Latest / Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews / The Chicken Sisters Episode 6 (Encore)

Transcript

The Chicken Sisters Episode 6 (Encore) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hi, friends, Megan and Wendy Here and in honor of
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Hallmark airing The Chicken Sisters on Hallmark Channel, we are
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: re airing our original reviews and recaps of these episodes
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: that were originally recorded back in September and October of
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So enjoy the Chicken Sisters and enjoy
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: these recaps and reviews. This is a bramble Jam podcast.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Homemark review podcast. I'm
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Megan and I'm a longtime Hallmark fan. I'm when Dan,
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a former Hallmark hater. Today we're discussing Chicken Sisters
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Episode six.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: I Choose to be Happy. Y'all.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Streaming exclusively on the Hallmark Plus platform. Hey, we'd love
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: to be your friend. When the podcast is over, check
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: in with us, hang out on Instagram where we have
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: two Instagram accounts. Girls Gone Hallmark and it's about to
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: be firing on all cylinders with Q four content, y'all.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Countdown to Christmas, all the new Hallmark Plus stuff.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: We've got the cruise coming.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: We are Girls Gone Homewark as well as Megan and Wendy.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're just.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: Gonna be churning it. Out every single day, send coffee.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: I'm already tired and we haven't even checked off countdown
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: to Christmas yet, and I'm having hardcore deja vu right now.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Like I said the same thing last year, it's like
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: birthing a baby. I think, Oh, the anticipation is worse
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: than the worse than the reality. Yeah, because I'm very
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: excited for countdown to Christmas, and when I look back
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: on last year and the year before, it was a
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: lot of fun.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: It doesn't.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: It didn't feel overwhelming, but just leading into it feels
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: like a lot of stuff happening. Well, I was gonna
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: say the same thing about last year. I know we
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: looked at our schedule and we were like, let's go right,
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: but doing it didn't feel burdensome. So I think, yes,
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: the anticipation is stressing us out. A love it.
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: You know it's gonna be great. The problem for me, though,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: is Hallmark Plus to be quite oh h, why are
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: we dropping Groom's Men days before Countdown to Christmas starts? Yeah,
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: that's an interesting choice other than I mean, they want
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: adding value to the platform, Yeah, exactly. They know Tyler
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: is going to bring the eyes to the platform. I
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: get it, I get it, I get it. I get
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: it to me in my mind though, it's like, you know,
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: January's rough for Hallmark. Like we know on our end
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: that we lose listeners on Girls Gone Hallmark, right, Like
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: we get an influx of listeners for countdown to Christmas
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: and then people are like, Christmas is over, I don't
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: watch Hallmark the rest of the year, and then they
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: tap out. I'm sure Hallmark is the same way, right,
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: Like this ten weeks is their bread and butter. But
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: maybe this isn't going to be your Hallmark plus bread
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: and butter. Maybe you need to add value in January
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: and be like stick around, y'all. We got Tyler Hines
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: right up top. Mm hmm exactly. I think they should
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: drop it to January, but that's just my opinion. We
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: will be reviewing the Groomsmen come back next week. By that,
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: as much as we're complaining about it right now, we
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: will be reviewing the Groomsmen. Yeah. I'm gonna watch the
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: hell out of it no matter when they drop it.
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: Don't join our Girls Gone Hallmark Facebook group.
• 3:49
  Speaker 2: Lots of Coop.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: People over there talking Hallmark and Hallmark adjacent, not a
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: whole lot of adjacent stuff, but just you know, everything
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: happening on the Hallmark in universe. Indeed, now I want
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: to hear an episode synopsis. All Right, s's episode six.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: I choose to be happy, y'all. Amanda tries her best
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: to be be despite current events, but she's not convincing herself. Meanwhile,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: the kitchen clash competition comes to a head. This episode
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: was written by Carrie Carney. She is an actress who
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: has been in shows like Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, and New Girl.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: According to IMDb, this is her first writing credit other
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: than a short she wrote in twenty ten.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: Ohay. Director Shannon Coley returns for this episode. She did
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: episode five as well.
