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Hallmark's The Chicken Sisters S2 E5 - No Trespassing, Ya'll

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Pour The Wine, It’s Rom-Com Time is recapping and reviewing the fifth episode of season two of The Chicken Sisters! Join Garry and Amy as they dive into No Trespassing, Ya’ll! The women of Chicken Sisters step into their own this week as Nancy, Amanda, and Frankie discover strength in independence, while Gus faces new emotional ground with Clayton. Get ready to cheer for women proving they can stand tall on their own and stronger than any family bucket on the menu!

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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 my mark channel.

Garry:

I'm amy and I'm gary and I'm pouring wine you're pouring the wine, yes, I am pour it faster.

Amy:

No, I'm just kidding. Oh, that's a dark cab it is. I guess I wasn't expecting it to be that dark.

Garry:

Yeah, it's pretty dark, all right.

Amy:

Well, shall we jump in? Let's do it, let's do it. Today, we're recapping and reviewing episode number five of the second season of the Chicken Sisters no trespassing y'all. It aired on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday September 7th 2025, and is streaming right now on Hallmark Plus.

Garry:

Yes, it is, and we would love it if you would click that follow button on your favorite podcast platform so you don't miss any of our episodes If you listen on Apple or Spotify. You can also leave us a review and stars.

Amy:

And stars and stars A review and stars, or just stars or just stars. I think Spotify is stars only maybe.

Garry:

I think so. Yeah, you can also find us on YouTube and all social media.

Amy:

Or you can send us an email to pourthewineitsromcomtime at gmailcom and let us know your thoughts about the Chicken Sister season one, how you're liking season two so far, or anything Hallmark related. We would love to hear from you.

Garry:

Yes, we would.

Amy:

Yes, we would.

Garry:

Please drop us an email.

Amy:

Please, please, drop us an email. It's got to be one of those nights, isn't it? Yes, it is Sip to that. It's got to be one of those nights, isn't it?

Garry:

Yes, it is Sip to that one.

Amy:

Sip to that one. Yeah, let me get my glass, okay.

Garry:

So this episode was directed by Jaquie Gould. Didn't see any other Hallmark credits for her Right. But she's directed episodes of several other series two episodes of the Outlander, an episode of Fire Country and six episodes of Van Hessling.

Amy:

Van Hessling, that's pretty cool.

Garry:

Yeah, it was written by Leila Cohen. In addition to this episode, she is credited as writing two episodes in season one. Also, she was a producer on all eight episodes in the first season. A few of her other writing credits yeah, it is, isn't it?

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Include an episode of the Perfect Couple and Santa Clarita Diet. Oh, we liked the Perfect Couple. That was such a funny. Oh, you're talking about both of them. Okay, all right, let's talk about one the Perfect Couple diet.

Amy:

Oh, we liked the perfect couple, such a funny oh you're talking about. Okay, we're all right, let's talk about what the perfect couple was. Really good, that was the nicole kidman right leah shriver. That was on netflix recently. Yes, that was really good and the santa clarita diet so cute and so fun it sure was drew barrymore and timothy oliphant. There's that. We really enjoyed that one and we were bummed when that was canceled, I know.

Garry:

That was on Netflix too, I think. I believe so yeah. Yeah, okay, and 13 episodes of Awkward, awkward. So that does it for the director and writer.

Amy:

All right, cool, and we won't go over all the actors and actresses because we don't have anyone new.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

In the very first episode of the second season we name the actors and actors who are returning, but we don't go into detail about their work. If you want to hear more detail, you can go back to our reviews of season one, where we talk about the actors and actresses.

Garry:

I think in episodes like one, two and three and then sort of as they showed up we would add people Right, right, yeah, we don't want to continue to name them every pod episode.

Amy:

He said name them, name them.

Garry:

All right. So what did you think? What was your first take?

Amy:

Do we want to drop the synopsis? Okay?

Garry:

I did it again. It's time to drop the synopsis.

Amy:

Ah, the crowd goes wild. I don't know what it is about you.

Garry:

I know Me either.

Amy:

All right, amanda and Frankie join forces to oust a pesky weasel that snuck into the house, as Amanda tries to teach her daughter that she can handle anything.

Garry:

Can she though?

Amy:

I think so. We'll find out. I think so.

Garry:

Yeah, we will.

Amy:

Are we going to give away some spoilers?

