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Hallmark's The Chicken Sisters S2 E2 - Mama Tried, Ya'll

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In this episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry and Amy dive into their recap and review of Season 2, Episode 2 of Hallmark’s The Chicken Sisters: Mama Tried, Ya’ll. After the dramatic Kitchen Clash premiere, Amanda is laying low, Frank Jr. is heartbroken but refusing to hand over the divorce papers, Sabrina takes on the role of Mae’s wedding planner, and Nancy finds herself with a surprise proposal. Meanwhile, Frankie’s humiliation keeps her out of school, Gus grapples with her newfound viral fame, and through it all, Shawna steals the spotlight as the true MVP of the episode. 

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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, and guess what Gary's doing? What's?

Amy:

Gary doing.

Garry:

He's pouring.

Amy:

He's pouring.

Garry:

Some wine.

Amy:

Today we're going to be recapping and reviewing the second episode of season two of the Chicken Sisters. Mama Tried Y'all, Isn't that always the case?

Garry:

Mama.

Amy:

Tried Y'all. It aired on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, august 17th 2025 and is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus.

Garry:

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Amy:

Hopefully.

Garry:

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Amy:

You can also send us an email at pourthewineitsromcomtime at gmailcom. So shoot us an email. Let us know your thoughts about last season of Chicken Sisters, if you're watching this season so far, what you think, your thoughts, or just let us know about anything Hallmark-y?

Garry:

Yes, yes, let us know. Let us know, like you're going to let us know who's in this one.

Amy:

Okay, so new to this episode, to episode number two, we have David James Elliott appears at the very end, but he still appears. Yes, he still appears he plays Clayton Ridge III and I wouldn't know that unless they had said it during the episode.

Amy:

Because it is not yet on IMDb. Well, actually I take that back. The Chicken Sisters is listed on his IMDb, but no character name, so maybe they'll get to it eventually. I found one other Hallmark production of his. It was called Dad's Home and that was in 2010. Some of his other work includes the sci-fi series Revival. He was in 10 episodes of that. He was in the movie Heart of Champions. He was in the TV series Spinning Out for 10 episodes. He was in an episode of Scorpion.

Garry:

Nice.

Amy:

We love that series.

Garry:

Love Scorpion.

Amy:

Of course, fans largely know and love him for his portrayal of Harmon Rabb for 227 episodes of the TV series Jag and Jag ran for 10 years and also starred Good Witch actress Catherine Bell. Yes, it did, yes, it did.

Garry:

And let's not forget who directed this episode, season two, episode two it was Leah Thompson.

Amy:

Leah Thompson.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

And we have a hard time finding the writers for these. We're not trying to not say who they are, right, it's sort of hard to get the details. I know last, at the beginning of episode one of season two, we talked about how Erin Gibson had taken over as showrunner and EP, so I'm not sure how much she's involved in the writing.

Garry:

I don't know.

Amy:

She wrote an episode last season, so maybe we'll find out more information and be able to give that as we go along.

Garry:

Yeah, also so time to drop the synopsis.

Amy:

Let's drop it. Drop it like it's hot. Yes, okay, synopsis, let's drop it. Drop it like it's hot. Yes, okay, amanda, nancy and Gus try to mend fences following their Ultimate Kitchen Clash. Episodes airing and May enlists Sabrina's help with wedding planning.

Garry:

Yes, she does. And don't forget, we're going to give away spoilers, so let's go ahead and stop the podcast now. Go watch it. It. Come back, tell us what you thought, right all right?

Amy:

well, we'll definitely give away some spoilers yes 100 percent so if you don't want to hear the spoilers. Like you said, pause, go watch, come back and pause listen yes, there we go, just like that, just like that order.

Garry:

So what did you think?

Amy:

I think okay. So at the end of last episode, kind of part of our review was or mine anyway, I don't remember how you felt, but I said that. You know, I kind of felt like I mean it was a good start, but it wasn't like a spectacular start. Spectacular start Like we enjoyed it to get back in and we kind of hoped it picked back up and the writing would be back to where it was from season one. Because it was so. The banter was great, the one-liners were great, everything worked, and I think this episode really kicked it into high gear.

Garry:

I think this was.

Amy:

Shauna's episode.

Garry:

Oh, my goodness, 100%.

Amy:

And we literally, and I don't remember I you know, we laughed a lot last season during some lines, but we laughed out loud during this episode a lot.

Garry:

Yes, when we watched it, we definitely did.

