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Hallmark’s The Chicken Sisters - S1 E2 We're on the Same Team, Ya'll

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We're peeling back the layers of the juicy drama in episode 2! Family tensions heat up for both the Moores and the Hilliers as long-surpressed emotions begin to bubble to the surface. The high-stakes cooking show becomes the ultimate battleground for both family secrets and culinary survival.


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Amy:

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

Garry:

And I'm Gary.

Amy:

And it's time to pour the wine and guess who's on it? Who's on it? You.

Garry:

G-Stud.

Amy:

G-Stud's on it.

Amy:

You're pouring the wine we're pouring a Cabernet sauvignon, yes, sauvignon josh, it's a josh josh today, tonight did you hear me? I said it's a josh y'all oh, I see what you did there. I see what you did there. So, while you're finishing up pouring, and before we dive into our review of the second episode of the Chicken Sisters, I wanted to mention that at the beginning of every review of a TV series, we won't go over every single actor or actress every single time, correct, correct. So when we reviewed the first episode, we went over several, but not everybody.

Garry:

Correct.

Amy:

That was in the first episode. So today we're going to finish up that list and then, as more people pop on to episodes, we'll just give the information about those actors or actresses and not go over everybody.

Garry:

Sound good. Sounds good to me.

Amy:

We're not leaving anybody out. We're not trying to leave anybody out, but we also don't want to be redundant and go over everybody every single time.

Garry:

Yeah, it's a lot. So, Well, you know. Well, make sure you follow us on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss an episode yes, please do that. And if you listen on Apple or Spotify, you can also leave us a review. And guess what? What? Hopefully it's a five-star review.

Amy:

I hope, I hope, I hope. Fingers crossed. It's a five-star, please, pretty please.

Garry:

So, talking about actors and actresses, who are we adding today on that list?

Amy:

All right, let's dive in. We have several but this will probably be the longest list that we'll have moving forward.

Garry:

Well, if it's going to be a long list, I'm going to take you a sip of wine. How about that?

Amy:

Take a sip of wine. All right, let's dive in. Corina Bissom plays Mimi at the very beginning of episode one, so she's the one like the late 19th century Mimi. She was in Hallmark's Love and Jane in 2024, and she was in one episode of the Flash in 2018.

Garry:

Ooh Flash.

Amy:

Hey the Flash. Yeah, France Maurice plays Franny from the late 19th century also the late 19th century. It's hard. I don't know exactly what year that was. I can't remember.

Garry:

I should have written that down, was it 13,?

Amy:

19? 1893, 19? Something? No, I think it was late 19th century, not early, all right, so anyway we'll get it next time. This is her sixth acting gig and four of them were shorts.

Garry:

Oh really.

Amy:

And then she was in one episode of the Good Doctor in 2023.

Garry:

You know, I'm noticing a lot of these people.

Amy:

So four of them were short. She was in the Good Doctor and now she's in Chicken Sisters. Thank you, my brain went blank. Too much wine maybe.

Garry:

That's all right. You haven't had a sip yet. But, I have.

Amy:

Jake Foy plays Kenneth, which is May's childhood boyfriend.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

I guess when she was like a teenager and do you know what?

Garry:

he was in or best friend, yeah, what.

Amy:

He was in the Wish Swap. He played Henry, get out of here. I know, oh my goodness, I didn't. It's so funny because when I was doing the research for this, you know to go over this today I was like, oh my gosh. So he was part of.

Garry:

Love you, wary, you got to say it again in 2025. Or is it love you?

Amy:

Wary he was in the wish swap. He kind of looks the same but different. I don't know. It's weird.

Garry:

You know, we both kept going hmm, he looks familiar, he looks so familiar.