Garry:

Yes, we are going to give away some spoilers, so if you have not watched this particular episode, please go watch it. Come back, listen to our podcast episode and let us know what you think. Yeah, do that, or send us an email, right Do?

Amy:

that one, or send us an email and let us know what you think. Yeah, yeah.

Garry:

Please do.

Amy:

Please do All right. So what did you think about this episode?

Garry:

This one was pretty interesting because I feel like three of the women kind of came into their own. Yes, and I'm happy for them.

Amy:

It's interesting you say that yeah.

Garry:

I'm very happy for them because you know you want to be able to do things on your own. You don't necessarily need to have somebody with you, whether you're male or female? Well yeah, you know, and to be able to do things on your own or go places on your own and to not stand in the shadows of somebody.

Amy:

Yes, yes, yes.

Garry:

This episode.

Amy:

That brought all those points out. Yeah, that's really good. I feel the same way. I think we had some revelations about some of the characters, Not revelations in big shocks but, just like you said, they realized a lot about themselves in this episode.

Garry:

They sure did and I thought that was great.

Amy:

I appreciated that. I do they have different people in season one doing like the when you, when we very first start watching it? I wanted to talk about this. Do they have like where they say, here's what you missed on the chicken sisters, did they? Or was it always the narrator, I think?

Garry:

you know I'd have to go back.

Amy:

Yeah, but I think it was the narrator that's what I thought, but this season they're having different actors and do it like you know it was.

Garry:

Maybe this one was shauna and you know, so they had I think the last one was gus yeah, like yeah, just in case you missed it on the last one you know, or whatever.

Amy:

So I just I noticed that and then I just want to give a shout out before we get into the characters. The music is great this season.

Garry:

It really is.

Amy:

All of the songs in the episodes are so perfect for what is going on and I'm really digging the music yeah me too.

Garry:

Yeah, it is.

Amy:

I think it's great. I'm hoping there's like a soundtrack at some point. I know we can look up the songs and we've talked about some of the songs in them.

Garry:

That'd be cool if Hallmark released like soundtracks for these. I think they do, do they?

Amy:

Well, I don't know if they do, but I'm sure you can find it.

Garry:

I know you can find each individual song, but I'm talking about-.

Amy:

No, but I think there was a soundtrack for like season one, and you know, and I don't know, we'll find out, we'll get into it. All right, you want to get into the meat of it?

Garry:

Let's do it.

Amy:

Want to go character by character.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

All right, so do you want to?

Garry:

start with Gus or Nancy first, let's do Nancy.

Amy:

Nancy.

Garry:

Yeah, that's a good one to start with Nancy's kind of one of my favorite characters.

Amy:

I like yeah, well, yeah, she's great, gus is great, shauna is great, they're all great. Mae is great. We kind of like them all actually or I do anyway.

Garry:

Was it me or do you think they all look different right now in this episode I felt like they look. I don't know if they put some kind of filter on it, but you thought the appearance looked different.

Amy:

The appearance looked different. Not that the actors looked.

Garry:

Right right. But like, maybe there was some Like some kind of I don't know I didn't really AI on it or something, I don't know, but they look smooth.

Amy:

Maybe they tried something different for this episode. I don't know. I don't know.

Garry:

All right, well, let's do it.

Amy:

All right. So the mayor tells Nancy that her petition's been approved so she's excited, but then a board has to still vote on it.

Garry:

So can you explain?

Amy:

that to me. I know how is it approved, but it still needs to be voted on Like it's approved for a vote, I guess maybe.

Garry:

Yeah, and she's happy because she's like oh, they agreed on it, they voted on it, and she was like you know breakfast's on me, and he's like you know breakfast's on me, and he's like no, you know no. But then he's like well, you know, I could use some.

Amy:

I could use a breakfast yeah, but you're right. She makes some comment about back in her spiral perm days, which I thought was kind of funny Because I was like anyone of a certain age remembers the perms. Do you remember the perms?

Garry:

Right, especially of the 80s, and you know, yeah Well, the 80s were big on the Perms.

Amy:

I thought that was a good shout out to the Perm, but right. So she's excited about that. But she has a dilemma because the meeting for the board isn't going to be for another what like three weeks. So she's going to be gone on her trip with the pastor, Right. So she's excited at first and then like kind of bummed out. And you can see her kind of deflate a little bit.