Amy:

I mean a lot and that was so great, you know. So I felt like it sort of is back in this episode. I felt like they gave us a lot is back in this episode. I felt like they gave us a lot. Like I said, shauna is the absolute star of this episode, for sure, for sure. Her one-liners, her expressions, the things she says, the things she does, you know how she helps Gus. I mean, there is just, you know Amanda, she's talking to. You know everybody, really, sergio, she ends up talking to Dot.

Amy:

And Dot yeah, I mean so, you know everybody really sergio she ends up talking to. And dot yeah, I mean so she's. And, of course, all of the main players are in it also and every and so it just I felt like this was a great episode that pushed the story along to where it needed to be after the end of last episode where we saw amanda in the preview kiss sergio. And no one knew that but her and Nancy. And now everyone knows.

Garry:

In the town, in their small town, everybody knows it Right, everybody knows about the Caesar salad.

Amy:

So what did you think? Well, we're going to get to that.

Garry:

The Caesar salad. I too thought that this was Shauna's episode, and I'm so glad that they brought her to the forefront. Yes, because she is the comedic part of this series.

Amy:

Yes.

Garry:

And her one-liners are spot on, right on time and funny as all get out.

Amy:

And they are plentiful in this episode, I mean so many. I would write them all down if I could, you know.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Or take a note, so the go ahead.

Garry:

I'm sorry, no, and I was just going to say also in this episode you have a child who's actually an adult, and you have an adult who's actually a child, oh yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, that's true. You kind of see that at the end.

Garry:

Yeah, I just really, really, really enjoyed this one. This one, yeah, way, way more it picked it up Than the first one. Don't you think we had the?

Amy:

first one, we kind of eased back into it. It was good. But I think this one's really reminiscent of season one.

Garry:

Yes, what we got in season one.

Amy:

It sure was. So it starts Her life with Frank Jr, how she was sort of tossed aside by him, and then he doesn't view her work as important, he doesn't care about her drawings, he rips them down in a room, you know. And then she has Frankie and that's sort of what her focus is and she can become creative again and she can become more of herself with Frankie doing things with her. So that became her focus for all these years. And then it shows the um, the scene in the chicken sister's restaurant where she, where they're watching the preview right so that's kind of that's where it picks up yeah

Garry:

and then yeah, it was. It was really cool how they did that kind of um like a montage montage.

Amy:

Yes, I agree, her life when she was a little child, she was doodling the chickens.

Garry:

When she became a teenager, when she became a wife, a mother, yeah. I just really enjoyed that whole progression of that and they did that quite frequently last season too, where they would show you a glimpse into their life at some other point Right. And where it actually her life actually went off the rails, right, so to speak. Right Pun intended, yeah, pun intended. And we also in that scene. She gets up because Frankie is staring at her embarrassed, gets up and storms out of the restaurant.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Amanda gets up, and then on her chair is the chicken symbol, that's right that's right. We gotta mention it was on the back of her chair. Is that okay? That's pretty cool.

Amy:

Yep, yep it sure was, and so then, um, we have I don't know where. Where does shauna walk into?

Garry:

it was, I think, where were they, amanda's house. It was a into. I think it was Amanda's house, oh yeah.

Amy:

I think it was Amanda's house. So the very first scene with Shauna is she walks in with this huge circular floral arrangement that you would see at a funeral and she's like what does she say? Sorry, secret camera recorded you kissing the cook. That's what this flower arrangement says. It's so funny. And the flower arrangement says condolences, and it's just. It's so, shauna, I know who loved it so much.

Garry:

And then she was like you saw no way out of your miserable life, yeah.

Amy:

And then she says until Sergio with his glistening, doesn't she say something about his glistening white t-shirt.

Garry:

Oh, yes. And then she talks about her reputation.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

That she's mad because she's the queen of gossip. And she holds that party every year and that her reputation is going to take a hit.

Amy:

Because she didn't know that Amanda and Sergio had kissed.

Garry:

That was something she couldn't spread, because she was upset, because she heard it when everybody else heard it.

Amy:

What was the party called from last season? Oh, I can't remember.

Garry:

That's going to burn me.

Amy:

Yes, I can't believe we can't remember, because that was a really good episode.

Garry:

Yes, I hope they have it again this season.

Amy:

Yeah, so then we have the railroad crossing arm. That's stuck again. Nancy gets stuck by it. So this is obviously going to be a theme throughout this season and eventually we will find out.

Garry:

You know what that's all about yeah, I thought that was because she was so mad. Nancy was stuck there and she was like well, she's got anger about what went down what went down at the preview?

Amy:

that she saw the kiss and didn't tell frank jr right and now everybody knows that she knew but didn't say anything.

Garry:

So frank jr and his masculinity yeah yeah, and which they show him in the cluckery.

