'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 Episode 14 Review: Are the Youngs officially done with [spoiler]?
Spoilers for 'The Haves and the Have Nots' Season 7 Episode 14 'Someone Special'
A lot happened on that episode of Tyler Perry's OWN soap opera, 'The Haves and the Have Nots'. Running strong for seven-plus long years, you might think you've just about seen everything but then comes the icy Veronica Harrington with her dreams and subsequent breakdown as soon as she wakes up from them, and a defiant Hanna Young who refuses to take anyone's shit any longer.
But even with Wyatt Cryer being dumb as dirt as ever, it is the whole Young family dealing up with past trauma and facing demons of their own that has our attention. And after the last one hour of development or so, one can't help but wonder if Candace Young's goodbye to her biological father Derrick really means the show is done with him?
It was honestly a difficult hour to sit through, and not just because of Veronica's blatant vulnerability. Not only is that uncharacteristic of the heinous queen b***h we adore so much, but that David would be the subject of her dreams seems a little too preposterous. Come on, V deserves better than some half-a**ed man spooning her in bed, whispering sweet nothings, only to end it with a brutal admission of how he is still in love with Hanna.
To watch Veronic break down into sobs was painful enough as it is, only made worse by the fact that it was over David. Speaking of David, the writer's room is really crafting his sneaky way up to being the literal Jack of all trades. When not disappointing Veronica, and effectively viewers in her dreams, David is being the errand boy for the Cryers.
Jim makes him investigate the Wyatt break-in at the Cryer mansion and when he demands information on the suspect's identity from Hanna. She snaps "Can't you see I'm ignoring you?" and humor drifts in when David reports this encounter to his boss, calling Katheryn's housekeeper a bit of a b***h without any forewarning whatsoever, to which Jim answers with a salient dismissal.
Hanna's cold cut off exterior extends on to other parts of the episode too, thankfully. Derrick reaches out to her to explain why he was at the Cryers, and suspiciously enough it was under Jim's instructions apparently. However, Hanna wasn't having any of it — from reminding Derrick of the type of person he is to refuse to budge at all — Hanna is inspiring and fiery in this episode in her quiet mana bearly manner. Love to see it!
When the police finally figure out Derrick's identity— surprisingly enough without any help from Hanna whatsoever, he comes back requesting a moment alone with Candace right as she is about to take a flight to Atlanta. Suddenly all of Benny's rage over the person disappears.
Ironically enough, this is the same person that made him wander off to Angelica's, to another pub with the thirsty randomer Alissa, and back to the Iron Bone again because there's no hour of the day off enough for them to seek answers. But he steps aside to allow the creepily awkward father-daughter moment that couldn't have unfolded any more beautifully.
Derrick tries explaining his past as a teenage junkie to Candace and all she could muster up is a solid "Goodbye". Considering she herself was the one looking to reconnect with her dad, who had raped her mother and thus she was born, this is big. Almost too clear a reveal that the Youngs are, in fact, done with this demon called Derrick erupting conflicts in their life as a family.
Speaking of difficult families, the episode also focuses a lot on Mama Rose's tension with Katheryn as she aims at putting her in the same cell with the family of the little girl Wyatt had killed, while her sons try to cope with killing off police officers to free their Mama, who is also trying to scam a whopping million off Kathryn in exchange for her stupid son's safety.
And we say stupid as an understatement because, at the end of the episode, Wyatt decides to walk into the tiger's den — Vinny's in this case — with a sh*tload of jewelry that he has no business either carrying or showing up there with anyway. It just makes us wonder whether all of this was a second hidden goodbye within the episode. The Young family seems to be done with their demon; are the Cryers too?
'The Haves and the Have Nots' airs on Tuesdays at 8/7c on OWN.