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The Chicken Sisters Season 2 Episode 3 (feat. Sidney Child) · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to a Girl's Gone Homework, a homework review podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Megan and I'm a longtime Homewark fan. And on
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  Speaker 2: today's episode of Girls Gone Hamewark, we are discussing the
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  Speaker 2: Chicken Sisters season two, Episode three, Daddy's Home, y'all. As
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  Speaker 2: a reminder, we are doing things a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: for the Chicken Sisters. Wendy has stepped away from these reviews,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm joined by our rotating cast of co hosts.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us for episode three is Sydney Child, the
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  Speaker 2: woman behind the absolutely adorable Instagram account Mary Movie Club.
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  Speaker 2: You cover a ton of Hallmark content over there, but
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  Speaker 2: it's also Hallmark and Hallmark adjacent. It's really totally aligned
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  Speaker 2: with the kind of content I like, feel good books,
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  Speaker 2: TV shows, movies. I would say Hallmark is a heavy
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  Speaker 2: piece of that, but there's a lot more, which is great.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here, Sydney, Thank.
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  Speaker 3: You for having me. I am honored. I am a
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  Speaker 3: longtime listener. I love your podcast, so when you reached out,
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  Speaker 3: I was like flattered, and I'm just so excited to
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  Speaker 3: meet you and be here and chat all things that
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  Speaker 3: Chicken Sisters and Hallmark and hopefully do you proud I
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  Speaker 3: told you this earlier, but I've only been I think,
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  Speaker 3: on one other podcast before, so I'm a new be here.
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  Speaker 2: Well you'll be great. This is easy. This is easy.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell us.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit how Mary movie cub came to be?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I would love to. So.
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  Speaker 3: I for years have been just talking Hallmark movies with
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  Speaker 3: my friends and family, always recruiting them to watch, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: And I have a person.
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  Speaker 3: Instagram that I hardly ever use, but I started kind
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  Speaker 3: of posting little like, oh hey, I watched this Christmas
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  Speaker 3: movie tonight and I loved it and here's why. And
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  Speaker 3: some of my friends were like, you should make a
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  Speaker 3: separate account and like review these for real, and so
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  Speaker 3: I just did. I literally less than two years ago,
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  Speaker 3: in October. So right before the twenty twenty three Christmas season,
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  Speaker 3: I just started a new Instagram page. And you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: this already, but I just talk all things Hallmark movies
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  Speaker 3: and Hallmark adjacent Hallmark esque like books and movies on
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  Speaker 3: Netflix and some of the other networks. And I'm just
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  Speaker 3: very passionate about like clean, happy, wholesome entertainment I'm thirty,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a little more rare for girls my age,
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  Speaker 3: I think to watch Hallmark and some of these other shows.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to make it cool, you know,
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  Speaker 3: for girls my age, and I'm like, hey, there's really
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  Speaker 3: cool content on Hallmark, and we don't have to watch
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  Speaker 3: you know, some of the other stuff that isn't as
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  Speaker 3: like clean and wholesome. So it's just something I'm passionate
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  Speaker 3: about and it's been so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel the same way because I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: even though you are much younger than Wnny and I are,
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  Speaker 2: but I still feel like we sometimes are on the
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  Speaker 2: younger end of the spectrum and I sometimes feel like, no, like,
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  Speaker 2: come on over, like there's there's some good stuff here.
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  Speaker 3: So there's great stuff here, and especially recently, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like it just every season, I feel like keeps getting
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  Speaker 3: better and better. So I've slowly been recruiting my friends over,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I'll host like movie nights and we'll
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  Speaker 3: watch some of my favorites and.
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  Speaker 1: It's just fun.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's fun to chat about movies and
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  Speaker 3: books and all the happy things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now you liked Providence Falls on Howmark Loved Yes
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite, I think one of my favorite,
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  Speaker 2: if not my favorite Hallmark series of all time. Were
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  Speaker 2: you surprised by House Split people were on their feelings
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  Speaker 2: about that series, I have.
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  Speaker 1: Been yes, because I just loved it. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 1: loved it from the very beginning.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there were elements of it, right, Like it's
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  Speaker 3: a Hallmark series, so there's elements, you know, that are
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  Speaker 3: little confusing or a little cheesy. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: I loved it from like minute one of episode one,
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  Speaker 3: and so the fact that there were some people that
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  Speaker 3: didn't connect with it, I'm like, you've got to rewatch it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, give it another chance. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I really feel the same way too, And it's hard
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  Speaker 2: because some people just don't connect with certain things, and
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  Speaker 2: that's totally fine, Like some things don't hit for me either,
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  Speaker 2: But I'm like, no, I don't think you're getting how
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  Speaker 2: good this really is, like the production value and the
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  Speaker 2: storytelling and the acting, and I think it was so
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  Speaker 2: different from what people have been conditioned to expect that
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  Speaker 2: some people had a hard time.
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  Speaker 1: Getting into it.
