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Hallmark's The Chicken Sisters S2 E7 - Storm's Brewing, Ya'll

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On this episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry & Amy hunker down and dive into Hallmark’s The Chicken Sisters: S2 E7 - Storm’s Brewing, Y’all! When Mother Nature unleashes her fury on Merinac, neighbors are forced into shelter together, sparking overdue conversations, emotional breakthroughs, and surprising revelations. As tornado sirens echo across town, Nancy steps up and stands tall in her power to protect the community she loves, proving that even in the darkest storms, the bonds of a small town can weather anything.

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Welcome to Pour the Wine. It's romcom time where we'll sip some wine and review all things romcom on the Homework channel. Hi, Mamie.

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And I'm Gary.

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And you better get to pouring.

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And I'm I can't wait. Yes.

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Pour that cabs have.

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Deliciousness.

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Deliciousness.

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Yes.

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Today we're recapping and reviewing the episode number seven of the second season of The Chicken Sisters Storm's Brewing, y'all. It aired on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, September 21st, 2025, and is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus.

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Yes, we would. So season two, episode seven was directed by Greg Beaman. Didn't see any other director, uh director credits for Hallmark. He has almost 70 directing credits, though, including a lot of series.

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A lot of series.

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Yes. An episode of The Flash, five episodes of Lucifer, which we loved. I loved. Yes.

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We loved. I loved it too.

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We did love it. It was really good.

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Yes.

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Detective.

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Detective.

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Um 13 episodes of Falling Skies, another good series.

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Yes.

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And 11 episodes of Jag.

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Jag. Yes. And you know who was in Jag?

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Um, what's her name from uh The Good Witch?

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Yes, Catherine Bell. That is correct. And Clayton. And Clayton. Yay! You're very good. Look at you. You're learning.

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Look at me. I get ghostly.

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Terrible at remembering. You're getting better. That was very good. David James Elliott. Yeah. Correct.

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Thank you.

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Correct.

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And this particular episode was written by Aaron Gibson and Dina Rosenblatt. Aaron was a writer in season one and is now the showrunner and executive producer for season two. How cool is that?

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That's really cool. That's good for her. Yeah.

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She has a writing credit for the first episode of this season. Dina has one writing credit for uh season one, episode eight, the best chicken in town.

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So it's season finale, right? Right, right. Very cool. Awesome. Very cool. And you know what's interesting is I know the director for this episode is who'd you say Greg Beaman? Yes. Right. He on IMDB, they have Jackie Gold. Oh, right. So I think in the last episode, because we were sort of prepping a little bit early, right, you know, for this one, we said that she was also directing this episode, but the directing credit on the actual episode itself, because I watched for that too, was Greg Beaman. So we are making that correction.

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There's a correction for that.

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Today. Tonight, right?

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So let's drop this a knock.

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Alrighty. A storm comes to town, and led by Nancy's brave example, all of Marinak bands together to help their friends, family, and neighbors.

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Yes, they did.

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Yes, they did.

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So if you haven't seen this episode yet, we do drop spoilers. So stop the podcast.

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Spoiler.

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Go watch season two, episode seven, and then come back and listen to our podcast and let us know what you think. What do you think?

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I think that sounds like a good plan. I think you should definitely give away some spoilers because we talk about, we go over the characters, right? Yeah. And we talk about what happens in the scenes, and we are gonna give away some stuff.

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Yes.

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So we are or you can just listen to it and enjoy it, and then you, you know, we'll be caught up.

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There you go.

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Right before the season finale.

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There you go. All right. So you want to dive into it now?

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Let's dive into it. What did you think about this episode?

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Oh goodness. I think this was probably one of my best, or I like this one probably the best.

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Yeah. You know, it was so fast paced, I felt like I felt like it went really quickly.

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Mm-hmm. And and I just love how the angles, the shot angles, the this, just the special effects. I they did really.

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You were keyed into that. Yeah, yeah.

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I'm telling you, they did a really good job. And I like the isolation of each couple that they had throughout the show.