Amy:

His pretend masculinity, yes, his pretend and. Christian. I don't want to give him any credit.

Garry:

Christian. Mr Chicken comes in to.

Amy:

Christian. Is that his name? Christian?

Garry:

Yeah, oh, okay, yeah, okay, shauna calls him that.

Amy:

I just call him Mr Chicken.

Garry:

We can call him Mr Chicken. I just call him Mr Chicken. We can call him Mr.

Amy:

Chicken. No, I mean, I didn't realize. That's what I said.

Garry:

Yeah, because Shauna calls him that.

Amy:

She calls him Christian. Oh, that's right, that's right. And he comes in to console him, tells him to go home for the day, because he's going to be no good with the customers Right because he's a wreck and he's crying, which is really I felt like. But the thing is, when you look at it now, knowing frank jr, it's like he's crying selfishly, like I think, he just only cares about himself.

Amy:

And obviously it would be upsetting, you know, if you, if you saw that your wife was, um, you know, had kissed someone else and it was on tv, and I mean I I get it to an extent but I can only feel so sorry for him.

Garry:

It it has a limit because of how he is and how he's acted right it does have a limit, like okay, you're crying, but you know I mean yeah, well, come on, you know, in the first, first episode he was like well, I liked our life and she goes.

Amy:

You may have liked it, but I didn't yeah, it was good for you, yeah, but it wasn't good for me, right? So, and like I said, though, we keep, you know, we keep thinking maybe he's gonna change, okay, he's crying and and maybe that's it, but it's not. You know, we've, I've learned my lesson, he's not from the first season.

Garry:

He's not gonna change so him crying.

Amy:

He's just gonna have to get over it. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but that's just the way it is it is because you get tired of it so. So Gus calls Amanda, because Amanda's mortified and embarrassed, she should. You know she should be. She did it. It's on camera, you know, and everybody saw. But it was kind of cool because Gus calls her and you know she basically says she understands, and Amanda's surprised by that, right, because Gus is like I understand, I get it. Do you need some food? You know.

Garry:

How sweet was that.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, it was nice, yeah, so.

Garry:

And then you have Nancy going to the mayor's office complaining about the arm, and I just love how he just turned it on her Mm-hmm.

Amy:

Mm-hmm, he basically turned it on her.

Garry:

He basically it was so funny how he did that. I mean, you know, he tells her that she's good at saying nothing.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, because he's in. But you know, what I found interesting about that interaction was he seemed to really not like her. Yeah, and I don't know why that is. I don't know if that's going to come up like in a later episode, but he was really, you know for a mayor. You know, he's kind of like like maybe they went to high school together or something. Maybe he was jealous because she ended up with frank senior.

Amy:

I mean, I don't know, but he was kind of like. He's kind of like you get what you deserve, you know, and he's the mayor of the. He doesn't even hear her complaint about the because he thinks she's focusing on that instead of dealing with the fact that she yeah, yeah, exactly, but he's really kind of harsh with her. So I wonder if there's more behind that than meets the eye. Yeah, there probably is yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, I don't know.

Garry:

And let's talk about Sabrina. Okay, I love her, you're right. Yeah, I don't know, but and let's talk about sabrina. Okay, there's another character that they brought forward, yes, this season, and I just love it because she was forward a lot in the last near the end of the season, but not throughout the season I'm so glad they brought her back, I know, because she's another one that is real quick-witted, yes, and funny. Yes, and she decides to help May with her wedding planning. Mm-hmm, may, excuse me, is a trip.

Amy:

Well she's like, well May's reluctant. Because she says when you grow up you know thinking no one's going to stay, you don't plan for what's next when they do, because she hasn't really planned her wedding.

Amy:

Her wedding's like in a few weeks and her wedding planning book is a mess, you know, and Sabrina's really surprised by that. And Sabrina's like a wedding, what'd she say? A wedding is a series of military grade maneuvers. You can't just wing it. I thought that was so true. You could not pay me enough to be a wedding planner because the attitudes, the people you have to deal with, the organ, no, thank you.

Garry:

Yeah, and it's kind of funny because the narrator says something like unlike honey to a bear's paw, a man never stuck to a Mimi's girl.

Amy:

Oh, is that what she says? Or stuck with a Mimi's girl. That's why, and that's why.

Garry:

May says what she says. Is a little reluctant, yeah, you know he's going to leave me, and then she tells him, or she Sabrina tells May that you know Jay loves her for all of her flaws.

Amy:

Yeah, and she was like she does. She's like I don't have any flaws and she goes well doesn't? Is that when she says, that's just what someone Right? Is that the part where? No, maybe not?

