When last we left our shrew-taming quartet, our hitmen finally discovered evil mother was evil.
And are working with their boyfriends to take her down
Keen gets the proof they need no problem. Handing it over, he says he thought if he made Mother happy, she would let them go. But that didn’t work. This makes more sense than Bison and Fadel’s blind trust.
Kant and Style make a deal with the Captain to get Evil Mother in exchange for their boyfriend’s freedom. Then they infiltrate Mother’s fancy rich lady dinner. You won’t believe this, but they poison Mother’s wine.
Then, they play a video showing Mother arranging a hit, and Kant confesses to being Bison’s boyfriend. I’m not sure what either accomplishes. Mother runs to the bathroom to throw up, where Bison and Fadel pull guns on her.
She defends herself while Fadel and Bison cry. I wish she’d acted like she cared about them even once, it would justify their emotions.
Kant and Style stop them from killing her and send them away. Then they are all teleported outside. I hope someone got Mother? The Captain is here, casually ignoring the deal he made. Kant has new blackmail, but the Captain can only reduce their sentence to 5 years. Because he has that power?
Kant doesn’t want the deal, but Fadel and Bison do. They trust the Captain who has betrayed them multiple times, and he agrees to let them have a last day together.
Remarkably, no one goes to the bowling alley
Instead, it’s museum time for Kant and Bison! Is this supposed to connect to their interest in the Northern Lights? They dress up as astronauts, horrify a random child with the truth about Laika, kiss, and make plans. They’re really in love and I guess they like museums.
They finish their day by tattooing each other. Bison gets a puffin, and Kant gets a penguin, their safe word.
Meanwhile, Fadel has breakfast with Style’s music-hating Dad. After that, it’s time to throw paint at each other. Not done being romantic, Fadel takes Style to the grave he was digging earlier. Style feels he’ll never find another boyfriend who’ll take him to his grave. Truth, he’s a keeper. Then they do their own, mini group therapy.
Fadel has Style cook dinner with him and talks about the restaurants he’s opened over the years. This is his favorite. He’s thought about doing it seriously after he quit killing people.
Fadel sees this as a farewell dinner, but Style isn’t having it. He’s never going to forget Fadel and he’s going to wait for him. Fadel says he’ll believe him.
Then, as promised, our hitmen get cuffed and go to prison while Style sobs.
I love this next section
Our hitmen and their boyfriends show more dedication to making their relationship work than typical drama couples, who break up because they’re living an hour apart and can’t operate phones.
Kant and Style get sick of their once-a-week meetings and pull strings to become instructors in prison. This allows them to get touchy-feely. Bison goes rogue on us, reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas instead of anything Shakespearean. It is about a man who escapes jail. But they don’t try escaping from jail. (It’s a great book though.)
Bison and Kant are living their best lives, having sex while hidden in drying laundry, but Fadel and Style struggle. Style misses a few classes and Fadel gives him the silent treatment. Bison gets Fadel to get over himself, and Style promises he’s working on something for both of them. Fadel lightly softens in a very Fadel way.
And 5 years later, our guys are out
Fadel learns Style missed those meetings because he was working hard to buy the burger restaurant. We forgive Fadel for being high maintenance because he goes so soft and appreciates Style. Also, I think Style likes him high maintenance. Fadel’s like a beautiful, classy machine that needs constant tune-ups, or whatever you do with cars.
Kant invites Bison to move in with him, but when they get home they discover someone knocked all his stuff over. Also, they kidnapped Babe. And Style’s Dad.
It’s Mother! They sit at a table with burgers, sliced sandwich bread, and pineapple. She used her money to get out and the Captain told no one. Here’s the shocking thing, she wants to poison Babe and Style’s Dad. I guess with a poison that kills and doesn’t just make you throw up in a bathroom. She’s doing this to… get Fadel and Bison to work for her again? And she’ll let Kant and Style go? I’m not sure.
Fadel and Bison throw wine in Mother’s guards’ faces and like that, they have her at gunpoint. Bison is ready to kill her, but Kant stops him. Fadel declares she’ll die a slow and horrible death at his hand. Then he has Bison poison her. None of this makes sense.
I guess Mother is dead and everything is great now?
Kant and Bison go to Iceland and see the northern lights. They talk about how happy they’ve made each other in a non-specific way. They video call Style and Fadel, who are in Kant’s old car. Babe and Style’s dad are cool with everything that happened. Everyone is happy and in love.
I think the writing is weakest in these last two episodes
Unfortunately, the climax centers around Mother, and she’s been a lame villain from the beginning. She’s not threatening because we never see her do anything except order other people to kill, try to befriend rich ladies, and blindly trust her hitmen’s boyfriends because she doesn’t know who they are.
Fadel and Bison act attached to her, but we never see her do anything to deserve it so they seem stupid for trusting her. Pit Babe figured out his adopted Dad was evil, I think Fadel and Bison could have too.
Besides that, our guys never had clever plans for getting out of trouble. Every dangerous situation was handled with poison. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were limits to what they could show as far as violence and death. But their plans were still either non-existent or the most obvious ones. It made them seem bad at their job. They needed stronger writing to pull off a thriller plot.
Bison and Kant don’t do much these last few episodes. Fadel and Style kept things interesting, as Fadel struggled with insecurities while Style proved he is Best Boyfriend Ever. To me, they’re the more interesting couple.
I’m being hard on the show because I’m disappointed with how close it came to being something I’d love. I love the idea of a darkly funny retro-crime thriller BL with morally appalling characters who get happy endings. I almost got that, but except for the prison years and Style and Fadel, these last two episodes wimp out.
But for most of the show, I got something entertaining and close to what I wanted. I got relationships that started based on lies and went to very dark places before getting even stronger.
And at least in these last two episodes, I still got fashion:
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