‘Sprung’ Recap: ‘Chapter Five’ & ‘Chapter Six’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This Article contains spoilers for Episodes Five and Six of ‘Sprung’. To revisit the previous two episodes, click here.
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One thing that we can all agree upon, is that human beings… love to plan, and it makes sense as to why. Because time and time again we’ve either heard from someone successful about how their specific plan to the promised land paid off in spades, or we ourselves have enjoyed the fruits of their labor. Because plans do indeed help us and guide us, and that is why we put a lot of stock in them. But while it is wonderful to know that a little tender attention to what we want in life will reap incredible benefits, there’s a certain aspect to planning that we don’t talk about enough, and quite frankly we should… because it’s a big deal and forces some folks to abandon their plans.

In that, they don’t always go exactly as we want. Because sometimes the universe shakes things up as it often loves to do, or the people that we expect to help out with it, disappoint and falter through and through. Which leaves us in a tough place and sometimes facing failure and well, that particular aspect of planning is top of mind today, simply because it was featured in great detail in the next pair of episodes of Sprung on Amazon Freevee. For when we catch up with the gang here, they’re preparing for the big heist, and they were all excited and living it up as they prepared to execute what appeared to be a perfect plan. One where they would waltz into the congresswoman’s house and head back out with one amazing painting.

In fact, the plan was going so well, since they were able to secure a perfect replica of their target painting, courtesy of Jack’s mom, that some of the gang decided to prepare for the future and celebrate. Since Rooster finally declared his love for Wiggles, the right way, which led to their engagement at last. And Barb, well she got bold and stole a Soda Stream from her close neighbor’s porch. Which of course, brought forth the exploration in question. Since those moves almost exposed the plan, since Rooster was struggling to keep it a secret and the police came to Barb’s door when her neighbor realized just who lifted the Soda Stream. Not to mention, Gloria’s guy, the one who was supposed to move the painting, got spooked and backed out and to top it all off… the paintings were pulled and swapped before the gang had the chance to.

A series of maddening events that immediately served to remind us… of how plans don’t go as we want sometimes and how people fail us in the process and how that can devastate us too, since the gang split up for a hot minute while they figured out what to do next. Which was the perfect way to explore the chaos that comes with planning, and it also helped to teach us a positive lesson about such matters. Because what we often forget when things go sideways with our plans, is that we need to just take a minute and reflect and pivot. Because we tend to make our own luck in life and opportunities always make themselves present and the gang reinforced that fact, by discovering just how dirty the congresswoman has become and how they could in fact, blackmail her for a payout far greater than anything that painting could have offered. 

If anything, this was just… another amazing pair of tales from an utterly amazing series. In large part because these episodes offered up a delightful and important life lesson but also because… they were fun and uniquely structured. Since we enjoyed a little Pulp Fiction tribute in ‘Episode Five’ and because it went bold in ‘Episode Six’ and it just goes to show that this is the most refreshing comedy on the airwaves right now. One that loves to experiment with storytelling and has a ton of heart and it has now made it clear that the best payoff ever is coming for the audience. Because everyone and their sister is pretty much done with corruption and do-nothing politicians and the thought of some everyday folks with hearts of gold and a checkered past, making them pay… is going to make for one satisfying story indeed as we barrel toward this show’s season one finale. Until next time.

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