Garry:

Because she says, you know, May says she does not have any personality flaws.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

But Sabrina's like. Jay loves you for your personality flaws.

Amy:

Right, right you are. I thought it was kind of cool because Sabrina is giving her like a pep talk, right like you know that that he does love you. He thinks you hung the moon, you know. So he's not going anywhere and we need to plan this wedding.

Garry:

Unlike lassoing the moon.

Amy:

Unlike lassoing the moon.

Garry:

And also she said girl, I built a camera tripod from fishing rods.

Amy:

She did.

Garry:

She said I can do anything.

Amy:

She could Yep, yep, yep, she actually made a reference to Shark Tank. Oh, she did.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

She said she should have been a judge.

Garry:

She said something about A chair, the sixth chair.

Amy:

Like she should have been on there because she could recognize.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Good business and that's. I think that's when she said the thing about the about the fishing rod she made a tripod out of fishing rods.

Garry:

She was, she could make it work.

Amy:

Right, she could make a plan and make it work. So Sabrina is going to help her with the wedding which is pretty cool and I kind of like their friendship now, because they were rocking in the last one because of past history and now they're kind of together, even and despite the fact that Sabrina did have the hidden cameras. I think may, being in the business, understands sabrina's side of it, so she's not so like hateful towards her for it, because she's like, I mean, that's television, that's reality television.

Amy:

You sign up and I didn't even read the you know may, didn't even read the contract, really for that so there you go how about shauna or ordering the latte?

Garry:

Okay, so we have to get into this.

Amy:

This is probably. There were so many good scenes with her, with Shauna in this episode, and I was trying to figure out, you know, if I could pick one, and I'm not sure I can, but this whole scene at the end it's the end, right the bed and breakfast, or whatever, like the bed and breakfast or whatever, and um so she goes in to order and she orders it one latte, half oat, half almond, one pump vanilla, one pump caramel. Barely touch the pump for cinnamon and whipped cream at the bottom she gets real excited at the end and I had to write that down.

Amy:

I thought it was so funny and patrick's like I'll have it out in three hours.

Garry:

And she's like okay.

Amy:

Oh my gosh, it was just. It's so funny.

Garry:

Is that when? So that's when Dot comes in. That's when Dot comes in and says that she wants Shauna's autograph and Shauna's like yes, I will give you an autograph as soon as I get my head shot.

Amy:

Because you know she's going to sell them probably.

Garry:

Oh yes, she's making money off it. Yeah know she's going to sell them probably. Oh yes, she's making money off of everything. Yeah, she's going to give her autograph away. I love it.

Amy:

And then doesn't that say she was good in the series or something? Because that's when Shauna says I would have gotten more airtime if Sabrina hadn't given me wrong locations, Because you know, Sabrina.

Garry:

She kept sending me to wrong locations. Yeah, that was awesome.

Amy:

I thought that was so funny and we didn't know that in the last one, right, and I thought that was like the perfect line, yeah.

Garry:

And then she starts talking to Sergio and Sergio's like.

Amy:

This is all the same scene, right.

Garry:

And he excuse me, and Sergio asks if Amanda's okay.

Amy:

Oh, yes, he did, and.

Garry:

Shauna goes, Amanda kind of stares into that middle distance and then she's got those glaring eyes just staring off in the distance.

Amy:

I thought that was so great, that was funny. Well then she says, you know she's kind of upset because that thing you did, where your face is, where your face is Over your face and he's like no, she said. That thing you two did with your face is and he's like no she said that thing you two did with your face.

Garry:

He's like I was there. I was there.

Amy:

She just cracked me up, you know. And he wants to go talk to Amanda and Shauna tells him no, of course. Right, oh my God, that scene was just chef's kiss, that whole scene with her.

Garry:

Yes, that was definitely a.

Amy:

All right, what's next? What's next? What do you want to talk about next?

Garry:

Well, Nancy goes to see Bo the pastor, and this is when we find out what the proposal was. Right, and he was actually going to ask her if she would go on a trip with him to other countries to build homes for people less, you know, fortunate than others. Fortunate right, Because she thought he was going to ask her to marry him Put a ring on it, which we all knew it wasn't going to happen.

Amy:

I mean that was a little bit of a cheesy storyline, but you know it got him.

Garry:

And she tells him she doesn't understand why Frank Jr is mad at her Right. And the pastor goes and says well, the pastor, as a pastor, you know you're his mother, he trusts you. Yeah. And then as a friend or a boyfriend you know he is a grown man yeah, he should be able to handle it. You did what you thought was best for him, yeah.

Amy:

So what you thought was best for him. Yeah, and then you have another great scene where Shauna again she goes to the. What is it, mr?