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Yes.

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Brilliant.

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Or not a couple like romantically necessarily, but just two people that were together.

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That were stuck together during the storm.

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Yeah.

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I thought was really, really good.

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And you usually don't talk too much about how something is shot in terms of the film. And even after that, you were dying to talk about it, and you're like, I just love the way this was shot. You couldn't contain that part of it. Yeah. Yeah.

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So what'd you think? Did you?

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I thought it was a really great episode where we, you know, maybe saw some character growth in some scenes, saw people get closer. There was just a tight knit relationship expansion for several different, you know, relationships. So um that's probably not the best way to say that. I don't even know. I'm jumbling through my words, but um, I thought it was really, really good. And like you, it's probably one of my favorite episodes, despite Shauna not being in it.

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Shauna.

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Now we love Shauna, Sabrina too, and Lindsay. Like we did, I did miss them in it, but it was still a really great episode, and it really, you know, sets up the finale.

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Yeah. The season finale.

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So, you know, episode number eight. So there was just a lot of development in the characters themselves, which I really loved.

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So a lot of forgiveness.

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Some forgiveness, some, yeah. Yeah. Yep. All right. So where do you want to start? Who do you want to dive into?

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Well, first of all, we got to talk about the chicken symbol.

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Okay, yes, yes. Talk about the chicken symbol.

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So at the beginning, this episode it was the weather main.

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The weather vein. Yeah. Main, main street. I don't know.

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Weather vein, yes.

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Yes.

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That's so cool. I just like looking for it now that we that we know that it pops up in every episode. So it was cool that it had to do with the weather.

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The weather vein. Well, right, because we're looking for it in something, right? Not typically, and I wonder if it's been the weather vein before. I don't know. I'd have to go back and watch season one. Not in this season for sure, but yeah, that was a cool Yeah.

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A way, a cool way to implement it.

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Yep, yep, yep. All right.

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So let's get started.

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All right. So let's uh so what happens is the storm comes in and you have people sort of paired off, right? You have, well, Gus is alone at first, right, but then we'll get to you know, Frank Jr. shows up.

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And he's alone at first, and he's alone.

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Well, they're both, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you have Sergio and Amanda, right?

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May and Jay.

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May and Jay, and then Nancy is sort of helping the town, and she's with Gen a lot in this episode. Right. Right.

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She's with other uh characters too, but so let's let's start with you want to start with Frank.

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Sure.

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All right, Frank.

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All right, so we'll talk about Frank and Gus.

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Yeah, let's do that.

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Start well, you can start with Frank because his, you know, leading to Gus, his truck won't start. We kind of saw, well, we saw him stopped at the end of the last episode at the railroad crossing arm that will not lift up. Right. So he he is sitting there and he's having a little bit of a meltdown, but then he um his car won't start. Right. So he gets out and goes on foot.

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Right. Right.

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And at first I'm like, I mean, there's a tornado there.

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Well, first he tries to lift the arm up. He lifts the arm up. Oh, right. And then the train goes by.

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Oh, that's right. That's right.

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That that kind of startled him. It surprised me a little bit. And the narrator says something about it too. But I thought it was really cool that they did that because you haven't seen the train come through yet at all. Right. So you just think it's just an arm and it's just there and it's broke. But yeah. And then he tries to get back in his car because he then hears the sirens go off. So he gets in his car, tries to stop it or start it, but he's out of gas.

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Right, right.

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He goes on foot and he's he's high tailing it.

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He's high tailing it to his mom's house. Yeah. Right. I presume maybe that was the closest house. I don't really know. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So so in the meantime, at his mom's house, Gus is there and she's upstairs and she's having a hard time. The the tree has crashed through the window in her bedroom, which Nancy had told Frank Sr. to take down because it was gonna fall one day. And what did he say? He mansplained to her and said, No, it's fine.

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Yes.

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Right.

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And Nancy was right.

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And Nancy was right. So Gus goes into the hallway because the weather is getting worse. She needs to get downstairs, and she's having a hard time moving, right?

