'Filthy Rich' Episode 5 Review: Mardi Gras brings sex scandals and danger, what's next for the Monreaux kids?
Spoilers for 'Filthy Rich' Episode 5 'Proverbs 20:6'
This episode of Fox's Southern dramedy was one of the best ones so far, we'd have to say. Even though the Monreaux family were celebrating Mardi Gras, there was enough drama to make it a way less joyous occasion. While Franklin (Steve Harris) takes some time off to pay tribute to his mother's fifth death anniversary, Reverend Paul (Aaron Lazar) and Eric (Corey Cott) end up in a political commercial for Virgil Love to be reflected as Governor. In that time, with Love in the picture, Margaret (Kim Cattrall)'s efforts to keep her son away from the gang 1820 results in Ginger (Melia Kreiling) getting into a very dangerous situation. Not to mention, though this all, the presumably dead Eugene (Gerald McRaney) is watching.
In the last episode, we saw Ginger's mother, and Eugene's former lover Tina (Rachel York) spot Eugene when he entered the family farmhouse to seemingly take clothing and a hat. While Tina tells her daughter and Franklin (Steve Harris) that she saw the patriarch, they tell her that she had had too much to drink since Eugene was dead. After Ginger and Franklin admit Tina to a rehab that Margaret is paying for, Ginger was off to get ready for the Mardi Gras celebrations. On the Monreaux family front, Margaret is also getting ready for the celebrations when she sees the political commercial with Eric in it. Knowing those men are dangerous, she doesn't want her son anywhere near them. Unfortunately for Ginger, Rose (Aubrey Dollar) ends up telling her mother that Ginger has a tape with Love doing sacrilegious acts on her adult website Sin Wagon. Of course, this gave the matriarch a plan.
From here, the story unfolds for the worse, we would say. Even though Margaret knew that Ginger did not want to release the tape because she didn't want the women involved getting s**t from men, she went ahead and raised alarms anyway. Margaret ended up telling Reverand Paul, Governor Love (John McConnell), and Eric that there was a tape that Love wouldn't want out, and at that moment she had the upper hand and told Love to back out of the governor's race and back away from the Sunshine Network. Of course, this is a huge problem for the 1820 or as fans call it, a cult, and they had to retaliate.
Since Eric was worried that he too was recorded on the website, he ends up spilling to Ginger that they knew a tape existed. Ginger confronted Margaret, and with Paul and Eric listening, they think that Margaret was bluffing since she didn't have the tape in her hand. So, Margaret found another way. Using the very audacious attitude that everybody has a price, she approached the woman in the tape, Antonio (Benjamin Levy Aguilar)'s mother, Yopi Candalaria (Alanna Ubach), and bribed her with $100,000 to get Antonio's son out of the motel they lived at, and to confront Love. Margaret ends up warning the 1820 that the tape is not needed now since Yopi was there and with that Paul tells Margaret that Love will take an "unexpected vacation" from politics. But, Margaret was backstabbed by Yopi who had approached the 1820 and reminded them that they had promised to her Antonio a fight. With this, the tape was still out there and needed to be destroyed.
Margaret's actions ended up with Ginger being kidnapped and threatened by the 1820 thug we had seen earlier on waiting outside the motel. At the motel, he ties her up and takes all the electronics in there. What they don't know was that Ginger recorded the entire kidnapping, the threatening, and the stealing. The tapes weren't there, they were with Tina at the rehab, and she had handed it over to Franklin, who Margret had ended up calling to help out. The tape was released, and now Love has a scandal on his hands, "Lord knows," what's about to throw down next week.
This was an incredible episode because of all the drama they had managed to pack in. It didn't lose track, and the narrative kept us on our toes. They also added sprinkles of suspense such as Eric's cheating, Eugene going to see his son Jason, Becky (Olivia Macklin) and Ginger getting along (possibly more than expected), and of course Mark's relationship with Rose. The series has yet to disappoint us, and it seems next week's episode will light a bigger match. We still don't know if Eugene is alive, nor do we know if he's going to come home. That in itself makes up want to watch more.
What's next for Ginger, who has now threatened Margaret)? What's next for Eric, who now has been unfaithful (like his father) to his wife? What's next for Rose and Mark, will the blackmailers come back now that Eugene stole their money? There are so many questions, and an hour a week just doesn't cut it.
Episode 6 airs on Monday, November 2, from 9-10 pm ET on FOX.