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Hallmark's The Chicken Sisters S1 E7 - It's Just Junk, Ya'll

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Grab a glass and join Garry and Amy on Pour the Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time as they chat about Episode 7 of The Chicken Sisters. What begins as a tense crisis unfolds into a heartfelt story about healing, community, and the courage to confront difficult truths. With their blend of humor and heart, Garry and Amy break down every moment of this powerful, must watch episode and gear up for the season finale next week!


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Amy:

Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's rom-com time where we'll sip some wine and review all things rom-com on the Hallmark channel. I'm Amy.

Garry:

And I'm Gary.

Amy:

And it's time to Pour the Wine.

Garry:

What? Oh, go ahead. Sorry, before we pour the wine.

Amy:

I jumped the gun. Yes, you did. I just want to wish you a happy Mother's Sorry.

Garry:

Before we pour the wine. I jumped the gun. Yes, you did. I just want to wish you a happy Mother's Day.

Amy:

Thank you. Thank you, it is Mother's Day. We're recording this on the evening of Mother's Day. We had a great time.

Garry:

Yep today.

Amy:

We're a blended family, so we spent it with my two Yep and we had a great day. It and we had a great day it was awesome. Yeah, we pretty much spent the whole day out. We had brunch, then we shopped, then we went to a brewery, yeah, and now we're drinking some wine. No drinking today at all.

Garry:

No, no, no, mimosas at brunch.

Amy:

Yeah, no, it was a really good day. And then I also heard from the other two which was nice, so it's been and a phone call.

Garry:

And a phone call.

Amy:

From one of them Yep, yep, so it's been a great day.

Garry:

They're all grown up.

Amy:

They're all grown up. They're all grown up. So, yeah, it was a good day, thank you?

Garry:

Okay, all right, now I'll pour the wine. And what do we have today? We're.

Amy:

Courtney Benham, and this was one of the Mother's Day gifts.

Garry:

Yes, it was. Shocking that they got me some wine and it's a Cab Sav, sonoma County, and it's a 2023.

Amy:

2023. Yeah, there you go, there you go. We would love it if you would click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss an episode. Yes, if you listen on Apple or Spotify, you can also leave us a review, and hopefully it's a positive review Positive. We really would appreciate it. You can also find us on all the socials. Yes, you can Facebook, Instagram, Blue Sky X and Threads, so make sure you follow us there and let us know what you think so far.

Garry:

Please, please.

Amy:

Please, please, please. Let's talk right, let's chat.

Garry:

Yeah, or chat, as you people would say.

Amy:

As you people would say what are we talking about today? What's our topic?

Garry:

Today we're going to review the seventh episode of season one of the Chicken Sisters. It's junk, y'all. It's junk, y'all. It's just junk, or it's just sorry I forgot oh my goodness, and I didn't have a sip of wine not yet, not yet well, it aired on sunday, may 11th 2025. If you missed it, you can catch it and all episodes on homework plus word so aired today. Yes, today on mother's day, yeah, yeah so who are we adding to the list of actors? Slash actresses in this one oh my gosh.

Amy:

Okay, we are not adding any actors or actresses in this one that was a good impression of me.

Garry:

That was really good.

Amy:

No, we're not actually for this one, so if you would like a complete list, yes. Of the actors and actresses who have been in the series so far, or as many as we could name.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

They're in at the beginning of episodes, I think one through four and episode six.

Garry:

Yes. So you can go back and check that out, please, do you want? Yeah, and let us know what you think yeah yeah, well, great well guess what it's trivia time it's trivia time.

Amy:

Okay, do you have a question for me, or are you just gonna tell me? Sometimes, you tell me sometimes you ask a question feeling judged. Here I'm feisty on Mother's Day, this is a question. Okay.

Garry:

And you should hopefully know the answer. Okay, we'll see what is the most popular season for Hallmark Channel movies.

Amy:

Well, I mean it's got to be Christmas. Ding ding ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding, correct. Thank you for giving me an easy question on Mother's Day.

Garry:

So tell her what she won today.

Amy:

What did I win today?

Garry:

A hug and a kiss.

Amy:

Oh, that's so nice, I know right.

Garry:

Yeah, so it's time to drop the synopsis.