Amy:

Duh Sorry, jake, he was also in Confessions of a Christmas Letter in 2024, a a little daytime drama in 2021, love in store in 2020 and the ride series in 2023 10 episodes of that and those are all hallmark. Oh okay, he was also in a series called wilderness. He was in three episodes of that. It was on. That was on prime in 2023. And we watched that. It's where the woman realizes her husband or her boyfriend is cheating on her. And they go to like the wilderness, literally, and the girl shows up.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Do you remember that Vaguely? It's been a couple years so yeah, he was in three episodes of that also. Okay, arki Kondola plays gordo, the cameraman yeah for kitchen clash. I didn't see any other hallmark work for him. Um, hopefully I didn't miss it, but he is in all eight episodes of the chicken sisters, so maybe he has a future with homework. You never know. He was in the the series how to die alone six episodes in 2024.

Amy:

That was on hulu, okay he was in another series uh, six episodes of our, our big punjabi family, which you can find on apple tv and prime. He was in the movie easter sunday in 2022 with joe coy the comedian. Yes, we've watched a few of his specials. So yeah, hopefully I didn't miss any Hallmark work that he's done.

Garry:

I apologize if I did Right Up front, up front.

Amy:

Seymour Salem plays Jay May's fiance. Okay, and from what I can tell, Chicken Sisters is his only Hallmark show or movie that he's been in, and he is in all eight episodes. He was in one episode of Yellow Jackets in 2023, an episode of NCIS in 2023, the Handmaid's Tale and the Boys. He was in two episodes of the Handmaid's Tale in 2021 and then the Boys in 2020, which we watched.

Garry:

We watched like the first season and then the Boys in 2020, which we watched. We watched like the first season.

Amy:

Yeah, maybe the second season too, which was probably better than the first season.

Garry:

Probably right, right, but again you're not into those type of shows, no, but I thought that was interesting. That was an interesting take on superheroes. Yeah, it was.

Amy:

And special powers for the.

Garry:

If you could have a special power, what would it be?

Amy:

That's a good question. Be able to tell the winning lottery numbers?

Garry:

Oh, that's a good superpower. That would be my special power knowing the lottery numbers before they're drawn.

Amy:

I think that would be it. I'm with you. What about you? What would your special power be?

Garry:

No, mine would be. That too, so every time.

Amy:

You'd ride on my coattails.

Garry:

Every time the lottery got to 500 million or a billion, we were like winning numbers.

Amy:

Yeah, we wouldn't do it all the time, we'd let other people win.

Garry:

No, we'd do it all the time and then give the money out.

Amy:

Give it away. Oh, that's good.

Garry:

Okay, that's what I would do.

Amy:

Okay, moving on, andrew J Hampton plays Patrick Kenneth's husband. Okay, he it looks like Chicken Sisters is his premiere for Hallmark also. All right, he was in one episode of the series Blockbuster, which I think was a comedy. We didn't see that, and so Help Me Todd in 2022. And he was also in the Flash. Three episodes of the Flash in 2020.

Garry:

Wow, there's a lot of people in Flash the.

Amy:

Flash Kelsey Mawima plays Lizzie Sabrina, who is the host of Kitchen Clash. It's her teen daughter and she is not excited at all to be in a small town.

Garry:

Yes, a small town.

Amy:

You should say no, what was that?

Garry:

Yes, yes, queen.

Amy:

Oh my gosh. Okay, she was in 17 episodes of Superman and Lois. Oh, okay, from 2021 to 2024. She was in all three of Netflix's. To All the Boys I've Loved Before movies in 2018, 2020, and 2021, which we did not see, but which were very popular. Yes, we missed those. And she was also in my Life with the Walter Boys. That was on Netflix. She was in three episodes of that. Do you remember that one?

Garry:

Yes, we did watch that one. We did watch that one.

Amy:

That one was pretty good too About the girl who's growing up in New York City and they're very wealthy and then her parents pass away and she goes to live in the country right with her mom's best friend yes and her family right. So that was kind of cute, so anyway, so kelsey, she was in that. Also three episodes of that one. Okay, cardi wong plays jen.

Garry:

I'm not quite sure what he's got going on with gus yet yeah, we need to talk about that because I he's, he's a townsperson, right, he's a maranac townsperson and something's going on between him and gus, but we're not quite sure, quite sure yet they haven't revealed it.

