It’s the return of Greenleaf, the story of the powerful family that heads a fictional mega church in Memphis Tennessee. When season 1 ended Uncle Mac arrived at the Greenleaf compound escorted by the police. Season 2 picks up where we left off.
Grace, the Greenleaf’s eldest daughter, runs out after Uncle Mac to confront him, but he puts her in her place real quick. He tells her he has enough dirt on everyone in town and although he may lose the shirt off his back, he’ll still walk away a free man.
Aunt Mavis, the sister of Mac and Mae, is awakened by a sales person wanting to know why she hasn’t ordered in a while. As Aunt lets the person on the phone know that it is Sunday morning and her club has closed, a new character on the show is introduced. Alonzo walks into the
bedroom half-naked with a guitar. He takes a seat on the bed and then retrieves a bottle of OxyContin from the nightstand drawer. He offers one to Aunt Mavis but she lets him know she doesn’t mess with OxyContin.
Grace has finished the Sunday sermon and is lifting the offering. She reminds the congregants that there pledge cards are due and to fill them out and place them in the offering tray. As she is headed to her office she is greeted by Lady Mae, who doesn’t miss an opportunity to insult her daughter. She tells Grace her sermon was good, but adds that the people were “forcibly uninspired.”
It’s been 3 months since the District Attorney has begun looking into the case. Pledges are down and Lady Mae blames Grace. In a confrontation she tells Grace, her “terrible pride is going to be her fall.”
While talking to Lady Mae before breakfast, Bishop Greenleaf insists that the fire was an accident. Instead of hearing him out, she sashays down with a stoic face and unbothered smile, and joins the family at the table. Soon after, the Bishop follows having shed his bathrobe for one of his signature warm-up suits. During their meal he expresses that he may be returning to the pulpit. Grace
excuses herself from the table.
Charity is outside having breakfast on the veranda with Carlton, the choir director and his husband…Kyle from Living Single. The threesome is discussing bringing in gospel recording artist, Pastor Marvin Sapp, to do a fundraiser. We also learn that during Charity’s medical scare at the end of last season, resulted in one of the twins dying.
At the church, Charity is rehearsing a song with some good looking brother. His name is Jabari and he asks Charity if she has other songs ready, to which she replies that she has eleven. He says “good” and announces that he is open to working with her. Kevin, Charity’s husband, walks in and gives Jabari a “look.” He clears his throat and then tells Jabari he would like to speak with his wife in private. After Jabari leaves he questions Charity as to why she is at the church and not home in bed, since the doctor had placed her on bedrest. Charity looks at Kevin with disdain and mumbles something that sounded like “be quiet,”
Grace and Sophia are in her office discussing the Bishop’s legal situation. Both express concern that he hasn’t just come out and said that he is innocent. The two leave to head over to the ground
breaking ceremony being hosted by rival preacher, Basie Skanks, of Triumph Church. Lady Mae walks past them and Sophia asks if she is going to the ground breaking and she replies in a sinister tone, “I’d rather eat glass.”
After a gospel performance, Jacob, the only Greenleaf son and new employee of Triumph, walks out to welcome the crowd and introduce Basie Skanks. It is obvious that Jacob has stepped his game up and is looking more comfortable moving a large crowd. Meanwhile Tasha, Skanks wife, is making some questionable comments to Kerrisa, Jacob’s wife.
Basie Skanks thanks everyone for coming out and showing support. As he’s speaking the camera pans out to the audience and focuses on members of Calvary who are in attendance, which includes Bishop Greenleeaf. Skanks is giving major kudos to Jacob and surprises him by announcing that instead of moving Triumph from downtown to this spot, he has decided to build a second church and make Jacob the senior pastor. Jacob is in a state of shock, which is the reaction Skanks probably wanted. He then introduces Kirk Franklin as the next performer.
Aunt Mavis looks like she’s been in the bottle since Uncle Mac had her club shut down. Her and
Alonzo show-up at a bar to see someone and when she orders a drink the bartender says he has been ordered not to serve her anymore alcohol. To circumvent the issue, she tells him to
give the drink to Alonzo.