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  Speaker 2: But I do think it's worth a second look, Like
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  Speaker 2: if you know what it is now now that it's
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  Speaker 2: out there. I think people were confused to like what
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  Speaker 2: they were gonna get. They're like, what's a trilogy? That's
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  Speaker 2: not something we've really seen before, Like it's usually a
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  Speaker 2: collection of loosely related movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and is it? Is it a mystery? Is it
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  Speaker 1: a romance? Time travel? Is it just a period piece?
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  Speaker 3: Like there's a lot of elements to it that I
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  Speaker 3: think feel a little bit confusing. Even when I watched
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  Speaker 3: the trailers, I was even confused.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, same, honestly, I don't know what this is.
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  Speaker 3: But Evan Roderickson it so like I'm in because I
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  Speaker 3: love it. But I ended up falling in love with
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  Speaker 3: the whole cast and the whole premise.
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  Speaker 1: But I did.
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  Speaker 3: I will say I rewatched all three of the movies,
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  Speaker 3: and it was even better for me the second time
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  Speaker 3: through because it just felt a little less confusing. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, Okay, I know, like what genre this kind
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  Speaker 3: of is. I know what to expect. I was able
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  Speaker 3: to pick up on a lot more of the details.
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  Speaker 3: So for me, I like loved in on the first round,
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  Speaker 3: but it was definitely a little confusing and like getting
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  Speaker 3: settled into it, and then the second round was like
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  Speaker 3: just five out of five perfect for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right about it, the promotion being
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  Speaker 2: a little confusing because I didn't even know. I was
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  Speaker 2: like in I went into it thinking it was a
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  Speaker 2: time travel series, and I read the books and I
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  Speaker 2: was like waiting or I read the first book and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh wait, that's not what this is
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  Speaker 2: at all. So I had to reorient my expectations for it.
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  Speaker 1: But I was expecting like biltmore Christmas, like yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you travel. Yes, it was not that. No.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, well let's switch gears and talk the Chicken
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  Speaker 2: Sisters before we talk this specific episode. I would love
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  Speaker 2: to hear your personal history or lack thereof wherever you
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  Speaker 2: are with the Chicken Sisters. Did you watch season one?
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  Speaker 2: If you did, what'd you think where are you with
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  Speaker 2: season two?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? I would love to.
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  Speaker 3: When you reached out for this podcast, I told you
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  Speaker 3: this on Instagram, I was like, I've never seen this show,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm happy to give it a try and you know,
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  Speaker 3: join the podcast and talk about it. So I did watch,
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  Speaker 3: like back when when season one aired. I did watch
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  Speaker 3: the first episode. I just didn't like totally get hooked.
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  Speaker 3: I honestly was just kind of bored. And then I
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  Speaker 3: just didn't end up watching the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't feel like I saw a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: talking about it or raving about it, and there's so
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  Speaker 3: much there's so much content as you share so many options.
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  Speaker 3: I work full time, I have a three year old,
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  Speaker 3: so like you really got a pick and choose. I
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  Speaker 3: get like maybe one episode of something a day, and
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  Speaker 3: that's about it on a good day.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't end up watching it.
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  Speaker 3: So for this yes, we're reviewing episode three today. I
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  Speaker 3: did start with season two just as it's airing, so
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  Speaker 3: I have watched episodes one and two and then that's
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  Speaker 3: okay talk about today. So definitely confusing jumping into season
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  Speaker 3: two not having seen season one, but I did my best.
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  Speaker 2: Well we can, yeah, and as those questions come up,
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  Speaker 2: we can talk about those.
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  Speaker 1: This has a lot of questions for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's you're right. I don't think people talk
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  Speaker 2: about this show. I mean you'll hear my thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 2: I think this show is definitely not for everybody. I
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  Speaker 2: think season two overall is so much better than season one.
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  Speaker 2: I really like it. I understand the complaints about it.
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  Speaker 2: Wendy obviously doesn't enjoy it, which is why she was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm out. Yeah, So we are going to jump into
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  Speaker 2: the Chicken Sisters Season two, episode three thoughts. Before we
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  Speaker 2: do that, we're gonna take a quick break and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna come right back with our first impressions. All right, Sidney,
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  Speaker 2: what was your first impression of Daddy's home? Y'all?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So this episode to me feels like it was
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  Speaker 3: a growth episode, like a lot of character growth happening.
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  Speaker 3: And again I don't have the full context of season one,
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  Speaker 3: but it just felt like there were so many moments
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  Speaker 3: that were pivotal for a lot of the characters. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you know, May is meeting her daddy for the first time.
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  Speaker 3: She also goes to we can give spoilers, right, Oh yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: she goes to her her mom Gus Gussie gush and like.
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  Speaker 1: Says thank you, and they have this beautiful moment. We have.
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  Speaker 3: I believe her name's Frankie. The teenager like has her
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  Speaker 3: first kiss with her boyfriend. There was like this friendship
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  Speaker 3: where I'm gathering that they were like rivals before and
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  Speaker 3: now they're friends, and they had a couple of really
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  Speaker 3: sweet moments together. We have like Frank Junior seems like
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  Speaker 3: he's kind of going to have like a character arc
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  Speaker 3: situation with like this new chicken restaurant. There just seemed
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  Speaker 3: like every single character had a moment of like growth.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I'm wrong because I don't have the full context, but
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  Speaker 3: that's what it seemed like.
