March 4, 2011

Episode 9 "A Very Special Episode"


So this is the ninth episode of the game so far of the fourth season and things are getting interesting. Here is a summary of what happened in this episode. Malik is now out of the rehab center and is dating the super model Jenna Riss. They are so in love and he seems to be a changed man with a new look on life, along with a new attitude, and by new attitude I mean he’s a one-woman man. He is done with the booty calls from his former mistress, Parker.  Speaking of Parker, in this episode Malik tells Parker that it is over between them but she refuses to accept this. After a football game Malik enters his hotel room to find Parker there awaiting him on his bed, Parker wants Malik to sleep wit her. Malik refuse to do so and Parker brings up the fact that if it was not for her he would not be playing for the Sabers, Malik thanks her for all that she has done for him and tells her that he’s done with the games. After hearing this Parker threatens him by picking up the phone and calling her husband to tell him what’s been going on, but after Malik tells her if she does this her husband would just divorce her, and she will be left out in the dust with nothing to gain from the divorce. After realizing what Malik said is right she tells him that she will tell everyone that Malik raped her. Parker starts braking things and screaming “rape.”  The other part of this episode is mainly about Derwin and Melanie. It all starts at a Sunbeams meeting when the wives are reading fan mail about their husbands. Most of the mail is from female fans describing there lust for the players. One of the members brings up the fact that if we satisfy our husbands well enough we have nothing to worry about. Melanie states that she satisfies Derwin good enough in bed, the rest of the sunbeams do not believe her, and she pushes it off. Later that night Melanie calls Derwin after his game and as she is talking to him he is walking into his hotel room. When he enters he sees a women in her bra and panties on his bed and she says “are you ready I know 73 other positions.” Melanie asks who is that and he tells her. Melanie asks how many times has that happened and Derwin says a few times. Melanie says I’ll talk to you later and hangs up the phone. The next evening Melanie and a member of the sunbeams discuss about the fact that she wants to spice up her intimate moments with Derwin by finding someone to have a three some with. Later that evening Melanie and her sunbeam girlfriend go to a bar to look for a good candidate. As her sunbeam girlfriend goes on the hunt, a female approaches her and complements her on how she looked on the cover of a magazine. As they are talking Melanie checks her out and tells her “you have very nice likable lips” the female then says “excuse me.”  Melanie then explains that she is looking for someone to have a three some with her and Derwin, and then the female says why don’t you just ask so Melanie does and she agrees by saying “yes.”

My thoughts on this episode are that it seems to touch on too many common problems couples/people seem to face in real life. In the case of Malik and Parker, and the fact that Malik is moving on with someone else, and dumping Parker to the side, even though she was the one person that really cared about him when no one else did. This seems to happen all the time in life, people turning their backs on the people that were there for them when no one else was. However, what Parker and Malik have been doing is not something to just brush off. Parkers been cheating on her husband with Malik and now that Malik wants out she’s blackmailing him just to keep him wrapped around her little finger and to get what she wants. In the case of Melanie and Derwin it seems that Melanie is insecure about weather she is satisfying Derwin well enough and she is scared that if she is not he will find it somewhere else. The fact that she is scared that this will happen Melanie is willing to do anything to spice up her sex life with him just so he doesn’t go looking for it somewhere else. Considering that this is easy for him to do since he is a pro football player and women are just willing to please him. All and all I think that this season of The Game” is about to get a lot more exciting. So everyone get ready, get set, cause it’s Game On!

March 2, 2011

Has money and fame gotten to their heads?

Melanie and Derwin have both had their ups and downs. They had been together on and off since the first season. They started dating before Derwin became a pro athlete. He signed a rookie contract with the San Diego Sabers. While Melanie had to make a decision to go to med-school at Johns Hopkins in LA where they are now or to go USC in San Diego where he is moving to. She decided to stay with him and move to San Diego.

In one of the episodes of the first season, Melanie went to lunch with one of their old friend from college now Derwin's rival in the game, Trey Wiggs. While out for lunch the paparazzi took pictures of them together and rumors were spreading. Melanie had to call Derwin's image consultant Dion to fix the problem with some images of them together.

At one point in their relationship, Derwin thought Melanie was pregnant and proposed to her live on national television at halftime in one of his games. She said "yes" because she was feeling pressured but later on had doubts because she didn't want to get lost in his "football" world and not accomplish her own dreams. Later on in the season, Malik and Derwin go to a club and he introduces him to Drew Sidora. Derwin ended up driving her home because Malik was out of it. The next day Drew asked Derwin to be in her new video. Things went downhill since then. That was part of the reason leading on to the first break up. Drew and Derwin got closer and they ended up sleeping together. Derwin told Melanie about him and Drew getting closer but lied about them sleeping together when she asked. Not until Derwin brought her to a party, that’s when Melanie found out that they slept together and called it quits. This was their first official break up and the end of season one.

In season 2, Melanie moves on and dates Jerome while Derwin starts dating Janay. During this time Melanie and Derwin had at least one affair. They both realized that they still wanted each other, but at this time Derwin had already gotten Janay pregnant. Finally in season 3, they get back together and deal with Janay’s pregnancy. Later on in the season, they eventually got married and Janay gave birth to his son. Now in season 4, two years later, they are happily married but Melanie questions if DJ is really Derwin’s son, so she does a DNA test.

As you can see, Melanie and Derwin have clearly been through a lot. The only thing I don’t get is why would Melanie question DJ’s DNA two years after he was born, why wasn't the test done before this point. As a woman, if I had my doubts, that would have been first on my to do list, in order to maintain my sanity. I think she only started to question it because he was ruining her picture perfect family and life. From the beginning this was their dream and now they are finally here. I think Melanie feels like Janay is just jealous of what her and Derwin have and taking it out on the son. I believe that now that they made it to the top that they are not remembering how they got there. I predict that they are going to let the money and fame go to their heads to the point where it is going to affect their relationship. What do you think? Have Melanie and Derwin let the fame and fortune get to them?

Before - on their wedding day

After - now living as a married couple