Amen: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Amen Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Love, Deacon Style
Nov 17, 1990 · 30 min
On her six-month anniversary, Thelma feels neglected because Reuben is teaching night school.
Two Men, One Woman and a Baby
Dec 1, 1990 · 30 min
After a woman is car-jacked, with her baby still in the car with the theif, the thief drops the baby off on the doorsteps of the First Community Church. And since Thelma has no ch
Child's Play
Dec 8, 1990 · 30 min
Frye establishes a day care center called ""Deaconland.""
Yo, Deak
Dec 15, 1990 · 30 min
Frye takes in a trouble-prone teen, a would-be rapper dubbed ""Clarence So Fine.""
Miracle on 134th Street (1)
Dec 22, 1990 · 30 min
Frye backs a man claiming to be Santa Claus. (Part 1 of 2)
Judge Deacon Frye
Dec 29, 1990 · 30 min
Newly appointed to the bench, power-drunk Judge Frye aims to throw the book at all who come before him.
The Gospel Truth
Jan 5, 1991 · 30 min
Reuben's visiting niece reveals she's leaving seminary school to become a singer, and Frye enters her in a gospelfest.
Lights, Camera, Deacon
Jan 12, 1991 · 30 min
Frye sees publicity in a televised trial involving writer-comedian Steve Allen in a suit against a fried-chicken mogul.
Unforgettable
Jan 19, 1991 · 30 min
Frye dates a beautiful and much younger environmentalist.
Ernie and the Sublimes
Feb 2, 1991 · 30 min
The deacon reassembles his '50s doo-wop group for a benefit.
The Deacon's Slam Dunk
Feb 9, 1991 · 30 min
Frye and Ruben both try to intervene when the Deacon's pro basketball player client, wants to marry Amelia and move to Italy. Will Love intervene instead and short-circuit the dea
Three Men and a Hammer
Feb 23, 1991 · 30 min
Rapper MC Hammer has a dual role as a flamboyant minister and as himself, busting a move to keep Clarence in school. Guard: Jacques Apollo Bolton. Clarence: Bumper Robinson. Rev. G
Deak-Scam
Mar 30, 1991 · 30 min
Judge Frye visits an old nemesis who tries to set him up in a sting operation. The judge is offered a large sum of money to alter the outcome of a certain case he presides over.
Three's a Crowd
Apr 13, 1991 · 30 min
Deacon Frye dates a teacher Clarence likes, and the 2 begin to bump heads.
Date with an Angel
Apr 27, 1991 · 30 min
At an auction, an insufferable woman wins a date with Frye.
Deliverance (1)
May 4, 1991 · 30 min
Frye and Clarence try raising church funds by dating wealthy Darla and her equally unattractive granddaughter Darletta.
Deliverance (2)
May 11, 1991 · 30 min
Appearances by James Brown and Lloyd Price aren't the only surprises during a telethon to save the church: Thelma delivers a baby boy. (Part 2 of 2) Her delivery overdue, Thelma