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  Speaker 2: First impressions, Yeah, I think I think that's accurate too.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we're seeing like all the reactions to
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  Speaker 2: everything that the groundwork is late in season one. So
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  Speaker 2: I do think we talked about this in episode one
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  Speaker 2: our review. Leah Thompson, who directed the first episode, she
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  Speaker 2: was like, y'all can jump in season two. You don't
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  Speaker 2: need to have seen it, and we were like, well,
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  Speaker 2: of course the star of the show, the director of
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  Speaker 2: the show is going to say, Yeah, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to you don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Do the Horme modo.
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  Speaker 2: Watch a show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I do think it's.
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  Speaker 2: Watchable, But I do think they are building so much
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  Speaker 2: on the foundation late. That's that's natural, right. I agree
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  Speaker 2: this was an absolute growth episode. A lot of my
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  Speaker 2: likes use that word growth. For me, my first impression
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  Speaker 2: is we got an email from listener Paula, who is
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  Speaker 2: a regular emailer of the show, and she ended the
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  Speaker 2: email with, I hope I'm not bothering you, Paula. We
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  Speaker 2: love your emails, even if I don't agree with us.
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  Speaker 2: But what she said was she's a big fan of
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  Speaker 2: the show is very disappointed that people don't love it
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  Speaker 2: as much as she does. But she pointed out, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really important to note is that this town,
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  Speaker 2: this show is all about the women. The women are
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  Speaker 2: the ones in power, The women are the ones moving
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  Speaker 2: the storyline forward, and that's kind of unique in storytelling period.
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  Speaker 2: But I think especially storytelling on Hallmark, to have like
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  Speaker 2: this town that's centered around like all of these strong
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  Speaker 2: women and the men really aren't doing anything to move
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  Speaker 2: them forward. So I think watching this episode especially and
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  Speaker 2: this season through those eyes, you know, my favorite characters
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  Speaker 2: are all all the women.
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  Speaker 1: It's very girl power.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like it's subtle, though it's not in my
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  Speaker 3: opinion from the you know, the few episodes I've seen,
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  Speaker 3: it's not this like obnoxious, in your face like theme
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  Speaker 3: they're sure throw at you. It's actually like pretty subtle.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right, it's totally empowering these women living their
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  Speaker 3: lives showing like the highs and lows, So that is
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  Speaker 3: I like that perspective.
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  Speaker 1: It's cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't think I don't think it's the
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  Speaker 2: women being in power at the expense of the men
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  Speaker 2: really because I think it's almost like in spite of them,
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  Speaker 2: Like it's not like we're pushing the men down. It's like, look,
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  Speaker 2: we're finding our own Nancy, Amanda, they're really coming into
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  Speaker 2: their own on their own, not you know, at the
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  Speaker 2: expense of the men in their lives. So with that said,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about what you liked from this episode.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I wrote down a few things. Number One, the
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  Speaker 3: chemistry between Amanda and is his name Sergio, is that
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  Speaker 3: the chef.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing chemistry. I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was not expecting that again because I have no
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  Speaker 3: idea what's going on, so I'm just like piecing this
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  Speaker 3: all together.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing chemistry.
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  Speaker 3: I loved the date that kind of ended up turning
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  Speaker 3: into their date and how they ended it and he
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  Speaker 3: just gives it this big hug and there's like a
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  Speaker 3: really cool narration behind it. Loved their chemistry. It like
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  Speaker 3: made me want to go back and watch season one
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  Speaker 3: to understand like the foundation there and like sure, what
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  Speaker 3: their backstory is, because I'm sure you're you're probably like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: there's there's a background, and I could tell. And then
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  Speaker 3: I obviously loved the moment where May meets her dad
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  Speaker 3: for the first time. I just thought that was like
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  Speaker 3: so sweet. I teared up, even though I haven't you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know these characters, I still tear up, Like
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  Speaker 3: it was just a really emotional moment. There's a couple more,
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  Speaker 3: do you want me to keep going?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So there was I think this was towards the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the episode. I'm trying to remember.
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  Speaker 3: There was like the background, not background, the flashback of
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  Speaker 3: Gus and Clayton, Yeah, from when they were younger, and
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  Speaker 3: it kind of showed this montage of them dating and
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  Speaker 3: falling in love and then getting pregnant and then him
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  Speaker 3: leaving kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of the heartbreak there.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought that was like a really beautiful kind
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  Speaker 3: of like insight into their story and showing again like
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  Speaker 3: the highs and the lows. It was very like romantic
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  Speaker 3: and swoony, but then you have like this heartbreak at
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  Speaker 3: the end, and then obviously it cuts to current day,
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  Speaker 3: and so it was kind of cool to have that inside.
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  Speaker 1: Of her like dating the hot popular player.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you go girl, yeah, the Franni's boy and
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  Speaker 2: the Amis girl for sure, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Super cool.