Garry:

Chicken's Cluckery, mr Chicken's.

Amy:

Cluckery. I don't know why that name doesn't stick in my head, yeah. So she's going there to do corporate espionage.

Garry:

That was so funny.

Amy:

So she goes to try the chicken and the chicken is not good. It's not seasoned, it's not good and I like. And the narrator came back this time with a lot of good one-liners because we didn't have that so much in the first episode, but in this one she's like when you bite into chicken it should change your life. But this chicken she wouldn't serve it to her worst enemy. Linda, she knows what she did. That was so funny.

Amy:

Yes it was. She's talking about Shauna, like that's Shauna's word. I thought that was so funny. So she tries the chicken and it is terrible.

Garry:

And she asked Christian, what did you season it with? And he's like Mr Chicken doesn't season his chicken, it you season it with and he's like mr chicken doesn't season his chicken, it's all about the sauces.

Amy:

Yeah, and she's like well then, you should have changed it to mr sauce, you should name it oh my gosh then you have this scene where frank jr kind of shows up at I guess it's mimi's do they? Have two chicken sister restaurants.

Garry:

I'm confused, but it's not Mimi's anymore, it's Chicken Sisters Nancy's working the other one.

Amy:

Franchised right, Right, so at the Mimi's Chicken Sisters restaurant and Sergio's throwing out the trash and Frank is like why don't you do yourself out? I know I did not. That scene didn't work. I don't know if that was like an additional scene, right, I don't know if that was like an additional scene. I just didn't, I didn't think out of the whole episode, that scene really sort of fit.

Garry:

Yeah, and he and he was like well, you haven't seen the last of me.

Amy:

I know and.

Garry:

Sergio is like yeah, it's a small town.

Amy:

Well, sergio does apologize in that moment and he says you know we didn't mean to do it, we're so sorry, and you know we didn't mean to do it.

Garry:

We're so sorry, and you know, yeah, he tries to apologize.

Amy:

Yeah, he tries, but he admits he was wrong. I mean, there's only so much he can do. You know we did it. Sorry, I was wrong. And you know, like I said, frank Jr rightfully upset. It's just difficult to feel sorry for him, since he's such an ass.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

You know, Yep yep, then Shauna again goes into the restaurant.

Garry:

Which Gus is holding the book.

Amy:

Gus is holding the book, the second episode with the book. What is it? Queen of Cowboys, queen of Cowboys.

Garry:

Yes, I really enjoyed it. What that? The book showed up again.

Amy:

That the book showed up again. I know I knew you were going to be happy about that.

Garry:

Yeah, and she explains to Gus why she's like because she was doing the espionage.

Amy:

She was doing the corporate espionage. You know it's funny. But Gus is like I don't want this trashy book, and then Shauna's like you don't want this trashy book, you know. And then she goes on these different explanations. She's like you think a woman pretending to be her own twin sister in order to inherit her family fortune is trash yeah, you know it's just like yes and then, then, gus was interested in what the chicken tasted like.

Garry:

Oh, yeah, yeah yeah, and and this scene was so, so good because she said the chicken was was not even seasoned, the mac and cheese was like chewing on a melted barbie leg I never thought about that melted barbie leg oh my gosh.

Amy:

And then so, oh god, I just love shauna. I mean, I can't say that enough about this episode, but anywho. So then gus gets that crank call right now this is the caesar salad moment right of the episode.

Amy:

So in the first season you find and I kind of vaguely remember this, I think where Gus says I dye my hair blonde. If I wanted to be an actress, I would dye my hair blonde and start eating a Caesar salad, and that has gone viral now. So people are calling the restaurant pranking Gus, like I want a Caesar salad, you know, or whatever, and she doesn't get it at first.

Garry:

And then Shauna kind of explains to her talks about social media, the gram.

Amy:

The gram, as she likes to say. Well, she talks about how she's viral.

Garry:

Yeah, and how the Internet actually works. Yeah, it's like a monster. If you feed it, it's going to come after you and eat more. But if you give it something to diffuse it, it'll go and find something else to Jones on.

Amy:

Well, she tells her that a little bit later, that part of it, but she's like it's funny, it's not, and Gus doesn't appreciate it, and that's where you really see old hurt? Know old hurt doesn't go away. Right, you know, because Gus has been made fun of she's like do you like to be laughed at?

Garry:

And she said no, ma'am.

Amy:

No, ma'am, because.

Garry:

Shauna.

Amy:

You know, shauna thinks it's a good thing. She's about money. It's going to bring in business, like the comedian Kathy Griffin. What does she say? You know, bad publicity is good publicity.

Garry:

Yes, it's publicity either way you look at it, it's publicity.

