 begins with Ruth driving, tears flowing down her cheeks as she remembers a moment she had with Wyatt, who is now dead due to the brutal violence of Javi. She's enraged and in a state where she feels stuck with her emotions, not knowing what to do. While Ruth gathers herself, Javi rings Marty and tells him to "clean-up," i.e., get rid of the bodies of Wyatt and Darlene. Wendy is confused about why Marty did not tell Javi that Ruth wants to kill him. She's worried about family safety, their leverage with the FBI, and the foundation. Marty feels Wendy is being emotional and does not feel Javi will die. Wendy raises a vital point - Marty does not understand "people's will." Wendy's point is at a significant narrative juncture; it feels like she's outgrown her husband in many ways - morally corrupt, but understanding how feelings will not help their predicaments. Ruth asks Charlotte and Jonah where Javi is. Jonah and Charlotte are unsure what to do, knowing there's a lot at stake for the family, but Charlotte reveals that Javi is meeting Clare at Shaw Medical in Chicago the next day. Afterward, Wendy tells Ruth that they will not stand in her way because "they owe her" - she lies to Ruth, claiming that Javi is in Mexico, but he is all hers once he returns. Ruth asks Wendy to promise her that she has a clear route to Javi, but she doesn't buy the premise. Ruth is playing with Wendy and Marty - in the past, she would have fallen for their words, and she's still acting like her naive former self. Meanwhile, Marty tells Javi that the Snell farm is crawling with cops. Javi tells Marty to get to Chicago and bring his uncle's children's financials. The ending of episode 8 is chilling. We recognized early on in this series the transformation of Marty and then the leveling up of Wendy in the later seasons. Ruth has reached a specific point in her character development. A monster made by the people who have always claimed to care about her. This is why character development in TV is essential. When it pays off, you get episodes like this.

As the episode moves closer to the end, Wendy is tired of the back and forth with Ruth, so she rings Javi, claiming that Clare has agreed to give the stock options to him.

I usually heate comparisation, but i can't help My self.

Bcs s06e03 vs Ozark 04e08 If these shows keep it up, it Will Be tough Decision to hand over award to Best drama series.

I never thought she actually would've done that, so early, so fast, but I'm happy with that choice because now we have more and bigger problems, that's the price of revenge.

The writing of this episode feels like a movie by itself, we have all the three acts of a classic movie, we have character's desire and obstacle, we have the antagonist and why is that person(a) the antagonist, feels like a movie, and they made of this episode an extraordinary Ruth Langmore movie, btw, I freaking love the flashbacks, specially that one when Ruth and Wyatt were children. That's so sad, man.

This was a great but a little confuse episode, we know is more about Ruth all the time, so, how is this season gonna end if Ruth is kinda useless for Marty and Wendy's plot line?, I'm intrigued by that.