Last updated on 2020-04-08
Like so many of you quarantine has introduced me to new shows, some that I otherwise probably would’ve never watched (and this is one I wish I wouldn’t of watched if I’m being totally honest.)
Because I have nothing better to do well beyond 1am, I decided to give BET+ a shot and watch the much-discussed Ruthless. Let me start out by asking Tyler Perry What in the actual fuck were you thinking, who at BET told you this was okay?
Ruthless surrounds an all-black sex cult who you would otherwise mistake for a terrifying group of people who might’ve been stunt doubles on Sister Wives.
This is how BET+ describes the show per their press release:
Tyler Perry’s Ruthless, a spin-off of the hit television series Tyler Perry’s The Oval, tells the riveting story of a woman named Ruth who kidnaps her young daughter to join her in the dark underworld of a fanatical religious cult. Tyler Perry’s Ruthless is the first new original series from Tyler Perry to stream on BET+, a joint venture between BET Networks and Tyler Perry Studios. [The first] three episodes of the one-hour drama, are available now with new episodes launching every Thursday. Tyler Perry’s Ruthless stars Melissa L. Williams, Matt Cedeño, Lenny D. Thomas, Yvonne Senat Jones, Baadja-Lyne Odums, Jaime Callica, Nirine S. Brown, Blue Kimble, Stephanie Charles, Hervé Clermont, Anthony Bless, and Bobbi Baker. Tyler Perry’s Ruthless is executive produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry.
But what you actually get in the first episode off the rip no bandaid; lubricant, nothing is actually anything but as easily as they described it. Enter: The Highest.
“The Highest” as you might wonder could be described as Michael Myers meets Sister Wives without the knife. The Highest takes centre stage in this scandalously-terrifying (and also kinda bad) drama about the Highest and his wackjob cult The Rockadooshees.
As many others have pointed out, you might be to young to be reading this if you didn’t catch on to the eery similarities to the 90’s animated film almost by the same exact name: Rock-a-Doodle.
So let’s just go ahead and jump right the fuck in and get this bandaid torn off because I’m still trying to wrap my head around what it is that I just watched. Back to the Highest.
The Rockadooshees if this were real life would actually be a group of likely black MAGA supporters who think men rule the world and women must bow to them (I shit you not.) They believe that all women should bow and cater to men; that whites are ferociously banned from their turf, and that a race war is almost inevitable in their dystopian twisted world in which they live.
If this doesn’t sound familiar — I’m going to politely direct you to Google.
Watching this shit show was like watching one of those really weird TV televangelists preach about their twisted beliefs that are so far detached from reality — you ask yourself at least 3 times are you sound the fuck asleep.
Somebody needs to have Tyler Perry and his hotep ass evaluated and stat.
The Rockadooshees appear to centre mostly around a woman named Ruth and the fact that she was forced to kidnap her daughter and then get her into the cult itself. Mother of the Year award anyone?
Then you have the almost enviable (because I mistook him for being the good guy after realizing he was an FBI agent) who weirdly is in love with Tally —- one of the many “prime” “and sacred” women that the cult refuses to treat as anything other than bizarre objects like they do in The Handmaids Tale.
I just started the series this morning, but I’ll be back to talk about it more as I continue to watch it because let’s be honest — it’s so bad it’s good.
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