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  Speaker 3: And then again, I love last thing I wrote down
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  Speaker 3: was just the friendship that it seems like has blossomed
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  Speaker 3: between those two the families that you just mentioned, because
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  Speaker 3: the one episode I did watch in the very first season,
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  Speaker 3: very first episode was like this rivalry and they're friends.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Okay, that's sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the whole first season arc is about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the two the Franny's and the Mimi's rivalry,
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  Speaker 2: and then they kind of come together against a common
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  Speaker 2: enemy who is now Frank Junior and Christian mister Chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Your point about Sergio and Amanda. I really feel like
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  Speaker 2: this season is a little bit of redemption because in
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  Speaker 2: season one, Amanda was in a terrible marriage with Frank Junior.
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  Speaker 2: But she has this relationship with Sergio. I think they
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  Speaker 2: only kiss one time, but she's definitely having an emotional
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  Speaker 2: affair at the very least, and so viewers are kind
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  Speaker 2: of torn. You're like, well, I hate Frank Junior, but
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  Speaker 2: she's still married, so she needs to make a decision, right, Like,
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  Speaker 2: she needs to leave her marriage doesn't absolve her of
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  Speaker 2: blame simply because her husband sucks, and he does. He
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  Speaker 2: does suck, he does. He's the absolute worst. And at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season one, Amanda has left Frank
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  Speaker 2: Junior and she's telling Sergia like I need I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying never, but I need time to find myself.
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  Speaker 2: And and you know, this season starts nine months in
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  Speaker 2: the future and she's still very single and still not
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  Speaker 2: interesting interested in dating. And I think it's really smart,
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  Speaker 2: Like we did not want to see her jump into
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with Sergio, and I think it gives the
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  Speaker 2: viewers time to care about that relationship when it happens
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  Speaker 2: in a safer place, so to say.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, so.
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  Speaker 2: I like the timing of like Sergio showing up. He's
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  Speaker 2: still real nervous and uncomfortable around her, but they had
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  Speaker 2: that nice, very platonic dinner together.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, nice little dinner, nice hug at the end. Support
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  Speaker 1: yes or so?
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  Speaker 3: Question for you, why is Frank Junior dragging his feet
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  Speaker 3: on signing the divorce papers. Hopefully that doesn't open like
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  Speaker 3: total Paidora's box. But I was curious on that one piece.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a power thing, like One of the big
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  Speaker 2: storyline reveals at the end of season one is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the rivalry between the two families was based
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  Speaker 2: kind of in falsehoods and exaggerated experiences that the men
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  Speaker 2: had perpetuated in order to get the women fighting, so
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  Speaker 2: to speak. Like it was a power move, Like the
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  Speaker 2: men wanted to have power of the women, and this
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  Speaker 2: is how they did it. And so I think it
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  Speaker 2: just trickles down. You know, Frank Senior, who's Frank Junior's dad,
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  Speaker 2: Nancy's husband who has passed, He was a big part
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  Speaker 2: of that. He was a bad guy too, And so
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  Speaker 2: the men in the town have exerted power over the
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  Speaker 2: women to get them to do what they have wanted.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we're just seeing Frank Junior continuing that,
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  Speaker 2: like this is the only card he has to play,
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  Speaker 2: is I'm not going to sign the divorce papers. He
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: has nothing else left, Like yeah, okay, there's nothing else
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: control thing.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Some other things I liked talking about growth. I love
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: seeing Gus's growth now. In episode one our review, Brian Harold,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: our co host, was like, I don't I don't buy it,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Like I think it's true to who she is and
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: I thought that was an interesting take. But now seeing
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: you know we're a couple of episodes in, I think
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I think I can trust her transformation now. I don't
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: think that means we're not going to get her snapping
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: back to who she was. I don't think that means
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: there's not going to be something this season that pushes
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: her back into her real defensive place. But she's finally
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: in a place where she feels safe. She has people
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: showing up for her, she doesn't have to keep secrets,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: she knows that people are going to let her in.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: She has people looking out for her. I mean, she
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: and Nancy live together, and so I think therefore she's
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: now able to give that back. She's able to be
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: the parent that may needs her to be, and she's
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: a good friend to Nancy, and she's doing things for
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: other people. I buy it, and I like it. I
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: am afraid she's going to disappoint us a little later
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: in the season when she gets pushed a little bit
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: too hard.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: She probably won't.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I really loved the scene when Clayton comes to
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: her at the end and basically lays it all on
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: the line, Because when Clayton was talking to May. My
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: feeling was like, okay, but this is great, but she's thirty, however,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: many years old. Where have you been? Like that's great
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: that you get to come in and kind of be
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the hero now, but it kind of almost bothered me
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit that May wasn't like okay, but why
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: weren't you ever here before?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Buddy, Yeah, I thought the same thing, and I talked
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: it up to like, oh, well, I haven't you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: seen much yet, but it sounds like you have the
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: similar sentiment of like, okay, well I could see, you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: maybe the first few years of her life.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: He was young.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I think I think they were in high school or college,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: and then even at the end when they have you know,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: this like heartfelt moment between him and guests on her doorstep.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, he's gonna explain it, like where
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: have you been for thirty years?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Why did you not come around?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: And he kind of did, right, He said something along
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the lines of like I did I called and you
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: disconnected your phone. I did come back and I saw
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: you with May, and then you were also pregnant and
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I think remarried or something. But I still was like okay, yeah,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: but like that was still like what thirty years ago,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: twenty eight years ago at this point probably, So it
