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Hallmark's The Chicken Sisters S2 E4 - Let Your Hair Down, Ya'll

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On this episode of Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time, Garry and Amy dive into their recap and review of The Chicken Sisters - Season 2, Episode 4: Let Your Hair Down, Ya’ll! Merinac gets shaken up by surprise guests and spontaneous fun! Mae takes matters into her own hands by planning her bachelorette party (much to the dismay of her sister and friends), but the night ends up bringing her and Amanda closer than ever. Meanwhile, Nancy pushes forward with her campaign to fix the town’s railroad crossing, Gus gets nostalgic about Mae’s childhood, and Frank Jr. finally takes a stand. Oh, and just to spice things up, Sergio’s ex makes a dramatic entrance. It’s a wild episode, and the chicken is extra crispy!

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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 and I'm gary and I'm pouring you're pouring. What a day we've had, huh oh yes, oh, it's been a long day. If, if you only knew, if you only knew, we're unapologetically protecting our peace.

Garry:

Yes, we are.

Amy:

That's what we're starting with. That's a good way of putting it Unapologetically protecting our peace by doing something that we love this podcast. That's correct, that is correct. We had a day, and so we're going to dive in today to our podcast, because it's fun, it gives us peace it gives us peace and a little bit of fun, a little bit of banter, a little bit.

Amy:

So today we're going to be recapping and reviewing the fourth episode of season two of the Chicken Sisters Let your Hair Down, y'all. It aired on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, august 31st 2025, and is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus.

Garry:

Yes, it is. So it's the last day of August. We would love it if you would click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss an episode If you listen on Apple or Spotify. You can also leave us a review, you sure can and hopefully it's a positive review. Hopefully you can also find us on YouTube and all social media.

Amy:

Hey, yes, you can even send us an email.

Garry:

That's correct. Say what you said, yes.

Amy:

What? All right, let's take two. No, you can send us an email at pourthewine it's romcom time at gmailcom. Yes, you can Let us know your thoughts about the current season of the Chicken Sisters. Maybe you watched the first season also. How does it compare for you between the first and second seasons? Or you can let us know anything Hallmark-y related if you'd like.

Garry:

Because we're here for it.

Amy:

We'd like to hear from you, yep, so shoot us an email and we'll send it back, or maybe read it on the pod, one of these days Just sent it Just sent it, just sent it.

Garry:

Just sent it, send it, sent it, you sent mail.

Amy:

I don't you. What are you doing? You got mail.

Garry:

Okay, tell us who's in this one.

Amy:

All right, so we do talk extensively about the main cast right of characters in episode one of season two and I think in episode two we mentioned David James Elliott.

Garry:

Yes, we did, didn't we?

Amy:

Okay, or maybe that was one, I can't remember which one, but anywho. So we're adding actors or actresses along the way who pop up in episodes, and in this particular episode, episode number four, rhiannon Fish. Yay, yeah, she came on. It was kind of cool to see her again.

Garry:

Yes, it was.

Amy:

Right, she plays Nikita Sergio's ex, ex. She comes to town Dun dun dun For Hallmark. She was just in A Machu Picchu Proposal.

Garry:

Yep.

Amy:

She's been in three of the Signed, sealed, delivered movies. She was in the Vows we Made A Tale of Three Letters, and To the Moon and Back. She was in the movie Polar Opposites, a Costa Rican Wedding, my Norwegian Holiday, when Love Springs, the 27-Hour Day and You're Baking Me Crazy.

Garry:

Baking Me Crazy. Baking Me Crazy.

Amy:

Some of her other work includes he Loves Me, Not Sweet as Pie, and she was in an Australian soap opera, Home and Away, for 325 episodes. That's a lot.

Garry:

That is a lot.

Amy:

She must be Australian. Yeah, okay.

Garry:

In this episode, directed by Norman Buckley and written by Jessica Wood. Sounds good. How do you like?

Amy:

that I like that a lot.

Garry:

Me too, so you want to dig into this.

Amy:

You want to drop the synopsis first? Oh, you know what I?

Garry:

did it again.

Amy:

It's been a day huh.

Garry:

Let's drop the synopsis. Maybe you should take a sip. I'm going to While I let's drop the sunops. Maybe you should take a sip while I drop the sunops.

Amy:

Yes, do it. It's May's bachelorette party and Amanda commits to giving her notoriously overplanning sister a night full of carefree fun and making memories.