Amy:

All right, here we go. Season one, episode seven. It's just junk, y'all.

Garry:

Yeah, it is.

Amy:

The town unites to support Gus, amanda and May during a crisis. Sabrina questions her approach on the show Kitchen Clash.

Garry:

Yes, yes. So Woo Just got to give you a little note here. Okay, press pause. Oh, yeah, and go watch it, because we're about to drop some spoilers.

Amy:

There you go. Press pause on the pod, that's right.

Garry:

Press pause on the pod. That's right. Press pause Go watch episode seven yes, correct, of the Chicken Sisters and then come back and push play. Yes.

Amy:

And listen.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Correct.

Garry:

Correct, Okay, gotcha man. So what'd you think?

Amy:

What'd you think? Well, let's start with a quick recap, yes, think well, let's start with a quick recap, yes, of what happened at the end of last. So at the end of last episode we had frank jr calling the health inspector yeah amanda and sergio are at sergio's land that he's going to build a house on. Yep right, um, what else happened? Nancy is coming to terms with frank senior yes and realizes that he may not have been the man she thought he was after she finds out he wanted to put gus out and take her business.

Garry:

Yeah, that was yeah.

Amy:

Throw her on the street, yeah lindsey and her mom made great strides yes, right they got closer together. So we're kind of floating on that for now at the beginning of the episode. And so we're kind of floating on that for now at the beginning of the episode and May and Kenneth, you know, had their heart to heart and made up and May's really really owning her stuff.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

You know, and wanting to move forward, and then her fiance shows up I know has shown up right at the end, so that's kind of where we are.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Now we get to the episode. What an episode. Yes, it was. This episode was so good. I thought it was so good.

Garry:

Yeah, I think it's probably one of the best ones so far. One of the best ones, one of the top two, for sure.

Amy:

I think we said episode five and then this one, so so good. There was a lot in this episode and we can just get to it, I guess, with the characters. So who do?

Garry:

you want to. Who do you think?

Amy:

we should start with. Let's start with amanda. She's probably a good one to start with, because at the beginning of the episode we see her waking up next to sergio in the back of his pickup, which could not be comfortable. First of all no now they are fully clothed yes, they are so are we supposed to assume nothing? I Right. I mean something's happened, but nothing. They just snuggled. You know non-homework.

Garry:

Under the stars Right Right.

Amy:

Right. So she wakes up, it's morning, she starts, she realizes she's late.

Garry:

Yep, she's freaking out.

Amy:

He's going to bring her home. She's like kidding me. It's a small town, you know whatever.

Garry:

So she runs home and they're out in like a field there I don't know how far she was, like miles over the river, but I have to say when she's running, they're playing this music.

Amy:

And do you know what it reminded me of? What ferris bueller's day off oh my goodness, when ferris is running home.

Garry:

Oh, do you remember that's towards the end of the movie isn't it?

Amy:

he's trying to get home before jumping over before his dad gets home and his dad's in the car and he almost runs into yeah or he does his dad.

Garry:

Oh yeah, no, no, not the principal.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah so he's trying to beat his dad on you that's what it reminded me of, and she's running through the town and she had cowboy boots on, which could not have been comfortable, but that's an aside, I know so anyway. So she she gets home, and right as she gets home, shauna shows up yep and shauna has the 411 on the health inspector and tells amanda right that someone called the health inspector or whatever, yeah on on mimi's.

Amy:

Yeah, so that's sort of the premise of the entire. That sort of sets the stage for the entire episode, really. So you know. So now amanda has this information and she has to figure out what to do with it and she immediately goes to gus yep and says you know, someone called the health inspector on yeah, yeah yeah, and then gus kind of she's like. What does she say? This is well, you know, mimi's is cleaner than a stripper pole on a Monday morning, and then Gus realizes they're not talking about that.

Garry:

They're talking about the house that's right behind Right.

Amy:

Right, so that's kind of.

Garry:

Yeah, that's kind of the opening scene there.

Amy:

Right right.

Garry:

Which I did think it was funny because, like Amanda, it shows her running through a field and then I guess she's running through an orchard or something. I don't know if it was apple or an orange or a peach, but she jumps up, grabs it, takes a bite, and then you see her going across a bridge and then she hides behind a town sign.

