At times, it was difficult to relate to these characters. I found Mission and Navarro to be controlling over Tay and Mayon, frequently being dismissive of their rights to control themselves and their environment. Both men would laugh off the women’s anger and legitimate concerns, would call them crazy and dramatic, or would designate their displeasure with their behavior as “cute”. This signaled that they don’t take the women seriously unless they were compliant with the men’s will. Also, both men actively blocked any interaction with other men, to the point of threatening physical harm, as if neither woman could control themselves around other men or simply be friends with men. Mission helping himself to a key to Tay’s apartment, without her permission, specially when she asked him to give her the key, after HE shot the lock WITH A GUN was mad controlling and crazy. I was also disappointed by the trope of Black women being silenced/pacified by “good dick”. I get that this works on some women but to continue to perpetuate it as women’s fantasy is harmful. Not to mention the idea that painful sex feels good to women. Is that true or is it an idea that men have promoted to justify them being careless with women’s bodies? That even in her being sexually free, there’s got to be some form of punishment for her exercising that freedom. There were many humorous moments and clearly, the charterers do experience some growth and depth. But at heart, Mission and Navarro were still murderers and their women were willing to accept that as well as their control as part of their relationships.