Garry:

Yes, yes, and what memories they made.

Amy:

Oh, my gosh Okay. All right, put the wine down.

Garry:

All right, so let's dive into this.

Amy:

We'll probably give away some spoilers.

Garry:

I forgot that part too, Excuse me. Yes, we are going to give away some spoilers.

Amy:

Yes, probably you are off your game.

Garry:

Like we said, it's been a day, so if you have not watched the episode, please go and watch it. Come back, listen to ours and let us know what you think.

Amy:

Yep, we're doing a recap and a review, which means we talk about the whole episode, the whole.

Garry:

Thing 40-some.

Amy:

What is it 40-some minutes?

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

All right, so what'd you think of this one? Briefly before we dive in, I guess, to the details. I liked it.

Garry:

Okay, I didn't love it. Okay, they had some funny parts.

Amy:

Yes, they had some not-so-funny parts. Well, some were serious parts Right.

Garry:

You know, I love the message. I feel like Nancy found her place. I feel like May is finding her way.

Amy:

Okay, may is finding her way, may's way, okay, may way.

Garry:

May way, sergio, he's stepping up. I just love the whole scene.

Amy:

You love the whole scene.

Garry:

I love the whole movie. You said you liked it.

Amy:

It's an episode, the movie.

Garry:

Oh my God, Can we start this podcast over again? No, I'd love to.

Amy:

Are you here? What's happening right now? I liked the episode.

Garry:

It was close to loving it.

Amy:

Oh, okay, that's what you meant. You said. I love the movie. Why not movie? We're talking about a movie.

Garry:

What about you? What did you think?

Amy:

I felt the same way. I really liked it. I think I liked it a little more than the last episode, although the last episode was good. I mean, it was pretty good. It wasn't like it was awful or anything.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And then, you know, I feel like this episode sort of stepped it up a little bit more, because we do see more between, you know, amanda and May and their relationship, and we see that deepening. Like you mentioned, we have the Sergio of it all.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And we have his ex showing up on the scene, you know. And then, of course, you know Gus and Nancy. We did see some things there with Gus and Clayton, so I thought this was this was a pretty good episode. Ok, I feel like what's missing are the quick clips from quips, quips from the narrator. I don't feel like we're getting we're getting narration.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And I still love that, but I don't feel like it's quite as witty as it was the first season, you know so, and we didn't really talk about the writers and the directors and all that. So you know, maybe and I I think the writer for this episode, she was like an executive editor for all of last season i- think yeah um, so she, she was involved also, but I, I just so I'm not. I think that part is sort of missing for me a little bit.

Garry:

Okay.

Amy:

And Shauna was in this one and she's always good when she shows up. I just want more of her every episode because I think she can really. She really kind of sprinkles in the comedy the sarcasm, the wit.

Garry:

Sometimes I agree with you yeah.

Amy:

But I thought it was pretty good. Okay, all right, I agree with you, yeah, yeah.

Garry:

So, but I thought it was pretty good, okay, all right, I'm glad we got that straightened out. Okay, so who do you want to hit on first? Who do you want to?

Amy:

start first. So it starts off with. I guess we should talk about how it starts right. Like nothing says love, like homemade preserves strawberry preserves right. So you kind of see Mae through the years making the preserves and then you know I liked that we saw her kind of saw her clocking in.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

At her own place, which I thought was kind of wild. But I was like, okay, we're going to clock in for work and clock out and everything, and you know, I figured that would come back around and it does later, later. But and then she ends up may actually ends up burning the present day preserves, even though she's worked on them for like her whole life and she has the recipe tried and true.

Amy:

So that's kind of where we start. So we know this is sort of going to be about may. Yeah right, a little bit about me, so all right. So who do you want to start with?

Garry:

well, we also when May goes to dump the burnt preserves the little chicken symbols is tied into our apron. They use the ties of the apron to make the chicken.

Amy:

Yeah, I thought that was so cute.

Garry:

Yeah, that was cute.

Amy:

I don't know if we mentioned it in every episode. We just love it when we see the chicken and what they do, where they put it, how it relates to the scene. I loved the placement of that one.

Garry:

I thought that was really cute. It was very good. Yes, it was very good. So let's tackle who. Do you want to tackle gus? Let's go with gus, okay okay.

