'Feed the Beast' Recap: 'Secret Sauce'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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Feed the Beast continues to be quite the fascinating show. It is a series that features flawed and broken characters that tend to do plenty of dumb things along the way, but what makes it so refreshing is the fact that despite their mistakes, these are good people at their core who are trying to do something special in their lives and when you combine that with the fact that this series likes to throw in a weekly morality lesson, one cannot help be be entranced by what the story has to offer. 

Take this week's episode, 'Secret Sauce' for example. This is a story that showed us Dion at one of his lowest points to date, doing drug deals to make ends meet and pay The Tooth Fairy what he's due, while at the same time working to do right by his friends and co workers. In many ways this episode was a grand examination of the duality of man, our ability to be ruthless and conniving on a consistent basis while demonstrating our ability to do wonderful things and inspire hope in others, and all of this was achieved by this week's "theme of the week" in standing up for one's self.  

Everyone was getting their affairs in order this week, setting right every wrong and the show started off on a chilling note with Patrick dealing with the guard who clearly took a bribe from other gang members to get access to his father. But while the Tooth Fairy was able to take a stand in simple fashion this episode, everyone else's journey was far more complicated. Tommy had to confront his father yet again in order to restart the flow of money and despite the fact that Tommy backed down quickly when trying to play hard ball with his dad, it was nice to see him be bold for a change, if only for a moment. Whether or not that leaves an impression on Aidan has yet to be seen. 

But, Dion's journey this episode was absolutely the highlight of the story, and well...we learned this week that he is not a man to be messed with when you get between him and his dream. Dion will fight you every step of the way at first to wear you down, but when he discovered he couldn't get under Chef Kevin's skin, he found a new way to deal with this road block by playing nice and getting cozy. That whole part of the story seemed pretty weird at first and so unlike Dion, but the master plan he set in motion...to sleep with Kevin's daughter and get the new Chef to come to blows with him and strategically get him arrested was a stroke of genius and well...Thirio is back in his hands because of it. 

However, despite the uplifting moments in the show of watching everyone find a voice and stand up for what was right, there's still plenty of trouble on the horizon. After all, the money is apparently about to run out on Aidan's end, putting the restaurant in jeopardy and one has to wonder how long Pilar can keep her ruse going and if her newfound relationship with The Tooth Fairy will come back to haunt her. But the biggest conflict now brewing on the show, is between Tommy and Dion, simply because it's clear now that Dion is being more of a father to T.J. than Tommy and it's only a matter of time before that boils over. Either way, this show is quickly turning out to be comparable to the fine wines that Tommy serves at Thirio, it's getting better with age and next week, can't get here soon enough. Until then. 

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