It’s time to wrap up this season. Thanks to those of you who stuck with me through this season, it seemed a bit rougher than usual. I don’t think we will get a nice happy bow on the season tonight. I am not sure we will even find out what happened to Luis. I think things are going to be left as unfortunate as they were when we found them. I’m hoping for a good outcome for Gabi, but I’m not counting on that either.
Dustin
Because I tape so much on Sunday nights, the first minute or so of this show was clipped. When I arrive on the scene Dustin is in a shelter somewhere and has found Shae’s ultrasound photo. Eventually, Dustin and Kimara tell the police about Shae’s murder. It was not until they were at the police station that Kimara realized the dead girl was Shae. She goes to identify the body.
Dustin gets arrested. Kimara is furious. Kimara was planning to quit social worker after the she was asked to make new financial records to get more funding. But now she says she doesn’t care about anyone else’s motives anymore as long as they suit her purpose. She wants to take the job and is demanding a $15K raise. She uses the money for her in vitro sessions.
Jeanette
With her sister back in jail, Jeanette is taking care of the two girls. She goes to talk to her husband about coming home. He’s an ass. He tells her she will have to talk to Laurie Ann about bringing the girls with here. What the heck? His sister makes his decisions regarding his wife and their family?
Laurie Ann is such a horrible person. It seems JD is going to take the blame for the dead migrants in court and do time for something he had nothing to do with and was heartbroken over. Laurie Ann says that Jeanette can bring the girls to live with her and her husband because they need a new generation to take over. She is so creepy she reminds me of a female Warren Jeffs.
For a minute there it looks like Jeanette is going to fight back and do what is right. For a second I thought she was going to advocate for JD. It almost happened and then we saw her back at the rallies saying that she is proud to be a part of the Hesby Farm and extolling their virtuous treatment of their workers. Oh Jeanette, you were their only hope. Jeanette had escaped and now she is a prisoner of the farm just like the workers. Just like her husband. Laurie Ann is a hideous creature.
Gabi
Gabi is in a hospital, but I am not sure how she got there. The last thing I remember was she got arrested with the boy, Nicky. She seems to be on lots of drugs given to her by a nurse that speaks French. I would think this was some sort of a flashback but she has bandages on her arms from where she was burned. The only thing I understood that she said was, “It’s not right/fair.”
It’s so weird for Timothy Hutton to play such a terrible person. It messes with my head.
Oh wow, the letters that Gabi sent to her son were received. He has come into town and has shown the investigators letters from her where she tells him about the living conditions and abuse. FINALLY something good happens. The police have a warrant to search the house.
Nick goes to meet with Clair. Nicky has been placed with Child and Family Services. We find out it is Clair, and not Nick as we thought who was abusing Gabi. Nick doesn’t care where the boy is or about any of it. He thinks he can make it all go away. He is angry about the financial hit he will take covering it up. He tries to tell Clair she was just trying to deal with a crazy person. Clair tells him that she poured scalding water on her more than once. Clair says that it was Nick’s constant abuse from the moment she got pregnant that caused her to be abusive to Gabi. Clair says she wants to confess. She begs him to take care of Nicky while she is in prison. When Nicky is brought to his father, in a wordless scene, Timothy Hutton is able to convey seeing his son for the first time. It was truly an outstanding moment of acting. I had chills.
Then we get another dramatic scene with Gabi and her son. He tells her that the woman is going to plead guilty. That she will probably do a year in jail. Gabi wonders why it is just a year. Her son says they don’t care about us. Gabi wants to stay and go to court and say her piece. Her son says there is no point. Gabi is worried about the boy. Her son is very angry with her for raising other people’s children instead of him. They bicker a bit and he starts to leave. Gabi asks him why they always step on each other. He returns and sits next to her and places his hand on hers.
We end with a sad montage of courtrooms. Clair, Nick, Nicky, Gabi, and her son in one courtroom, the Hesby Family in another, and Dustin and Kimara in a third. It’s another wordless montage that ends with the dead victims standing in the back of the courtroom.