Amy:

So I guess in this episode we see her struggling with a railroad crossing arm and she can't really lift it because of her ms and she's a little bit weaker right, and so she tells nancy that she couldn't do it. You know, and I like that Nancy just gets angry on her behalf and you know, and she feels badly because she's like no one should have to lift that thing. You know, and and she's like and you could just really tell that her and Nancy's relationship are it's growing right.

Amy:

And then we see Gus clock into her own restaurant.

Garry:

Yes, in present day. In present day which, again, I'm like is your?

Amy:

well, it's Mimi's, but I guess they're doing a majority of it at Franny's right. Franny's is really the Chicken Sisters.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Where they're doing all the things, but she still has.

Garry:

Her business or her building, mimi's, mimi's yeah.

Amy:

Right, so yeah, yeah. So that's kind of where we start with her, and then Jay shows up.

Garry:

Yes, poor Jay.

Amy:

Poor Jay. Yeah, I love Jay Well she gives him a little hard time at first he shows up at the restaurant at Mimi's.

Garry:

Yeah, and he wants to know. He knows the present day May and he asked Gus Present day May, present day May, and he wants to know the before May.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

And I thought the way Gus presented this was brilliant. Yes, this was excellent storytelling and this is what I loved about this one and another scene we'll talk about later is what? I loved about this particular episode, the fact that she used time cards to explain May.

Amy:

Well, I liked how, and it's great because she comes out and she's like. You know, these were saved from the fire and I couldn't really tell what they were. It didn't even dawn on me that it was going to be time cards, right, and he's like Jay is sort of like what are time cards? Like? Why would this tell me about May? Like he has no, and even I was like what?

Amy:

right you know. So then she opens up one right and she's like like, for example, this one this is a christmas day, one we stayed open for the people who didn't may wanted us to stay open for the people that didn't have anywhere to go. And then she ends up she talks about that particular story and she says that was one of her favorite Christmases. So then you realize the time cards are sort of like stamps of time on, you know, Gus's heart.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Things, because Mae was always at work.

Garry:

She was always on time.

Amy:

She was always regimented.

Garry:

And it's so fascinating that they're like pictures in time.

Amy:

Yes.

Garry:

Only it's time. Cards in time.

Amy:

Yeah, I don't know that.

Garry:

I could remember there's no, unless she wrote on there. Wrote on there. Yeah, I don't remember seeing anything written on them.

Amy:

Yeah, she just has that memory.

Garry:

But for her to be able, to pick those out and tell a story behind that particular day was just brilliant to the writers, doesn't?

Amy:

she say something like May has a heart of gold. Right, you know she's sort of fiery and she's got that OCD organization, but she has a heart of gold.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

And that's when she kind of talked about the Christmas time. So, yeah, I thought that that was such a cool way to tell that story and so appropriate for the characters right, For both Gus and for May.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Because she, you know, because it did describe May and then she tells the story because, and then he's like well, what about this one, you know? Or what about this? I just thought it was cool, I thought it was really cool.

Garry:

It was really good. Yeah, I really enjoyed that.

Amy:

And then she does tell the story about how she had gotten the flu and she couldn't, you know she was going to have to close the store. Like he picked out one and she said, oh, that's May's prom night.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And they were open. May wanted to be open because they didn't have a lot of money, and so May skipped prom and acted like she didn't want to go, even though she really did. But she stayed to help.

Garry:

And she had saved over a year to get the dress To get her dress.

Amy:

yeah, and she knew that the store was short. Right.

Garry:

So she stayed open for her mom.

Amy:

And Gus. You can see, gus kind of knows that and that's one of it's sort of a bittersweet memory.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

That one, because Gus knows what Mae did, what sacrifices Mae made as a child for Gus and for the family.

Garry:

And then there was another time card.

Amy:

There was another time, oh.

Garry:

When she when I think it was her last time card.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Is the way Gus discussed it, and it was the one the last time she worked there before going to.

Amy:

New York To New York, yep.

Garry:

And I was like like oh, look at the look on gus's face you could tell she was sad, she.

Amy:

I mean, I'm kind of I'm glad they softened her a little bit, like you really get to see the softer side although the gruff side was fun to watch in season one, but you really see her softer side come out during this. It comes out every once in a while in the episodes so do you want to save the last part of that, last part about Gus? Yeah so they had that whole time car, so that was pretty cool throughout the whole episode.

Garry:

Right, they kept going back to it. Yeah, it was pretty cool. So I think Jay got a pretty good understanding of how. May was growing up yep and the sacrifices she made for her family, for her mom and her family, yep Even though she said she never wanted to go back there.

