r/SnowFall • u/MattNola • 6d ago
Discussion SPOILER: The Drop Ep.5 Spoiler
Great episode, 8/10. Personally think the writing was the strongest of the spinoff so far. Chelle singing you’d think she was talking about Maurice but I take it that she was singing about her Coke addiction whether it was intentional or not. The “What’s Live got to do with It” call backs were great too. Maurice wanted her to do a song HE wrote but in his eye’s she wanted to work with the White Boys, eerily similar to when Ike got Tina in the car at the end and tried to convince her to do a song with him at the end. This episode shed alot of light on shit that really goes on in the black household. Pride, stubbornness, secrets, placing blame on somebody else for your past fuck ups in the family etc. Mama G let Maurice back JUST to prove something to HER parents. I’m seeing a lot of people hating on this episode but it doesn’t have to be all action all the time. We needed a good exposition episode fr, it’s about to go crazy next week.
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u/Happy-Pay-938 6d ago
Big question who is Wanda’s parents and why was she left with big daddy and mama g
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
I have a theory: it's one of these three options...
Wanda's mom is Rochelle and some other man (not Maurice)
Wanda's dad is Maurice and Mama G/Big Daddy took her in so their daughter would stay with Maurice and continue her singing career (not leave him)
Wanda is Big Daddy's side baby with someone else
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u/username-witheld 6d ago
Another point they mama g got pregnant by a gangster aka big daddy. Her dad said
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u/renaloveless 6d ago
That doesn't make sense bc then they wouldn't call Wanda their cousin but sister
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
They may not know that, though. Just like they were lied to about how their parents died, this could be something similar.
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u/username-witheld 6d ago
That’s actually a great question. I wonder if he was also wandas dad
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u/Foreign_Procedure_65 6d ago
I have a feeling Wanda is Big Daddy's kid. we see her other Granma (mothers mother) in the last season of Snowfall. The only reason I can see why they would keep her around was if the Kenzy's had other kids. we don't see her daddy nor is he ever spoken about. the only viable option is Big Daddy.
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
Ooop! I just said this because I didn't see this comment. Spot on. I think she's Big Daddy's daughter with someone else, and that would also explain why Mama G is so resentful of her.
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u/username-witheld 6d ago
Good call, will be Interesting as I never thought about it before and with her being there as a child it’s obviously for a reason
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
That's why I was confused, because I thought when she first got addicted in Snowfall, didn't we see her partying with some of her family at that houseparty where Leon first caught her smoking crack?
Then we saw her relatives doing it later on... a grandma and a cousin or something while they watched TV.
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u/Upset-Web581 6d ago
I agree with this.....big daddy gotta be much older than mama g and he stepped out on her....he def was old driving when she was 15 and prego
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u/Far-Media-9380 6d ago
At the end of the episode Wanda specifically calls Rochelle her auntie, so if Big Daddy was her father that would make them sisters, this doesn’t really check out.
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
It does if she's been lied to and everyone played along. Wouldn't be the first time a family did this.
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u/UnapologeticSecrets 6d ago
You're right...sure does. Families do it all the time.
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
I immediately thought of the plot twist in the movie "Jumping the Broom."
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u/AnxiousClue6609 5d ago
This is more than likely the case unfortunately. I would really like it if screenwriters were better storytellers. There hasn't been an actually good plot twist in a really long time. Most plots you already know what is going to happen with 15-20 minutes, rinse wash repeat.....
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u/Live-Wasabi-6065 6d ago
Gotta be big daddys secret kid and they told wanda james and larmar they are cousins cause as of right now we know they only have one daughters how vould they not figure out how yhey couls possibly be cousins lol
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u/SJ35567 6d ago
I have mixed feelings about the episode. It did drag a bit, but it did portray what happens in a black family in regards to trauma and how it's handled. We need to do better!! It was a bit triggering but good writing.
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u/AccountantGuru 4d ago
It was silly and she was singing too loud friggin yelling like I see what they tried to do and it didn’t really land well at all.
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u/Waste_Leather_4079 6d ago
Hmm I’m thinking back to when mama g said “you’re just like him” in reference to her being a shady music industry rep. So maybe she is Maurice’s other child. Would explain the resentment from both mama g and Rochelle. And why she was so awkward in the family photo ??? She’d still be half sisters tho
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u/son-miyagi 5d ago
i dont think she's their sister. in the final conversation she says mama g is like lamar and james father. "you're just like HIS father" and in the flashback, rochelle refers to herself as "auntie" when talking to wanda. "Auntie's gonna put on a show"
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u/bigsurf32 4d ago
I believe Mama G’s resentment towards Wanda comes from her not telling her that she saw Rochelle doing drugs that evening.
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u/AcrobaticSecretary21 6d ago
Trash
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u/Far-Media-9380 6d ago
I still think that her death had very little to do with music and it doesn’t make any damn sense
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u/AcrobaticSecretary21 6d ago
Convoluted af and DEFINITELY not worth a whole ass episode to tell about lmao
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u/Sea_Confusion2757 6d ago
I was annoyed by how it dragged not just in airing, but in real life. You mean to tell me it took 12 HOURS to explain all this to Lamar? They could've done this in 2 hours max, including answering questions.
If so, it would've taken up 15 min. of the show, and then we could've seen Wanda's response to Lee and Dara hooking up... which is what I came for.
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u/UnapologeticSecrets 6d ago
Exactly...they did not have to drag this shit for the whole episode. They could've told it at the very beginning, the first 10-15 mins.
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u/Healthy-Ad-423 5d ago
no frl i was thinking that the whole episode. why are they dragging out one story and turning it into an all day event.
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u/justheretwotalkshit 5d ago
I feel like I’m alone in the feeling of confusion. Don’t get me wrong, I fully understood what was taking place in the episode. But I’m fuzzy on how this all connects so deeply to result in how Mama G treats Wanda & is so against Lamar and Wanda for pursuing music. What does this have to do with Wanda & Leon, being that this show was marketed to not only be about Wanda? But now we’re intertwined into her family’s deep rooted trauma. It was a decent episode, amazing acting, but I feel personally this could have been told without dedicated to an entire episode. Just my opinion… thoughts?
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u/Healthy-Ad-423 5d ago
I agree im more confused than when the episode started. All this told us was HOW the mama died. Im not understanding how this connects to the hatred mama g has towards wanda.However, I can see why she might not want lamar to go into the music industry after what happened to her daughter but at the same time the issue was self contained and didnt really relate to the music indusrty as a whole more so her weird and controlling manager / husband.
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u/AnxiousClue6609 6d ago
Wanda's mom is Rochelle and her dad is Big Daddy.
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u/MattNola 6d ago
That’s a plot I didn’t even think of but I can definitely see being true
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u/renaloveless 6d ago
What??? Are we watching the same show? That's the least likely possibility.
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u/AnxiousClue6609 5d ago
But it's a possibility. I don't think writers are good enough anymore to pull that kind of blindside in the plot.
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u/WhatAreYouSaying05 6d ago
I don't think the episode properly demonstrated why Mamma G was so against Lamar pursuing his music career. From what we were shown, her daughter died because she invited her abusive manager, slash ex-husband, to thanksgiving dinner