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break and we'll come right back
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: with more Chicken Sisters. We have an email and I
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: think now would be the right time to read it
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: and discuss some of the content here. This is from
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: listener Paula, who says, Hi, again, I hate doing this
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: because you two are great, but I still I think
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: you're missing some things, specifically Amanda. She's tragic, but far
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: from unlikable. Her plight is probably a more common occurrence
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: than what may accomplished. We all know women who are
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: stuck in these circumstances and feel powerless. On the surface,
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, her life seems fine, and that's what
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: happens in this situation. It's her strength that is made
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: that possible. She's made bad decisions and doesn't know what
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: to do. That's so real. That last scene in her
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: house was heartbreaking. It reminded me of Carrie Russell and Waitress,
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: only she doesn't get a baby at the end or
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: a bunch of cash. There's more about This is already
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: too long think about it. Thank you for your patience,
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: so let's talk about it. First off, don't ever apologize
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: for having a different opinion, yes than what we have.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Like we are telling you guys to email us to
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: slide into the DMS to join our Facebook group. I
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: love the conversation, so let's have it. With that said,
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: I respectfully disagree. Okay, I just I don't like Amanda.
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: I am sorry. I maybe am empathetic to her situation,
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: but especially after this episode, girl is just making some
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: terrible decisions and I can't root for her. I've spent
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: so much time ruminating on this email since it came
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: in and I one hundred percent Agrea, please email us
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: your differing opinions. I agree with somethings Paula says here,
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: like I do think that she's in a very common situation.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: I think women get in unhappy marriages with disappointing husbands
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: all the time.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: I think women get in positions where they feel stuck
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: all the time.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: And I also agree that the fact that her life
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: has goodness to it is largely due to the fact
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: that she has made it that way. I agree with
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: all of that. That being said, I have a question,
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: do you think Frank Junior, based on the information that
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: we have, is abusive, not physically, no, verbally perhaps, Yeah,
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: we don't have any evidencities physically abusive. And he's a
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: jerk and he's not a great husband. I don't even
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: know that he would be considered verbally abusive. I mean,
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: he's he's not nice, but he doesn't seem to be berating.
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: Her in any way.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that she's in a happy marriage and
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: she should stick around. I'm not suggesting any of that.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I get that she feels stuck. Nevertheless,
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: to me, her behavior makes her unlikable to me the
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: way she treats everyone around her, even people who are
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: trying to step in and be helpful. And I agree
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: with you. This episode did her in no favors.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I agree.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: I'm questioning why the Frank Junior question well, because I'm
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: thinking if he were abusive, you could say, like, she
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any power, right, she is afraid to make
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: a change, but he's not. He's just a bad guy.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: And I understand that she's like, well, my whole life
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: is tied up in Frank Junior and his family. My
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: like she loves Nancy, her place in the world, Franny's
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: is all tied up in her husband. So I get
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: that she doesn't feel like she has the ability to
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: make a change, but she's not in danger. And if
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: you were to swap the gender roles here, and you
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: were to show a man who's in an unhappy marriage,
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: whose wife does not treat him well, who then goes
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: on to find comfort in another woman outside of the marriage,
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: you would not be saying like, oh, I understand you're
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: feeling powerless. You'd be like, dude, if you're unhappy in
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: your marriage, leave being unhappy in your marriage. I don't
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: think excuses choosing to be with another person. I agree, Yeah, okay,
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: I love the conversation. So Paula, if you have more thoughts,
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: please send him our way. Keep them coming. Jumping in
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: to the key moments in this episode, I have to
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: be honest, I did not understand the first couple of scenes. Why.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Like they're talking about Gus and what created her distrust
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: in men, And there's the scene where the cops like,
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate it, and she's like, maybe you should
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: show it, and I was like, what is she asking
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: him to do there?
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: Like I couldn't.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: She just kind of gives him a look, did you
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: understand what was happening there?