Amy:

She didn't want anyone to meet her parents. You see how much she loved and did for them while she was growing up.

Garry:

Yep. So what do you want to tackle next? How about let's do Frank Jr? I love Frank.

Amy:

Oh, you want to go to Frank Jr. Yeah, let's do Frank. Okay, let's do Frank Jr. I think he's so, so funny, oh gosh.

Garry:

So he tries to pitch to Mr Chicken again. Yep With Jeffro.

Amy:

Christian yep.

Garry:

Jeffro's sitting there and he goes through his spiel again. And what does Mr Chicken do? Nope, we're not about that. We're about the franchise. We're about making the money. Of course Frank is like okay.

Amy:

Well, he wants to use his original recipe.

Garry:

Yeah, his original recipe.

Amy:

His original recipe Quotes Because they really love the chicken that he made.

Amy:

And I thought it was interesting that Christian says sameness makes money. And I was like, you know, I've never really thought about that, Like what do you think about the restaurants that have been around forever and you know, like McDonald's has had the cheeseburger and everybody loves McDonald's fries, and I mean I know they've okay, they've changed over, you know, just recipe wise maybe a little bit, but they're kind of known for certain things and I thought, and when you change it up or make something healthier, it's more expensive. So that's why Christian didn't want to, Mr Chicken didn't want to do that, because he's like we're regiment, we have the same things, that's what we serve, that's what we mass produce and it's cheaper.

Garry:

Yeah, it is Right. So I thought well, I've just never really thought about that and that comes up later on about the same.

Amy:

Does it? Yes, oh, I might have missed that. Okay, okay, that's cool.

Garry:

All right, cool, just remind me and I thought it was pretty interesting because Jethro later on says to Frank how impressed he was with the way he presented himself to Mr Chicken, yeah, and that he's never even seen that on a soap opera.

Amy:

That was funny. He goes and I watch soap operas or something like that.

Garry:

Yeah, it was funny.

Amy:

He goes and I watch Soap opera or something like that. Yeah, it was funny. Well, he saw a lot of passion in him and we saw in the first season, where Frank Jr couldn't deliver a presentation, right Like he had a hard time in the boardroom and that really wasn't his thing, but this is something he's passionate about. And then he does the math and shows Mr Chicken that it would only be like two cents more On a napkin On a napkin he shows.

Amy:

Mr Chicken that it would only be like two cents more On a napkin On a napkin, he shows him that it would cost overall what two cents more per piece of chicken. I don't know Whatever Right.

Garry:

And that's with the sauces.

Amy:

Right, right.

Garry:

So Mr Chicken was happy about it and he takes a napkin and he leaves. And here's where the same comes in, because that's when the narrator says we discovered that it's Mimi's and Franny's chicken recipe. And that's the same.

Amy:

Same recipe. Oh okay, yeah, same makes money. He's using the same.

Garry:

Well, that's true too. I didn't think about that, you're right, you're right. So there you have it.

Amy:

So then you find out that he's actually you know kind of a scoundrel. He didn't make up his own recipe. He is using what he knows is the recipe.

Garry:

The chicken sister's recipe Yep, the chicken sister's recipe. Yep, he sure did.

Amy:

So he's still a shyster.

Garry:

Which puts another checkmark in that man as the, as the character, yeah, as the actor, I love you because you're doing a great job.

Amy:

You're making us hate you, no, we don't hate you, but you know, yeah, not our favorite, that's for sure. Yeah, that was. That was pretty much his storyline yeah throughout it I guess throughout the episode. Yeah, so nate. So you want to go to nancy. Yeah, let's go to nancy, to amanda let's do, nancy all right, just she, nancy, still trying to get these signatures to get the railroad arm fixed.

Garry:

Yeah, which is her mission?

Amy:

Her mission. She is on a mission.

Garry:

Yes, and I love it.

Amy:

Yeah, and I like it. When she goes, she's working at the restaurant and she kind of goes up to the table where Big Tim and Magnolia are and she's like you know, hey, do you want to sign this? You know, and what does Big Tim say? Well, no, I can't put my signature on something until I've done all the research about it or whatever.

Amy:

You know, and I'm thinking, in a small town would you really doubt somebody that you knew and grew up with and who owned that restaurant? You know, but I get it, I guess. And then of course, his wife won't sign it because he won't sign it. Magnolia won't sign it. So sort of a domino effect. She's kind of discouraged a little bit, and that's where they say you catch more flies with honey. But her requests weren't sticky enough, because she's trying to be nice.

