Monet Tejada in 'The Greater Good’ Power Book II: Ghost S2E3
- MaryJBligeFashionbook
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: May 15
Monet Tejada in 'The Greater Good’ Power Book II: Ghost Season 2 Episode 3
Show: Power Book II: Ghost | Season 2, Episode 3 | Network: Starz | Aired: December 5, 2021
Where is Monet? That is literally the question people were asking during this episode. And the answer tells you everything about where her head is in Season 2.
The Episode
Episode 3 is fascinating because Monet is almost conspicuously absent from the business for stretches of it. Diana is wary of Cane's motives. Zeke's future is at risk. The CourseCorrect tech business that Tariq has been building is struggling. And Monet is... distracted. By Mecca. By the past. By feelings she does not have a clean way to handle.
The title The Greater Good raises the question that haunts this entire season: what is the greater good in this world? Is it the survival of the Tejada operation? The protection of the children? The pursuit of something like happiness for Monet herself? The show is smart enough to not give us a clean answer.
What Monet Was Wearing
Earrings: Sister Love @sisterlovemjb - "Strength" & "Shorty Love Fly Girl" Collections
Balmain @balmain - Pagoda Shoulder Wool Bled Tweed Jacket
Fendi @fendi - Women's Silver Logo Stripe Track Jacket
Monet and the Business
There is a tension building in the Tejada operation that Episode 3 makes impossible to ignore. When the queen is distracted the entire chessboard gets unstable. Cane is making moves. Diana is watching. Dru is navigating his own situation. And Tariq is trying to keep everything together while Monet is somewhere else emotionally.
What Mary Does With This
What is brilliant about Mary's performance in this episode is that she plays Monet's distraction as something that is clearly costing her. This is not a woman blissfully in love. This is a woman who knows she is losing focus and cannot stop it. The anxiety underneath her composure in every scene she appears in is palpable. She is fighting herself. And she is losing.
Episode 3 is quieter than the episodes around it but it is doing enormous work setting up everything that follows. And Mary is the reason you feel it all.
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