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Over not in that particular scene, Like, I don't know
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: what she wanted specifically from him other than I mean
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: he said I appreciate it, you know, but in terms
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: of yes, I don't think she trusts men in general,
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: and the fact that she has found such solace and
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: these men in her community as an adult, you know,
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: obviously with Kenneth and Patrick and Sergio. That's what I
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: took from it. I just felt like we were supposed
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: to understand what was going on there. And then she's
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: like also chasing that other guy on. She's like, don't
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: forget your wedding ring. I'm like, am I supposed to know.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Who that is? M yeah, yeah, no idea. I didn't really.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I I watched it twice that those
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: short scenes, and I didn't understand it. But obviously we're
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: building up to like Gus doesn't trust men except for
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: then Kenneth and Patrick and Sergio kind of swoop in
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: and build this like little circle of trust for her, right,
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: all right. We also get a Gin reveal and I
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: was wrong. Well, he is a healer.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: Of the mind, and I appreciate that.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: The narrator is like, I've made you all wait long enough,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: here's the deal, and we get several mentions they're really
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: laying it on thick with something that's going on with
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Gus's health in this episode. And sorry, I'm running out
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: of patients with this show. I don't know if you
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: can tell. And when I was watching it, in my mind,
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is episode seven. They don't have a
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: whole lot of time to wrap it up, but it
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: is not. It is episode six, so I can kind
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: of see the trajectory of the end of the show
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: related to this. It happens later. But I would just
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: like to say that, even though I was not one
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: hundred percent correct about Jin, we called it last week.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: She did not sleep with Frank Junior. Frank Senior, you
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: were right about that. God, I hope she didn't sleep Yes,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: you are correct about the Frank Senior, for he was
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: just a piece of crab. Of course he's gonna say
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: that he fooled around with her. Isn't that interesting that
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: he felt more comfortable telling his wife, Oh, I slept
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: with Gus the night before our wedding, rather than letting
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: her in on the fact that he's like trying to
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: get Mimi's.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: Tape get away from her.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that feels like the high road that he took. Yeah. Wow,
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: this just generally, what is the word I'm looking for?
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what I was gonna say. Sorry,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: that's okay. I here's my thoughts about Jin. First of all,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: I and May, not May's health and Gus's health. I
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: it has taken way too long to get to this,
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Like they set this up in episode one, like it
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't need to be this big secret. It is not
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: salacious by any means. Perhaps where they're from, it might
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: be you know this this whole town and these whole families.
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's built on secrets, right, so like
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: they uh don't want to show Gus actually receiving help
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: from a man.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: Hmm, It's just.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Like let's just get there. Like, I think the storytelling
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: is far more interesting to talk about the stuff that
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Gus is going through other than like alluding to her
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: having some affair when he is just a doctor of medicine. Yeah,
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: I fully agree that I would rather be like dealing
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: with the actual issues and the aftermath. When she was like, oh,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: can you imagine what would happen if I came into
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: your office? I'm like, what are people gonna say to me?
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard like stories of nurses who are like, oh,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: we know, if a farmer comes into the emergency room,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: it's because he's like lost an arm. Like they don't
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: come in for if if they're coming in, it's like
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: a big freaking deal.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: And so I'm wondering.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: If it's like the same situation, like the town scene
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: sees Gus seeking this alternative medical treatment, maybe they're like, oh,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: something really bad must be going on with her and
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: it reveals more than she wants to.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: I do think I think, like you said, they started
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: teasing the too early, like they were teasing it in
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: episode one, and I do think it was perhaps let
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: go on too long. They could have added this in
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: three episodes ago and maybe given us some teasers there exactly.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I mean obviously because I know
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you told me what her health situation is from the book.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Do you think that is.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: Going to be her health situation in the show. I
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: think it definitely seems like they're hinting. The hints they
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: have dropped have led me to believe that that could
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: be true. Yes, Okay, it could be something else, though,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I mean it's all pretty vague. She's like rubbing her
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: hands and stumbling and dealing with muscle eggs. We have
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: Frank Junior continuing on his Dude Bro journey and I
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: cannot tell you the rage I feel. And he's listening
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: to his like Man Kingdom podcast.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Hard Hard.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: What's funny is the guy called it an app, But
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I was like, why didn't he say I have a podcast,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: like be a beta tester of my app? But basically
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: the app is just like these verbal affirmations anyway.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I didn't put that together, but you're right, let's call
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: it what it is.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe they're like, we don't want to be
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the Hallmark Joe Rogan, but I was just gonna say,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan, that's funny.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I mean Frank Junior, he doesn't need affirmations to be
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: any worse than he probably is already. And we'll just
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: talk about it at the end when he makes his
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: phone call about the calling the health department or whatever