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: just feels like a lot of time has passed and
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: not that one moment when he saw them, when she
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: was like two crossing the road. I'm like, okay, well,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I still feel like you could have come back at
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: some point from that, like from then and now.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah, it was more about his relationship with Gus
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and his relationship with may. I feel like it's too
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: easy for him to say, like, oh, she looked at
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: you and you were all she needed. Okay, but that
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: wasn't for you to decide.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. So for him to decide, I'm like, yes,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: she probably needs her dad.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm curious if we're going to explore that
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: at all. Uh, you know, there's so much going on
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in this show that they can't get into every single
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that may just be it that it just maybe you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: he says he'll regret it for the rest of his life,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: and maybe we just move forward.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe we just have to accept it. Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Look again, I still think Frank Junior is the worst.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: But his dance montage where he finally gets fed up
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: and makes edible chicken was great, really funny.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, with the background, that was funny. Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Great. Speaking of Sergio, when he says to a man,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have left you in that dress. Great, that's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: a great line.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Good line.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Another line is Frankie when she's trying to help a
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: man to get dressed. She says, that dress looks like
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you still have a landline.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I've read that down too.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And finally, I think this is something that is lost
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: on anybody who didn't watch season one. The Lindsay and
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Frankie tension. To you, your read on them is that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: they are friends.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, who's Lindsay.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Lindsay is Sabrina's daughter, Frankie's friend who's visiting.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: From Yes, I just thought she was just a random friend. Yeah, so.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: She is. She's Sabrina's daughter. So Sabrina was the host
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: of Kitchen Clash. Okay, Yes, and they met in town.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: They originally they had some Lindsay wasn't a great friend
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: of Frankie. She was kind of using her to get
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: like information about the show. They became friends. There was
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of heavily suggested there's maybe some romantic feelings there.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: It was never said, but a lot of the viewers
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Lindsay and Frankie.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, did.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Not Yeah, it's it's I think it could be. If
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you wanted to miss it, you could miss it. If
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: you're not hoping for it, you could miss it. I
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: felt like this season finale very much. They both left
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: in a place of because Lindsay leeves and goes back
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: to New York, I'm not alone and feeling this. A
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: lot of us were like, something's there. And I loved
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the scene where Lindsay is talking about Dudley and she
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: learns that she's never Frankie, has never kissed him, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: her voice goes up when she talks about It's such
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a great acting choice because there is no doubt in
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: my mind that whether they go there or not, they
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: are hinting that there are feelings there, at least on
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Lindsay's behalf. I feel like it's shared, okay, So I'm
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: enjoying that tension. I I hope we get there.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I really do.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like this entire season is building
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: towards the wedding and we're gonna just get like reveal
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: after reveal after reveal. At the wedding, but I did
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: love her kind of having to push through that moment
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: and be like, I'm gonna be a good girlfriend and
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get you your first kiss, even though yeah, Okay,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: this isn't the moment that I'm hoping for.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, that that is very helpful because I didn't. I
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: didn't pick up on that at all.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think you would if you hadn't seen
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: season one because I don't want. Yeah, I don't think
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: it's as heavy handed this season unless you're caring over
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: those feelings.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that does make sense though, because it doesn't seem
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: like her, is it, Dudley, I don't.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, they don't seem like endgame.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: No randomb boyfriend. Yeah, in this a couple of times,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: like they're not making it seem like he's endgame or anything.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: He's just for sure, random character. Okay.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the nickname dud is not accidental.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like that. I was like, Okay, I'm good,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I'm good with this guy.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about what we wished for in this episode.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Okay, I have one thing, and then I also have
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: one that's kind of a question for you, because I
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: have a feeling it just needs some like answers from
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: last season number one. I wish that they wouldn't have
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: cut scene so quickly after Clayton comes in and says
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: like I'm your daddy or I'm your dad, and then
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: it just cuts scene and then it like goes to
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: a couple of other random scenes and then comes back,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: and then it cuts scene again and then comes back.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: I wish they would have just made that like a
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: really emotional sit down. I'm meeting my dad for the
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: first time. I've been waiting for him for thirty something years.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Let's have like, let's sit let's have a conversation, let's
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: work through the awkwardness like I just thought I would.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: It was an opportunity for like a really emotional, heartfelt moment,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: and it was chopped into like four different scenes, split
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: in like you know, split in between other scenes. So
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: that was one wish that I have and I do
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: feel like that was a missed opportunity to kind of
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: tell get our heart strings a little bit more.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Did you notice that
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: at all? Well?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I think it's a great point because I think the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: most awkward is like how do we get from like
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: I'm your daddy too. We're sitting in a booth together, like, yes,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: there are moments there that they could have played up
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: to make us this is awkward, whether or not this
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: is what may wanted. There's feelings here, there's emotions here. Yeah,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: let's see that play out. Because I honestly felt the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: whole time I was like, it feels too easy. That's
