Monet Tejada in 'Coming Home to Roost’ Power Book II: Ghost S2E5

Monet Tejada in 'Coming Home to Roost’ Power Book II: Ghost Season 2 Episode 5

Show: Power Book II: Ghost |  Season 2, Episode 5  |  Network: Starz  |  Aired: December 19, 2021

Coming Home to Roost. You know what that phrase means. It means the consequences are coming back. The chickens are coming home. And in the Tejada world, the chickens always come back eventually. Nobody knows that better than Monet.

The Episode

This is the episode where the pressure on Monet becomes visible for the first time. With pressure coming from her family on one side and from Mecca on the other, she is genuinely struggling to wear the Tejada crown the way she always has. The composure is cracking. Just slightly. But it is cracking.

Tariq is racing against the clock for Yasmine in his own storyline, but the Monet material in this episode is what I want to talk about because it is exceptional. We see her in a position she has never been in before: unsure. Not completely. Not visibly. But underneath the performance of certainty that she always puts on, you can see Mary playing a woman who is questioning herself.

What Monet Was Wearing Earrings: Rope-A-Dopes Sister Love @sisterlovemjb

Necklace: Chanel Choker @chanelofficial

Gucci Belt

Mercedes AMG 63 SUV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygJ85wpYchc

Monet Tejada in Coming Home to Roost — Power Book II Ghost S2E5 | MaryJBligeFashionBook

The Crown Is Heavy

One of the things this episode does brilliantly is ask what it costs to wear a crown like Monet's. She has been running this operation, this family, this life, largely alone for over a decade. She has done it without complaint and without asking for help. And now, with Mecca stirring up feelings she buried a long time ago and her children pulling in different directions, the weight of all that is starting to show.

Mary in This Episode

There is a scene in this episode where Monet is alone for a moment, just a beat, where the mask slips slightly. It is maybe five seconds of screen time. Mary does more in those five seconds than most actors do in an entire episode. You see the exhaustion. The longing. The doubt. And then the mask goes back on and she is Monet Tejada again. Unshakeable. Unstoppable. The Queen.

I watch this show for moments like that. And Mary delivers them consistently, episode after episode, season after season.

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