Amy:

They haven't revealed it. Um, he has been in a ton of hallmark movies. Uh, tip line mysteries, dial one for murder in 2024, the gift of peace in 2022. A season for family in 2023, christmas for keeps. He he has a long list of um hallmark movies and his very first one that I found was a movie called all my, all of my heart in 2015, and that one was with lacey chabert and brennan elliott, and we just watched that one. Yes, with Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott, and we just watched that one.

Garry:

Yes, we did when she inherits half the house. Yes, he does too.

Amy:

So yeah, it was really. That was kind of cool. We just watched that.

Garry:

I found that was interesting, yeah, awesome.

Amy:

He was in an episode of Lucifer in 2017. Ooh, we like that. And A Million Little Things in 2020. Queeznell, I think, plays Teen Amanda. Her Hallmark debut was in Leah's Perfect Gift in 2024. She played the sister. Yes, yes, she did. You're disagreeing with me? Yes, she did. She was also in one episode of Superman and Lois in 2023.

Garry:

I know the Superman and Lois I know.

Amy:

It's like a repeat of some things. Hayley Hansen plays Teen May. Her first acting credit is in 2024. And the Chicken Sisters is her first Hallmark production. Good for her.

Garry:

Good for her.

Amy:

yeah, it's pretty cool it is Marlee Walchuk plays Dot, one of the gossipy townspeople. Her Hallmark debut was in Making Spirits Bright in 2021. She was recently in so Help Me, Todd. She was in four episodes of that series and she was in one episode of that new series, Animal Control.

Garry:

Oh yeah, I think it's in its second season.

Amy:

Yeah, we watched a couple.

Garry:

It's kind of quirky and funny. Yeah, we watched a couple episodes. Yeah, it was good.

Amy:

Liza Hugett plays Pearl, the other gossipy townsperson with Dot. She's been in a lot of Hallmark productions. She was actually in An Unexpected Valentine, which was part of I love you, mary. If you get to say it again, I didn't think you were going to get to say it so many times In 2025. She was the instructor, so I'm guessing, would that have been the art instructor when they were painting the Right, right she was just listed as an instructor.

Amy:

Yeah, maybe that was her. She was in, signed, sealed, delivered, a Tale of Three Letters in 2024. And in 2021, she was in three Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel the Santa Stakeout, A Christmas Together With you and Christmas for Keeps. And she too was also in an episode of the Good Doctor and also Riverdale which we really liked.

Garry:

Yeah, that's a long time ago, riverdale, yep.

Amy:

And that's a wrap for what I have for today.

Garry:

Ooh that was a lot Good job on that Take a breath, Take a sip. Wow, hey, before we get started, I have another trivia question for you, oh gosh, okay, trivia. Okay.

Amy:

And I'm not going to do it this is Hallmark trivia Okay.

Garry:

So in what year did Hallmark Hall of Fame become the first sponsored program ever presented in color?

Amy:

That's a good question. Can you do the Jeopardy music? Let me think I really don't know, 1953.

Garry:

Okay, I didn't?

Amy:

Oh my gosh, that was actually in my head, was it? I swear to you, I swear, I swear to you.

Garry:

Well, hey, you know what?

Amy:

But I didn't want to sound stupid, because I don't really know when color came.

Garry:

I know, I know I was trying to think of.

Amy:

When was the first colored?

Garry:

you know televised. Yeah, it's weird Show. I don't even know Me, neither. That's very interesting. I don't even know Me, neither that's very interesting so 1953, huh, yeah, all right cool.

Amy:

That was a nice little tidbit of trivia.

Garry:

Yeah, I'm going to give you some every once in a while. Okay, before we get started, we're going to go with Hallmark trivia Sounds good, all right. So today we're reviewing the second episode of the Chicken Sisters we're on the same team y'all which aired on Sunday, april 6, 2025. If you missed it, you can catch it all. You can catch all of the episode on Hallmark.

Amy:

Plus, how much wine have you had?

Garry:

so far.

Amy:

I had two sips, you had two sips so far Not too much to get you over the edge today.

Garry:

So it's time to drop the synopsis.

