Three Women Finale: Blair Underwood, DeWanda Wise Unpack the Fallout From That Drug-Fueled Orgy
If Three Women has taught us anything, it’s this: Never take your husband to an orgy.
In Friday’s finale of the Starz adaptation, Sloane (played by DeWanda Wise) faces the aftermath of a mushroom-fueled foursome that didn’t go as planned. She asks her husband (Blair Underwood) to take her back after the pair began sleeping in separate rooms, but Richard responds with a gut-wrenching admission.
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“Do you know, that over the course of our life together, sometimes I’d have to stop and go, ‘Hold on, is my wife a slut? Is my wife a f—king slut?'” Richard says as Sloane literally begs at his feet for forgiveness.
In the end, the pair does reconcile, but only after Sloane puts a horse head — or a cake in the shape of a horse head — in Richard’s bed. But why would Sloane even want Richard back after he hurled such a nasty insult at her?
“There’s that reclamation,” Wise explains to TVLine. “She’s terrified of being called a slut. [There’s] so much shame tied to the extent of her sexual desire. Richard finally says this thing that is one of her greatest fears, and it doesn’t hit her the same way — it’s not devastating.”
Wise compares the moment to women reclaiming the word “bitch” and “ho,” and adds that the confrontation finally opens up communication in her character’s marriage. “It’s like breaking a dam open,” she says.
The finale conflict comes on the heels of an explosive Episode 9 moment, when the couple takes mushrooms and has an orgy with their two friends. Things go awry after Sloane realizes her husband broke one of their rules by failing to wear a condom, and when Richard finds out the entire affair was based on his wife’s lies.
Yet, Richard’s slut-shaming in the finale seems out of line, especially considering he wasn’t without fault. Underwood himself admits it was Richard who “set the stage. He agreed to do all of this.”
“Honestly, from an objective standpoint, I can step out of Richard, and say: He was wrong,” Underwood shares. “Let me say that more directly: Sloane was right.”
Hit PLAY on the video above to watch our full interview with the Three Women stars, then grade the finale and the season overall in the polls below. Once you’ve cast your votes, head to the comments with your take: Is Richard solely to blame for the couple’s finale fallout — and subsequent reconciliation? Or does it take two to tango?
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