'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 Episode 12 Review: Who's the bigger ice queen, Veronica or Candace?
Spoilers for 'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 Episode 12
Tyler Perry sure knows how to keep things sexy, savage, and very, very outrageous. Be it children snitching on their mothers or sex goddesses bedding random men just because they are bored - there's no one-dimensional aspect to Perry's femme fatales in the Oprah Winfrey Network show 'The Haves and the Have Nots'. And while Season 7B just returned after months with a back-to-back two-episode premiere, the second hour-long treat for the night Episode 12 aka 'One Way or Another', amid lies, deceit, and gratuitous sexcapedes, it's a tug of war between the show's biggest ice queens Candace Young (Tika Sumpter) and Veronica Harington (Angela Robinson). Although the two don't interact or share screen space for even a second in the premiere, their own individual actions sure do show they are best suited to bag the title.
The second episode kicked off with shock and frustration at Katheryn Cryer (Renee Lawless) having handed her power of attorney to the Cryer family maid - Hanna (Crystal R Fox) aka Candace's mother. The matriarch, staunch and stoic as ever, refuses to go down without a fight as Katheryn spends the night in prison. Hanna's resilience is commendable as she continues to defy both her children - Candace and Benjamin or Benny (Tyler Lepley) - refusing to eave the pub even though they beg her to or Candace threatening her that she will 'call them'. During the whole period of trying to convince Hanna, Benny leaves for a bit and returns to plead with his mother to leave the premises once again.
Candace, in her own way, tries to convince her mother to leave but eventually gives up and asks someone to "come in". A group of men follow her instructions and practically drag a vehemently protesting Hanna out of the pub. But if you thought that was cold, there's always Veronica with that extra savage dollop of surprise. Engaging in some casual sexy time with random men in her pool, Veronica is very, very intimidating. First of all, this man shows up out of nowhere in her pool as she is sauntering the hallways of her mansion, drinking, all by herself. The man talks big game about pleasing her sexually but Veronica's having none of it. She asks him to get the f*ck out of her house but he's persistent. Eventually, the ice queen caves in and offers him a shot at a demo which he accepts by displaying his oral sex skills before they take things to the bedroom and from thereon its a total disaster.
Grunting loud and maniacally, the man Veronica is having sex with can barely please her. Or so reveals her screams of frustration when she practically pushes him off her and asks him to leave again. She screams and yells at the man for his unimpressive penis, calling it a bunch of names that are hilarious for the viewer, but devastating to anybody who would be on the receiving end of the exact opposite of pillow talk. Veronica compares this man's penis to a pen and it's a miracle he can still stand and threaten to kill her one of these days. It's vicious, bold and supremely funny purely because of how much he hyped his own sex game up. But guess there truly is no match for Veronica. Only this one time, where Candace's cold-blooded snitching clearly topples Veronica's sex drive.
Elsewhere, making things wholesome are Jeffrey (Gavin Alexander Houston) and Madison (Brock Yurich), while Vinny Malone (Oscar Torre) brings his bad boy A-game to free Mama Rose who's in prison for driving under the influence. It's a tragic moment with the most innocent looking officer trying to uphold his own duty and integrity in the face of such a menacing sneer and the inevitable happens. Vinny shoots the officer while one of his own henchmen covers the security camera in the premises. And even though plans are being put into action to seize Hanna's power of attorney, nothing comes close to what our ice queens just did.
'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 airs on Wednesdays at 8 pm only on OWN.