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?


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