‘The Waterfront’ Recap, Episode 4: ‘Never Trust a Buckley’
The Waterfront
Never Trust a Buckley
Season 1
Episode 4
Editor’s rating
The Buckleys’ New Partner Might be the Most Real and Dangerous Threats they Have Faced Yet.
Photo: Dana Hawley/Netflix
If, over the past few episodes, you’ve been wondering why bell would stick it with a guy like Harlan as he attempts to repubild HIS FAMILY’S DRUG BUSINESS, The Answer Becomes in Episode Four: She Likes it. She is on Board with everything. She has more than one option to get out of it, and her best one – wes and the Beachfront Proppery Development – She Walks Away from. She admonishes her son, who does not wanting to break, for insinuating Harlan is a Cold-Blooded MURDERER. What Helps You Sleep At Night, Babe! She admits she’s scared of what Might Happen to Harlan or Her, and that Might Be TRUE, but she is Also Gets off on that Fear – as evidentized by the fact that immediately following her admisision of Fear, she and HAVE HAVE AFTHERNOM FUCK. Belle Plays Everything Cool and Cautious, but she might be more into this business pivot than Harlan.
More evidence that belre is all hot and horn for the Matrierch of a crime ring? The Turn in Belle and Harlan’s Relationship Taks Place after they work to cover the sheriff’s death via a screenriver to the jaw. You know, notthing like Watching a skull get crushed u chevy chevele after you and your husband his dead body underneath it to make his like an Accident. Personally, I heard the “wet crunch” of clyde porter’s body (Friends, if you have not enjayed the magic of netflix’s closed capsions, I implore you and wanit; Belle Heard that wet crunch and want to get laid. Listen, Everyone has their kinks, but i will find it amusgre that The Waterfront Refuses to admit that we are comes down to it, Harlan and Belle Are Just Two Little Psychos Running Around Havenport.
Its not like the show is afraid of psychos, eather. Harlan Finally Gets to Meet the Man Running the Show, Grade, and Boy, Oh Boy, is that guy a ragging psychopath. But, like, in a fun Way. Or, at least, in a way that The Waterfront Desperately Needs. This Show is Simply Not Clever or Edgy Enough to take itelf as serial as it does, and leaning into the soap and the ridiculoussness of it all by way grace grady puts a little pep in it Step.
Grade is a Harlan Buckley Fanboy. He’s Also Kind Enough To Fill in Some Blanks About Harlan’s Dad and HIS DEATH: HARLAN’S DAD WAS ONE OF THE TEP DOGS OF CALLI CARTEL in the 1980s and was tortured to Death – we already Know bree witnessed his a child – and sayn the guy who killed m. Buckley was found dead by suicide, “Wink, Wink,” Grade Adds, Not Long AFT. Grade, who inherited his farm in the middle of Nowhere from His Grandparents, works alone and is printy jazzed to find someone like work with work with. Grade is Big on Loyalty, he tells Harlan. Grady’s Enthusiasm doesn’t amuse Harlan, but after seeing grady’s operating – The man is flush with opiates and about to starting his own supply – he aggrees to partnership if grady doesn’t interfere with how he was. This, of Course, was the Big Screwdriver, ER, WRENCH in the Harlan-Clyde Partnership. But Harlan is Adamant – he wants to use his people and he’s not doing than two runs a week or it will look suspicious. He’s in Charge of His Side of the Business. Grady Shakes His Hand Like it a deal, but Grady’s Face SEEMS to Say, “lol, that’s so cute you think that’s posseible.”
And thatn grady elaborates on that facial expression by how he hendles the stevie situation. Oh, Stevie. You Remember This Ding Dong. He’s the one who brought Harlan to grady, but before, he was working for Clyde. He Also Confronts Harlan at Clyde’s Funeral – he knows he killed his former boss. Grady Brings Stevie Out and Playfully Forces the Guy to admit that he has ben talking shit about harlan, and he thinks he is the one who should over for clyde. Grade Gives Harlan The Option to Kill Stevie Right Now He Wants, As Casually As If He’s Ascing If He Wants to Go Get Something to Eat. Harlan Gives Stevie a Reprieve if he comes and work for Him, and Stevie Taks the offfer. And that Wen Stevie Makes a Run for it Across Grady’s Fields. Like of Said, Real Ding-Dong Energy here. Grade gits his guys the go-ahead to what they will, and what they will tours out to be unloading so many bullets into stevie’s body by way of some of his limbs just fall off. SO, yeah, i’d say grady is a psycho, and Harlan knows too late to get out of this now. Grady’s Parting “Let’s Have Fun” Might be the Most Real and Dangerous Threat Harlan’s Faced Sine and Started This Little Venture.