Amy:

All righty, here we go. We're on the same team, y'all, I know I'm just going to like saying those. I know it's fine as Kitchen Clash begins, filming tensions between Franny's and Mimi's restaurants, and sisters Amanda and May and their mother Gus are running high. That was a very brief description for a very full episode.

Garry:

Yeah, didn't you think? Another one that has a lot to unpack, a lot to unpack, yeah. So what did you think of this episode?

Amy:

Well, I thought the episode, like you just said, there is so much to unpack again, we're just, you know, it's sort of like we're peeling back an onion with the layers of these characters which I really like and, not having read the book, I mean we have no idea what their background is or what's going to happen, or you know what's going on. So so you know, in this episode we really get insight into Nancy Hillier, her childhood, and I'm still, you know, I'm a little confused and I probably need to do research on this and so forgive me because I haven't, but did she marry into the Hillier family or was she a Hillier, born a Hillier, I think she.

Garry:

That's a good question.

Amy:

I know.

Garry:

Because was it her husband that owned Franny's.

Amy:

We don't know, Because this no it was her, she was born.

Garry:

She was born because the scene where they talk about how they're supposed to act when they were younger. Yes, so she was born.

Amy:

But that could have been. You could also take that from the outside looking in Like if you're a healer, you act a certain way Right, and she would hear, like her mom and her mom's friend discuss the Moors. You know gossip about the Moors.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And you know your prim and proper.

Amy:

So that's why I'm still, that's why I was still just a little bit confused, so maybe we'll get a little bit more, but at any rate rate, you know that they kind of review her childhood up through her marriage and it's brief, but you do really get a lot of insight into her. And we, you know, we also see the beginning of the competition show taping and sort of the shady side of reality. And we see yeah, we see sabrina getting some information, using it to her advantage oh yeah, which she knows will hurt someone's feelings and it will cause tension.

Amy:

It will be better reality TV and you know, we know that happens but it kind of sucks when you see it.

Garry:

Darn those reality TV shows.

Amy:

And then you know, you have the continued up and down relationship of may and amanda and then each between the two of them yes and then each one of them with their relationship with their mom right I mean this all plays out in this episode, which is just, it just blows my mind.

Amy:

Plus, you know, you see both amanda and may struggling and recognizing their faults, trying to change, but then inevitably falling back into the same right patterns. And I think we all struggle with that to some degree. You know what's wrong and you try to change it, but then it's just so easy to slip back. So, like you said, I mean there's been a lot packed in these two episodes, but I mean it's working. But there there is just there are so many layers to it and I'm I'm really digging it. What about you?

Garry:

No, I kind of had the same point of views that you just mentioned. I did think that this episode, you know, focused a lot on Nancy and you get a sense of why she acts the way she does, right, you know, because she grew up in a time where it was a man's business. And you know the woman stayed in the kitchen and cooked, but I thought that was really interesting.

Amy:

Well, you let the man shine. You didn't take any of the spotlight away.

Garry:

You didn't take any of the spotlight and if you did, you were berated and made to feel cheap or whatever.

Amy:

That's smart, right.

Garry:

And that brings in the dynamic between her and her son, right? Right, because Sabrina, of course, the reality TV host, she plays on that, right? Yes, she does. And you know Frank Jr, he's all like, you know, like a little child. He goes running off but she feels sorry, but then the camera hits her and she gets right into it. So, like you were saying, she tries to get out of that rut, but then she falls right back into it. But one thing I did notice how come there's never anybody in Mimi's restaurant, but there's always somebody in Franny's restaurant?

Amy:

That's a good question. Maybe it's just timing and you know it's before lunch or after dinner.

Garry:

It's two episodes. I don't know. That's a good dinner. It's two episodes. We haven't seen a soul in there yet. It's a good question Is her?

Amy:

chicken. Is it that bad? That's a good question and a good observation.

Garry:

I don't know, I just threw that in there, it could just be a timing thing.

Amy:

I mean it kind of go along with what you were talking about with Nancy, what you said like she doesn't want the spotlight, but the spotlight kind of gravitates towards her and she's trying to allow her son to have it because she knows he really wants it Like he wants to be in front of the camera and he wants to be the face, but he's not real good at it at all.

