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Average Joe Season 2 Episode 6 Review: A Family Reunion From Hell

September 16, 2026
Average Joe Season 2 Episode 6 Review: A Family Reunion From Hell


Sometimes you have to give a show some leeway and hope whatever they’re cooking up will make sense in the end, even if the path to getting there is littered with confusion.

You hope everything will come together and that all the frowning will be worth it.

Average Joe is starting to test my patience and creating a permanent furrow on my forehead.

Average Joe Season 2 Episode 6 Review: A Family Reunion From Hell
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Average Joe Season 2 has so much going for it, and overall, it’s been such a great time. The African backdrop, along with new characters and greater threats, has injected something new and exciting into the narrative.

Couple that with the excellent character exploration, and you’ve got a balanced, well-rounded second effort.

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But at times things get a little convoluted, as they did in Average Joe Season 1, and it was bogged down by a heavy plot that wasn’t always easy to follow.

This season, the plot is pretty straightforward at times, but the narrative forces you to remember small details or even conversations from the past season, which are easy to forget, especially when you consider the long layoff between seasons.

That’s not the show’s fault, but it’s real nonetheless.

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Average Joe Season 2 Episode 6 was another solid hour that moved us toward the endgame, but I had to pause several times and rack my brain to remember something so I could make sense of what was happening.

This week’s flashback focused on how Cathy got the watch she was desperate for during Average Joe Season 2 Episode 3, and it once again showed the kind of person Cathy is.

I’d say the person she’s become, but if this season has taught us anything, it’s that Cathy is very much who she is, and that’s never going to change.

What’s most interesting about Cathy is I still believe that in her heart of hearts, she loves Leon, but she’s incapable of seeing beyond herself. She sees what she wants—her ambitions, desires, and goals. And those come before anyone else.

Sometimes I desperately want to give Cathy the benefit of the doubt, but it’s impossible. She’ll let you down every time.

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Her calling the cops on the boys was part of a bigger plan, as many of us thought, but that greater plan was to save the guys and turn Imani over to Sipho. And when you really think about that, it’s incredibly messed up.

Cathy doesn’t know Imani, sure, but on a human level, as the sister of Joe, and just a whole human being who has shown you nothing but kindness, to be that willing to sell everyone down the river is both frightening and sad.

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I kept wanting there to be some other hidden plan, or something that we were missing, but it became clearer and clearer that Cathy truly was willing to sell out Imani, and Phyllis by proxy, to get an easy payday.

She then likely would have taken that money, broken the boys out of jail (maybe), and then lied to Leon about how she came into a little bit of money and taken her lies and deceit to the grave.

Cathy’s plan had some flaws, of course, but she played on Sipho’s weaknesses brilliantly. His actions have been those of a desperate man, so she didn’t need to do much but dangle Imani in front of him and agree to whatever amount he was willing to give, and the deal was done.

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But she couldn’t have foreseen Teddy screwing her over again.

Remember when I said I was confused during this one? It started to creep in when Joe, Touch, and Leon were being held in that back room with the lady from the bar. She started talking about owing Teddy because he saved her mother’s life.

It was a similar story to Billy G’s, so are we to believe Billy G manufactured these near-death experiences so he could swoop in to save the day, and then got these people to owe him for life?

Or am I way off base?

If it’s way simpler than that, I will feel silly, but instead of flat-out explaining it, Joe and Touch talk around it, and it falls into that category of Teddy stuff that’s all going to add up one day (hopefully), but that day isn’t today.

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I assumed it would take the guys a while to figure out Cathy had set them up, but figuring it out quickly gave Leon more time to process it over the course of the night, and you have to feel for him.

Leon is an earnest guy; he feels deeply for the people he loves. It’s one thing to deceive his friends on purpose, but another to be deceived. Again.

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If there were any chance for Leon and Cathy to make it through all the lies, you’d think this was the thing they couldn’t come back from. But then again, never say never when it comes to them, because up until that very moment, Leon was still protecting Cathy.

Average Joe thrives when it slips into action mode, but it’s also hilarious. And when it weaves laughs with emotion, this cast always knocks it out of the park.

The conversation between the guys in the car was full of laughs, but the moments of honesty felt real, and in those softer moments you see how much care these men have for one another.

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When Leon admits that Cathy is infertile, Touch immediately makes a dig at Cathy. He backtracks because his anger may be with Cathy, but he knows it hurts Leon.

It was a small moment, but it was really sweet amid the chaos to see how much these guys are family.

That’s also true later in the hour, when Touch and Leon jump into the trunk of one of Sipho’s men’s cars.

Poor Joe.

He’s so beaten down and tired, and the way he sat at the table when Sipho and Cathy busted in felt like the culmination of everything he’s been through over the last few months.

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He’s just utterly exhausted, shoulders slumped, coffee mug in hand, ready to deal with the next ridiculous thing life decides to throw at him.

The way Cathy was once again ready to sell Joe down the river, and even pulled the trigger while holding a gun to his head, has probably made Cathy unforgivable. Even if she comes through later and saves the day, it will be so hard to come back from all of this.

Who else laughed with Joe when he emptied the mug and the bullets clattered out? Cathy’s smart, but Joe has never been a dummy.

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The battle between them, both in the apartment and in the car, was vicious, but they were both trying to get the upper hand over Sipho, and when Joe suddenly came through with the information about the heroin, I wanted to believe him, and I think I do.

Throughout this season, you can tell Joe isn’t saying everything out loud. He’s piecing things together, but sometimes he does it silently. And it makes you wonder if, at some point, Joe put something together and has chosen not to share it with the class.

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It’s a good thing we won’t have to wait much longer to get the answers, because it looks like Joe is about to be trapped in Sipho’s dungeon with his not-so-dearly-departed daddy!

The concept of Teddy being chained up in Sipho’s lair for the past few days while all hell breaks loose across Cape Town—and his estranged children fight for their lives—all because he’s a lying, drug-dealing sociopath is wonderfully deranged.

I, for one, can’t wait to hear his side of the story. I know it’s going to be a mess.

Extra, Average Notes

  • I’ve been waiting for Akinyemi to get directly involved, and him finding Imani and Phyllis now makes that possible.
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  • Touch and Phyllis are really cute. I’ll be sad if they don’t get a happy ending.
  • Cathy is really a whole killer now, huh?

Only two more episodes left this season! And everyone is at Sipho’s house!

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What are your predictions for the final two hours?

Let me know in the comments!

New episodes of Average Joe air every Wednesday through September 30, only on Paramount+.

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