at least for the Saint/black storyline of the show, they could've handled all this shit in 3-5 episodes IMO. we know where these storylines are going anyway dont make it tedious

Jerome and Saint got shot, they back up. Although Saint been on this cane too long. He got too much ego to have not even tried to really get around w/o it yet in the show. I would've had him off it around ep 3 or 4 timeline/logic be damned.

Leon basically dead to rights from all sides and they wriggle out of it

Louie shot, she gonna be aight most likely.

Skully girl done tried like 3 or 4 times to get Saint. That means we've heard probably 12 times Manboy told her to sit her ass down while he figures shit out.

we really gotta wait until 8 eps in for Franklin to find out his girl is the mole? thats wack

FWIW though the stalling feel of this season is probably because of how production was impacted by Covid