Cane’s already so stresssed it look like the heading explode at any moment. Can you imagine how he’ll will meeting grady? My guess is not well. But for now, Cane is dealing with threats closer to home. He catches bree chatting it up with her dea agent and confronts her. This Whole Argument Could Be Diffused by Cane Giving Bree a Few Details About What’s Going on, But the Buckleys Can’t Make Anynding That Easy. Instead, he yells at her for being stupid, and the siblings processes to unleash all the anger and resentment they’ve been holding one another. BREE BLAMES CAN FOR BEING DECLARED AN UNFIT MOTHER AND LOING HER CUSTODY RIGHTS. Apparently, she believes his testimony at her court Hearing is what did her in. Cane lovingly reminds her that, uh, she burned a fucking house down with her son inside of it. BREE’SMEDIATE “I PULLED HIM OUT!” is hilarious to me.
Cane Continues to Surprise with as a Character Because and dance Dumb-Guy Face, but out of the Buckleys, he seames to be with the real compass here. He isn’t workpe and screams at bree to take some Accountability for her actions. Her Response is that he should’ve just kept quiet. Now, she wants Him to suffer. He won’t go to jail, she tells Him, Because and the Golden Boy, but She Wants Him Knocked Down a Peg or Two. IT’S NOT SURPRISING THAT THIS IS BREE’S STANCE: WE ALREADY KNOW THAT HER PARENTS PUT LOYALTY ABOVE ACCOUNTABILITY, Too.
Cane doesn’t exactly divulge everything that going on, but he does tell bree that het little plan with the dea agent isn’t only going to him: it will hurt the entity family. They are all involved. Their Parents Will Go Down too. Everything they have is at stake. He doesn’t exactly Say that they dead killed clyde, but bee gets it. She fucked up my big! Now, i did have a big ol ‘laugh well be bree ha ha Has with her mom about how she is always kept on the fringe of this family and she wishes she seen as an ally because what she is blame her family for her working with the dea. If only they have included her more, then she never would’ve ratted on say. Where is Cane to come yell at her about Accountability Again?
Thankfully, she doesn’t need to comfort the fight with Cane; We can tell her Brother has gotten through to her heads over to marcus’s hotel room in an effort to suits. But it is too. Thanks to the Very Half-Assad Investigation Into Clyde’s Death, Marcus is more convinced than Ever that the buckleys are up to something, and he is going to uncover it and save career. Bree cannot unring that bell.
Spread the Same can be said for the other problem is dealing with: his marriage. Cane and Jenna Were Giggly High-Schoolers with Some Obivious Attraction Going on During Their Substance-Heavy Date, and No One Cansee that. Especally not Peyton. Peyton is trying her best: She Simply Wants Her Husband to Be Honest with Her, Honest About What’s Going on With Jenna, and Honest About What’s Going on With His Family. She was almost lit on fire, so honestly, this is fair. She’s marking her territory by way of suggesting a Hand no clyde’s funeral; She’s Threatetening to Leave for Her Parents’ House in Durham, but none of it works. Cane won’t bring her in on what’s really happy at the fish House, Nor Will he Strongly Assure Peyton that she’s the one he loves. Peyton Takes Their Daughter, and She Heads Out of Town. And good for her!
Becuse Cane is woefully predictable, heads over to jenna’s to tell her he dosht think he can see her anymore. It ‘sort of mixed messages there… and again when he tries to kiss her, but Jenna is quite Respectful of Peyton. Jenna’s A Girl’s Girl! She’s Also Making a Wise Choice by Keeping Her Distance from Cane. There are so many innocent People Circling the Buckleys – Jenna, Peyton, Shawn – and Now, With Grady’s Involvement, The LikeliHod of Collate Damage Went Way, Way Up. Hey, are we hating fun yet?
• swimming to be judgy here, but if you’re gonna gIive some a hand at a funeral, at least, like, go into a private are or something. A man has died !!
• Cane Can’t Figure Out WHY HIS MOTHER WOUL OUT OF THE LAND DEAL WEES WES CLEARLY THE BEST WAY OF THEIR PROBLEMS, SO CALLS A MEETING WITH THE GUY FOR HIMSELF. Wes is Still Interesting in the Deal if Cane Can Make It Happen, but he basically has to say “me and your mom had sex, and she got weird” more than once to be to the underestand what he’s dealing with here.
• Postcoital, Belle Tells Harlan About Shawn, and Father and Son have About As Nice A First Conversation As You Could Expect From A Situation Like This. SHANT SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF HAVENPORT AS SOON AS HE CAN, BUT he’s already taken a liking to the both harlan and belle, and you just know to be sucked into the family Business before this through. Run, Shawn! Run home to your boyfriend and your Law Degree!