Garry:

Yeah, because she's she this is something that she's accomplished on her own. Yeah, she's happy about it, and you would think that the pastor would be happy for her, but you know, he's got his thing going on well, he kind of you know so when she talks to the path.

Amy:

Do you want to work through her whole character?

Garry:

yeah, let's kind of do the end okay and then because it kind of happens throughout the episode but, we'll kind of put it together.

Amy:

But so she tries to delay the trip right like can't we leave. You know, a little bit later I can come and meet you right, like she's, like you know because I want to be here for the meeting, I can come and meet you, and he's like well, I want to be with you on your first plane ride, right, and she's kind of bummed out because she's trying to work out a way to be with him still.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

But she's coming into her own and she wants to be there for the vote, right, that's important to her, so because she's finally doing something on her own. So I thought that was kind of you know.

Garry:

I thought it was a great exchange between them, because she's you know? Yeah, because when they were talking, when you mentioned, she had said you know you fly out there and I'll come out later. And he's like well, you know, the first night they're going to have a dinner for us.

Amy:

Oh yeah, he did say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like he's making her feel bad yeah so I can't get a take on him though.

Garry:

I know not yet I kind of like him a little bit.

Amy:

But then I'm like I don't know, I don't know it's a little weird and you know, I don't know, I can't read him totally yet. But we see in one scene I mean I'm just going to get to it, even though we're not there yet with Amanda, when they show like a flashback of Amanda and Frank Jr getting married, he's the pastor marrying them, I know. And I'm like that was 18 years, because Frankie is 18 years old, right, so it's been. I'm like he didn't age what.

Garry:

No.

Amy:

What kind of sorcery is that? You know he is a man of the cloth.

Garry:

What kind of sorcery is that? You know? I thought that was so funny.

Amy:

I was like wait a minute. So he's been around for a while, so he must be somewhat of a decent guy.

Garry:

You would think. I would think In a small town you would know if he has something shady going on, Right?

Amy:

Well, maybe I guess, I don't know.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

For 18 years. She doesn't want to do that again.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You know, and he's a nice guy, but that's just not going to be who she is. She doesn't want to do that anymore. Yeah, like she would support him, but he needs to support her because she has stuff to do now, you know Well she's always supported Frank Sr right. Right. She was always in his shadow or by his side, and she doesn't want to be that woman anymore.

Garry:

So she's like either staying with me, you know we're done. Well, no, she doesn't say she doesn't say it like that no, but you just kind of get the sense that she's well, no, she's sort of like well, and I think she realized that she didn't really.

Amy:

You know, he's kind of cute, he's kind of fun.

Garry:

She doesn't the butterflies which we'll talk about a little bit later with Frankie the butterflies.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah. So she kind of like she likes him, but she's not like head over heels for him.

Garry:

Right, you know. So she realizes she's not settling in anymore. Yeah, yeah, I thought that that was pretty. That was pretty, that was really good.

Amy:

That was really good. So if we go to Gussie yeah, gussie, I really liked. So there's a scene where Nancy's talking to herself because she's trying to that was so funny.

Garry:

That was funny, that was really good.

Amy:

She's like counting money, but she's talking to herself. This is before she makes the final decision about not going on the trip. So and Gus is like is this an A B conversation or can I see my way into it?

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Instead of see my way out which is what you know. This is maybe conversation. See your way out. Ha ha, you know, like the dad joke.

Garry:

It was a great play.

Amy:

I thought that that was really cool that they did that and I loved it because for Gus's character, she's really you know, as she's had this hard shell, and she's really grown fond of Nancy Right and she's kind of digging the friendship yeah.

Garry:

You know, and so I like that change of her character. And Nancy too, yeah, yeah, she's got somebody who you got a friend in me.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah. So that's why Were you going to say something else about that scene? I just like that. I heard you.

Garry:

No, she kind of Well, Gus kind of says you should go on that trip, Don't worry about the town. And I can't remember the example that she gives, but she's like the town will always be here. Go enjoy some life, come back, we'll still be here.

Amy:

Well, that's when because you're right, nancy that's when Nancy's upset, she's going to miss the meeting and Gus goes through like a role play of the board meeting, like let me guess this is how it's going to go down, like Susie's going to stand up and say this, and you know, george is going to stand up, like she went through every not every but people on the board, and then she's like there, you attended the meeting. She's like that was the meeting. Okay, go on this trip. You've waited this long. And it's kind of I think it's kind of indicative too of Gus, because you know she didn't go away. She didn't. You know she stayed.