Amy:

Oh, that's right, she hides behind a town sign. I mean, it was so funny.

Garry:

She's going through the town and then she finally gets home and she's like where's Frank Jr? And then that's when Shawna pulls up.

Amy:

Well, and then you know, after she yeah, shawna pulls up, and then after she goes to Gus's house and tells Gus and Gus is like you know basically says something like that it would require a professional to clean it, a very thorough anal retentive, and then then she's like wait a minute you know, then she realizes they need to go to may, who is anal retentive and has the show. What was the name of may show Sparkly sparkling.

Amy:

Yep, so yeah. So that's kind of so now we're kind of getting into then. Amanda and Gus are now united. And they have to go and get May.

Garry:

May Yep.

Amy:

Right? Who is with her fiance? Who just showed?

Garry:

up, just showed up.

Amy:

Right so.

Garry:

So let's talk about that scene, because that was kind of funny. That was kind of funny. So so May and Jay her fiance are in the room and they're talking when Amanda and Gus break in. And this is the first time that they meet each other, jay and.

Amy:

Amanda and Gus.

Garry:

And you can see the look on Amanda's face, because she's like busted right.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

And then it's funny because May says to Jay that this is my mom. She's not a five-star, she doesn't own a five-star restaurant, which is what she told Jay right and this is my sister, Amanda, who is not a Somalian.

Amy:

And then you, because I think I had asked that before, Like what else did she lie about?

Garry:

She apparently did lie about everything she would lie Like she made stuff up about her family. Yes, and she did a good job of lying and.

Amy:

I will give you know Jay credit in this episode episode too, because here's a man who's been lied to about her past and the people in her life and where she's from yep and and how she made it in new york right where she was working, and he still shows up yeah because there's something there and I just think it really shows a lot about May and his relationship and you know, they might have the deepest connection out of anybody. And here Amanda and Frank Jr have been married for at least 16 years, right.

Garry:

Because the daughter's? I don't know, Because the daughter, yep, she's getting ready to go off to college.

Amy:

Yeah, she's 16, 17 years and they're in a different place. You know, and we find out. Frank Jr has probably been like this the whole time.

Garry:

Yeah, and it's kind of an ass, but it's very sad yeah.

Amy:

So I mean. So that's, that scene is funny and interesting. And then you know, of course May decides to go and help.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And they all go to Gus's house. Yep, and I kind of like the scene where you know may and jay. She's kind of like it's going to be a lot.

Garry:

Yes, like when you walk in there and he's basically like it's fine. Yeah, he grabs her by the hand. Yeah, let's go let's do it.

Amy:

I thought that was so, I don't know. I I think their relationship.

Garry:

There was a lot of character growth in this one.

Amy:

Between.

Garry:

All of them, really. They all grew, they all came out. You know May is so afraid of that house. Yeah, you know, because when she was little she always feared that something would fall down on her. But I do like in order to get get through it. She turns into her character from sparkling so, so let's.

Amy:

I just want to back up just a little bit though about the house itself. Yeah, so they have like either that day or a day yes and realistically, if you're looking at that, you know that's not going to happen no like as a viewer and as you know, like you, just there's so much stuff and and it's usually, you know it, people who hoard.

Amy:

It's deeper. I mean, I'm not an expert on it and I'm not, you know, I just you just know that the issues are deeper than the stuff. Yep, you know, and you do find out at some point. Gus talks to sergio about that a little bit later and you know, to go in there, mae kind of goes in there and Gus is basically like hey, we'll just put it in storage for now, and Mae's like no, we're going to trash it, but that's hard for people who have hoarded. And I felt like Gus kind of was like OK, you know, like like excuse you, but then she kind of gives in, but it's. I think it would be harder for someone.

Garry:

Yeah. Who was a hoarder to that extent to just be like, okay, let's take everything out and get rid of it right.

Amy:

I don't, you know, I don't know that we saw as big of a struggle as I think it would actually be right for someone, I mean. But you know, but gus is also at a point in her life where maybe she is trying to change. But that's a long time. Room wasn't built in a day, so no, it wasn't.

Garry:

And um, you know.