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Yeah. Because she just was getting over her the episode that she had.

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Right. So she kind of rounds the corner and then she sees Frank. Frank Jr., right? Frank. He goes by Frank. No, I keep forgetting that.

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Yeah.

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And she's kind of like, you know.

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What are you doing?

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What are you doing here? Yeah. And he's surprised. Is he surprised to see her? I don't I don't really remember.

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He's surprised to see her there. What did she say? She calls him a ding dang dong.

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Yeah. Because he's a yeah, yeah. She called him a ding dang dong, and he's like, You now why would I help you if you call me a a ding dong or a dang ding dong or something? Yeah.

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He said a ding-dong, and she goes, I didn't call you a ding-dong, I called you a dang ding don't.

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Dang ding dong. Yeah. That's kind of funny.

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That was so funny.

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So then he actually helps her down the stairs. Right. And they go downstairs and then they go down into the basement, I guess. Yeah.

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So and then he's like, um, what is he Well, he's asking Gus where his mom is.

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Yeah.

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You know, and he's he's kind of confused why she's there. And um she Gus tells him that, you know, she went and rang the siren or pulled the lever to turn on the tornado siren. And that kind of uh upset Frank because you know his mom's out there and he's having this moment now that he's realizing how you know bad he's been toward his mom.

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I think I think she tries, he he helps her down the hall. We're kind of jumping the guy. I think that conversation was in the basement. Yeah, we kind of already went down there. But before she even gets to the stairs, he helps her to the stairs and then she wants to go down by herself. She's like, I don't need your help, you know. And then when she finally admits that she needs his help, he's like, say the magic word, right? You know, and she's just like that was so funny. I thought that was funny. So instead of saying it, she actually spells it, right? So she spells she says P L E A S E, right? That was funny.

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That was so and Frank's like, okay, I'll take it, right? That was a funny.

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And that's when they start talking, that's when he realize he's like, Where's my mom?

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Right.

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And he's shocked to learn that she has gone out, you know, and and I think Gus realizes that she is she was the one who sounded the alarm, right? The tornado siren. And he's like, She did that, I can't believe it. You know, and that's when Gus is like, Women can do hard things, you know, some of us never get a break from them. And you know, that's pretty much Gus's life, yeah, which I felt like.

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So Yeah, it was really good. So they end up down in the basement, and they have some great conversation. Right. And you know, I don't like Frank.

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I know, I know you don't.

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I am not that not many people do.

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I'm not a fan either of Frank.

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But um, so they get to having a conversation, and it was kind of interesting because there's a bunch of toys on shelves, and he started playing with them, so I kind of felt sorry for him because he's kind of a kid in an adult's body, and then Gus begins to explain to him how about Nancy, and he gets into it with her about her daughters, yeah. So they kind of have this moment, yeah. And I thought it was really, really good. Um because they're both kind of loners, yeah. And they come together.

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Well, and that's when that's when Gus is like, we're more alike than you think. Right. Yeah, they kind of they kind of have a not a battle, but they go back and forth. You're right, because um, you know, uh because she's like, something happened to you.

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Right.

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Something happened to you. You were fine when you were younger. So I I wonder if something like that's gonna come out.

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Right.

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Or if it was just that his dad was the way he was with him, right? You know, maybe that's maybe that's what it is, but um, she's like, something happened to you. And then, you know, he keeps saying uh he he tries to tell her that Amanda got a better life because of him, and she's like, No, Amanda had a better life in spite of you. Right. Like she did her own thing, right? You know, and and then she goes on to really praise Nancy and she's like, you know, I I wish I had a tenth of the kindness of Nancy, you know, of your mama, you know. Right. And says her only problem is that she always puts herself second.

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Right.

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And, you know, asks Frank J and then she asks Frank Jr. if he's ever considered what his mom wants, not just what he wants. Right. You know, and then he really starts crying, you know. He gets upset. And then it's funny because Gus is like, now stop, you know. And then like she's pushed him too far.