Amy:

Her love left you know the love of her life left her, and or at least one of them. Maybe there's another one, I don't know, we don't know yet, we don't know yet. So I thought that was pretty cool insight into her life, background to her character it was very well written yeah, I like that scene. But and then? So gus agrees to meet clayton for dinner right now. He gives her the yellow flowers. This is when they go out to dinner, right right. And then we find out he has he.

Garry:

He has a rental or something he didn't buy a place right, yeah, and he he had, I guess had made in one of his businesses has made a big sale, whatever sold his company right so, but it's funny because gus shows up at the dinner in the fancy dress. Right, she cleans up really well yeah, and I think you were talking about one time where she always wears coveralls.

Amy:

Yeah, like overalls and stuff it was so funny.

Garry:

And then she comes in with this sleeveless gown.

Amy:

She's all gussied up, right, so I keep calling her gussied.

Garry:

And she looks really nice.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

And I think that's the same scene where, because they're still kind of shy about being in public with each other- they haven't gotten over the past.

Amy:

They haven't gotten over that. It's still lingering for them internally.

Garry:

And I thought it was kind of cool because Clayton stood up and did a cheer to Gus.

Amy:

In the middle of the restaurant, in the middle of the restaurant, you know, just to make her feel better. Well, he's like I'm out on a date with you know, but you know I don't know. He's almost like too complimentary, right, he's almost a little too over the top with things, putting the lane on thick. So I haven't figured him out yet either I can't.

Amy:

I don't know. You know I mean the saying if it's too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true. So that's sort of the way I'm feeling about him. Yeah, me too him yeah, me too right now he just seems a little. I'm like it's kind of like right. So then then they, her and clayton have a date in her restaurant, right, and they're just chatting and because he cooks her dinner, is that right?

Amy:

yes he cooks her dinner and she gets a little annoyed. He says he wants to show her the world, they need to travel and he doesn't want to spend one more second without her. You know, and she's annoyed because he fixed something in the restaurant and she's kind of like, why did you fix that? Because she's used to doing stuff on her herself and on her own um.

Amy:

So I thought that scene was interesting too, and that's why I think he's getting almost too comfortable with her and we can talk about the very last moment after. We can loop back to that, if you want.

Garry:

And I find that kind of funny. Gus is looking for somebody to take care of her and Nancy wants to take care of herself. You know what I mean, right?

Amy:

So their roles are reversing Because? No, that's a really good point, because Gus has taken care of herself forever and Nancy's really relied on someone else to do that Right, and so now there are. That's a really good point.

Garry:

Yeah, look at you.

Amy:

That's a good point.

Garry:

And also in that scene I thought it was kind of cute because Clayton tells the story about when he used to give her I think it was peanut butter sandwiches. About when he used to give her I think it was peanut butter sandwiches and he always took the crunch out of the peanut butter because he knew she loved the creamy part of it.

Amy:

Oh, that's right, she didn't know that, that's what he did.

Garry:

And she goes. That must have taken you forever.

Amy:

He's like yes, didn't he say yes?

Garry:

it did. That's where you think oh, clayton, you're a good dude, right.

Amy:

Yeah, I don't know a good dude, right? I yeah, I don't know. I still don't know. Yes, but okay, so we'll go back to what happens at the very end of the episode when we're about to wrap it up. Okay, but do you want to go on to Amanda now?

Garry:

Yes, let's do, amanda. Okay, so we have.

Amy:

Amanda, so she's having dreams about Frank Jr and she.

Garry:

That was so funny.

Amy:

Her dream is, she's like I want to, and she never finishes saying it. And she sees him in all these different places in their house, in the bed outside, the window whatever. And then she wakes up and they have the weasel that's making the noise still Right and she is determined to take care of this weasel. And I'm like is the weasel like an analogy?

Garry:

Of Frankie, frank or Frank.

Amy:

Jr Frank Jr. Analogy of frank, frank or frank jr you know you think, or frank now, well, yeah, he goes by, frank, yeah well, I thought it was interesting because we're always looking for the chicken at the beginning an analogy, I'm sorry.

Garry:

Metaphor, metaphor, that's what I meant yeah, and this time the chicken symbol was of the divorce papers that she was signing yes at the beginning right was that in her dream, or was that? No, she was signing them, and then it went into the dream Into Okay. Right, right, right so.

