IT’S LONELY AT THE TOP
When we first met Franklin Saint, he was a promising, ambitious student forced out of college by his family’s lack of resources Finding himself suddenly tossed back in his old neighborhood and navigating the pitfalls of the tumultuous environment he grew up in, Franklin was left with two choices - watch his mother struggle and hope his drive and diligence would one day amount to enough to get them both safely out of the hood, or turn to a life of crime to quickly and permanently alter his destiny
A few chance encounters, and strategic maneuvers later he’s at the helm of a dangerously successful cocaine empire, having literally turned a few of the city’s first crack rocks, into a mountain of wealth for himself and his inner circle
Season six drops us in Los Angeles at the height of the cocaine 80s and rampant crack epidemic By episode six, Franklin has lost almost everything he scratched, scraped, and clawed for After being robbed by his CIA supplier for all his life savings, Franklin finds himself back at square one.
Four episodes before the season finale, it seemed like there was still a possibility our favorite fictional kingpin would recover from this low But as a viewer, this gut-wrenching plot twist marked a point of no return
It was impossible not to see that whether or not Franklin won this battle, there was no winning the war Ultimately, he would always be haunted by the irreconcilable loss of what it took to get there