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And he says it which was interesting, he says, Frank Jr., don't cry, don't cry. He called himself Frank Jr.

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Oh, I didn't notice that. Yeah. Which I thought, like you were saying, she that's when she's like, you know, we're a lot more alike than than what you think or what I would like to admit. And she says she's pushed a lot of people away in her life, right? You know, and she admits that watching Kitchen Clash, she didn't like what she saw, right? The way she spoke to her daughter, she did not like that at all. So you really see her big heart coming out, and that she's just built this tough exterior, and it's hard to bring that out. Yeah, it it's been hard to bring that out because she's had to do hard things her entire life.

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Yeah, and Frank Frank Jr. even said the same thing.

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I didn't like how I was yeah, I thought that was interesting too. That's a reflection. When he's that's a reflection. Look in the mirror, and then they hug, right? Yes. So I I just it was just so good, but you gotta wonder how long it's gonna last with Frank Jr. Like I don't trust anything, right?

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I'll give him I'm he's still on the bad list for me. So we're gonna keep him there until the final episode.

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Until otherwise, and he's gotta prove right actions speak louder than a word. So he's got but he made some he made some movement there. He made some movement in the right direction. And that's I think you were talking about the toys. That's when Gus was kind of like, Did you put those down here? Yeah. And he's like, No. And she's like, Do you think your dad put them down here? No. Who do you think put him down here?

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Right.

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That's for you.

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Yeah.

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You know, that's not for your mom. She did that for you to keep that stuff.

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So I just thought that that was really the other thing I thought was really good is that he told Gus that she never really liked him. And she said, Well, you know, that's crazy because she said she would never hold the sins of a man against their son.

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Oh, yeah.

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And I thought that was really powerful, too.

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So they've probably lived this whole time with a misunderstanding about it.

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Communication. Communication.

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Yep, communication. So yeah, you're right. I he he probably lived with thinking she hated him for taking Amanda away and because of his dad, and you know, and everything. So yeah, that was really really good. Really good. Yeah, really, really profound. And you know, Wendy Malik, gosh, the way just she delivers and you know, her in that moment too, kind of like tearing up.

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It was all just so she she played that replay really well.

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So, so good. Yeah.

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All right. So who do you want to go on to next?

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Let's go to May and Jay.

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May and Jay and Jay. All right. So you have them two running into memes, right?

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As the sirens going off, right?

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Right. And and May's kind of in still in shock from Clayton, her dad. You find her finding out that he really wasn't there for her, and really not there for Gus either. He was just there for himself, and that's when she starts to realize things aren't so good. And then Jay Jay's kind of just, you know, he's standing by the window, and he hadn't been in a tornado, and she's like, I wouldn't stand by the window.

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Right. You need to get you need to move away from that window, brother.

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I've never been in a tornado either, and I don't ever want to be.

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So I've never been in a tornado, but I have gone down to the basement in my house. Now we live in an area, this is sidebar, where um, you know, we don't see t tornadoes too frequently. I mean, they do occur occasionally, but there is nowhere to go.

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Nope.

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There are no where we live, there are no basements because of you know the ground.

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We're above sea level or below sea level.

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And uh yeah, but I grew up where there were basements, there were cellars. My grandmother had a cellar, which we do see in this episode too, right? And um, you know, it's all concrete and stuff, but um, or a shelter, whatever they called it in this episode. But and I I many times had to go down for the threat of one. Um, but it's it's terrifying actually. But they were all calm and cool and like, yeah, this is this is what we do in the South. It's what we do. So um yeah.

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But that's when she tells Jay they can't get married, she can't marry him.

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Right, because she thinks uh because of Mimi's curse, like she's cursed, like their relationship isn't gonna last. Yeah, and she starts to unravel, right? Like she's having a little bit of a meltdown, like she does, and Jay is really there for her. He's like, you know, sometimes life goes sideways, it's not a curse.

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Yeah, which I thought was was Jay's just a good guy.

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He's such a good guy. Oh my gosh.

