![]() A hand-painted mural on one of the walls, depicting everyone who has been lost in the long-running conflict, is a clear metaphor for both Vi and Powder having grown up and grown apart - both are on there as we met them in the very first episode when Jinx was still Powder and didn’t hear voices in her head. As it turns out, the Firelight’s leader is a grown-up Ekko, who reveals his identity to Vi and gives her a tour of his little community, its citizens displaced from the Lanes thanks to the unchecked distribution of Shimmer. ![]() This remains an impressive and unique-looking show without being pretentious about its style.īut anyway, here’s the main thrust of the plot. Jinx’s personal spiral is also well-handled, and a good excuse for a lot of flourishes in the animation, as are the two extended sequences that play out like animated rap music videos. It’s obvious “we’re approaching the end and this guy is due a showdown with the heroes” stuff, but like most other things that Arcane does, it’s of a distinguished variety. Having Sevika behind him as a kind of personal bodyguard also helps. It’s smart because Silco doesn’t necessarily look all that imposing, so reinforcing his efficiency is a good idea. Silco quelling a leadership dispute led by Finn is a highlight, though, in the kind of way that a villain doing something grim always is. A lot of “The Boy Savior” comprises quieter scenes really hammering this sentiment home. Jayce doesn’t want Viktor to die Silco doesn’t want to die (and being deposed is the same thing, more or less). There are lots of themes and different dynamics buried in all this - Viktor being offered Shimmer, Mel trying to convince Jayce and Viktor to use Hextech to build weapons “just in case”, Silco stamping out dissent by reminding his acolytes of what he has done for them - but the essentials are pretty simple. Elsewhere, the crucial matter of Viktor’s health, and the lengths both he and Jayce will go to in order to preserve it, not to mention the lengths Silco will go to in order to preserve his power, are both of the utmost importance. What did you think of BMF Episode 7 and Eminem’s guest-starring turn? Are you hoping 50 Cent will direct more TV installments? Drop your thoughts in the comments.The bulk of the drama concerns Vi and Caitlyn and continues on directly after their capture by the Firelights at the end of the second Act, so we’ll deal with that last. “The Black community has its own gangsters, and BMF tells the story of two of them and what that looked like and where it all began.” “Movies like The Godfather and Goodfellas romanticize crime and gangsters all the time,” Huggins surmises. He told me about the man my character is based on and gave me all kinds of details that I was able to throw in a pot, mix up, and add to my performance.”įor Huggins, BMF, which tells the story of Detroit kingpins the Flenory brothers, is an opportunity to tell a gangster story from a Black perspective set in a very Black city. ![]() His dad would call in sometimes and talk to me about the history and context of his life and family. Just hanging with Lil Meech, who 50 Cent recruited for the show, was enlightening. “I never felt like I was in harm’s way or didn’t understand where the character was going. “50 is a generous director who wanted to make sure everybody felt good about what they were doing,” Kofi-Abrefa reveals. (Lamar is a character amalgamation loosely based on a real Detroit gangster named Layton Simon.) In one action-packed scene from Episode 7, the British actor’s character is shot and nearly killed by drug-dealing competitors. His lightning-quick interaction with Eminem, in contrast, allowed him to give dap to the 8 Mile star’s White Boy Rick, and he consoled Monique after a wounded Lamar violently attacked her.Įric Kofi-Abrefa, who costars as Lamar, says having 50 Cent as a director heightened his already edifying experience on BMF. In his scene with Snoop, he attended the funeral of his sister’s boyfriend Darius, whom Lamar killed. ![]() We’re making history here.”Īlthough Snoop and Eminem don’t interact on screen, Lil Meech appeared in scenes with all of them. And he used his connections to pull in his boy Eminem. The fact that we had 50 Cent directing? Come on. “Tell me when five hip-hop stars have been on one episodic drama? You can’t, because it’s never been done. “That’s the power of hip-hop,” showrunner Randy Huggins excitedly tells TVLine. ![]()
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