Amy:

So Sean is kind of of that mindset. But Gus, you know, has had a history of being a Mimi's girl and being made fun of and it really upsets her and she tears up in that moment a little bit. So you kind of really see the deep-seated hurt in Gus, right.

Garry:

So I agree, yeah. So what happens next? Let's see. That's when Sabrina talks about the shark tank. The next scene with Amanda.

Amy:

Oh is that? Did we say that too soon? But that's okay, that's all right, yeah.

Garry:

Because she also goes, because Amanda or Sabrina wants to know what the unknown is all about. And she tells her it's about her father and she's like you know, I try to ask my mom. She won't give me the answer, so I give up. And she said Sabrina was like well, why don't you just do a DNA test?

Amy:

Oh yeah.

Garry:

And she's like no way. And then Sabrina tells Mae she can do a DNA test. It's not just how we just find serial killers you know, that's funny. And I thought that was really funny.

Amy:

A DNA test isn't just for serial killers.

Amy:

You know, and that's when May says you know she didn't know much about her dad and you know the only thing her mom said was she said when I was a kid she told me he taught dance lessons in the Catskills and never put baby in a corner. And she's like and I got that right away and then Sabrina's like dirty dancing, that scene was kind of cute. Yeah, that was. And then you find out that May, even if she could find out, she really wants to hear it from Gus. Right, I want Gus to tell me herself who my Diddy is.

Garry:

Right, right. Yeah, hear it from gus, right, I want gus to tell me herself who my ditty is right, right. So yeah, I see the parallels. Yeah, you know. So then you're supposed to do the right things.

Amy:

Before that, frank jr has gone to his house right, yeah, and amanda apologizes to him you know, he's he's upset and she apologizes to him and he decides he's not going to sign the divorce papers. He's going to hold the divorce papers hostage.

Garry:

He's a man baby.

Amy:

Shock of all shocks right.

Garry:

Yes, Again, man baby.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

That's why I like the actor, because the character makes me hate him so much.

Amy:

I know, I know he's really good, he is really good. I hope he doesn't get yelled at on the street or anything. You know the actor, James Cott. That's the actor. That's the actor, so he probably walks down the street and gets, you know, yelled at.

Garry:

Well, I hope not.

Amy:

No, I hope not either, but he is really good at making you just really dislike him. Right, you know that's a good actor right there.

Garry:

Yeah, and then we have Junior scaring Nancy outside of the church? Yeah, and they kind of get into a conversation when Bo comes out and he tells him you need to take a walk because you might say something you might regret.

Amy:

Well, he's yelling at her. Yeah, that's what brings Bo out.

Garry:

Yeah, he's raising his voice, yeah.

Amy:

And then he's like I thought mamas are always, you know. We find out that Frankie has skipped school. Well, we kind of know that.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

I guess already right because she didn't get on the bus, but we don't know where. But Amanda gets the phone call and she has to go out in public, and so she hasn't been out since the airing of the episode. So she goes out in a hoodie, a hat and sunglasses.

Garry:

It is so funny.

Amy:

She's like trying to be in disguise, but it's a small town, you know.

Garry:

And then the narrator says something like Amanda spent the day spending time in the shadow of a barn. Before she went out Before she went out, yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, that was pretty funny.

Garry:

Yeah, and she also went to the inn and asked if they'd seen Frankie. And no one's seen Frankie. And as she was leaving, Doc comes in and says you know, I really loved you on camera.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

And I always thought you deserved better.

Amy:

Yeah Well, she says she saw a confident Amanda.

Garry:

Yeah, where's that girl been?

Amy:

all these years and that kind of touched Amanda a little bit. And then, yeah, she says she always thought she could do better than Frank Jr she's kind of like hmm, yeah.

Garry:

Anybody can do better than Frank Jr. Well, and then we get. I think, what is it? Gus comes in dressed up.

Amy:

Oh my gosh.

Garry:

That was hilarious. She said who was there. Was it Shauna? Yes, Shauna and I can't.

Amy:

Was it, shauna?

Garry:

Yes, Shauna, and I can't remember who the other person was.

Amy:

It was Shauna and Nancy, because they were talking. Nancy was telling. Shauna about what happened with Frank Jr.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

And then you know, when she, when Nancy, tells Shauna that you know that he said mama's always supposed to do the right thing, and Shauna's kind of like well, what about a son doing the right thing? And I'm like, yes, shauna, yes. Yes, that's exactly right, Shauna.

Garry:

Shauna coming in with the line. That's why I'm team Shauna this episode.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, so it was pretty good. And then that's when Gus comes into the room.