Amy:

Yeah, so then she, she ends up, she goes out into the yard and she's ready to just write with the weasel, and then she ends up putting the weasel in the house, in the closet.

Garry:

Okay, Okay. First of all, if you're scared of the weasel, why are you going to walk out your back door and leave it open? Yeah, I'm not going to do that.

Amy:

Just so we're clear. I mean come on.

Garry:

And I was thinking that in my head. I don't know if I told you that while we were watching outside, no, you didn't, oh my goodness.

Amy:

This thing's coming in the house, yeah, oh, so you knew, yeah, that she gives it water. And Frankie's like what are you doing? I would not be able to leave the house knowing an animal like that was in a closet.

Garry:

No.

Amy:

I could not. It would need to be taken care of, and then we would call it a day and then I would go to work. But I could not leave with it in the closet.

Garry:

I mean, think about it.

Amy:

You're laying there, not because I think it's mean, but because it grosses me out, right.

Garry:

And it's making noises. It's making noises, ooh.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Yeah, that was a fun scene too.

Amy:

So you know, you have kind of the moment between Amanda and May where May is telling you know, amanda's walking with May and she's basically telling May that her whole world is crashing in. You know, sergio, the weasel Frankie getting ready to leave for college.

Amy:

Like she's kind of having a moment where she's wigging out a little bit and she's getting hyped up, you know, and May actually tells her to calm down, which is a switch, right, right, because May's usually the OCD, everything's got to be perfect. And May tells her, like, points out all the positive things about her. She's like you ended a hundred year feud, you crossed the kitchen line in the competition and brought the family together.

Amy:

And then Amanda, it's kind of cute because Amanda's like yeah, I did do that, I did do that, and then May calls her a Shiro, which I thought was pretty cool.

Garry:

That was a good nickname. Yeah, hero, but I, I'd like that conversation too, because I, I that's when she's starting to change, to realize, to realize, you know what she? She can do this on her own yeah, so yeah I enjoyed that, that back and forth between me and her.

Amy:

So who you want to talk about, so that well, do you want to talk about when she goes home then and she tells, frankie, we can do this.

Garry:

Yes. She gives her big rah-rah I am woman, hear me roar, hear me roar.

Amy:

Like you know, okay, we're going to handle this, we're going to get this weasel out of the house. We can do hard things. You know, she's like we can do this, we're strong, and and then they hear the weasel, and so it was kind of cool the way they showed them getting out of the house. They're like we're going to figure this out.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

You know what else. There was something else wrong, like the fan, or something Well, Dudley, and we'll talk about that too, but a balloon got stuck in the ceiling fan.

Garry:

You're right, I'm jumping ahead and she was afraid to go up on the ladder and get it because it was spinning.

Amy:

Yes.

Garry:

And so she you know she didn't know how to work it, so she figured it out Light switch, turn it off.

Amy:

Right right.

Garry:

And then she was able to get the balloon. And that's when, yes, everything started to change.

Amy:

Yeah, yeah, so that's. But she said we can do this, we can do hard things. That was before she fixed the string issue on the fan right so she has this rah-rah moment with Frankie, which is pretty cool, and she's like we don't need a man, we can just do it Now. I will admit I don't think I would handle the weasel.

Garry:

I know you would have me do it.

Amy:

I would have you do it. Yeah, I'm not afraid to admit that. Now, if I was here by myself, I would call somebody and have them come and do it, because I don't want to Call one of the neighbors. You know, it's not that I can't, it's just that I don't want to Right.

Garry:

No, I don't blame you. Handle that you don't know that anything's going to attack you or what.

Amy:

Well, I mean, you know, I would deal with it, but I did think it was cool how they figured out the door for the weasel, and it just ran out, you know.

Garry:

So that was pretty cool. And then they shut the door and then Amanda's like yay, we did it, Go get the drill.

Amy:

Yeah. Then they say, yeah, yeah, that was pretty cool. I thought that was really. I enjoyed those scenes.

Garry:

That was really that was really cool, and she ended up changing out all the locks on the doors.

Amy:

Yep, Can we talk about the scene when she walks into the Chicken Sisters and she's walking slow like Sergio and Shauna?

Garry:

are watching her walk in.

Amy:

And Shauna's like hello Cindy Crawford, because when she's walking in it's like the wind is blowing her hair.

