'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 Episode 11 Review: Will Hanna and Jim's children be their downfall?
Spoilers for 'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 Episode 11
It is here. The long-drawn-out wait for the latter half of Tyler Perry's malicious, raunchy soap opera 'The Haves and the Have Nots' is finally over as the Oprah Winfrey Network show returned with season 7B. With tension building up as the curious case of Hanna (Crystal R Fox) and her son Benjamin Young (Tyler Lepley) gets more and most twisted this time, Candace Young (Tika Sumpter) had some tough calls to make. But all of that central plot development aside a whole slew of random and new characters made things very, very confusing for this half of the season's premiere. At the end of the day, however, it's the Young matriarch and the Cryer patriarch we are worried about. Jim Cryer(John Schneider) is definitely something - kind of your seasoned Reginald Hargreeves from 'The Umbrella Academy' if you will. And with this new addition to his life, a gunshot isn't all that far away for the a**hole father.
On one hand, we have Hanna's children snitching on her. With the Cryer's power of attorney now lying with the woman everybody else still refers to as 'the maid', the drama peaks in moments where she shares screentime with her kids. While some might note Benjamin Young aka Benny needs to grow the eff up, half-sister Candace is not screwing around when she says she has the family's best interests at heart. With Jim hospitalized and Katheryn Cryer (Renee Lawless) and her son Wyatt (Aaron O'Connell ) both in prison, looks like the have-nots might finally have the upper hand on the resplendent haves. Brewing on the other side of town is Veronica Harrington's(Angela Robinson) raunchy sex life amid a sea of darkness in her own home. But don't let all of that distract you from the real danger fronting the one man who still controls the deck - Jim.
What starts off as a random ambush in his hospital room soon ends in a full-fledged confrontation with a gun. There's some intense daddy issues going on here and Perry knows how to make things salacious if nothing else. Carlos, Jim's son from his ex-wife Celine shows up and while the older Cryer puts his most despicable abhorrent side to display, the angry young man is going out without a fight. Perry adds humor to the tension through Carlos introducing himself as someone who came to take out the trash "on the (hospital) bed" and for a second it's almost difficult to imagine him as any kind of potential threat. But once Jim established what a truly apathetic father he can be and says in as many words he truly does not give a single sh*t about the new son who's shown up, Carlos proves that he might be a Cryer after all.
Pulling not just a fast one, but a whole gun on the man he claims to be his father, Carlos is finally able to get through to the older Cryer. Jim's voice shakes as he realizes this maniacal rage might actually cost him his life and he immediately changes his tone with Carlos, referring to him as "son" and whatnot. It's pathetic and a poor attempt at pacifying a jilted son. But looks like it might work because, despite Carlos's intense hatred for the Cryers, there's no harm in squeezing a little bit of money from them, especially considering how much they have. We don't know why exactly Carlos showed up now, but he must have an agenda.
Both Jim and Hanna are in a predicament related to their own children. On one hand, there's Candace threatening to "call someone", snitching on Hanna and then there's the Carlos appearance. Whether the have nots will trump the haves is something the next episode will tell.
'The Haves and the Have Nots' air on Wednesdays at 8/7c only on OWN.