Garry:

Yeah, now that one was a funny narration line. How many times did you use that line?

Amy:

You attract more flies with honey. Yeah, we talk about that a lot, don't we?

Garry:

And I find it interesting Shauna giving a pep talk to Nancy when Nancy comes up to Amanda and Shauna and she's like, or Shauna's like, Miss Nancy, what's wrong? And then she said I told you not to Google the Internet because the Internet is a scary place. And Nancy said yeah, I learned my lesson with the intermittent rash.

Amy:

Rash. Yeah, she said something about a rash. That was funny. That was kind of funny that was hilarious. Hilarious.

Garry:

And then you get Amanda giving Nancy a pep talk, saying hey, here's what you need to do, go out and do it. And Shauna too, shauna's like you don't ask, you tell I was like. Well, that's true. And then what does Nancy do?

Amy:

She stands up on the counter, Well on a bar stool or something On a seat yeah, on a seat, and she's like you know, we're all tired of that railroad arm, you know. And she points them out, right, like um, patrick, you just complained about it, you said you had to hold it up for all those cars go through, and she goes to different people, right. And then she's like well, stop complaining about it, you can do something about it. You know, she's like sign this. So it was kind of it was cool. She's finding her voice, yes, she's, and she's using it for something good, and I think that I think that's a great arc for her character too yeah, it was, I think at that point coming into her own and then, of course, she tells the pastor yeah, you know, I got 300 they're like having dinner or something.

Garry:

Yeah, right and she tells them that she, she's all excited I got 300 and then some and signatures signatures and she's walking back to the kitchen and you can hear him say something like um well, that's great, but it's a shame you're going to miss the labor of your fruit.

Amy:

Right, the fruits of your labor or your fruits of your hand.

Garry:

The labor of your fruit. The fruits of your labor, and then you can see when Nancy's like yeah, this man's not going to hold me down.

Amy:

She's like, yeah, too bad, because she's not going to go on the trip with him. Yeah, you can just see it. She's coming into her own, she has her own business there. She's doing this for the town. I mean she might run for mayor next season, I don't know Right, or something. So it's going to be interesting to see what they end up doing with her character too. And of course, this is the halfway point of the season.

Garry:

Yeah, it is so from here on out.

Amy:

We're a downward slope. Yeah, we're going to find out a whole bunch. So then let's talk about the new character that shows up. Oh, the new character.

Garry:

Yes, so should we do her with sergio? Yeah, okay, so let's go ahead and do that, okay? Well, because first she shows up at franny's and she's eating the chicken no one knows who she is. And then, after she's finished, amanda is like so how'd you like the chicken? And she was like oh, it was great, but those hush puppies were awesome. And amanda doesn't know who this is. And she said I, I'd like to compliment the chef, so amanda, of course, takes her to the back of the kitchen. And who is there?

Garry:

sergio and this is this was a pretty good scene because you find out that that's Sergio's ex and Shauna. She kind of laughs and she just goes into her little thing. It's almost like the stars have aligned.

Amy:

Well, and you can see Sergio's surprised, but not necessarily in a good way. Right so we have found out now who was sending those text messages to him. Yep Right.

Garry:

Now we do.

Amy:

And then she's kind of like I, you'd be more surprised, you'd be happier, you know, to see me. And he's kind of like yeah, but that's when I think what you were referencing is shauna says um, it's like hayley's comment of gossip it only comes once in a lifetime, you know she so that was pretty funny, yeah, like that. So his ex's name is Nikita and so she is there to. She has gotten her own restaurant. Now they work together, I think, in a restaurant.

Garry:

She was a bartender and he was the chef Right.

Amy:

So now she's opening her own restaurant in Chicago where she lives and she wants him to come and be the head chef. Right so she has come there to ask him to come back home or wherever and be the head chef.

Garry:

Right, and so fast forward. Sergio's in the end. He's looking at his old drawings of the restaurant that they were going to open together and actually a sketch of her of Nikita, and Nikita comes in and she wants to know are you going to take the job?

Amy:

Are you in and you kind of think maybe he's thinking about it, right?

Garry:

Yeah, yeah.

