50. Issa Reunion
On this week’s episode, Courting in Color celebrates 50 episodes! Chatrice and Luis talk #SeasonByeve of Insecure! Do you watch the show, Courting Cuties? Before jumping into their thoughts on this new season, our hosts catch up. Since last time, Luis travelled with friends from grad school to Asheville, NC and Chatrice is bae-cation planning. For the main topic: our hosts talk college homecoming (yay or nay?), the point of college homecomings, the fates of the characters throughout the season, and questions they hope are answered this season.
*SPOILER WARNING 22:39 to end of show*
CW: death, su*cid*l
Time Stamps:
0:19 - Hello and Welcome Back
0:43 - Can you believe we have done 50 episodes?
1:30 - What have the hosts have been up to?
6:15 - Chatrice’s Bae-cation Announcement
10:49 - Grocery bill increase from singlehood to bae-ified
11:19 - What holiday are we celebrating or chosing not to celebrate?: National Text Your Ex-Day; Native Heritage Month
13:39 - Shout Outs: Courting in Color 50 episode, Happy Birthday Hayley
15:45 - Shout Out for the Culture: Karma’s World (Netflix); Indigenous Goddess Gang (IG) posts about “A Gathering Basket”, a new indigenous cookbook by indigenous people; BAPS leaves Netflix November 1; #InsecureFest happened, our invite got lost in the mail
22:39 - Main Topic: Season 5 of Insecure (HBO)
22:40 - Quick recap of Season 4 insecure
25:50 - Season 5 Initial Thoughts
33:30 - College homecoming, yay or nay?
40:03 - Is a return to college contingent on a glow up?
45:12 - Is college reunion the time to find the next bae or just catch up with people?
49:01 - Kelli is pronounced dead
50:30 - Luis wonders if Kelli is going down a dark hole this season
55:17 - Insecure and Sex & the City cross over
55:52 - Tiffany says about Kelli “And she was my soulmate” similar to Charlotte’s line from Sex and the City
57:41 - Predictions for the rest of the semester
59:41 - Questions to be answered: where is the child? Where is Condola? Should Lawrence and Issa be together?
1:00:12 - “I don’t know if i’m on the right path” Luis relates to this quote from Issa
1:04:40 - What song brings you back immediately back to college?
Links:
“ Karma’s World” Trailer - https://youtu.be/ZhNu93rGx-o
“A New Cookbook by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People” by Priya Krisha https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/dining/indigenous-people-food-cookbook.html
Indigenous Goddess Gang (IG) - https://www.instagram.com/indigenousgoddessgang/
What’s Leaving Netflix November 2021: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon/whats-leaving-netflix-in-november-2021/
#InsecureFest: https://twitter.com/crissles/status/1452044797179351040?s=21
Ursine Noir’s Insecure Twitter Thread (for S5E1): https://twitter.com/UrsineNoir/status/1452712214075527168?s=20