Amy:

And then again, going back to when may, in order to get through, it has to get into character from sparkling yes, and that is such a good scene, when, because the music starts playing, and and she just starts cleaning, and well she says you're gonna go in that room, you have zone one, you have zone two and she, you know, bosses everybody around because she's organized. But I think that's how she deals with right that's how she deals with things is she get? She becomes in charge, she makes a plan yeah and she executes it, and that's what keeps her mind focused yeah, so that says a lot about her. Like you said, we're really seeing, you know.

Garry:

To me it was just a good scene. But then, so now you still have the fact that the townspeople, may doesn't, or Gus doesn't realize that they're rallying the troops, the community to come. Well, he was rallying them.

Amy:

The important part there is Nancy.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Decides. Nancy goes and talks to the pastor Right and has sort of a am I a good person?

Garry:

Yeah, she's, because she's struggling with that self-worth.

Amy:

Yeah, and, and so Nancy is the one who does rally the town townspeople to come marching to Gus's house.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And and help her out, because there's no way four of them could do. I mean, there's no way the town could do it in one day, but four of them, you know.

Garry:

Right and then and then, as they're cleaning up in the house, gus, amanda May and Jay Gus looks out the window and sees them coming.

Amy:

All the people coming. But what's funny is that she thinks it's some big secret. It's like the town's biggest open secret.

Garry:

Right, right Her house.

Amy:

Everybody knows I mean even the pastor, when Nancy's talking to him, knows that Gus's house is like that Because he says, oh, her restaurant's as clean as a whistle and you know it's going to be fine. And Nancy's like no Pastor, it's the house and he goes, who you know? I mean, everybody knows she's like she doesn't want to give the town something to talk about, but they're already talking about it.

Garry:

And they already know. And isn't it interesting that her restaurant is as clean as it is, but her house is just just a mess.

Amy:

No, I think, I think there are people if you there are people who are hoarders like that, who go into work every day, and you would never know if you went to their house. You wouldn't suspect that. I know I've read that too.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

You know so, like other parts of their life, are functional and you might not, you know, suspect.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

What the conditions of the house are. People can fake it a lot.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

You know, and maybe the business I mean, that's her bread and butter and her money.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

So she knows she's got to keep it sparkling clean or no one will come in.

Garry:

Yeah, which throughout most of the episodes no one really goes in.

Amy:

Right, right.

Garry:

But the exchange between Nancy and Gus, when the community does walk up, I thought was very powerful too, because Gus comes running out. Well, you know you did it this time, you know you're going to close, you know Mimi's and et cetera, et cetera, and Nancy goes, no Right.

Amy:

We're here.

Garry:

We're here to help you Right. And then you could just see the look on Gus's face. It was just to me it was really powerful, because you could see, at that moment she was like something was just lifted off of her shoulders.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, like a thought was good, kind of. I mean, nancy says Gus, you're stubborn and sustained because Gus doesn't want the help. No one's going in my house, yeah. It's like you said, and then when she realizes, I mean she has to have the help, she has to, yeah, or she's going to get shut down, right? No-transcript having a reality show and everything.

Garry:

Yeah, so that was really.

Amy:

That was really good. And then um, and then shauna, and then you have frank. Oh my god, frank jr who? Who made the phone call?

Garry:

he doesn't go to help, right he? He doesn't, he stays at the restaurant.

Amy:

And then he sees Shauna and she just can't help herself, right? No Well, first of all, shauna's the one who also told Nancy.

Garry:

Yes, she did.

Amy:

Because she was like Amanda's not here and I can't tell you why, but I'm going to tell you why. Okay, because you asked. You know, it's just so funny, she can't get out of her own way and everybody knows it, you know yeah and we all know people who would swear and say I won't say anything, but you know, if you tell them it's going to get out somewhere you know, or everywhere in that case.

Amy:

But and then when she sees frank jr, when shauna sees frank jr, and he's like where is everybody? And she's like who could know she does? She's trying so hard, she's trying so hard not to tell him and she goes. I don't know anything, you know she's like I don't know she is you know. She says who could know, who could know, in a deep voice too, it's like her voice changes.

Amy:

It was just so funny. You know she's just dying to tell him and she has to leave the room. Leave because they're in, like the main part of the restaurant, and she goes, she leaves the area that they're in because she she knows she's gonna say something and she just has to leave and he's kind of like, okay, like, and he's too dumb to figure out, you know yeah, yeah, me and him are done you and and him. Oh, I know you said yeah, you guys are broken up.