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He he was so calm through all this, yes, and he is just explaining to her, and I just love it because he tells her to sit down, um, and because I I guess what happened was Sh May couldn't understand why Jay couldn't understand the Mimi curse. Right. So she takes all the uh seat tags and the seating chart, the seating chart, and she puts down each of the Mimi's uh mothers, right?

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Right, because they had them all on like a poster board. They had the seating chart for the for the wedding, right?

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And then she tells the story about how you know her great-grandmother was left by her husband, and how her grandmother was left, and how her mom was left, and how she is not gonna leave him, but she feels like she's not like Gus. She's like her dad.

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Yeah.

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So she would be the one to leave, not Jay.

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Right.

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And then Jay starts to tell her what I see up here is a bunch of strong women.

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Right, which is really cool. I thought it was really he said, yeah, because he says again, uh it's because at first he says it's not a curse, and then he says again, right? It's not a curse.

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Right.

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I don't see, I don't see the curse.

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Right. And he talks about the strong women and how each of each one of them, it was the men who were the cowards and left.

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Right. I thought that was so great that he flipped the script, right? Like he totally flipped the script on her. And you're right, he says that he just saw strong, opinionated women who were disrespected. That's the way he saw it. And that was pretty cool. And like you said, he called the men, yeah.

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Cause he said, Do you do you think I'm like those men? And she's like, No. And that's when she says, I'm like my father.

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I wasn't expecting that. I was like, Oh, now I get it. Cause well, because she says, you know, she left her father left town right after high school, she left town right after high school and she didn't look back. Right. You know, he's a liar, she's a liar. She goes on all these like comparisons. I just thought that was so I, you know, that was such a profound moment for me, just because just uh the way they flipped the script like that and made her, and I hadn't even been thinking about it that way.

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Me either.

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I just thought she assumed because she's a Mimi's girl she's cursed and bad things are gonna happen, but not that she was viewing herself like her father.

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Right. Which was very interesting to me. Really great writing.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And that's when Jay says, I see more of Gus in you.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Well, he says, I see a lot of gus on you. Not necessarily more, but yeah, he says, Yeah, he a lot of gus in her, yeah.

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And then he tells May that he has loved her ever since he he saw her.

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The moment he saw her. I know, it's so sweet, I know. He gets my I just love kudos. He and he he just he gives this speech about her too, about and and he's always doing that, he's always lifting her up, right? Which is so great, and that's what you should do. That's what you should do, yeah.

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And he says something to the effect that he would rather spend a short amount of time with her than a lifetime with someone else.

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Yeah. Oh, cool. I'm telling you, you have made him a superstar in R IJ. We love you.

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Yeah, and then he gets on one knee, kind of proposes to her and puts again, puts the ribbon from the seating char those on her finger. And she kind of that kind of snapped her out of that whole pity pet a party, you know.

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Yeah, and it's like, woman, open your eyes and look at the man that's right in front of you, you know. And and the thing is now he knows everything. Right. He knows your past, he's met your family, he knows now he's met your dad. Like he, there's no more lies about her, you know, past and jobs she had. He knows that all, like she is just an open book and raw with him, which is great. And he still loves her for it. And it's almost like she can't accept it, which is kind of like Gus. Right. That is a lot like Gus in ways, you know. But um, but I'm glad she came around. And then they take off and go to this to the shelter because the storm is picking up and she knows that's where they need to go. Right. Like the cellar or whatever. So that that was a good yeah, you know, that was that was a great, great scene between those two.

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All right. So you want to go on to Amanda and Amanda and Sergio.

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So they're stuck at the Chicken Sisters restaurant, right? Frannies, Franny's, right? Fry Frannies' Fanny's. But the chicken's they're calling it the Chicken Sisters, right? So they're stuck there and they end up go, are they underneath the bar? I never was quite clear what they're doing.

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Yeah, I don't know if they pulled a piece of the bar over the top of them, but they got underneath it.