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: what I felt about that scene. Like he comes in, yes,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: he's like, I'm your daddy, and she sits down and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: talks to him and I back to my like where
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: have you been all this time? I really wonder if
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: that's going to come into play because she just she
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: was just so happy to hear all of these things
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: from him and I I can understand that because this
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: is a big missing piece in her life. But I
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: felt like it is a little too easy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, it was so like, oh, okay, sit down, let's
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: have a nice tea, Like let's check yeah, And I
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: just was like I almost just wish they would have
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: leaned into like the tension and the awkwardness and the
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: unknown and just like showed us how that plays out,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: because that's like a real thing that happens for people
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: in real life and you know, similar types of situations,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: and I would have loved for that to be like
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: kind of like the epicenter of the episode a lot,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: and instead, I feel like it was just like chopped
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: into three or four different random scenes throughout. So I
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: feel like that was a missed opportunity. But the second is,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: this is something I was a little confused about. The
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: pastor and I don't know his name and Nancy are dating,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: and then there's like a situation with a trip and
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: then she decides not to go.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Correct it's unclear to me if that decision has been made.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: It feels like she's questioning that decision because at the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: end of the episode, we see her looking back on
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: her pageant photo album and she still has it's either
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: plane or train tickets to Washington, d C. Like I
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: paused those say like nineteen eighty on them, Like those
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: are her old okay tickets, I mean obviously, because nobody
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: has a paper ticket anymore anyway. So I think she
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: didn't go to Washington, d C. Because her husband didn't
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: want her to. And now I think she's I don't
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: think she's made the decision, but I think she's like, wait,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: he's not even telling her where they're going or what
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: they're doing. He's just saying, I want you along with me.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I want you to support me. Basically, I want you
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: to be like the little lady. And she's like, wait,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I've done this my entire life.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I've done that role. Yeah, and she's getting this.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: She's like, I got this opportunity to fix this dang
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: train arm. Yeah, I have I can make a difference.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I have some power now. So I hope she makes
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: that choice.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I was unclear on that, but I'm glad
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: it sounds like I'm not the only one because I
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: was like, wait, did she decide?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Did she not do we like this pastor?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: This seems fine, he seems fine. It was nice that
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Nancy has someone who, you know, seems like a good guy,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: but is maybe not good enough for her. Okay, Yeah,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And I think it would be a real disservice for
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: us to lose Nancy for part of this season, although
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I don't think she would, you know, And I'm thinking
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: time wise, like we're building up to May's wedding, which
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: is not that far away, so you know, I don't
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: think time wise, maybe it could be after that maybe
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: it could be a season long decision that she's making,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Like maybe they're supposed to be after the wedding. It's
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: that's a little unclear to me, But I don't, you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: she and Gus are in such a good place. I
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: think it would be it would break Gus's heart. You
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: saw it a little bit how she was like, wait,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you're gonna leave?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like I just got my friend, you're already gonna leave.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: And there was a cute line. I don't remember what
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: it was, but there was like a cute line there. Yeah,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: just kind of like hinting at that friendship and her
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: struggling with her the idea of her friend leaving for
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: so long. So those are the two I wrote down.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Some wishes I have. Where the heck is Jake Foy.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: He was such a fun addition to season one. He
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: has not been here. His partner Patrick is there. I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: mentioned he was visiting a sister. I hope he comes
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: back for the wedding. It's just such a bummer. I
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: really like him. He's not in this season. I'm sure
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: he was off doing something else. That's the only explanation.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I would like to know who a man's daddy is
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: this is not a storyline we seem to have touched on.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I actually went through. I didn't remember it at all.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I like searched the transcripts of our old episodes to
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: see if we discussed it. I read the synopsis on
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the Hallmark website of season one.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think they've touched it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: If they have, please email us girls Gone Hallmark at
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: gmail dot com and let me know. I even message
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: someone else who's watched the show.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I was like, do we know anything?
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Gus mentions it very briefly, kind of like snidely, like,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: oh that was a man is daddy? Are we going
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: to get that revealed? It's interesting that Amanda doesn't seem
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: to care that it hasn't come up again. There's a
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: lot going on. Maybe she just has too much and
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: that's not on her radar right now. To your point,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I hope Nancy doesn't leave. That was one of my wishes,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: like let the pastor go, Nancy needs to choose Nancy.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what it feels like.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and honestly, I want to my notes say
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I kind of hate the writer's editor director for making
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: me like that. Frankie and Dudley kiss not that I
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: liked it, but Frankie seemed happy about it, and I
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: really wanted it to be more of like a nothing
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: burger where she was like, oh that wasn't Yeah, she
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: seemed happy enough about it, and I didn't really you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: like you said, Dudley is not her end game, so
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: he doesn't seem like no, there's no way, there's no
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: way these you know, Frankie's one of the women of
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Marynak and she needs more.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: She needs more. Yeah, I think so too.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Do you have any digit see that moments to talk about?
