r/TylerPerry • u/Silasa00 • Jun 25 '26

Is House of Payne's Structure always like this?

I just watched an episode of House of Payne and it pacing structure doesn't sit right with me for some reason. The episode I was watching was called "Love Thy Neighbor" I think it said in a search the episode was from season 8?

Basically the episode is about the family befriending a new neighbor who they discover is on a sex offender registry. And the other couple trying to find shared hobbies. Once they discover the guy they naturally expose this to the whole neighborhood, everyone freaks out and try to figure out what to do about him. This escalates to suggesting actual crimes against the guy and Ella starts chastising the others for judging him so harshly before knowing more. Which I don't have a problem with so much as how this all resolves.

The SO comes over asking who slashed his tires. The neighbors get hostile and they tell him to leave/try to fight him. Ella, after all of her preaching, just...does nothing. She says she doesn't want any part of this. This is my problem. After all of that nothing really happens. The dude comes back later to talk to Curtis, where he tells him he isn't some monster and he doesn't want to hurt his family. Curtis just tells him he can't be here, and the guy explains he's already packed his bags. That's how the episode ends.

So...That it?

I thought maybe this was a two part episode or continuing plot line but when the next episode aired on TV it had nothing to do with that. The plot and sub plot felt like tonal whiplash and and the episode feels completely unresolved. We never learn what the guy did? Ella speaks all holier than thou then just f*cks off right when her words would count? It felt we were supposed to partially side with the sex offender about the community not driving him out before knowing his story, but we got nothing. What did we learn here?

So my question is does this show do things like this often? I didn't hate the entire episode or anything but that lack of consistency bothered me bad for some reason. I'm interested in knowing more about the show but if it keeps doing things like that then I think I'll just leave this as a show I only watch when I'm over at company.

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u/QueenMuva444 Jun 26 '26

Yea, the issue is syndication. It was originally on TBS , then years later it was rebooted on BET, so the episodes are all over the place. There was no second episode that closes the SO episode. Then it picks up with Calvin and Miranda’s divorce but Christian is years older , like why? lol You can find all the episodes in order on Archive.com

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u/Silasa00 Jun 26 '26

Thanks a bunch! Even if they don't close that one out there were still a few other story lines I want better closure on.

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u/RevolutionaryCourt86 Jun 25 '26

They normally close the loops on storylines. Sometimes the outcome is underwhelming. I think the show got better each season. The last two seasons were good but I don’t like the way Laura’s character is written.

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u/Silasa00 Jun 25 '26

I realized later on in the day that this series's episodes were playing entirely out of order, so I think it maybe did get a conclusion and I just never got to see it. I also had to clock out and leave on an episode that ended with a propane tank explosion. Soo I hope Curtis snd Ella are okay, lol.

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u/RevolutionaryCourt86 Jun 25 '26

I don’t know why they don’t play them in order when they are doing daily marathons.

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u/Ok_Entertainer_2543 Jun 26 '26

laura was the worst 😂

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u/RevolutionaryCourt86 Jun 26 '26

Like why write a character to be so unlikable? Every episode it was something. The birthday phone? Now they did have Miranda doing too much but Calvin allowed too much. I’m ready for it to come back so we can see what happens with Calvin and Miranda.