Garry:

It's a slow-mo, amanda's yeah, and there's a good song playing in the background. Yeah, that was funny. She's like where do you want me?

Amy:

That's when the customer flirts with her.

Garry:

Yeah, Right Shauna says table late.

Amy:

Yeah, and it makes. Sergio a little mad, a little jealous, and she confronts him about being jealous Like you. Basically don't have any right, but she thinks that he read her text which she sent at the end of the last episode and he clearly has no idea what she's talking about. So, like we talked about in our last review, the text never was sent.

Garry:

Yeah, she never. She thought she had sent, but she didn't.

Amy:

Sergio doesn't know that. She doesn't know it. At that point it hadn't sent, yet Sergio doesn't know that she doesn't know it At that point. It hadn't sent yet. Yeah, and then I think we'll loop back to that when we talk a little bit about Sergio. Okay, maybe. Yeah, that's good, all right, let's talk about May.

Garry:

May, may, good old May Chill May.

Amy:

Chill May. So May tells Jay that she had a perfectly imperfect bachelorette party.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

And she, and it was fun.

Garry:

Yeah, right, and he's like who are you yeah?

Amy:

And she's like it's chill. It's May 2, point. What is it? It's May 2.0. Chill me. I thought that was kind of cute. Yeah, it was. And he's like. She's like should we alert the media? And he goes. I don't think well, they'll believe it. I just thought that little banter was really cute, you know.

Garry:

Yeah, and what she did with the stuff in the refrigerator. It was all organized and she put one jar from the top down to the bottom.

Amy:

To the bottom, yeah.

Garry:

And then she walks away.

Amy:

I can't remember what she said. And you know somebody with OCD that's going to drive them and I'm sure in the back of her head it was driving her nuts. But she's like, no, I'm changed. And you know when she does that that it's not going to last right, like you, just kind of know.

Amy:

So then we see May go to work. She shows up late for work she's never late for work and Gus is, you know, she's kind of ready for Gus to give it to her. And Gus is kind of in a good mood because Clayton's around. She's having a good time with Clayton and she's like oh, you know, it's fine, she doesn't give her a hard time. And Mae's like what you know?

Garry:

well, you know everybody's has a change of attitude yeah, yeah, that's episode. It was really cute, but I like Shauna because she was talking about Gus and she's like I don't know who this Gus is right, because Gus is all talking gibberish to her. She's not used to the compliments and stuff like that.

Amy:

What Shauna? Yeah yeah, she's like we don't have nice Gus. Who's nice Gus I've never seen you know. She said it's like watching a snake cuddle with a rabbit Right. It's unnatural. That's what Shauna says about.

Garry:

Gus, yeah, and then you have May hanging out with Clayton. That was a good.

Amy:

Well, first she introduces him to Amanda and Jay.

Garry:

And Shauna Right.

Amy:

And Shauna.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Shauna Not at the table. It was Amanda and Jay.

Garry:

Yeah, that's right. I don't think, shawna was there.

Amy:

And then are you talking about when her and Clayton go for their walk, or whatever Right.

Garry:

And she's trying to figure out who he is and he tells her about his football time in high school and everything. And his nickname was Slick, because whenever they tried to tackle him.

Garry:

He was like Slick and they'd just fall off of him. And May has never thrown a football and he was like what, we got to go play catch, we got to throw the football. And so you see him throwing the football a couple of times. And then she asked him how come you never came back? And then he tells her the story that he told Gus that he did come back but he saw her with Amanda's father and then he left and at that point May realized he wasn't there to see her. He was there to see Gus and it like broke her heart.

Amy:

It broke her heart. She realizes in that moment, but you know, but before she went out with him for that walk, jay was kind of like why, he was skeptical. He's like don't you think it's a little odd that all of a sudden he shows up? And she's like no, it's fine. And then she goes on this walk and she finds this out, and so she's kind of a little bit like it's really not about me, it's about my mom and she's crushed and that leads her into organizing.

Garry:

Yeah, reverting back to old May, Right and Jay kind of sees her the OCD.

Amy:

And I thought that scene was really cool too, where you know she says she's sorry, she couldn't stay chill May anymore. And he's like you know, he loves all of her chill may organizing because she's sad may oh that was so crying cute puppies, may, sleepy may, and he's like I love all of may and I thought that was really a really cool scene.

Garry:

Now I can tell you, jay's a good guy yeah, now, jay is a good.

Amy:

He's the one we know.