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's see I wrote down.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's the same joke that you already said, which
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I just thought was super cute, where she's getting ready
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: for her date with her daughter sitting there. Franki's sitting
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: there and she's like, you can't wear that. It looks
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: like you still have a landline phone. And then Amanda
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: holds up a different dress and she's like, well, I
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: can't wear that, and she's like, okay, Well then you
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: go ahead and show up looking like a pilgrim.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I thought it was like you mother daughter banter.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I love when Hallmark just like throws in little jokes
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: And then also when the sheriff like at the end
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: of their he has to like leave mid date and
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: he like gives her a fist bump and he's like, yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: send me a venmo.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm like, oh gosh, just eye roll there.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was terrible, Like so cung. He had the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: emergency call queued up right, he was like, call me
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: thirty minutes in so I can bail bat for sure,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: tell me I.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Have an emergency. I'm like, nah, you don't come on.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And it was so frustrating because he had pressured her
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to go out with him. He was like, I don't understand.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: The beginning of the episode, He's like, why won't you
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: go out with me? And I was like, well, red flag,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Like no, is.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: This complete failed? Like do we know? Because she was
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Her first day and she was processing. You know, she
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: couldn't stop talking about her past as is to be expected.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you know she knew she wasn't
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: ready for this, and yep, everybody pushed her into it. Yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Kind of a bummer that Sheriff Laurence sucked so much
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: in that moment.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You nails on her. She's like it's been so hard
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: as a mom and working through, you know, working through
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the divorce papers and all of this work and I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and then he's just like, oh, yeah, sorry, I gotta
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: go fistbump venmo me. I'm like, oh goodness, okay, yeah, it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Doesn't even pay, says By send me a Venmo request
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to come on. So you mentioned this earlier, said, I
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: don't know the pastor's name. They say it's Bo in
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: this episode, and I have in my digity that I
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: think that's the first time we've heard his name. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: could be wrong, but in thirteen episodes, I have never
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: internalized his name. So I do believe it is Bo.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, it is Bo.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I do believe we just learned that. The other thing
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: is Amanda says she's talking like she's like, I haven't
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: been on a date. She's like, my last date was
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: with frank Junior when he took me to the Dairy
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Queen seventeen years ago. The math doesn't add up for me,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Like Frankie has got to be seventeen. She's at least
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: she's leaving for college soon. I mean, even if she
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: got pregnant on their first date, which I don't suspect.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: That she did.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I'm like, the timing make it nineteen years ago, Like
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the diving isn't adding.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Up for me?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the math didn't totally work on that one.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Now, all right, we have answered a lot of your
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: fresh eyes questions. But are there any other questions things
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: that don't add up for you as a newer watcher?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, a few things. I think we've touched on
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a few of them already.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Okay, as I was watching season two and we've already
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: kind of touched on this. I do think it's important
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: to watch season one to fully understand what's happening in here.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: I was honestly so confused, like multiple times, and you're
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: like trying to figure out who's who, Like who's daughter
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: is that?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's dating who? Who's getting married?
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: So I do think I mean, you could say that
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: about any show, right, Like, of course it's going to
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: help to watch season one. But I think because there's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: so many characters, so many subplots, and just so much happening,
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: like a lot of like flashbacks and then you're like
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: present and past.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: There's just a lot going on. I think this you
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: have to watch season one.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty crucial so that's more of just
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: like a comment I have. I also didn't know who
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: I was like supposed to be rooting for, like like
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Frank Junior. Right, this is like the first time I'm
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: seeing him, so I'm like, okay, yes, so he does
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: he sucks? Like I was like, we're not rooting for
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: this guy, right, Like he's so annoying and he seems
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: like he's not a good guy.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: But if you don't watch season one, you're not going
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: to pick up on that. So I was kind of like, wait,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: who are we rooting for? Even Gus, I was like,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: is she like, is it okay that she seems like
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: really cold and disconnected and like doesn't seem super loving. Again,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: this is more just me brain dumping, but I love it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: It's crucial or you're gonna be really really confused. Okay,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: we talked about Frank Junior signing divorce papers. Oh, Gus,
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: I would love to understand like her background, like has
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: she always been single?
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Do we know? I mean you kind of just said
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: we don't know who Amanda's dad was. Now we know
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: who May's dad was. Yeah, And one was she single?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Has she ever been married?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: She was definitely single in season one.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I don't get the impression Amanda's dad was in their life.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: The season one flashbacks we see of their childhood were
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of a very chaotic childhood of may As the older sister,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: really taking care of Amanda, of kind of doing what
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: she could to shield Amanda from her mother's shortcomings. So
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: it wasn't like they grew up in a two parent household. Okay,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: she and I think that's you know, Gus had Clayton,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: who now we know left her, and Amanda's dad who
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: did something we don't know what caused him to leave.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: So she's distrustful of men. She has not had great
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: experiences with men, and so she was very not only single,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: but incredibly solitary. In season one, you know, she was
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: living in a hoarding situation. That's the whole thing with
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: season one, Like she wouldn't let Amanda in because her
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: house was packed to the gills. That comes out as
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: a result of the show. The whole town steps in
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: to help her solve the problem, and then she ends up.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: That's that iconic scene of her burning the house to
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the ground. She's like, this isn't salvageable. We need to
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: start over, which leads her to moving into with Nancy.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, I appreciate the background there because she's a
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: complicated character. She is like, she's got some layers to
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: her character, and I wasn't sure with the romantic situation
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: what that looked like. Okay, last I guess let's see.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Last question I think I have is actually I have
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: two mores. Sorry, I'll be quick.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Don't fiance. Do we like him?