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Because at first, you know, at first, Sergio is kind of like he's scared. He's scared. He's and and he's not only scared, but he's not handling it well. Like he's not good in a crisis, you know. And Amanda's kind of like, okay, like we're okay. You know, and then he talks about some previous storm and he did not handle that well at all, you know. And Amanda's like, I've been through a million of these, you know, like you just gotta take care of it.

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But she calls him biscuit, by the way.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, and then she calls him, she says that he's he's the luckiest man around because he's with the greatest calmer downer. You know, and I thought that was so cute because she is has really come out of her shell.

SPEAKER_00:

That's her superpower, right?

SPEAKER_01:

Calming, calming people down, staying calm in the middle of the storm.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I thought that was so cool.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that was really, really cool.

SPEAKER_00:

And then um while they're sitting there, she's trying to get him to talk about his hush puppies, which I thought. She's like, tell me your hush, what your recipe. And he's like, No, why should I tell you that? She goes, Because if you if something were to happen to you, I would still be here and I need to be able to pass him off. I was like, okay, that's it.

SPEAKER_01:

And then he kind of laughed a little bit. And she just she just really kept trying to get him to talk and keep him distracted.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

And then she asked him about his uh uh his mom, right? And we find out his mom died when he was very young, and then he started cooking, and a chef took him under his wing. So he's telling Amanda all this, and she just keeps talking to him and bringing it out of him, and it it does calm him down, right? And then she's like, Well, what was the first thing you cooked? You know, and then he kind of goes into a story about that.

SPEAKER_00:

I thought that's leaks or something like that. I I thought that was pretty cool. Leak in some kind of fish, which it was pretty interesting.

SPEAKER_01:

And then I don't I don't know what he asks her, but she basically tells him that she doesn't think she's ever really gotten what she wanted.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

You know, like she she thought she had everything she wanted, but she really didn't, and she doesn't think she's ever really gotten it. And then the lie jar fell that falls another perfect implementation. Yes, and that was one of my favorite scenes ever. That was was that just the last episode?

SPEAKER_00:

Because the jar was like, oh no, you're lying.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep, boom, yep.

SPEAKER_00:

And then she well, no, I don't think it was that she was lying, I think that it was time to just break it open and but it kind of gave this symbolism of because it's a lying jar, she felt like she didn't know where she what she wanted, and the lion jar was kind of like, Well, you you kind of just oh, I see what you're saying now.

SPEAKER_01:

Maybe, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So I thought that was an excellent, excellent piece to this, to their to their portion of it. To their portion of it.

SPEAKER_01:

And then do they end up kissing?

SPEAKER_00:

No, they get close, so they're getting ready to, and Frankie comes in because she says she was tired of pushing people away or pushing her thing away, and you think it's Sergio. I hope it is Sergio, and not her her drawings, her doodles. So we'll we'll kind of find out. But that's when Frankie comes in.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, right, because the storm is over.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

They almost get, but they make it through, right? You know, and then they kind of come out and everything is kind of destroyed in the restaurant. The restaurant's still standing, right?

SPEAKER_00:

But it's a mess.

SPEAKER_01:

But it's a mess, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, so let's go on to Nancy.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, so Nancy, Nancy, my hero. I am woman, hear me roar. Nancy is has found her voice and she is shouting it from the rooftops, and I am here for it. I love it, I love it.

SPEAKER_00:

I am with you 100% on this one.

SPEAKER_01:

So we saw at the end of the last episode, she kind of storms into town hall and she's like, Where's the bear? We have to pull the siren, you know, and she is it Darlene and Esther were there.

SPEAKER_00:

I I think I know it was Esther, but I can't remember the other. Pauline, maybe Pauline. That's right, Pauline.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, so she pulls the tornado alarm and she's like, We can't just stand here like the cheese fell off the crackers. And I'm like, I love that saying. I love cheese, most of all. So good.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so good. I mean, I love these two women, the older women, they are right in this.

SPEAKER_01:

Then she's then she's what she's the two what? Oh, you mean Nancy and Gus.