She and Alonzo end up getting into an argument when he receives a text message. She believes that he is talking to someone at a record company behind her back. Things get out of hand and the bartender calls the Bishop to come and get her. When he arrives Alonzo is long gone and Aunt Mavis is at a table passed out and an empty bottle of gin by her side.
He takes her home and when they arrive he asks her if Alonzo is causing her to drink. She says no, but she discovered Alonzo and was teaching him about the business. However, the reason she is depending on the booze is because she’s still upset about losing her club. Bishop Greenleaf, or James, as she refers to him, ask if Alonzo knows that she almost died the last time she was drinking.
Aunt Mavis goes into the house and Alonzo is in the bed comfortably asleep. She sits down on the side of the bed and takes out the Oxycontin.
Grace decides to meet with Connie Sykes, who is head of the deacon board, regarding the pledges being down. She thinks it’s about her dad’s pending charges. Connie tells her it is because of their gay choir director flouncing around the church with his husband and sharing his gay lifestyle on Facebook. Grace states that he didn’t get married at the church. Connie counters that Charity sang at his wedding, which implies the church is okay with it.
Grace meets with her dad and he admits to setting the fire. He said the church was a dump. Grace asks why they didn’t sell it, and he tells her that Uncle Mac came along with a plan to burn it down, but on the day of the fire they did not know anyone was inside. She then questions why he wants to preach with all this going on and he says he isn’t seeking perfection. He just wants to do what he’s always known to do.
Lady Mae goes to the nursing home to see Daddy McCreedy to ask him for a favor. In a very eerie scene he looks at her comments that she was always so sweet. Lady Mae is startled by his words. He goes on to say was his “sweet yellow daisy.” He then reaches up and kisses her unlike a father would kiss his daughter.
At home Bishop Greenleaf receives the call he was been waiting on for 3 months. The DA is dropping the case against him. Daddy McCreedy has refused to implicate him in the church fire. The Bishop vows never to lie or keep anything from Lady Mae again. It’s apparent that Lady Mae really does love the Bishop and Calvary more than anything in the world.
Aunt Mavis and Alonzo are arguing over a musical arrangement. He tells her he hasn’t talked to any agents, but admits that he spoke with her pastor friend and he told him to leave her alone.
At the Greenleaf compound, the family is hosting a sip-n-see for Charity and Kevin, in celebration of their newborn son. But not everyone is in a celebratory mood. The Bishop refuses to acknowledge Jacob, leading him to say that it’s time for his family to move out. Lady Mae is not happy with this news but the Bishop says it is a man’s job to provide for his family.
Aunt Mavis shows up to curse the Bishop out for meddling in her love life and she spills the tea. In her burst of angry she says growing up she had to sleep out back in a shed while Mae was getting new dresses and going out of town with their daddy and sleeping in the house. She then claims that Lady Mae knew all along that Mac was molesting Faith.
Grace follows her outside to calm her down but Aunt Mavis says she has to get to St. Louis and find Alonzo. Inside the Bishop says he contributed to Mavis coming and Lady Mae lets him know that she lowered herself and went to beg her father not to implicate him and this is the thanks that she gets.
The following morning at church, Carlton has the choir rocking and Bishop Greenleaf gets up to preach. Afterwards, Basie Skanks comes to see him to deliver a message. They throw verbal jabs and then Skanks tells him he’s going to “pull him like a weed and throw him on God’s fire,” because Darryl Green was his father.
Oh my God, I said it last season, whoever was in that fire was Skanks daddy. Now I just need to know the truth about the Bishop and Mavis because I believe the two of them were dating and Lady Mae stole him away.
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Tracy L. Darity is the author of three novels, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not!, Love...Like Snow in Florida on a Hot Summer Day, and The Red Bear Society. Available in print and e-book. To learn more, visit www.TracyLDarity.com or Amazon.com.
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