Amy:

Because he's contemplating it, he's looking at old pictures. And then he asks her you know well what about Hugo? Now we presume that's the man that she cheated on him with right or left him for or whatever, and she's like I'm done with him in the restaurant business and personally, or whatever right. To try to get Sergio. That was sort of like to try to convince him.

Garry:

And that was I'm glad Sergio did what he did.

Amy:

Right, right. Well, they go outside, you know, they go for a walk, you know, and he tells her he's saying no to all of it. He doesn't want that life anymore. He doesn't want to go back and she's surprised. And then she springs a kiss on him out in the street, which we'll come back to a little bit later, when we talk about something else. But yeah, I thought that was good.

Garry:

So do you want to talk about the sophista? What? What does she call it? Sophista um?

Amy:

sophisticate, sophisticate, sophisticate. Uh, bachelorette, it wasn't kate, it was the lab. Sophistic, sophisticat.

Garry:

Yes, there you go. That's what it is, thank you.

Amy:

We would get there eventually.

Garry:

And I thought that was such a funny name.

Amy:

I tried to write it the way it sounded but I didn't do it.

Garry:

I know, so did I and I did a bad job.

Amy:

I'm glad you said bachelorette. Yes so they were so okay, so we're getting to May.

Garry:

Let's get to that. I was going to say that, but I just couldn't get the word out that she used.

Amy:

Oh my gosh. So now we're at May and she is having her bachelorette party and, like we just said, she's calling it a sophisticate. It's a sophisticated bachelorette party instead of a trashy bachelorette party. And who's there, Amanda?

Garry:

Sabrina.

Amy:

Shawna. And then who are the other two? Mary Pat is one of them.

Garry:

And I can't think of the other ones. I can't think of her name either. They said it.

Amy:

So there's only like a handful of them and they go to May's and she has planned this extravagant seven course meal. With wine, pairing wine and it's going gonna go through and it's gonna coincide with her relationships throughout the years. Or was it relationship with jay? I wasn't sure. I think her relationships like the evolution of her relationships and she was pairing it with wine right. So she has planned this out because she's ocd she's a planner.

Amy:

She does all this stuff. She has decided that that is what she's gonna do. Yeah, right, and it bombs terribly, terribly because they all start drinking different wines. She almost can't handle it, and if you're ocd, you understand that you can't just, you know, change up a plan right and go off the rails and so you know, and she and it's kind of mildly freaking her out, but she's trying to go through the motions, and then she steps out of the room and the girls are like God, this is boring, this is.

Garry:

Yeah, and they talk about the one girl who swishes the wine in her mouth and she goes I taste great. No, no other fruit, just great I know. And they're all you know. And Amanda's trying to defend her.

Amy:

She's like duh. No other fruit, just grape, I know, and Amanda's trying to defend her. She's like look, you know she is the way she is. You know she likes to plan. This is her way of doing it. And then she kind of is like you know, and then you find out May is listening Right, and it hurts her feelings of course. And she kicks everybody out she kicks everyone out and it hurts her feelings of course, and she kicks everybody out.

Garry:

She kicks everyone out, and it's funny because Sabrina's sitting there and she's like me too, and she's like she didn't say anything, she just looked at her and she goes, but I'm staying here, I stay here she goes. Okay, I'll just go for a long walk.

Amy:

She said bye.

Garry:

But I thought it was cute, because they all walk outside and they're talking about well, it's too early, let's go have fun. And Amanda steps up and says no, this is my sister's bachelorette party and we're going to give it to her.

Amy:

We're going to give it to her and I thought that was so awesome, yeah, and Amanda's. Like I should have planned it, I shouldn't have let her do it I should have stepped in, but you know how she is so.

Garry:

So then they pick the lock to come back in and they shoot the little air horn. It scares the heck out of May.

Amy:

Well, no, I did think that was kind of funny, because she has the refrigerator open and you don't hear them at all, and then she closes it and they're all standing behind the refrigerator and she's like but the door was locked, and the one who we can't think of her name, she's like I picked it, you know she had like a hairpin or something in her hair.

Amy:

That or something in her hair. That was really funny. So they proceed to take her out and give her a proper bachelorette party where Amanda has made a bingo card and they all have to split up and go do different things. In different places In different places and take pictures, and so it's kind of cute. It gets her out. You know, she has some fun which we'll talk about. I know she says a little bit later, but I loved all the Polaroid pictures Mae Moore's Bachelorette bingo. Yeah, the Polaroid pictures were great.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Those were a great touch because that's so popular right now. Yeah it is. You know, like I know we've gotten our girls like the Polaroids. Yeah, they love them. Who knew those would come?