Garry:

Jay's a good guy and we don't like frank, frank, jr you know, those are the two that we know it's, it's not Jr anymore, it's Frank.

Amy:

Right, right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, my bad, I keep forgetting that. Right Speaking of Frank Jr.

Garry:

Yeah, let's jump into him. So one of the townspeople, rodney right, rodney comes in or something comes into Mr Chicken's cluckery.

Amy:

and it's because the other two Chicken, Two Chicken Sister locations are packed.

Garry:

Yeah, the lines are too long.

Amy:

But Frank Jr sees this as an opportunity to give him the new and improved recipe.

Garry:

Yep.

Amy:

Well, it's not improved. It's the Chicken Sisters recipe, really Right, and he wants him to try it and of course, Rodney tries it and loves it because it's fresh now it's not frozen chicken.

Garry:

Instead, it was scrumptious, it's not the sauce.

Amy:

And then Frank's like go forth, spread the word. So we're going to kind of see. I think at some point someone's going to realize it tastes the same Right as the chicken sisters, if it's the same. But that was really. Was there more of Frank Jr, I think?

Garry:

that was no, not really. He was in the dream for yeah. Yeah, I have a feeling next couple of episodes he's going to be in a lot.

Amy:

Yeah.

Garry:

Yeah, yeah, I'd like what Rodney had said. He said word on the street was you were serving chicken not fit for a junkyard dog.

Amy:

Oh, he did say that. That's right. He did say that that was so funny, that was kind of good. So we're getting those one-liners back in there in this episode a little bit, and that's what I love about the chicken sisters. Yeah, so sergio apologizes to amanda for their argument that they had in the um restaurant right, because he said he was upset, he was out of line.

Amy:

Then he tells her he told nikita to go back to chicago, you know, he explains the kiss that she kissed him, not the other way around. And then that's when amanda's like why didn't you answer my text? And of course he's like what text?

Garry:

What text?

Amy:

And she's like, oh. And then she pulls out her phone and she realizes she did not send the text.

Garry:

Right right.

Amy:

So it's probably not a good idea to get mad at somebody about something that they know nothing about.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

Right, so then she apologizes to him, and I loved this scene. This was probably my favorite scene.

Garry:

Yeah, it kind of reminded me of that movie that we watched together and I loved the one with the posters.

Amy:

Oh, the Christmas one, yeah, oh, love Actually, love.

Garry:

Actually. Yes, that was a Love Actually moment A little bit, only not with the posters.

Amy:

But yeah, it was really good because, since she didn't send the text and Sergio was like Amanda knew what Frank Jr's Amanda would do make something up and walk away. But Amanda's Amanda had a different idea. And she goes and she gets they had that lie jar and she's got some coins and she's reading the text message and as she's reading it because she's like you know, I understand you're going to get back with your ex and I'm OK with that and then she drops coins in the jar.

Garry:

She's lying.

Amy:

Yeah, cause she's lying, she's not happy about it. And then she goes on to read everything she said, like, basically, it was like you know, I couldn't, I couldn't do what she does for you. You know, lie puts it in the jar. I thought that was so good.

Garry:

So well written.

Amy:

So well written and just that moment was great. I'm going to tell you what.

Garry:

I loved that, that chemistry right there. They had me going. Yeah, I was like on the edge of my seat.

Amy:

I'm like, okay, look at this, this is awesome, yeah, so that scene might be one of my favorite scenes in the series, because I wasn't expecting the lie jar. Right and the way they did that. The delivery of that was absolute perfection. I thought in my opinion.

Garry:

I think it's been the best scene so far in this episode in this series. Yeah, I think that was perfect, so go on to Frankie.

Amy:

We'll go on to Frankie, so Frankie. So Dudley asked Frankie to prom.

Garry:

Yes.

Amy:

Right, and you know she's holding all the balloons he brought, you know, and he asked her and and he's like, oh, I already arranged, you know, the car and this and that we're going to go with this person, and she's just sitting there like staring off into space because she does not like him that much.

Garry:

She doesn't get the butterflies with him.

Amy:

And I thought it was. It might've been, was it before he asked her to prom that? She asked Nancy about that, Not when they had the final talk, but I think it was Like cause she's, she told she tells Nancy that she doesn't get. Like how do you know? Like I don't get the butterflies with Dudley and Nancy's? Like you got to trust that. You need to trust that. So oh no, maybe that was after.

