‘The Chi’ Premiere Recap: Season 5, Episode 1 — [Spoiler] Returns

Can we please speak about these previous couple of, very shocking minutes of The Chi‘s Season 5 premiere?

I used to be anticipating Otis “Douda” Perry to saunter again into the motion; regardless of his ignominious departure on the finish of Season 4, there was an actual sense of unfinished enterprise in regards to the man. However Quentin “Q” Dickinson? Whom we haven’t seen for the reason that Season 1 finale? The man many people thought is perhaps lifeless? Yeah, I undoubtedly didn’t suppose he’d be the individual knocking on Tracy’s door within the closing moments of Sunday’s episode.

However then once more, the premiere ripped open an enormous bag of upheaval and sprinkled it over just about everybody’s storylines. So let’s run by way of the highlights

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EMMETT AND TIFFANY | The episode opens with Kiesha having intercourse with a man whose head is buried beneath the covers. And when he surfaces… it’s Emmett! However the interlude is only a dream Emmett’s having. And when he wakes up, Tiff informs him that she’s taking EJ and going to stick with her mom for some time as a result of “I’ve simply gotta determine some s–t out.” Emmett goes to Darnell for some recommendation; his dad will get him drunk, saying that alcohol will assist him get in contact along with his emotions. And it does. So Emmett goes to his mother-in-law’s place to speak with Tiff in individual… after which he vomits within the entrance yard the second he will get there. An irked Tiff has him come inside, and he asks her to return house. She counters with: “I don’t suppose I need to be your spouse anymore.” Ouch. And by the top of the episode, she’s taken EJ and moved in with Rob, who swears the provide of a free room doesn’t include any strings.

JADA | Jada appears to be doing effectively, post-cancer therapy (the quick hair is cute!), and she or he loves having Suede round to make things better within the residence and maintain her mattress heat. However when he raises the concept of shifting in collectively, her tepid response makes him really feel like he’s “a glorified TaskRabbit.” Complicating issues: When Darnell comes over to repair a showerhead that Suede didn’t get to, he and Jada kiss. She’s into it, however then she stops it, and he seems to be at her longingly whereas telling her that she was the one which acquired away.

TRIG AND IMANI | Whereas Imani is in St. Louis, Trig buys an engagement ring and eagerly awaits her return so he can suggest. Shaad is all for it; after the tough patch he and Imani had final season, he’s now her Number one fan, calling her a “good lady with a great coronary heart.” Within the days earlier than her return, nevertheless, Trig and Shaad break up a combat between two teen boys at ROCK. Trig thinks the youngsters in query ought to volunteer to make issues proper, however Tracy doesn’t agree: She acknowledges one in every of them as the child who shot Ronnie on the finish of Season 3, and she or he doesn’t desire a assassin hanging across the group heart.

The child makes Trig even madder the subsequent day, when he breaks a window in Trig’s automobile. Trig chases him and roughs him up, however the entire thing was a trick: The child’s buddy information all of it, then posts it on-line, which displays badly on Trig and his involvement in ROCK’s group outreach. Or, as Shaad places it: “You possibly can’t flip into the enemy, Trig!” Even worse, when an off-camera Imani sees the video, she decides that she’s not able to return to Chicago and her relationship. In order that huge proposal that Trig deliberate at Emmett’s restaurant is a bust.

KEVIN, JAKE, PAPA & CO. | Lynae remains to be dwelling with Kevin and his household, however — as Papa ascertains — her relationship with Kev is like that of a sister. One afternoon, she’s round to witness it when a brand new first-person shooter online game offers Kevin flashbacks to capturing Ronnie years in the past… Jemma and Jake are nonetheless collectively, however after he’s kinda imply to her when he doesn’t make the basketball group, she questions whether or not they need to even be collectively. (Props to her dad, although, who appears to be principally recovered from his beat-down.) Papa remains to be very into his podcast, Papa’s Pulpit, which even has merch now! However when he makes a remark at a faculty pep rally about Black households needing stronger father figures, he will get booed off stage.

KIESHA | Regardless of Kiesha’s repeated gratitude for Christian being a pleasant boy who helped her drastically as she recovered from her assault, she breaks up with him — by way of voice textual content, which appeared so chilly? — with the intention to begin recent as she begins faculty and takes little Ronnie together with her. And since Christian is such a great egg, he texts her again that he’s blissful she’s doing what she must do and desires her effectively.

TRACY, DOUDA AND QUENTIN | On the finish of the episode, Tracy is watching Ready to Exhale at house when there’s a knock on her door. “The f—ok you doing right here?” she asks when she opens it, and we see that Quentin is standing on her entrance stoop. “I got here again to complete what I began,” he replies. Eh, I feel she’s already had sufficient sexual abuse from you, Q, however thanks. And earlier than we are able to even course of Q’s return, Douda steps out of the shadows, saying, “I got here again for you.”

Now it’s your flip. What did you consider the premiere? Grade it by way of the ballot beneath, then hit the feedback along with your reactions to the massive return!