Garry:

back, I know you. But who knew those would come back? I know.

Amy:

You know, like everybody was like, oh, that camera needs to go away. And then here it is back and it's cool and it's cute and more expensive. Oh my gosh. Yeah, we were shocked when we saw one. I'm like I remember buying one back in the day and it was not that much, but good for Polaroid, right for coming back making a comeback, but yeah, so so they have this really great party for her and you can see she's having a good time.

Amy:

And then, of course, amanda is going to take a picture of may doing a cart, doing a cartwheel outside yeah, and then she, a man or may, does the cartwheel, and when she snaps the picture, that's when she sees sergio and nikita has leaned in to kiss him right and so so Amanda's, like her heart is sunken a little bit Right Right, Because she she still has feelings for him and she thought they were kind of being flirtatious and they were and that kind of you know the ex's back kind of thing that she knows as far as she knows.

Garry:

Right, and then you have Sabrina, and I think it was the other girl, the blonde-haired girl. They win the actual bingo.

Amy:

Mary Pat, mary Pat, they win the bingo contest, they win the bingo yeah.

Garry:

And the look on May's face, you think, oh, she's about to get upset.

Amy:

Right.

Garry:

And Sabrina's like, oh, you can just have our win. And she's like, no, no, I'm not going to do that and I can't remember exactly what she says, but it was something to do.

Amy:

She says I don't care about winning, because I had fun, I know and the way she said fun was like she had never said the word before. Right. Right, because she just let loose and was carefree, which Sabrina had said earlier. You know, those people are carefree and let loose, right.

Garry:

That's not me. That's not me, yeah.

Amy:

But she's like I actually had fun just being and existing, and that made Amanda happy too. Yeah, yeah, I thought that that was cool.

Garry:

It was, and.

Amy:

Mary Pat. And so then they all start to disperse right and go home. And Mary Pat's like I got to go, I better get my donkey. My donkey gets tired and Shauna's like OK.

Garry:

Because it's so funny? Because at the beginning, they were all like it's early, let's go party. Let's go party, whoop it up. And then, when the sun is about to go down, they're all like OK, it's time to go to bed, let's go, let's split up, let's go home. I just thought that was really fun.

Amy:

Yeah, it was pretty cool. It was pretty cool. I mean I guess we didn't really focus so much on Amanda, but we just talked a lot about her in that bachelorette party. You know, we didn't talk about when. At the very beginning, when Shauna asks Amanda, when are we going to meet May's dad, or you know something about May's dad? And she's like I heard he has a metal credit card, right, you know the kind you can't shred, yeah. And then Amanda's like did you get his driver's license too? And she said he's an organ donor.

Garry:

She's so quick-witted, which is really funny. She was like I heard it from Pearl, who heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend. It was really good it was really good.

Amy:

And then you get towards the end, of course, and you have May and Amanda kind of have this moment where Amanda tells May that she realizes that she gave up her a night of fun for once, because she did all that stuff when they were growing up and all the sacrifices.

Amy:

And then I thought it was cool when Amanda said she always had two parents. She never. She's like. You know how. I didn't need to know my daddy. I don't care about knowing my daddy because I always had two parents you and mom. You know so. I thought that was really cool.

Garry:

Yeah, I kind of teared up on that one.

Amy:

Yeah, mae's kind of understanding now that you know her sacrifices were not for naught right. When she was younger and the town she was running away from really has value and the people in it and all that jazz.

Garry:

So, and her family so, and Mae asked Amanda to stay there until she falls asleep.

Amy:

Yeah, and I thought it was when Mae said that she has a feeling of constant terror at all times and that's because of what she went through when she was young.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You know, and Amanda tries to tell her well, you don't have to worry about that anymore. Like let other people take care of you, let me help you sometimes, you know.

Garry:

And that. So, yeah, I thought that that was really cool and that was kind of the episode.

Amy:

I'm in full circle yeah with that and then you see, sergio deletes his ex as a contact yes right. And then amanda sends him a text message after he deletes his ex as a contact. Or does she send it? We don't know we. She didn't hit this end am Amanda, composes this text message and basically says I saw you guys kissing. I'm fine with it. You guys are great. You're a good cut, whatever.

