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One of my favorite things about “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” is that I already know how the story ends for Kanan (and Jukebox). As we’re watching their stories unfold, we know exactly what road they eventually go down, but it is so interesting meeting all of the people who affected their lives (and how) and the decisions they faced along the way.
This is why I really, really need to know how Ronnie — Unique’s older brother — plays into the bigger picture because that guy concerns me greatly. Everybody seems to be doing just fine, minding their own business and criminal enterprises, and here he goes, lurking in the shadows, quietly and deliberately scaring the bejesus out of Unique’s baby mama, killing bouncers who don’t like his haberdashery choices and following Unique and threatening the peaceful order of the chaos that exists. In episode one, 50 Cent’s voiceover was something to the effect (and I’m paraphrasing), “You know the guy in the hood that everybody avoids because he’s so crazy and messed up? Ronnie is the guy THAT guy avoids.”
Listen, that makes so much sense. Ronnie got so mad at a bouncer doing his job that he (I assumed) killed him with a car door, took the money out of his wallet and put the wallet back so he could go buy some better clothes. Ronnie is following Unique and presumably discovers that he is smashing Raq, whom Ronnie said they should have killed years ago. Ronnie is scaring Unique’s baby mama over some Honey Nut Cheerios, which are good, but you really don’t have to scare the bejesus out of anybody over them.
Ronnie just stands out in the open staring down Kanan and Famous, looking foreboding, like a villain who is coming back to take his territory. Ronnie creeps me out. From MY living room. Can we please give a round of applause for Grantham…
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