SPEAKER_00:

Nancy and Gus.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, you know, they're wise women. I know, but been around for a minute, you know, you gotta listen to your elders, right?

SPEAKER_00:

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_01:

Even even people can can change no matter what the age, it's never too late, right?

SPEAKER_00:

You're right, you're right. But yeah, she she tells everybody in in the building to get into the basement and that she's gonna go and do a run around the town to make sure everybody's okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Now that's bold. That's you know a tornado's coming. I yeah, I'm not really sure I would do that, but I don't know if I could do that. So the one of the first places she goes is the the cluckery, right? Because she's looking for Frank Jr. I don't think she's picked up Gen yet.

SPEAKER_00:

No, she's at that point, right?

SPEAKER_01:

So she goes, she goes and she's looking for him, and she finds him crying like a little baby on the floor, freaked out, you know, just like a typical macho, like the most macho man you know, deep inside. He was a scaredy cat. Scaredy kiss scared. Scared scared.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. And then he starts to ramble about how because you know, when you're facing life or death, you start confessing about everything, and she he's telling Nancy that the cluckery is going under, you know, is corrupt and his business. And she's like, What did you say? And then he kind of backtracked on it, and then she Was like, well, where's Frank? And he's like, I don't know. And then she runs out.

SPEAKER_01:

And now her mission is to she says, I knew you were more crooked than a hound dog's leg. Oh my god. That's what she says to him. I thought that was so good, too. Yeah. Where she leaves. Right. And then she goes on, she's looking. And is that when she she comes across again in his he's yeah, he's trying to do flat flat tire or something. He had a flat, you know, the wind is blowing. And he's trying to change around.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And he doesn't, he he she comes across him and she's like, Come on, let's go. And he's like, Well, wait a minute. And she's like, We gotta hurry up. And you find out that again or Jen has his baby in the back. So he grabs the baby and then they go on to the next stop.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, she goes to then she goes to Frank Junior's because she really wants to find him, right? She's like, Frank Jr. So she goes into his apartment and then she realizes she figures out where he would keep the key, the extra key. She finds it, she gets into his place, realizes he's not there, and is really kind of like heartbroken a little bit, right? Or a lot, maybe. And then um goes back out to the car. And you know, she's basically telling Gen, you know, just because they get older doesn't mean you worry any less. Right. Because she's really trying to find him and make sure he's okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

You know.

SPEAKER_00:

And and that's and then so she they leave there and then they come across Frank's truck turned upside down. Right. And she thinks that's it, he's gone, right? But she checks the truck, he's not in there. Yeah. And so they're driving along, and I think they get a call from Esther saying that, you know.

SPEAKER_01:

Or she calls Esther and it's like, have you heard uh yeah, have you heard about Frank?

SPEAKER_00:

Have you seen him? And she said, Some people saw him running down Main Street booking it, right? So and she I guess she figured out that he was probably running to her house.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So and that's when we come across that.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, she was so grateful that he was alive, actually. Right. Right. So then she goes, so then she does she drop she, I guess she drops Gen off, then it probably at his house. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

I think so.

SPEAKER_01:

And then she goes, and then she goes home, and you know, by the time she gets home, Frank and Gus have already had this big conversation, and Frank, he's kind of he's asleep, right? When she gets there. And then she kind of goes up to him and well, first she comes and she's like, you know, Gus, Gus, because she's really worried, and Gus is like, We're down here. So then Nancy goes downstairs, and that's when she sees Frank and she asks Gus, How'd you get down here? Yeah, and Gus is like, or you know, and Nancy's so relieved to see Frank Jr. And then she goes to give him a hug. And I just thought it was kind of funny because he's like, Mama, you know, like he's five years old or something.

SPEAKER_00:

That's the little kid in here. I know, I know they make it hard to hate him.

SPEAKER_01:

I know, and then you know, he gives her do they hug or whatever?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and then and then he apologizes because Gus is kind of looking at him like she's she's giving him like an eye, like excuse me.