Amy:

You know I can't get in the way of that, I couldn't compete, and so we don't know if she sends it. But now he has deleted his exit because he knows he wants to stay and be with her, and now she thinks he's with someone else. So it's a little bit of a love triangle again.

Garry:

I really thought she was going to delete Sergio's number. I know and I'm thinking well, he's the chef.

Amy:

I know, I know.

Garry:

And she gave him the nickname because she said I went home after the restaurant, and all I thought about was you giving you a nickname, and she called him Biscuit.

Amy:

Yeah, giving you a nickname and she called him Biscuit. Why'd?

Garry:

she call him Biscuit Because he's always getting out of jams.

Amy:

Jams.

Garry:

I thought that was so thoughtful, that was so thoughtful. Yeah, that was really cool that was really cool, and that's when let's go back to May and Amanda. Amanda calls May Booger, and then May calls Amanda Booger and Amanda calls May little sis.

Amy:

Yeah or no, it was something like that. That was her nickname.

Garry:

Yeah, little mama or something. She was a little mama. Little mama, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was little sis, it was little mama. I knew it was something like that. Yeah, and I thought that was cute yeah.

Amy:

That was cute. And then you have the very end yes, right, I think it was the very end with gus, gus and clayton.

Garry:

She's cleaning out, she's cleaning up, right, her store, and then clayton walks in and gus is listening to the radio and their song happened to be on the radio right and clayton brings it up, she goes I'm just listening to some music and he goes well, it just happens to be our song, and she's like it's not our song I know she tries to resist it every turn and he's just smirking and walking towards her and then she finally gives in and dances and she talks about.

Garry:

She didn't get her prom either yeah, in that moment, or with jay no, she didn't get her problem because she was pregnant and he had left and oh. So it's kind of like okay, so there's that story between them.

Amy:

And they get the dance. Oh yeah, she did say that.

Garry:

Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, so now she got her dance, because he said we missed prom. Yeah, and she said we missed a lot of things.

Amy:

That's right. That's right, Yep, yep, yep.

Garry:

And then they kind of do this collage of Jay gets in bed with May arm and gus and clayton at the very end. Yeah and sergio, he deletes uh nikita's contact.

Amy:

Oh, I jumped the gun, didn't I? With amanda her text. Yeah, is that when they show amanda in her text? I guess? Uh yes, I don't.

Garry:

Yeah, I think that I think so, all right, but that's okay. And then the narrator says you know, there is nothing sadder than a biscuit without jam.

Amy:

Oh, poor Sergio I guess I shouldn't say poor Sergio, because you know they kind of while she was still married. But you know, yeah, it was sad. Oh, biscuit without the jam.

Garry:

Yeah, that's me and you.

Amy:

Well, we're going to see what happens. That's me and you. Yeah, biscuit without the jam.

Garry:

No biscuit with the jam.

Amy:

Oh, okay, I thought you meant I said without the jam. You said no, that's us.

Garry:

So we had a five drumsticks. What are you going to give this one?

Amy:

I give it a solid four.

Garry:

I'm going to go with a three and a half or three and three quarters again.

Amy:

Again, so it's equal to the last one. It's equal to the last one. Okay, we did get a lot of information.

Garry:

There was more of Shauna.

Amy:

Maybe I should give it a four, because it was more shot I love.

Garry:

Well, you can change it. I mean there's. No, I'm not, you know, maybe I'll boost it up to a four because I really think it's slightly better than the last one. I think. So, yeah, I think it had more comedy in it. Yeah, I, I enjoyed it. So, yeah, so that's what I'm gonna do so.

Amy:

We'll see what we're gonna get on the downward slope of the season yes, we are I really don't know what direction it's gonna go, although I think nancy's staying yeah, I don't think Nancy's staying.

Garry:

Yeah, I don't think she's going to go, she's not going to go?

Amy:

I don't think so. Amanda and Sergio may have this back and forth for a little bit. I don't know what's going to happen with Frank Jr. Yeah, we're going to have the wedding. I don't know if that's going to be the eighth episode. I'm not sure where the wedding, but we're close. We have the bachelorette. We'll see.

Garry:

And will we meet Amanda's dad?

Amy:

I don't know.

Garry:

Since she mentioned him, amanda's diddy. Yeah, I don't know All right, so is that a wrap.

Amy:

That's a wrap.

Garry:

All right. If you really really liked the show, we would really really appreciate your positive review on Apple Podcast or Spotify. And if you didn't really really like the show, we'd still appreciate your positive review.

Amy:

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