Amy:

He phrases in front of the camera and then he gets upset and her phrases are still killed. I need to start keeping a log of the phrases. That'd be a big log, like she really deals my pickle. And she said that in the first episode that she said, junior, you've had to be in your bonnet all day you know, when he's upset about the camera and don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

Garry:

Oh, I love that when she says that to the cameraman.

Amy:

I just so we need to. Maybe we do need to keep a log of Nancy-isms. I wonder if those are all in the book, because that would be too funny. I might have to read the book.

Garry:

But I also liked how they started bringing the two teenagers into the spotlight with this scene where they're walking With Frankie and Lizzie. Yes, the grab and go, oh, the grab. I thought that was you're starting. Like you said, they're peeling back the layers and we're starting to get some more information on each of these characters. Right, and?

Amy:

you can kind of see. Since you brought up the teens, you know the interaction Like Frankie, she kind of, even though she's a surly teenager with her mom.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

She does the right thing. She's sort of a good girl. There's not a lot of room for mischief there, because everybody knows, everybody, I know in a small town, which is good and bad?

Garry:

Yes, I would have to believe.

Amy:

And then Lizzie comes in and just hates everything. You know, she just hates her life, thinks it's too small town, and then, of course, immediately has the fake ID and tries to buy alcohol. And then they get into trouble and so yeah, there's always one.

Garry:

It's a good dynamic between the two. There's the leader, and then there's the follower.

Amy:

But you know, when they're that age, it wouldn't matter where you went.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You know a teenager is going to be mad, whether it's country or you're in the city, and she's got to you know, do things with her mom. I mean it's, and I know there are good teenagers out there, I get it.

Garry:

Yes, there are.

Amy:

Before I hear that.

Garry:

I was one.

Amy:

OK, but you're not a girl. I know there are mothers and daughter daughters who have great mothers, who have great relationships with their daughters when they're teens. You know, and I did at times, but there were some contentious times, you know, yeah, and so I get it. I totally get it from the parent's standpoint, but it gets better.

Amy:

You know I describe it as you're kind of together when they're little and then you break up when they're teens and then you get back together once they become adults. So that was our evolution anyway, and I think it's the same for a lot of people. But and if you are someone who has a great relationship with your daughter all through her teen years, I am jealous. Congratulations, congratulations. I'm envious, I'm very envious.

Garry:

So what was some of your favorite scenes?

Amy:

Gosh, I would have to think about that for a second. Yeah, do you have a? What were some of your favorite scenes there?

Garry:

was one scene that I really like, and it's when the camera was going back and forth between um, I think it was amanda, nancy and gus putting on makeup and oh yes, yes, yes, amanda nancy, okay, okay, right, and then it gets it gets to and it might have been may too and it gets to gus in the end and she's not putting makeup on, she's got a garden hose and she's watering herself down in the face.

Amy:

You know what that's so funny? I didn't even.

Garry:

That's that. That was, that was.

Amy:

That is a pretty, that was that's a good. There are moments like that throughout the episodes that just bring the humor in, and and you know you saying that about Gus if if I had to pick a favorite scene, I think it would probably be where she cooks for May.

Amy:

Yes, and the narration during that. Because you know she's this, I mean, I like any scene she's in. Because you know, like when she says, unless you are the police or my dead mama, you are never to call me Augusta again. You know and I just thought that was so she comes up with these one-liners too. She's got them too.

Garry:

She's just down to earth.

Amy:

I need a Gus and a Nancy log is what I need, yep, but she I just. Anytime she's in a scene, just her character, you know, she has this tough, hard exterior. And then when they have the scene where May was there and she's happy, may's there and you know. And then the narration says you know, she shows her love through food she may not tell you all the time and she's not smiling all the time and then she cooks dinner and then when she leaves, you know they eat, they have a good dinner and they, you know, of course, when they show her cooking. I thought that was really cool.

Amy:

And then you know when she's done with dinner and May and Kenneth are still sitting at the table and Gus gets up to leave, she hesitates and she says thank you for coming, and it's so hard for her to say, but she gets it out. And when she walks away May and Kenneth, the way they kind of look at each other, doesn't he say something like did she just say thank you?