SPEAKER_01:

You got something to say to her mama, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, and Nancy's all about giving the second chance. Yeah. So they hug it out.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep, yep. And then he hugs Gus, who does not like us, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

But then she she kind of gives him a hug. Yeah. Wow, we've hated each other this whole time for no reason at all, right?

SPEAKER_01:

And then, you know, we have the storm is over, and you know, it's kind of the sun is coming out, which happens, which is incredibly wild to go through that kind of storm, and then you know, the sun comes out after like nothing happened, only a lot did happen. Right. And May and Jay come out of the cellar, and you know, it kind of ends with May looking towards Mimi's. Whatever, right? Well, Mimi's they ran from the restaurant, so it's it's right. So you don't know and we don't know if it's totally gone, which we pres which I presume the look on her face, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So we're gonna find out in episode number eight. And then the narrator says, which I thought was really cool, like, how can we know how strong our roots are if we're not tested by the wind? Yes. Yeah, I thought that was a brilliant piece of writing. That was right towards that was at the end, towards the end, you know, and I was like, that is such a profound question. It is like you do, you realize how strong family friendships are when you're tested. When you are tested and they were tested. That's when you find out who your real friends are, what family members will stand by you.

SPEAKER_00:

And I liked how the Nancy, Frank, and Gus came out of the house, and Nancy was looking around and the tree was gone. Yeah. So that's a good thing. But the devastation and the destruction of everything.

SPEAKER_01:

Everything's down.

SPEAKER_00:

And then that's when she got a call from Darlene or Pauline that the storm was gone, it's over, and we're all good.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. And then the narrator also says the storm blew away the things the Mimi's girls had been holding on to for a long time, the lies they told themselves, the myths they believed, but this storm it got a little too carried away.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So that's why I think Mimi's is gone. So there were just so many revelations from the characters, so much growth from you know, so many of the characters. It was just, it was a really, really excellent, excellent episode. And, you know, I did miss Shauna, you know, and Sabrina and Lindsay. Frankie and Sabrina and Lindsay. I miss them, you know. And then because Frankie wasn't even in at that point. We kind of also have, you know, Nancy, I guess, does she go back to the City Hall at the end, or is she because she kind of tries to find out what happened to the mayor? Right. Or maybe that was at the beginning, and then at the end, she's like, We're just gonna have to Yeah. She she so she you can see she's gonna take charge.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Right, of the town since the mayor is incapacitated. They're gonna elect themselves a new mayor. A heart attack. Yeah. Well, she might just fill in at first, but so is that a wrap? I guess that's a wrap.

SPEAKER_00:

So out of five drumsticks in a biscuit, how many would you give this one?

SPEAKER_01:

I would really probably I have to give this one a five. Me too. It was so good.

SPEAKER_00:

Straight up five.

SPEAKER_01:

It was so good. And I really hope that the next episode we just we enjoy it for what it is, and we're not, you know, like a little bit disappointed because this felt like this could have been a final episode of a season, you know. But and I know we have the wedding coming up in episode eight. So and I'm I'm glad, I'm really glad that they didn't have anybody die or you know, get injured. Like I thought I was like, ah, I hope nothing happens to Frank Jr. You know, as much as I dislike him, it's like I don't want, you know.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and I don't want them to put them back together either because we've gone through two seasons now of them being at each other's throats.

SPEAKER_01:

Although he might try because I'm sure he's gonna try.

SPEAKER_00:

But I just hope Amanda just says, you know what, we're better off friends.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. Well, it sounded like she's ready to move towards Sergio in that moment. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Either that or the doodles.

SPEAKER_01:

Or the what?

SPEAKER_00:

Doodles or the doodles. Yes. The drawings.

SPEAKER_01:

When you say doodle, I think of our doodle. We have a golden doodle. Even I got you. No, I know what you're talking about now. Her her yeah, her doodles, her drawings. So yep.

SPEAKER_00:

All right. So is that a wrap? That's a wrap. All right. If you really, really like the show, we would really, really appreciate your positive review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And if you really didn't like the show, we'd still appreciate your positive review.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, we would.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

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