[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Poppa’s House Season 1 finale, “Magic Shine Again.”]
The Poppa’s Home Season 1 finale ended on a serious romantic cliffhanger between its leads. After they spent the season slowly getting nearer, the finale culminated in Poppa (Damon Wayans Sr.) and Ivy (Essence Atkins) able to admit their romantic emotions for one another. Their timing, nevertheless, was off, leading to missed probabilities. However the episode’s closing second proved that Poppa’s Home meant to dive into this potential couple in Season 2. Sadly, Poppa’s Home was canceled by CBS on April 22, lower than one week earlier than its first finale would air. Until the present is ready to be saved by one other community or streamer (and a few followers are hoping that’s attainable), the Poppa’s Home Season 1 finale serves as its collection finale, slicing off a central romance simply because it was starting.
Poppa was able to admit his attraction to Ivy early within the episode. He informed son Junior (Damon Wayans Jr.) of his grand gesture designed to make Ivy really feel desired and courted. He would hire a limo and take Ivy out to a romantic dinner after gifting her her favourite flowers and a handwritten observe confessing his emotions. Simply as his plan was kicking off, Ivy revealed that she rekindled her relationship along with her ex-husband, David (performed by Walker‘s Coby Bell, a former costar of Atkins’). Comedically unfortunate timing resulted in Ivy pondering David obtained her the flowers and the cardboard and deliberate the date, and Poppa performed alongside to respect Ivy’s want to get again along with her ex, although he knew David was mistaken for her.
Ivy returned to Poppa’s residence after the date and revealed that she knew he wrote the transferring card and deliberate the whole night. One other stroke of dangerous timing introduced Poppa’s ex, Lola (Tamia DeVea Black), again into his sphere. Lola requested to get again collectively, not realizing that Ivy was within the room. Like Poppa did with David, Ivy walked away to respect what she thought Poppa wished. The finale ended with Poppa watching Ivy go away, a transparent look of battle on his face as he struggled to decide between Ivy and Lola. Now, it’s possible that followers won’t ever see what he would’ve executed subsequent, however Atkins beforehand hinted to TV Insider that Ivy’s love life was going to be explored in-depth in a possible Poppa’s Home Season 2.
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Atkins agreed that Poppa and Ivy would make an excellent couple as a result of the most effective relationships begin as friendships. On the time of this interview, which was linked to David’s debut episode (Season 1 Episode 13), Atkins in fact knew the plan for this storyline however couldn’t share it. She did say, nevertheless, that “it’s a journey that the viewers will get pleasure from as a result of the event of their relationship, I really feel, has been notably genuine in that it hasn’t felt rushed.”
“Like, oh, we hate one another, now we love one another, and now we’re finest pals. Over the course of the season, you might be seeing two folks get to know each other, two folks develop a congenial work surroundings initially, after which crossing over into real friendship and confidant,” Atkins mentioned on the time. “I’ll say that that you must watch and see how the connection develops, and I feel that the viewers will like it.”
“There have been plenty of concepts thrown round for what the evolution of that relationship seems to be like, and there’s some actually nice concepts on the desk,” Atkins mentioned of the Poppa-Ivy potential in a would-be Season 2. “And in addition simply what I really like is that as foolish as we’re on the present and as broad because the present will get by way of a comedic flare, there’s all the time grounded in it the center of a narrative that comes from an actual place. And in order that might be maintained it doesn’t matter what.”
Ivy, a psychologist, works with {couples} in her skilled life and has a historical past of giving relationship recommendation that encourages a girl’s independence and dedication to respect from her associate. This stemmed from Ivy’s unhealthy relationship with David, who by no means handled her proper. A lot of her character improvement was rooted in letting herself be weak and open to like once more, as she defined within the finale. Poppa, she realized, is the one who was making that really feel attainable. Atkins hoped to discover this extra in a second season.
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“For me, I simply hope to observe [Ivy] unravel and put herself again collectively once more. I feel Ivy may be very a lot in her Humpty Dumpty part. I can’t wait to see her fall utterly aside and notice the worth in publicity and notice the worth of getting your innards uncovered and seeing who’s there to cowl you and who’s there to assist put your self again collectively,” she defined. “That’s what I hope for Ivy, as a result of I feel that’s a narrative that everybody can latch onto, and not less than in the event that they haven’t skilled it themselves, they know someone who has fallen aside.”
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Poppa’s Home, Season 1, Streaming on Paramount+