Garry:

Yeah, we have. It was I. Just he's a great he. I love him because he's such a great. He does a great job at this character. He really does. He makes me hate him. He really does. I don't like hating people, but he makes me hate him I wonder if he is really like that in the book.

Amy:

I'd be very curious what his character was like. Yeah, um, in the book, if he was. If he was that way and we do we do get a glimpse of him too. We haven't really talked about him at the beginning. You see him with his dad when he was growing up and a flashback yeah, where he's young and he's fishing with his dad and he's playing football and stuff with his dad, and then always trying to and stuff with his dad, and then he kind of fumbles, because he's a bumbling idiot, he fumbles during a pitch during like a board meeting or whatever, and his dad then realizes he doesn't really have the business shops and then cuts off his relationship with him really, I mean so.

Garry:

And poor Frank Jr, to this day, is still trying to please his dad right right, right, even after his dad is gone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he wants it too, yeah but um so, let's, let's talk about uh, uh may and jay may and j.

Amy:

Okay, so we kind of already.

Garry:

Well, just on the, you know, I mean.

Amy:

I know there's more. I'm just saying we touched on the in part Right when Amanda.

Garry:

Well, when they have their conversation about the lying, you know when. May you know, jay's, like you know, I love you for who you are. You know you're tough, you're beautiful, you know with your faults or without your fault, and she was like you know really, and you know, I thought that scene too was a very good scene. Are you talking about when they're at the house?

Amy:

Yeah, when they're at the house Right right, so they're sitting outside.

Garry:

It's still daylight. It's still daylight.

Amy:

There's still. I think maybe the townspeople had left by then. Or Gus, shoot them all away or whatever. And yeah, that was a pretty powerful scene because you can really see that May and she even says I don't feel like I'm worth loving, Right, and that's so sad. Right, and he's like you are worth loving. Yeah, you know. He has to reiterate that to her.

Garry:

That was a really yeah, that was a really powerful scene and that was right after May, when she was going through the house and you can tell she was starting to struggle to stay in focus, and she opens up a closet and pillows and clothes fall on her and she freaks out.

Amy:

And.

Garry:

Amanda comes running in to calm her down, like she did when they were little, and she gets her to calm down, and then May kind of has this breakdown about how mom loves this stuff more than she loves them. Yeah, and little did they know that Gus was around.

Amy:

Overheard their conversation.

Garry:

Corner in the doorway listening.

Amy:

Well, may starts to have like that panic attack. Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

And then that's when she goes out of the house and Jay's like it's all good.

Amy:

You know, you know we're good. Isn't that funny, though, like your childhood, trauma comes back.

Garry:

I mean for real it stays with you.

Amy:

You just learn to deal with it or cope with it, or you go to therapy and then it comes back in ways, well, I mean, there she's literally back where it started, right, and what caused it, probably, and how her mother was, you know at the time. And yeah, that would be, that would be a lot, it would be a lot, and I think you just really, I just love May.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

I mean she. I love her character.

Garry:

It's she, I love.

Amy:

I just think she's. She's really the strongest one.

Garry:

Of all of them.

Amy:

Really out of all of them, even with her. You know when he tells her she is worth loving and he's going to stick around, and then he tells her something. Yeah, he lied.

Garry:

He lied, he quit his job.

Amy:

I guess he lied by omission right, yeah, he didn't tell her. He didn't tell her that he had quit his job. Yeah, and she's a little bit taken aback, you know, but yeah.

Garry:

Yeah, I'm sorry, I took a sip of wine.

Amy:

Yeah, that's fine, I know, yeah, she's taking it back, but then she's like, of course, it's fine, you know like, yeah, you love me through this.

Garry:

She goes because he said I got something to tell you. She goes. What did you work at? Donkeys too?

Amy:

Yeah, donkeys with a Z. Yeah, that was pretty fun. That was kind of cute. Yeah, yeah, so they it was. It was good to see that relationship come together. Yeah, you know, and then you have the whole. You know Sergio of it all. He's cooking for all the people that are helping at Gus's house, which I thought was cool. And there's a really funny scene when the people who normally go to Franny's yes, they're standing in the doorway of these Big Tim and Dottie.

