The Red Road Episodes 5-6 Recaps: I Really Wanted To Like You (Season Finale)

I've said it previously but I really think "The Red Road' should have been a made-for-TV movie instead of a six part miniseries. I really wanted to like the show. It has some great things going for it. The actors were excellent (especially Jason Momoa and Tamara Tunie). I found the premise (the interaction between a Native American tribe and the outside world) to be interesting. Too bad the meandering script didn't keep some viewers around long enough to enjoy the positive. 

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Episode 5: The Great Snake Battle
After learning new information about his father, Kopus heads to Brooklyn armed with his gun to confront him. Harold uses a crude map Kopus gave him to find where the college student's body is located and discovers it's by the same lake where Jean's brother was killed. This causes Captain Warren to question him how he knew to check three-miles outside the search radius. To cover up Mike's murder, Kopus tells Junior he got freaked out by the DEA's raid and left town. A settlement is reached with the boy's parents, much against the Lenape Chief's wishes. When Jack Kopus' fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, the two NYPD detectives pay him a visit to arrest him and the results are disastrous. The deal is off when Harold tells Kopus he received an anonymous tip where his drugs are stored at the mine. Jean makes a bold choice after her father tells her she is responsible for the hit and run. 

Episode 6: The Journey To the Sunshine
Harold discovers the gut-wrenching truth about Jean's brother's death when he listens to Brian's tape he made right before he died. Wanting to make everything right with his wife, he then lets Jean listen to the recording. Later, Jean pays Kopus a surprise visit at his motel and despite her knowing already, he tells her he wasn't responsible for that fateful night of Brian's disappearance. Knowing she ran him out of town, he leaves her alone in the woods, causing her to have a mental breakdown by the lake. Junior learns Rachel is back to her old life and hanging out with the popular kids in school. After his drugs got raided the cave, Kopus finds himself in a life-threatening situation and in imminent danger both with his father who comes to Maria's house armed with a shotgun and the Albanians, his drug backers who track him down while in the back of Harold’s police vehicle. 

Grade: 3 1/2 Monsters (out of 5). There has been some talk a season two. I hope they pick up the speed of the story telling. Or, if not, I'll still check by occasionally since Jason Momoa is good eye candy. 

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