QOTS Rewatch - 5x10 - El Final
It's the end 😭😭😭😭😭 I can't believe it. Well, I still have my season 5 retrospective to do and then my FULL SERIES rankings hahaha so I'm not quite done yet, but this is the last episode. I can't believe it. I started this whole thing basically a year ago: I posted the first of my episode recaps on September 20, 2021. Now that I've rewatched the whole thing start to finish with so much attention to all the details along the way, I have a whole new appreciation for the show and our beloved characters.
I'm not going to do a whole big recap post for the finale; I did one back after it aired! But my few updated thoughts are below the cut :)
My feelings about it are pretty much the same now as they were back then. It is my least favorite episode of the season; we have known since season 4 when they tried to do a Pote-centric episode when Teresa was in the hospital that that format really doesn't work, it lags, Pote is too flat of a character and lacks vitality on screen. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to do that again, for the finale no less.
But apparently there WERE sizable segments of the viewership who thought it was a huge unpredictable plot twist, and there ARE a lot of diehard Pote fans out there... so I guess the writers were catering to them. In some way that does satisfy me to know that. Like, as long as the ending landed as intended for some unknown segment of the audience, then that's fine. It's not how I would've ended it, and to give Teresa like 4 minutes of screentime in the finale of HER FREAKING SHOW is suuuuuuuch a weird choice to me. But complaining about that will get me nowhere so instead I'll put this to rest with this:
I FREAKING LOVE THAT TERESA GETS HER HAPPILY EVER AFTER. AND I FREAKING LOVE THAT SHE GETS IT WITH JAMES.
I don't care about Kote's happily ever after, I just don't, not one bit, but it literally feels bold for a show like this (an action/crime/drama show) to decide to end happily. I'm soooo here for it. And the fact that it ended like this means I get to relive it for the rest of my life lol. And I kid you not I will sometimes be going about my day and then I'm like "I wonder what Teresa's doing right now?" and I GET TO IMAGINE THAT BECAUSE SHE SURVIVED.
I just want to end this with the other things I appreciate about this episode:
the James Competence Showcase, including him sneakily evading Devon's hit man, getting shot, and still making it back to Texas in time to rescue Kelly Anne
how good James's hair looked while doing all of the above
the fact that Pote got to botch everything and get himself arrested so we got in our last laugh (I know he killed Boaz, whatever, idc)
Teresa leaving the waterfront property and all the money to build it out to Dumas 😭😭😭😭
and Dumas and Chicho walking off into the sunset together 😭😭😭😭 (I know, as business partners, but still)
Teresa's escape wig (who knew she could pull off blonde)
I love that Pote missed the first four years of his daughter's life bc it means hopefully she got seared into her the positive male role model of James rather than the sexist antiquated bs of Pote
TERESA WALKING OUT THE DOOR OF THAT BEACH HOUSE AND RIGHT INTO JAMES'S ADORABLE HUG AND FOREHEAD KISS
THAT LITTLE 'YOU OK?' 'YEAH' AND KISS AT THE TABLE FOLLOWED BY JAMES'S ABSURDLY SUGGESTIVE SMILE GHKGHKDFGJFHFGSSSSK
QUEENPIN SAYING GOODBYE
God I love it
and then the final shot, the hand holding, snuggled up together on the steps, smiling off into the sunset and their future...
I just. It still makes me so happy. All of it. Even getting to snark about Pote. And so even though 4/5ths of the episode annoys the shit out of me, in the end, it doesn't matter. My beloved Teresa got the life she deserves with the love of her life and that makes everything else worth it.
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okay yes that was a little um anti-climactic
BUT i would like to just point out that it is canon that jeresa got a happily ever after - it is essentially canon that teresa cooks for james every single day - it is implied canon that james has tried to get teresa to learn surfing - and it is basically canon that jeresa helped raise kelly anne and pote’s daughter
so like obvs i wanted to see more of that - but i’ll at least take knowing that at least all of that is canon and be happy about it
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Queen of the South : Hoping!
Hi everyone, I’m talking a lot with QotS’ fans and we came to the conclusion that if the show is getting good ratings on Netflix (top 5), it may still be possible that the show can be picked up for a season 6?
So please reblog this post and rewatch the entire show again where ever you are!!!
Finger crossed.
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Of course now that we're at t minus 4 hours from when I'll get to watch the episode ALL of my undeserved confidence from earlier this week is collapsing and I'm 1000% completely convinced that Teresa is dead and Boaz will take over her empire and James is a traitor and the only people with happy endings will be Pote and Kelly Anne.
So, that's how I'm doing. You?
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