'Being Mary Jane' Recap – Season 4 Episode 2: We Are Not Friends
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The heat turned upward for Mary Jane Paul (Gabrielle Matrimony) on Being Mary Jane this week, as her co-worker Ronda Sales (Valarie Pettiford) made information technology articulate: We are not friends.

The journeying to land at this conclusion took upwardly nearly the entire episode, filled with ki-ki sessions that all felt disingenuous. Well, disingenuous to her producer, Kara Lynch and us, the audience.

In the first human activity of the episode, MJ's youngish senior producer Garrett (Ashton Holmes) outburst in her part to assign her the chore of roofing a humanitarian gala in which the Ronda Sales New Promise Foundation will be honored. This so-called 'bigger than Oprah' foundation provides education to girls in Kenya and was started by its namesake, ballast Ronda Sales.

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Soon subsequently, Ronda sits down with MJ to let her know she specifically asked for her to cover the gala and so they tin show the network that two Black women can piece of work together in harmony. She then proceeds to romance MJ with a rack full of dress choices for the gala. Now, most of usa would gush at the chance to pull everything from Cavalli to Chanel, but at this exact moment, nosotros knew something wasn't right. However, MJ continues to snuggle up to Ronda and simultaneously push her British boy-toy away. In classic MJ way she invites him to said gala, then rescinds the invite after telling Ronda he'southward a comedian.

Oh, did nosotros forget to mention the kids?

Nosotros probably forgot, because Lee (Chiké Okonkwo) forgot to share that information too, claiming he wanted to "see where their relationship was going" before he made the big reveal. For those of you who need his stats at this point: Lee, forty-something single British-Nigerian with a 12 and 14-year-sometime boy and girl, ex-girlfriend-baby-female parent and burgeoning comedy career.

Automatically, he'southward less highly-seasoned to MJ, which makes Corey the caput of Ronda's foundation, all the more appealing. His stats: 40-something very unmarried Black man, no kids, with a brownstone in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Once again, something doesn't feel right virtually the exit of Lee for the introduction of Corey. But who is MJ to see glaring red flags?

The gala begins and you would remember Ronda is the Whitney Houston-Fairy Godmother to MJ's Brandy-Cinderella. She's introducing MJ to her anatomically perfect family, takes tequila shots with her, encourages her to schmooze with her rich friends, and of course, makes certain she gets a ride domicile from Corey. Uber wasn't good enough.

But not earlier Kara tries to finish her from getting too defenseless upwards.

"Every time she [Ronda] talks, I hear your cliche little Post-It notes," Kara warns.

MJ ignores and the stage is set for disaster. The blood-red on superlative was Lee seeing MJ walking up to her hotel-home with Corey after the night of bougie blackness. "You certainly are a riddle Mary Jane," Lee says to her equally Corey waits behind them. "From where I'k standing your life looks pretty adept to me. Yet you're running away from the exact things you want."

Ah, duh! Have you not been watching this entire series, Lee?

In the end, MJ and Kara find out Ronda's husband is using foundation funds to house his white model mistress on the Upper East Side. They plan to tell the network as a style to usurp Ronda, but MJ's generous heart decides to requite Ronda a heads upwards earlier taking the news of corruption to their boss. Ronda, who'due south ridden this rodeo before, intercepts by placing the arraign on Corey while on-air (don't worry, Corey was paid off), says she's stepping downward from her foundation and somehow finds the time to hire MJ's arch-nemesis, Justin Talbot (Michael Ealy).

We told you, daughter.

The only redeeming moment is when MJ grovels back to Lee and they kickoff up their love affair once more. We just hope this one sticks.

Dorsum in Atlanta, the focus continues to be on Niecey (Raven Goodwin) who's reunited with her first baby daddy, Dante (Cesar Cipriano). If his timing seems odd — since we haven't seen this dude since Season One — information technology probably has something to exercise with that big settlement check she has coming from her excessive police forcefulness case. After sexing her downwards, he convinces her to buy him a whole entire automobile and then he tin can finally be a man, get to piece of work and provide for his daughter. And the sorry part to this scam is that all it took was him playing in the front seat of a $45,000 too-minor-to-fit-kids car with her son (past another man) to convince her to buy.

Mind. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. And a glaring connection between MJ and her niece, Niecey, is to beware of those who go too shut, likewise fast. At this point MJ is clear who her enemy is, simply we promise Niecey realizes her true enemy sooner than later.

TOPICS: Being Mary Jane