Garry:

Yes, that was an awesome scene too, with that colorful dress and her hair. All cut Her heels and. Nancy's like whoa. What happened to?

Amy:

you. Well, it was more like what happened to you. Gus is so different.

Garry:

And Gus is like Shauna's. What happened to me? That was so funny.

Amy:

Oh my gosh, it was so funny.

Garry:

Yeah, because they're trying to bury the story about the Caesar salad.

Amy:

Right, right, they're trying to make it like, attack it in a way on a video and Shauna's like it's for the Gram, it's for the. Gram, because she's like yeah, it's so funny. Oh my gosh, it's so funny. So then you, lindsay, has gone to look for Frankie.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Right, and she finds her in the theater and it's just Frankie and Frankie's whispering and Lindsay's like there's no one else here.

Garry:

Why are you whispering? That was funny.

Amy:

And then. But then what's interesting about that scene is she's like oh, skipping school, huh, the next thing you know you'll be doing corporate espionage and I'm like what?

Garry:

Yeah, that's the second time they used that word. I said that, that phrase, yeah, I said that.

Amy:

You did say that You're like what in the world?

Garry:

Yeah, why would they say that twice?

Amy:

And then the boyfriend Doug. Yeah, he comes in. Dudley or Doug.

Garry:

She calls him Doug. No-transcript oh right, but she really loves her son, so, and she loves amanda and she loves amanda, right, and that's why she chose not to tell uh junior, because she didn't want to be team junior. She didn't want to be team amanda she just wanted to be in the middle she wanted to be switzerland.

Amy:

you know what I mean and I love how she, you know, kind of puts her arm around her and because amanda, and because Amanda's like it's her fault that Frankie ditched school, that's what. Amanda tells Nancy and, and she says it's a mama tax, everything is our fault, and I'm like that's true too Right, that is a very true statement.

Garry:

It's so funny yeah.

Amy:

But I thought what was cool in that moment was Nancy. She still goes to Amanda, puts her arm around her and then they decide that's when they make chicken. They decide to make dinner for each of them to take home.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Separately right, so that's part of it. So we forgot to mention the part about Gus making her film with Shauna.

Garry:

With Shauna at Mimi's restaurant.

Amy:

Right, right. So when we were talking about the dress, she's all dressed up and that's kind of what shauna wanted her to wear, but she ends up not right she gets in more comfortable clothes and she walks into her restaurant and she's like these are. What did she say? These are standing jeans, not sitting jeans. So we have to hurry.

Garry:

Let's hurry this up. Yeah, and she does, she goes.

Amy:

I'm an actress yeah, yeah, she's got like a flat affect.

Garry:

Yeah, and then they bring out the Caesar salad. She eats it and she actually kind of likes it.

Amy:

Right, and Shauna, I mean I guess we should say Shauna was there with like the ring light and was filming her and, like you said, earlier Shauna's, like all they need is something new, and then they're going to forget about the other videos. So, yeah, and then she's like hi, I'm gus moore, and now that I'm an actress, I love caesar salad she says it's, so it's so funny, and then she actually likes the salad yeah go figure right yeah, yeah, go figure and she and sergio goes wow, that's an actual gus uh compliment.

Amy:

Yeah, like that's a legitimate heartfelt Gus compliment. Yeah, it was cute.

Garry:

And then we pick up Lindsay. She shows up back at, I guess it's-.

Amy:

May's, may's house. I think they're staying with May. Yeah, they're staying. Yeah, lindsay and Sabrina.

Garry:

Sabrina and May are sitting there eating I think it's cake or something. When Lindsay comes in and she tells her mom she wants to go back to New York.

Amy:

She wants to go home. Yeah, she's upset, and then that's when Sabrina says don't do anything.

Garry:

You know I got to go, mom.

Amy:

Yeah, I'll be right back. Yeah, like, don't panic. And then we talked about how they made the chicken. Nancy takes it to Frank Jr apologizes to him. And then she kind of is like don't you have something to say too? And she's like you know, we both did things that we have to apologize for. And he's like you sure did, didn't you?

Garry:

And I'm like there, he is, there, it is See, that's why I hate him. There, he is there, it is See, see, that's why I hate him.

Amy:

So you know he says he's not ready to forgive her and he takes the chicken and goes inside and he's closed the door.

Garry:

He's closed the door.

Amy:

Right, I'd be like bye.

Garry:

Yeah, me too.

Amy:

Then he sits down and he enjoys the chicken.

Garry:

Yeah, you know, you can tell he's thinking of his revenge.

Amy:

Well, and that's what the narrator says, doesn't she say something about?

Garry:

There's a storm of brewing.