Garry:

Or Big Tim and Dottie, or Big Tim and Dottie.

Amy:

They're standing in the doorway and they're hungry and Sergio's like, do you want some food? And they're like, no, I'll just have a Tic Tac, that's in my purse. A piece of gum, Because they don't want to. You know, cheat on Franny's.

Garry:

And then they end up eating.

Amy:

So that was kind of a cute, fun little sprinkle in there and all of it.

Garry:

So, yeah, sprinkle in there and all of it. So, yeah, and come to find out, it was the chicken was moist and delicious, and it was really good. They liked it, yeah yeah, that was a good. That was a good scene. So let's say she brought up sergio. Let's talk about nancy. When she's talking to amanda in the house and she's talking, she's asking her. You know, you know is she in it? You know in the marriage and no, no, nancy.

Amy:

First Nancy apologizes.

Garry:

Right, she apologizes To.

Amy:

Amanda because she says I had no idea. You know Frank Sr was doing that Right and I hope you know if I had known.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

I would. I would have put my foot down, you know, basically like I would not have wanted him to kick you out of your house or lose your restaurant, because that's not the way.

Garry:

I am, I'm not that person and Amanda's like.

Amy:

I know you're not that person. I know you're a good person.

Garry:

And that's when Sergio walks in and asks if they want some food, and then a little light goes on in Nancy's head that they're both wearing the same clothes they did the night before. The day before yeah, so she puts two and two together which isn't a hard leap and right it's not a tough.

Amy:

Well, you can also see the look on amanda's face how she starts to smile.

Garry:

And then that's when nancy starts to ask and they start to get into it. And then amanda fires back and she says you know, frank Jr is the one that called you know, on my mom.

Amy:

You know, at first I thought, maybe that's what Nancy thought, that's why she.

Garry:

What.

Amy:

That's why Nancy got the townspeople to come. I thought maybe she realized it was Frank Jr earlier in the episode, but I don't think she did based on her reaction in that moment that you were just talking about.

Amy:

So that kind of tricked me a little bit. I was like, oh, I thought she already suspected that because she earlier in the episode Nancy, leaves Frank Jr a voicemail, just like because she's been thinking about Frank Sr and how he's not a nice guy. And you know she's like you know, I know you want to be just like your daddy.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

You know you got the best parts of him, but you also got the best parts of me. So she's like make good decisions, right. And I was thinking maybe she suspected then but maybe not. But now I realize it was probably just a phone call about his dad and like hopefully you got the good parts of me that will outweigh the bad parts of your dad, your daddy, you know, yeah, yeah so, but then you see when she goes to confront yeah, junior, then nancy goes to confront.

Garry:

Yeah and he basically quadruples down on his attitude. You know, and I I just Excuse me, in my wine sip. I was just disappointed and he just hammered that last little hammer, that nail, into the coffin with me and him. Yeah, I was like, dude, you still are getting in your own way, yep, yep, and well he was like yeah and I did, and I mean he, basically that's what she said.

Amy:

And she and you know it's like when your kids make decisions that you disagree with or that. I mean you know they have to learn on their own, but when they're an adult like that, it's so hard, because you know you always want them to do the right thing and you hope they don't do anything that is going to hurt someone else or be mean to someone else. But I mean it happens now. Of course, this is an extreme version right with um.

Amy:

You know, frank jr and um, what he did, I mean, he's basically going to put them out of business. So I'm not talking about that extreme, but, um, you know, you can just see, as a parent it's hard yeah, it is it's hard. And she's coming around to the fact that things probably are going to have to change. Well, he's a grown man.

Garry:

Yeah, yeah, and you know it's his decision. He's going to have to live by him. Yeah.

Amy:

Yeah. So then we see what Sabrina finally makes it to the house, yes, and she starts filming because she's like, oh, this was in Gus's house, so she's got Gordo with her and she's filming. And Lindsay is there with Frankie yes, and you can immediately see that Lindsay doesn't want her mom. Like the look on her face is like don't film this, this is embarrassing, like don't do this to them. And she goes and tells her as much, right, you know. And then that's when Sabrina accidentally spills that. Well, she spills that.