Amy:

Yeah, he's like we got another bottle of champagne, so I really I I thought that was sort of a you know a crack in the exterior. Yes, that we got to see. So you know she's a tough exterior but maybe a little bit yeah she has a heart, she just doesn't show it.

Garry:

Well, the way most people do well, let's talk about her and jen quick.

Amy:

Her and okay, jen Jen, jen, jen okay.

Garry:

I'm thinking it's Jen, but yes, so what do you think's going on? I?

Amy:

don't have any idea.

Garry:

I don't think it's like an affair. I think it's more like she knows she needs help. Maybe he's counseling her, I don't know. Yeah, or maybe.

Amy:

Because help, maybe he's counseling her, I don't know, yeah, or maybe because we don't know what he does. She's praying, maybe he's a pastor or something, or yeah, I don't. I don't think it's an affair no um, but I don't. I'm kind of baffled by that a little bit, I mean, I mean the closet scene, though the pantry or wherever they were in the restaurant when um.

Garry:

Sergio opens the door and gus and jen are in the yes, wherever they are, and she's like close the door and they and Jen are in wherever they are and she's like close the door and they're kind of like holding hands or something.

Amy:

So that's what makes me think, maybe.

Garry:

Well, she's a more, so that the show's kind of making you feel like, yes, that's a good point too, because she's a more, she's.

Amy:

Rebellious and she does things that aren't on the up and up.

Garry:

But I don't think she is.

Amy:

I don't think she is. I don't think they are. No, and he kind of says something when they're sitting in the truck too, Like it's Gus and Jen.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

He alludes to the fact that she's come out of her comfort zone with things.

Amy:

So it must not be nefarious. Yes, but you know, it kind of looks that way, but that's a good question way, but that's a good, that's a good question. Yeah, man, I'd say so. Yeah, I'd say so. I also like doing this just totally random. When um sabrina, the host of kitchen clash, says, when her daughter doesn't want to go with frankie and she's like, just go, go do random teens together, I know, because her daughter's like she's just a random teen, she's like, well, go do random teens together. Teens are so, you know, because when kids are little they'll usually play with anybody and, just you know, might come out of their shell a little bit, but teens are just oof.

Garry:

It's crazy, right yeah, but you know, what else is funny is when, going back to the scene where the kids get busted by the town sheriff- yes. And then Amanda and Sabrina. Sergio drives them to pick the girls up and you know the sheriff is kind of giving them a speech about. You know how dare you kids do this? And it's against the law. And then Amanda goes. I remember back in high school when you weren't so perfect high school, when you weren't so perfect.

Garry:

Yeah, it just reminds me of when you know, as a teenager, me and my best friend marvin we used to do stuff like that.

Amy:

You know, yeah, where we go to go to a bar.

Garry:

We like to listen to bands, so we go to a bar and you know I'm not gonna confess, but we'd had a good time yeah, yeah, we got it.

Amy:

yeah, and whether you were of age or not, you got in Things you wouldn't tell your kids so they couldn't use it against you.

Garry:

But it is funny how they try to tell us they're doing something new, but no, you're not. Oh, I know it's already been done.

Amy:

They think we don't know and have never experienced it.

Garry:

You didn't know, we snuck out. Oh yeah, yes, we did. Yes, we did. That's why you got caught.

Amy:

So you know what else Shauna wasn't in this episode?

Garry:

No, Shawnee Shawnee, shawna Shawna, I think it is Okay.

Amy:

Okay, she wasn't in this episode. She was not.

Garry:

And she was such a big part in the first one, she was so funny, she was the humor, you know what I mean.

Amy:

She was Well. Hopefully she's going to be back.

Amy:

I don't look to see how many episodes she's in, but yeah, she'll be back. Can we talk about Mae for a minute too? She and the evolution of her during this episode. It's like she, you know, took five steps forward but 10 steps back Because she was really trying. She recognized that she's bossy and that works to her advantage and to other people's advantage too, to have someone who's organized and, you know, type A personality and thinks things a certain way. But then they can go too far, which she does, and she recognizes that. And I like the scene where Amanda's, you know, kind of confronting her and May's like yeah, you're right, I am and you know.

