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!