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: a Mimi's actually he's calling it on Gus his house
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: behind Mimi's, right, Uh huh, what a piece of you
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: know what?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, And the narrator is like, oh, his dad would
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: be proud, essentially, and I was like, gross, Like I
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: just cannot stand the men in this family. I think
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: it's a really interesting storytelling choice to include this storyline
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: for Frank Junior, who, as we mentioned, was not a
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: character in the book who was alive.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: So this is not behavior that we would have seen.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: So this is a choice that the writers of the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: series have made, and I think it is a really
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: interesting choice given our political climate to like watch in
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: a very lighthearted way, like the radicalization of some of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: these guys via just being told things that they want
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: to believe about themselves. I just saw TikTok the other
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: day that said, when you don't know anything, everything's like
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: a conspiracy, and that is what I was thinking of
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: when I was watching Frank Junior spiral down his I
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: gotta I gotta go and he goes and like tanks
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: up on his Kingdom Talk in the truck co Gross,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: it's so great. It felt it felt like like an
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: addict would do that, Like they would have to run
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: out and like take a hit of whatever their drug
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: of choice is. But he's got to run out and
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: put this podcast in his ears.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: So, as we're talking about this, I'm thinking, not only
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: do I not like Frank Junior as this character, right
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: it he comes from this I mean obviously his dad
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: was a bad dude as well, But then there starts
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: to be like this stigma of like where they're from,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: right and there I'm not saying I believe this, but
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: there could be a stereotype that they're from the country
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and maybe not as educated as other people in our country, right, Uh, huh,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and therefore it just gives like a bad look on
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: like small town people. Is this makeing sense as I'm
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: like spitting it out, No, I think it makes sense.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: It's not the vibe I am getting. But I think
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: when you I think it's easy when you're putting a
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: character who is from a small town in a position
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: of being like easily swept up, that's not a big.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Leap to make, right.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But I also think you could put any any man
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: in this position and find him. There's a in fifty states.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You could find a dude who's susceptible to this kind
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: of talk. Absolutely, Like any man who feels like he
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: does not have the power or that he quote deserves
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: is the target audience.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: For this guy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Now get me to the end of the story here,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: because I don't know what the resolve is here?
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Like resolve? Did I need to do it again? The resolution?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Wh is the resolution here? Because we have two episodes?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Frank is super unlikable. If if this series follows the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: book by any means, how are we gonna get these
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: two restaurants to coexist with these terrible people? And yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: that it'd be successful for me. Frank Junior is the point,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the part that I don't understand how we're gonna work around,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because again I've read the book.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I know the general resolution. I can see that.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: That could be a place that we're working towards. I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: could see leaving things open for a second season. I
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: don't know how you handle the Frank Junior of it
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: all in the resolution that I see happening in this show.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm very curious. I know you are so over
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the show. I still enjoy watching it as much as
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I enjoy tearing apart some of these characters and their decisions.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm still invested in the show. I actually think this
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: could be the rare show where in season two might
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: be more entertaining, because there's so many secrets throughout this season,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and I don't really love that sort of storytelling when
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: it's dragged on so long. I mean, the Frank Senior
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: secret took us six episodes to get to the truth
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of who he is and all of these other little secrets.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: It's not my favorite, but I'm very curious to see
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: where the wrap up goes here because Frank to me
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is the outlier, Like I can really see everybody else
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in this town finding a way to coexist. But Frank
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Junior's the nail on the tire and I don't know
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: how you how where's he gonna go? How are you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: gonna handle that?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. Hey, Nancy was.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So gross in this episode too, because she's just she
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: did very briefly say like she questioned him on why
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he got the best act to me and talked about
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: like children are a blessing and he's such a jerk
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: and throwst ryback at her and why did you.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Only have one?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: As if he couldn't think of a single possible reason
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: why his mother only had one child. But she's like, oh,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the women of Kitchen Clash need some eye candy, And
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I thought, see gross, I know, I know, don't stop
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: making excuses to your son. I just I'm telling you,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I feel like some of these characters are so lean
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: into stereotypes and I just don't like it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a real enabler.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I just it is really frustrating to watch.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I would like to.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Speak about the whole kitchen class Kitchen Clash competition, the
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: side dish competish. I actually enjoyed that part of it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I wish they had more of that stuff in this
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: show really, because that is the whole point is that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: they're there for a competition, right, Yeah. But I but
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I did enjoy it. I did enjoy that Frank's you know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: kind of head exploded a little bit because he wasn't
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: able to make his.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Recipe as planned. Uh huh.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And I was not surprised by any means that him