/fin
For me the ending was pretty powerful. I was happy that Kimara went to court to speak for Dustin (after having told the DA to go [email protected] herself). I think it it was a lesson (the series) on who really pays the price and who does not. I actually thought it was Claire that was abusing Gabby after she threw her in that little room, but was not sure. I was happy to see Jeanette’s husband stick up for her with that awful Laurie Ann, granted it was not a lot but to me it at least seemed like a beginning. Tough season…but necessary. I live in California, we have a lot of farms and agriculture in the central valley, it makes me wonder what is going on.
I have to disagree about no happy endings. Gabi got away from the awful Claire and reconnected with her son. Finally she was heard. Nick discovered he had a heart after all. Shay died but someone Cared. She wasn’t just forgotten. Kimara decided to think about her worth for a change and was helping Dustin. Jeannette did what she had to do. Was it a perfect wrapped in a bow ending? No, but with all the unrelenting heartbreak and sadness, the last scene in the courtroom made me tear up. Incredibly powerful and moving!! What a powerful show. I am so glad you told me about it TT.
After watching season one (half way through this season), I don’t know if it tainted this season, or season one was just too good to exceed. I feel this season maybe if made into two parts, could be a bit better. Just a lot of unfinished feeling to it.
Waiting anxiously for next season though!! 🙂
I didn’t see any happy endings. Luis is a fugitive from the law wherever he is he will always be looking over his shoulder after killing the farm boss, Shae is dead, Dustin who tried to do the right thing is the only one punished for her death. Clair will get off with a very light sentence. I have no faith in Nick ever being a decent father. I don’t see Gabi going to live with her son. Kimara gave into to the corrupt system for her own gain. It’s hard to say if that is worse than sticking it out in a broken system that doesn’t actually help anyone.
JD was sacrificed by his own family causing Jeanette to stop fighting for better conditions and just accept her miserable existence with her husband who is also miserable. The girls are being used to keep a shitty marriage together and will be raised in a hateful family bringing yet another generation of opression to the farm workers….
Why talk about the sister’s $25,000 theft without telling us what she did with it? So many loose ends. And in the end there were zero postive changes in ANYONE’s situation.
Maybe I am just looking at it all wrong?
This finale gave me chills. It was sad and frustrating. The show highlights how so many of us are a slave to something in some degree. Slave to a pimp, your job, your family, your addiction(tv for me), your business, eating,having a home. Even if you try to make a change or help there is so much that you can’t control.
I agree with a little bit of everyone’s piece. There was some bad and some good.
Although Clair will only get a minimum amount of jail-time, it will still be a very hard stay for in that environment, and Gabi finally got to use her voice against the abuse in court.
Kimora, took what she deserved. They used her to get that funding and the at the end of the day she still truly cares for those kids.
Jeanette did not make out as well in this equation, having to go back to the farm for the sake of her nieces. Standing there and lying to those workers is not an easy pill to swallow. Although, I am hoping that the little girls will finally have a more stable home life as it looks like Carson does love Jeanette.
Dustin also did not make out so well. He will go to jail, while his pimp runs that internet site abusing teens from another location. And all because Dustin confessed – to a crime that he did not even commit. He had no choice in dumping Shae’s body; his pimp was scary.
And last but not least, we need some loose ends tied for real. I second that opinion, where is Luis, was that baby his grandson, where is the boy who overdosed, and where is the $25,000 that Raylynn took?
We need answers!!!
Do you think that maybe there will be a part two for season four? Probably could pull it off. Kind of the only reason I can see for so much left undone.
I hope so and, although I know it might not be real life, I would like some more happy endings 😉
OMG Y’all I am tryna finish up a Below Deck recap, and THIS HAPPENED,
https://twitter.com/MickaelleBizet/status/859572269009457152
Awesome sauce !!!!!
DId I say, OH MY GOD! ?
How cool is that???Wow just Wow!!
She looks like a model in that Twitter pic! So pretty.