Garry:

What are you worried about? Because you're only hanging out with Frankie, because I told you to and Frankie was sitting Overhears. It Was standing behind Sabrina when she said that, and that upset Frankie and she goes off.

Amy:

And it upset Lindsay. Because, now she really likes Frankie. Yeah, she considers her a friend and even though it may not have started that way, Right. She's a friend and she never would have told her that.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You know so. And now Frankie's upset, and now Lindsay's upset at her mom, and now they're back to where they were.

Garry:

When they first got there.

Amy:

When they first got there in terms of kind of button heads and you know. And then you do realize that Sabrina or yeah, it's Sabrina- yeah. She doesn't film.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Like you know, she ends up not filming it.

Garry:

Well, that's when she gets back to the hotel hotel or the inn uh keys in kennis in yeah in comes may, may she ran she ran with these mimi girls. That's true both of them ran in the episode like what's going on?

Amy:

but she's huffing and puffing may, may, leaves and runs all the way to the end. And sabrina's like did you follow me here Because she was in the car?

Garry:

And Mae's like yeah, yeah, I did, I did.

Amy:

And then what does she say? You know, mae basically pleads her case like don't show that footage. If you show it, it will ruin It'll destroy our family. It'll destroy what my family's built over generations and you know all for some stupid show. And then Sabrina's like something happened to the camera. We don't have that footage and then May's like I didn't mean that about your show.

Garry:

Well, gordo goes. Yeah, you told me to turn it off.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, Gordo. And then Sabrina kind of gives him a look like I'm trying to say she said, yeah, I guess I did.

Garry:

I did and you can see the hurt in her face when May said that about her show.

Amy:

And she's like I really love your show. Well, it's good, you know, sometimes you come around and you realize that some of that salacious stuff isn't worth.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

I mean, you know, I mean now, you know, there's like clickbait, Right you? Know and everybody likes to see someone get torn down. Why that is, I have no idea. Yeah, you know, and it's kind of like this is off on a little tangent like we um, you know not to toot hallmark's horn, we're not getting paid by them or anything, we're not sponsored. But that's kind of why we turn to them more often.

Amy:

Now we watch a lot of tv yeah, we watch a lot of series I'm a big entertainment buff and but we've been drawn more and more to hallmark, just because we're just tired of the heavy stuff you know, sometimes you just want to break, and now chicken sisters is serious yes, it is and it's, you know it's dramatic, but in that vein of watching these, you know reality shows and things and we watch them but, it's just, you know, it's like enough.

Amy:

You know, I know, and we love reality cooking shows, I know you know not the ones like Kitchen Clash. They're only like that. Yeah, we do love some Hell's Kitchen and some Top Chef. Yeah, but they're not salacious like this. But they used to be a little worse than they are now, oh, I know. I think all that's calmed down too, because people just don't want it. I don't want to hear people screaming at each other all the time. There are good people on this planet Right right, not everybody's a-hole.

Garry:

Right, right, come on.

Amy:

So yeah, but it's too late. Sabrina changed her mind too late and now Lindsay's mad at her Right. So we're kind of ending the episode like you said, like we started the series right where they're kind of you know. So.

Garry:

But then let's go into Frankie. Let's go into Frankie. Oh, yes, because she grabs a box of her mom's stuff and she goes back to Mimi's and she starts to go through it. Yeah, and one of the things that she finds is the recipe book from you know way back Generations or whatever, yeah, from her grandmother Over time. And then there's a letter she finds and it has a seal on it and it has not been open. Isn't that interesting?

Amy:

Yep, yep, and the seal looks almost like English or something.

Garry:

Yeah, like a royal or something, some kind of royalty. Yeah, I mean, I don't know Like I know seals, but you know, yeah, she opens it up, a wax seal on the letter, she reads it and, ooh, we learned something. Spoiler alert.

Amy:

What did we learn?

Garry:

That I guess her mom or not her mom, but because the letters date it 1912. 1912, 1912, right, and that you know the the mimi was pregnant. I'm gonna have a baby.

Amy:

I don't know if it was, we don't learn that in the letter we learn um that we learn that the the guy, whoever, whoever the dad was, basically said I'm not ready to be a dad, because we paused it and read it.

Garry:

Well, that's true, that's true. So we don't. Yeah, you're right.