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great. He wasn't even in this episode.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Was he wasn't in the episode? So I was like,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: we like him? Who is this guy? Okay, yeah, he's great.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: He's in He's in the first season, but we don't
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: see him a lot. But May has basically lied to
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: him in the first season about her past. You know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: he doesn't know that she's from this small town and
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: she doesn't want him to know. She doesn't want him
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to know like the kind of life that she led,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the way that she grew up, and she keeps out
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: all from him. He shows up at the end and
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: he was like, I love small town life. This is great,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Like this is who you are. He's like super great
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and super supportive. You know, he's in Providence Falls he's Magnets.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Oh that's great.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I forgot about that, okay because I watched
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: episode one and two before I watched threes like fully confused. Yeah, okay,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: it's Magnus from Providence Falls.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, love that. Okay. Last question, what is the deal
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: with the clockery?
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Like why is Frank Junior like making like on his own,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: making his chicken.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the first season it was kitchen clash, so
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: that it was Franny's versus Mimi's were the two chicken restaurants.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Franny's is, you know, Frank Junior and Nancy and Amanda
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: worked there and Mimi was Gus and then May came
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: into town to help out, came in from New York
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: to help out her mom. One of the judges was
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: this guy, mister Chicken, who's Christian, who's like the toxic
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: dude bro that you saw in the first two seasons,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: like there's no crying in your contract. Yeah, he kind
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of gets his claws into Frank Junior and that's where
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Frank Junior starts like trying to be a little tougher.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Cut to the finale, basically they all jump ship and
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Frank Junior is on his own and everyone is Team Mimes,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: and so Frank Junior wins on his own because Christian
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: rigged the contest. Serena quits on set. Frank Junior takes
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the prize money. This is confluted. So anyway, Frank Junter
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: takes the prize money and Christian Mister Chicken, is like,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: We're going to open this new franchise restaurant just out
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: of town. Incomes Shauna, who wasn't in this episode, but
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: she was strongly in the first episodes, and she was like, y'all,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I'm rich, I'm gonna invest in a franchise. We're going
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: to franchise the Chicken Sisters. We're gonna save everything. And
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: so now it's not Franny's a memeis it's two Chicken
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Sisters restaurants, which is a little bit confusing because there
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: is a comment in this episode. They're like, oh, we
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: learned all along that they were using the same recipe,
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: and I was like, when did we learn that? Like
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: the whole point was that they were different restaurants with
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: different recipes. Anyway, huh, Frank now runs this franchise, the
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Clockery out of town. It's cold, it's dark, the food
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: is terrible. He is starting to realize how terrible it is.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: And all the women and Sergio are running the two
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Chicken Sisters restaurants in town.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, very helpful, thank you for that. I will play
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: why are there's so many chicken restaurants? Yes, running which one? Okay,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: there are.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: It is a little weird because I was like, how
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: are we running two Chicken Sisters restaurants in town? I
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: think that's where the season has been a little bit
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: like what's going. It's a little bit odd to me
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: that it's happening. But they're all on the same team,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: and they kind.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Of two separate restaurants.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Franny's and Mimi's, but they're now both Chicken Sisters. Okay,
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: two separate locations. And they make a comment because there's
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: no franchises allowed in town. I think that's the rule.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: That's why the clockery is right outside of town. They're like, oh,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: we got special permission from the mayor to have this
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: franchise in town, so we have two locations. I don't
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: understand how this town is big enough to.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Support to locate but identical chicken restaurants.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, are so'sd Anyway, that's that do you have
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: a feathered friend of the week? Who did you love
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: this week?
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I wrote down to number one Sergio, just because I'm
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: excited to see where that relationship goes, and he seems
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: just like a really sweet, supportive guy. And then number
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: two is Clayton. We haven't seen a ton of him,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: but I'm just I'm just curious, like, what are.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: They gonna do with this character.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Is there gonna be a romance with Gus, Is there
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: just gonna be like a really sweet relationship with Mey.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Maybe he's a bad guy, maybe he's a good guy.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I'm just like really curious.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: To see how that unfolds. So those were my two.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Mine this week is Amanda. She is pushing outside of
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: her comfort zone. She has a nice connection with Sergio,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: and I liked there's nice parallel editing at the end
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: of this episode with her hugging Sergio goodbye Frankie getting
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: her first kiss, like kind of neither of them is
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: getting what they want in that moment. I really liked that.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: And Amanda had kind of has kind of.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Had a tumultuous start to this season with her being
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: outed on the premiere, so I feel like she's starting
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: to come into her own a little bit.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I totally agree. She was great.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: Well, Sidney, thank you so much for being here today.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Why don't you tell her everybody where they can find
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: you outside of the podcast.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I would love to. It's just at Mary Movie Club.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Mary's spelled Blake, Merry Christmas on Instagram. I'm trying to
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: learn TikTok and yeah, yas book and it's too hard,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: So just Instagram for now at Mary Movie Club.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And thank you again.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: This was so fun just to chat with you and
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: meet you. I listen to your podcast all the time,
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: so yeah.
• 41:22
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• 41:24
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• 41:27
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