TOTDY is a pretentious, self-indulgent, narcissistic,navel-gazing, misogynistic, slow-moving mess that does look great but offers nothing in the way of plot, character development, nuance, real tension or, indeed, meaning. It's what happens when a studio (Amazon Prime) just hands out money to a self-professed auteur without any restrictions. So far, so bad.
In this, the last of the three stronger, arguably more meaningful episodes of TOTDY, the attention again shifts to our less-than-lovable Cartel boy, Jésus, and his return to LA, accompanied by his wife, Yaritza (Cristina Rodlo), aka, "the "High Priestess of Death". That is how she calls herself, and if you think that it's stupid and unintentionally funny, that's because it *is*. But, as pointed out before, we're not dealing with real human beings and their behaviour in TOTDY. They're just puppets in the Nicholas Winding Refn universe.
However, this episode has some rather powerful moments (they, like all the other, weaker moments, are again drawn out ad nauseam), as well as an all-too-brief, but funny cameo by Morgan Fairchild. The episode is also important because it finally ties the two main story lines, that of Martin, and that of Jésus, closer together. The conflict between the two will reach a crisis point, as well as a resolution, in the very next episode.
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