Amy:

It said something like I'm not ready to be a dad or a father Right, and I forget what else it said, but yeah, yeah, we paused it and we read it so yeah. So she gets up to like she's found some very good information.

Garry:

But then the camera cuts away to Gus in her house looking around and all of a sudden she grabs.

Amy:

I guess I don't know if it's gasoline or what Now? Everybody has left the house. Everybody has left the house. It's dark now. It's dark, it's nighttime.

Garry:

And she just starts pouring whatever liquid it is on on all the junk in there and lights it on fire and she comes walking out the door. Meanwhile, you know Amanda, may and Jay and Sergio are. You know they're away from the house and they're talking. When they turn around, they go oh, mom, the house is on fire. And they start to go toward the house and Gus grabs him by the hands and they're all three standing there watching it burn.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

That was a.

Amy:

And then she.

Garry:

Well then, you know, she ends up fainting.

Amy:

Passing out. Passing or passing out passing out Gus does.

Garry:

So we're not sure if that's whatever she has is progressing or it's just stress that's causing her to pass out because it was a big day for her.

Amy:

Right, right. I mean, that's a big emotional day and I think that there was a part we skipped over, the part where her and sergio were talking. Oh that's right or gus and sergio have a moment where they kind of have a heart to heart and she tells him that, um, when her mom, she had a lot of great memories in her house, that's how she grew up in yeah and when her mom died when she was very young, yes, the stuff around her made her feel safe yeah so that's why she has all that stuff is because it makes her feel safe when she's there but it had the opposite effect on her kids yeah, and that was after they

Garry:

hated it and they, you know and that was after she overheard may and amanda say that she's selfish and right, right, oh yeah, when she had the conversation with sergio, yeah, and she, yeah, she's. She was like sergio. I wish I could have a do-over. Yeah, he said you can. Yeah, yeah, sergio is a good dude you can start, you can start fresh. Well, I mean, he's a good dude to an extent he is, but he seems to be the the calm one in all of this right right so, but, yeah I mean, I thought that was a really good scene too, because she now you find out, why she hoards.

Amy:

She's a hoarder right because it was right, protection and being a young female with kids? Yeah, of course, yeah and, like you said it, she realizes after she overheard her daughters talking that it really kind of messed them up and they felt like she chose that over them. Yeah, and there's so much more to it than than that, although I don't blame amanda and may you know for feeling the way they do so it's messed up all around, so we'll see what happens. I mean, we have one more episode of this season.

Amy:

We know they're shooting season two, so I'm curious about what's going to happen how they're going to end it.

Garry:

I have no idea. This actually could have been the last episode. It would have been a great cliffhanger yes, yeah, because she faints.

Amy:

We got the letter. We got lindsey and sabrina still at each other's throats. The only people who are really working and clicking right now are may and jay yeah, may and jay jay and may. Yeah, yeah, wow so so I I thought that was just. It was a really really good episode so out of five corks. How many?

Garry:

corks, do you give?

Amy:

it. I give it a five I'd give it more if I could. But we rated on five zero to five corks, I guess five. Yeah, I think it was one of the best episodes, yeah.

Garry:

For sure I agree with you, yep, so is that a wrap?

Amy:

That's a wrap.

Garry:

All right, well, thanks for listening. Be sure to follow the podcast wherever you listen so you don't miss one. Also, follow us on social media. If you really really like the show and are listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Spotify, leave us a review, please.

Amy:

And if you really really didn't like it, you can still leave us a review, right, yeah, if you didn't, I mean yeah, hopefully you'll find some positive points. Yeah, we're open to constructive criticism.

Garry:

Yeah, we are.

Amy:

Yeah, sure. So anyway, join us next Tuesday when we review the season finale of the Chicken Sister, season one, episode number eight the Best Chicken in Town y'all, which will air on Sunday, may 18th 2025 on the Hallmark Channel. Maybe we'll actually get the kitchen competition again.

Garry:

I know.

Amy:

We've had one episode the little tiny, teeny, tiny bit of the kitchen competition itself.

Garry:

The side orders yeah.

Amy:

Be sure to also tune in on Wednesdays for our Hallmark movie reviews. Until then, fill up your glasses and push play. Thanks for listening.

Garry:

Cheers.