This breezily toned, darkly comedic celebration of South Floridian decadence and criminality is the perfect summer show
Photo: TNT Near the end of its third-season premiere, a sequence of delirious high fantasy encapsulates the pleasures of Claws. The nail artisans turned criminals in this TNT drama are in the mood to celebrate: Led by Desna, the sharply intelligent broad played by Niecy Nash, they’ve just forcefully negotiated a big payday with a local casino. Decked out in their finest wares of glitter and gold, they break into a sly dance sequence set to “Free Your Mind” by En Vogue.
Claws has been steeped in noir since the very beginning, as it has charted Desna’s quest for power and riches not just for herself, but the friends who work alongside her in her nail salon. The femme fatales, mob molls, and low-level workers take center stage, allowing the show to lightly consider the gender and racial implications of Desna’s hunger for autonomy through criminality.
Claws finds its potency in its celebration of feminine desire and the importance of found families, which for Desna is her guiding light. As Nash noted in an interview with the Chicago Tribune last year, “There’s a line that Denzel Washington’s character says in Devil in a Blue Dress: ‘Everybody is mixed up in it, but some people are mixed up to the top.
Reality proves a bit more complicated: When Desna confronts her father, she is coldly rebuffed. “I have imagined this moment for so long and I feel stupid for ever wanting anything from you,” she says, her eyes growing wet with tears, her voice cracking. This is a picture of Desna we don’t see often: brought low by tragedy, her usual confidence that burnishes through her every movement gone.
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