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and studio got into a fight at the end. Actually
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: was a little surprised by that in terms of it
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: being on Hallmark, like if oh yeah, like, uh huh.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: But I'm not surprised by any of it because Frank
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: is Frank. Yeah, all of the Frank Junior moments did
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: not surprise me in that. I will say, I actually
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: think it's kind of dumb that they're creating brand new
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: side dishes that they've never made before. This is not
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a chef competition. This is a battle of the two restaurants,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem to me to be in the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: spirit of the competition to judge which restaurant is best.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: If they're like, hey, you two guys that work here,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: come up with brand new stuff. I think it's fun
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: as a side piece, but given that we haven't seen
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and I hope we're getting there, but we haven't seen
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: any sort.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Of like.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Restaurant action as opposed to that just being a setting
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: like show Me Kitchen Clash doing little mini segments that
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: feature the actual restaurants in their food mm hmm.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Well, if I liken it to one of my all
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: time favorite reality TV shows, vander Pump, that show was
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: not about working in a restaurant. It was about the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: people who worked in a restaurant, right, all all their
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: secrets and misbehaving, misbehaviors whatever. The Chicken Sisters is the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Hallmark equivalent of vander Pump Rules. That's that's the way
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to sell it, man, That's how you get people over
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to the network. Maybe in this whole truck situation, Yeah,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I hated every single minute of it. I'm like, what
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: are you doing? One thousand percent agree with you. I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: was like, Amanda, you need to leave your husband.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Stop.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: It's not funny anymore. Like can't you can understand like
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you have one frustrated moment and you kiss somebody in
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a kitchen because tensions are running high, but like getting
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: in his truck driving out to the middle of nowhere,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and then the moment where like.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: They get caught on the seatbelt.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: That's the moment where you need to be like, maybe
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: this is the best idea, and said she straddles him
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: in his life.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I just don't find it cute.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: No, I'm you know, sometimes when you watch movies or shows,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and we've talked about this, I'm not gonna clutch my
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: pearls out of this kind of stuff. Like typically, I like,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: as a viewer when there's something Sully happening, it makes
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it for good TV. This is just wrong in so
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: many ways. And I think it's mostly because of last
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: episode where she chose to go back to her husband. Yes,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in the next episode she's like with Sergio again. I'm like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: stop it, stop it. And like I said before, I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: don't buy this relationship at all because there has not
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: been enough time for these two Surgerio and Amanda to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: have gotten to know each other and develop feelings for
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: each other. It's maybe they're just operating fully on like
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: some sort of physical connection. But in this truck scene,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: they're like confessing, They're like, you know, feelings for each other.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I'm like, how did we even get here? I just
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: don't I can't buy into it. I can't get excited
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: for it. I don't care about it. It makes me
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: dislike Amanda more. Yeah, I really like Sergio a lot.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I am not rooting for this relationship, and I kind
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: of wish that I was, because I hate Frank Junior
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: so much. But I in the moment where he's like,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not a player. I mean like maybe I was,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but like, I'm putting down roots and he drives her
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: out to show like I'm here for the long haul.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And I agree with you. We don't know enough about
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: these two to suggest that there are real feelings. How
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: much time has passed two weeks, I don't know, and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: they spend very little actual time together because they're on
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: opposite sides of kitchen clash.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: So I agree with you.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: And I also want to add I'm not only hating
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: on amandet If Sergio I'm putting down roots, I'm this
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: good guy, have some fucking integrity and be like, I'm
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: sorry you're married, Like if if you want to be
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: with me, you need to leave your husband, give me
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a call when that is no longer the case. Yeah, like,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: uh ah, I hate it. I hate it so much.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: May and Kenneth and their reconciliation Yestiz. I think that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: was cute, but I thought it was interesting, like because
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Kenneth kind of welcomed me back, like he was there
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: day one helping her repaint Mimi's. He gave her a
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: place to stay at their inn, and now all of
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a sudden he's like, actually, you have some sins to
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: a tone for a lady, mm hmm. But I did
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: think it was cute that she came around and she
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: would acknowledge like, I've expected you to be there for
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: me and I was not there for you, And that
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: was a nice friendship moment. It just further cements for
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: me that May is the one and only character on
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: this show who has had the most growth.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's even.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: A scene where she kind of is talking about Amanda
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: about how like she's always going to choose Frank Junior.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: But the tone of her voice is not angry as
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: disappointed as I think she was in last episode when
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: she makes the choice to go back to Frank Junior.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I expect her to be kind of salty with Amanda,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and she kind of is like, this is that's who
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: my sister is, and it's just accepting, And I thought
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: it makes her look so much like the bigger person