Amy:

And Amanda's like oh, okay, you know and they they get along for a little bit. You know, I just I kind of like that. And then, and then she's kind of she knows her fault, she's trying to overcome it, and then she finds out amanda told sabrina what her first actual job was and that kind of ruins it in the moment. So and then she just reverts back, goes back into the anger that she felt, the hatred she has for the town. So I think this is an interesting play on on her character and kind of where she's going to go.

Garry:

But it goes back to you know, the reality TV host taking advantage of. Amanda was. You know she was opening up and she, she didn't realize she was being filmed. And you know she didn't do it on purpose. No, no, it was an accidental. Accidental talent. I do that sometimes, yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, I mean, how many times have you done that, where you've said something and You're like rrr, I mean. I did that recently with somebody where I said something and then the other person responded, basically because they didn't know what I was talking about and I assumed they knew and it wasn't that big of a deal, but it was like oh sorry, I didn't do it on purpose, it just happens. It just happens so sometimes that just you know, and if Mae would have owned it from the beginning it wouldn't have been an issue anyway.

Garry:

Right, you know everybody works.

Amy:

She was working, she was making money, she was putting herself through, you know, school or wherever.

Garry:

And that's what she did. And the funny thing is is she can use that she. You know she's ashamed of where she came from and how she grew up, but look where she ended up. I mean, she made something out of herself, so she could use it that way. I would do it.

Amy:

I'd be like, yeah, this is where I started, this is what made me. Yeah, I worked hard, I worked my tail off. Yeah, pun intended with the fact that she's good in front of the camera. And I did like towards the end, where she looks at the footage of herself and she realizes she is worthy and she is good and it is okay for her to be in the front and center.

Amy:

It doesn't mean she's dissing everybody else, but it's kind of cool to see her come into that yeah after all the years of, you know, being behind her husband, so to speak, being behind her son, letting others take the spotlight. But she has opinions too yeah, and I'm looking forward to a lot more one-liners from her.

Garry:

And that was just after Junior, like made her feel terrible about herself. Oh, that's right.

Amy:

Yes, and he told her she was embarrassing.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Yeah, that was awful, that was awful. I hope he comes around by the end. I don't know if he does or not, but I don't know.

Garry:

He's got a work to do? Yes, but good for Gordo to say the camera loves you. Yes, don't be afraid. Well, they want good TV too. Well, true, but—.

Amy:

They're looking at good TV too, right yeah, right yeah. So that was—so out of five corks, what would you give?

Garry:

that episode. I'm going to give this one a five, just because you know we're getting a little bit more of each character there's. They're starting to play off of each other and you know. So I give it a five. What about you?

Amy:

I would have to say the same. I have to give this episode another five. Like we five quarks, like we talked about earlier, I just feel like we're just. You know, the layers are just peeling back and you're seeing more, and then the layers go back up and then they peel back some more and I just think they're doing a brilliant job of the character development. Yeah, and that's, you know, kind of a weird angle, or more you know. But it's just, I'd have to give it a five quirks for sure.

Garry:

And.

Amy:

I'm looking forward to episode number three.

Garry:

I know I can't wait. Yeah, so is this a wrap?

Amy:

That is a wrap.

Garry:

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

Amy:

First, leave it first.

Garry:

Okay, I've had three sips of wine now.

Amy:

You're on number three, and if you didn't really really like the show, you can still leave a five-star review.

Garry:

Definitely leave a five-star review. Yes, anything lower is just mean.

Amy:

Just mean, no, it's all right. No, I'm just kidding.

Garry:

Leave whatever your opinion is, but hopefully it's a five-star review. She's the star of the show.

Amy:

I'm not.

Garry:

That's okay.

Amy:

Join us next Tuesday when we review episode number three. This is War Y'all, which will air on Sunday, april 13th 2025 on the Hallmark Channel. Be sure to also tune in on Wednesdays for our Hallmark movie reviews. Until then, fill up your glasses and push play. Thanks for listening, cheers.