Amy:

Yeah, something like that Cloudy with a side of, or a chance of revenge or something.

Garry:

Yeah, that was so good. And then you have Amanda showing up. Or her house Going into Frankie's room to give her, you know, to talk to her about it and tell her here I got some food. Yeah, she's got the chain too Pretty much Frankie's pissed off because her mom didn't tell her or talk to her about it. She knew that her and her dad were kind of goofy together and that wasn't the reason why she was upset. It was just that they didn't tell her.

Amy:

She didn't feel like she was part of the family, because she's like I'm part of this family too, right, and she really just wanted that conversation.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

It wasn't even so much about the kiss or the separation, it was just.

Garry:

And then Amanda starts to tear up about well, I'm going to be losing you. You're going off to school.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

And then that's when Frankie pulls out the book of all her drawings.

Amy:

The album that she's kept.

Garry:

She's kept that. Her mom made these little doodles for her and she goes. I'll always take these with me.

Amy:

Yeah, doesn't? She say she's going to take those with her to school and Amanda kind of talks about how she's struggling with she doesn't know what to do now that she's not a wife Like she's been a wife for 17 years and she's and she feels alone. And that's when you know frankie's kind of like you're not alone, you have me. You know you always be my mama, but you can be this person too, who's creative and crafty and wonderful, and you have your own separate identity from me, which I thought was really cool and I think you mentioned when we watched this you had you had one that didn't work out with the chicken and one that did you know well, I was just saying she's the child who's acting like an adult.

Garry:

Yeah, he's an adult.

Amy:

Yeah, no, I meant after it was over right, right you were kind of like look, one worked out one didn't.

Garry:

Yeah, I thought it was.

Amy:

But you're right, frankie is acting like the adult, he's being childish.

Garry:

No, Frankie is acting like the adult and Frank Jr is acting like the child. But you're right in that moment, yeah, and then we have the Mimi scene, the finale, right, the finale of the episode. Episode two.

Amy:

So Gus is at Mimi's right, which you just said, duh, sorry, it's okay, it's been a long day and she's got her back to the door, which I don't really understand why the door's open.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

But you're closed, but anywho. And then you hear this voice that says you know, I'm looking for the best Caesar salad in Maranac and Gus thinks it's somebody razzing her about this whole Caesar salad mess right.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And then the narrator says you know, I want to tell you who this radiant sunbeam is. And so we find out it's Clayton Ridge III. He was the star quarterback of 1983. Oh, and it's Mays Daddy.

Garry:

Mays Daddy.

Amy:

So we find out. So he's holding a bouquet. Of the yellow flowers, of the yellow flowers that were in the first episode, yep which she had picked up in the first episode and kind of sniffed it and smiled. So, it brought back, you think, good memories for her right and then he says, hi, Gussie, with this big old smile. I just love that he called her Gussie. Yes, that was cute I hope he ends up being a good guy, I mean I don't know how it's going to end up.

Amy:

I think he will be, and then his smile is huge and he's so handsome and she's kind of mildly terrified that he has shown up, even though she called him right.

Garry:

She gets a little smile on her face, yeah.

Amy:

Yeah. So, we're going to see. I mean, I think episode two definitely picked it up. I'm really excited to see where the season goes. I hope the level that we were at at this episode continues through the rest of the season.

Garry:

Me too.

Amy:

Because it was really really good. So, out of five drumsticks, how many do you give it?

Garry:

Definitely five.

Amy:

Definitely five for me too.

Garry:

I would give it to Shauna.

Amy:

I know this is Shauna's Now. Granted, we love all of them, right, we love all of the characters and everything, but this really was her episode to just. I mean, oh my gosh, Do this in every episode with her.

Garry:

At least a couple scenes.

Amy:

It doesn't have to be the whole thing.

Garry:

We forgot to mention the one-liner. She said when gus asked her about how the chicken tasted and she said I'd rather put a track dip a tractor tire in some ranch dipping our dip dip.

Amy:

I'd rather eat tractor tire dipped in rain. Yeah, it was funny so what do you give this?

Garry:

huh, how many drumsticks, chicken drumstick. Okay, five fiber.

Amy:

I didn't know, I don't know. It's been a long day, so is that a wrap? That's so. What do you give this? Huh, how many drumsticks? Five Chicken drumsticks.

Garry:

Okay, five Fiverr, didn't I? I don't know, it's been a long day. It's been a long day, so is that a wrap, that's a wrap. Well, thanks for tuning in. Follow the podcast wherever you listen, so you don't miss one. Also, follow us on social media. If you really didn't like the show, we'd still appreciate your review. I'm just kidding.

Amy:

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Garry:

Cheers.