Into The Badlands Recap: Hand Of Five Poisons

Season: 1 / Episode: 6 / AMC I got some good advice from my Regent, Lauren, to just hit you cats with the “And you say Clipp City” opening, then hit you with about 4K Flame Emojis as the recap and that shit would be hella accurate. But I’m gonna take the long walk with y’all cuz you Clippas deserve that much. This episode EARNED it this week. Sunny riding out on a mission. He arrives at the River King again carrying an ominous bloody sack from his motorcycle. River King just chillin, going over the books. You know, just a day in the life of a muthafucka that calls himself the River King. But why he look like a shady merchant and more like he at the studio composing the next best song of the 26th Century (or whatever the hell year this is)?

I’m pretty sure there’s a Jimi Hendrix documentary that has a still shot like this somewhere in it. Sunny hands him the sack and River Hendrix empties that shit nonchalant like it was fucking Halloween Candy on the table. Which would be fine if it weren’t a severed head. He sizes it up with the wanted poster and figures it must be MK on some “ehh, all non-Black folk look alike” shit. But I mean, how can he be held accountable? Just how many severed heads is a muthafuckin packin anyway to be giving out false ones? Sunny goes to scoop up Veil and tell her that they leave tonight. Veil is like, “I know you gotta job where you can come and go as you please, but some of us out here gotta work real jobs.” She’s been summoned to the Fort because …