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: in this scenario. I have a couple of little things,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: but they're mostly in my cluckworthy moments.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: So let's move on.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I liked the story of Amanda learning that Frankie is
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: going to go to New York and audition, And here's
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: what I liked about it. I liked like she confronts
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: me and me He's like, what the hell am I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: supposed to do? Like I'm letting her stay in my
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: house instead of on the street, Like obviously I'm doing
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the right thing here. But what I really liked is
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: in the car and Amanda's like, I don't understand why
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't tell me, And Frankie's like what Frankie doesn't
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: come right out and say is like because you never
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: got to leave, You're stuck here and I might get
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: out and I feel guilty about that. But Amanda's like,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I will love you forever, and unconditional love is a thing.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And Frankie's like, how the hell am I supposed to
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: know that? Look at our family.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: You and mom don't have a relationship, You and your
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: sister don't have a relationship.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Why would I be led to believe that I'm the
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: change in this family.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, totally, that's such a good point.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: So I loved that.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved well kind of rewinding a little bit,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Sabrina and Lindsay have this like nice moment, right, yes,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and Sabrina tells Amanda, Oh, we had this like nice
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: moment together, and that is the vehicle of how Amanda
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: ends up finding out about Frankie's plans to go to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: New York. I just thought it was that was nicely done,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: other than you know, Amanda finding out some other way,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: but I just thought that was it was well done.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I liked how she's like, you're producing me and Spreen
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: was like, no, but I wish I was. Speaking of Lindsay.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I like that she had that fun moment of like
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: showing her producing instinct, Like you see her off camera
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and you almost think she's like looking down her nose
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: at like the puns her mom's making, and when in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: fact she's like, how can we make it better? And
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I like seeing that relationship have growth and Lindsay having
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a moment of coming into her own a little bit,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: although the moment before that I did laugh out loud
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: when she's watching TV and she's like I can't with
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: this channel thing. And then Sabrina says something about Riz
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and I just died. Oh my god, yeah, because we
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I laughed really hard because we had literally the same
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: conversation in our house this weekend. Seen the word Riz,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and my daughter was like, stop that, stop it right now.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And of course he thought like really leaned into like
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the dad joke and like kept doing it. I was like, Okay,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: now it's not funny, but you know, I thought May
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: gave a great performance when she's tearing up over Jay
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: when she's having her moment in bed looking at those photos,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and she I was very convinced with her cry scene
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and her deep breath through that moment. I so that's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: funny that you mentioned that, because like I thought that
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: was good too. But then the whole deep breath thing,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I thought like she was putting her armor back up again,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: like she oh yeah, any sort of like you know,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: that's what she's had to do her entire life is
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: like not show emotion on things, so uh huh yeah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I mean it just gives us a deeper side.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Of who May is.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: And finely Nancy's Paula Poundstone reference as if that is
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the most recent comedic performance she can pull from memory
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: made me laugh. Pollen Stone is a little controversial too.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Right, Oh is she?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I don't know, not there a whole bolence of it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Paula Poundstone was found guilty of felony child in Endanger Men,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: which with three counts of lute acts upon a child
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: younger than fourteen. Oh no, all right, Well not funny anymore. Yeah,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: kind of weird that they that's I mean, it's like
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: almost putting like a diddy joke in like a Hallmark show, like, yes,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: did somebody.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Do any due diligence here?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: You know, if I mean things you learn on Girls
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Gone Hallmark?
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: I know, do you have any more cluckworthy moments?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: No?
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: That's it cool.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Who's your feathered friend of the week? It continues may
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: May from last week? I know, why is she the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: best on this show? I? Well, no, but I was
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: thinking about it, and I know I asked you this before.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I was like, was she the main character in the book?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: And you said no. But if you also look at
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the image, the poster or whatever for Hallmark, she's like.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: The center star. Oh you know what I mean?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I wonder if there is a direction to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: make it more about yes, she's in front of Amanda
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: in that image.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Interesting.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: All right, y'all, there are two more episodes of Chicken Sisters.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately for Wendy.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We will be reviewing and recapping both of them here
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: on Girls Gone Hallmark for the next two Wednesdays, so
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: make sure to come back for that. As always, if
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: you have different opinions, please email us Girls Gone Hallmark
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com, and we would love for you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to take a quick minute if you enjoyed this podcast
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and leave a quick rating and review you in the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Apple Podcast app, or leave us a comment on Spotify.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: We'll see you next time. Goodbye, bye. All right friends,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: before we go, just a quick heads up, you're about
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to hear some ads. These little gems help us keep
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the show running and the Hallmark love flowing. So do
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: with that info what you will, Grab a snack, hit
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the skip button, or maybe just maybe listen in and
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: discover your new favorite product.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Bye.