Garry:

It was after, it was after Right right right, I'm sorry.

Amy:

I'm sorry, I'm a little up in my head, but anyway. So when he's talking to her she's staring at her parents' prom picture Right, prom picture, right, you know. And she's like she knows her dad asked her mom to marry him on prom night. She says this out loud and that was their whole lives like once they went to prom. He asked her to marry him at prom and then that was it.

Amy:

That was it and that became her mom life, and she knows what, you know what her mom went through and and all of that. So and she's realizing in that moment that she does not want to be that person. Right she is not going to be that person Because they're not getting divorced Right yeah?

Amy:

Right. Well, just in general, settling for someone you shouldn't settle for, giving up your dreams, yeah, because I mean her mom, she was the artist, right and everything, and sort of taking a backseat like Nancy did, she took a backseat to Frank Jr and their business. She started working for them or with them, so yeah, and she just doesn't want that life. So I thought that that was really kind of good too. And then, like I mentioned, she talks to Nancy and then she goes and talks to Dudley, right.

Garry:

Right and she tells him she's not going, she doesn't want to go.

Amy:

Yeah, because she's just. And then she goes back to Nancy, right, and at this point Nancy's broken up with the pastor.

Garry:

Right.

Amy:

And Frankie has broken up with Dudley and I just thought it was. That was kind of a cool. What'd they say, like let's go get ice cream? Nancy said, or something. So they're kind of commiserating with each other their grandma and the granddaughter Because they're both going through the same thing, and I thought that that was really a cool moment. Yeah, it was. I liked that too.

Garry:

So did I.

Amy:

So I guess we need to talk about one of the final scenes, or maybe it was the final scene Right right About Gus. So Gus is having dinner with Clayton in the Chicken Sisters restaurant.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Right, it's just the two of them. Well, it's the old Mimi's restaurant, right it's. Chicken Sisters. Now, and at the very end you kind of see her tremor a little bit and then she ends up passing out.

Garry:

Yeah, she asked him a couple, or he asked her a question, yes, and her hands shake, and then she tries to cover it, and then she tries to answer his question and she can't, that's right, she can't. That's right, right. And then she tries to stand up, and when she does, that's when she faints into his arm.

Amy:

Well, when she had the tremor, at first I was thinking, and then she kind of tried to cover her hand. I was like, well, maybe that was going to be it. I wasn't expecting the next part.

Garry:

I know.

Amy:

And then when he you're right, he was talking to her and she was looking at him like she wanted to respond, but she didn't have it, she couldn't do it.

Garry:

No Like either come up with a word. She couldn't.

Amy:

So it's going to be interesting to see where they go with that, yeah, and I can't wait for the next episode. Yeah, so do you have any? Oh, by the ways, is there anything we?

Garry:

kind of forgot.

Amy:

I wish we had seen more of Shauna.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

I love her Every time she shows up. I never get enough of Shauna.

Garry:

Me either.

Amy:

I know there's only so many minutes in an episode, but I hope we get to see more of her soon and I'm going to try to see if there's a soundtrack for season two yet.

Garry:

Yeah, we'll announce it. We'll announce it. I don't know whether we found it or not. We'll announce it.

Amy:

Somebody may already know if it's out there, I don't know. All right, somebody may already know if it's out there, I don't know. All right, but we're going to find out if Clayton I don't think Clayton is who- I'm going with.

Garry:

He's not that guy.

Amy:

Yeah, I don't think he's going to end up being a nice guy. He's going to? Yeah, I just don't get a good feeling about him. The pastor maybe. I think he'll probably go on his mission trip.

Garry:

Yeah.

Amy:

Then move on with his life.

Garry:

So yeah, all right. So out of five drumsticks, what do you give this one?

Amy:

I would give this one a four, four drumsticks for me. What about you?

Garry:

I was going to give it a four. We have been kind of on the same we have, we have. This one was pretty good.

Amy:

Yeah, it was pretty good. All right, so is that a wrap? That's a wrap.

Garry:

All right If you really really liked the show. We would really really appreciate it if you gave us a positive review yes, we would. And if you didn't really really like the show, that's okay, because we still wish you would give us a positive review.

Amy:

And stars, like you said earlier, and stars.

Garry:

Yes, depending on the podcast Right.

Amy:

Follow us wherever you get your podcasts and on social media, so you don't miss a thing. Until next time, cheers.