October 2, 2025 • 36 mins
It’s finale time in Merinac, y’all! The Chicken Sisters Season 2 Episode 8 wraps with an “I Do, Y’all” - and what a ride it’s been. In the aftermath of the storm, the town remembers that leaning on each other is what makes them stronger, just as Gus, Nancy, Mae, and Amanda discover for themselves. Megan is joined by special guest Patrick Serrano - actor, blogger, and host of Lifetime Uncorked to toast the finale, dish on all the drama, and celebrate this Southern-fried sendoff.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to a Girls
(00:23):
Gone Hallmark, a Homewark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm
a long time Hallmark fan. Today we are reviewing the
season finale of season two of The Chicken Sisters, and
I have the absolute pleasure of being joined for this
episode by Patrick Serrano, host of the lifetime Uncorked podcast
alongside Dan and Bran of doc The Hallmark. Patrick, thank
(00:45):
you for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh yeah, so excited. You know, you sent out the
request for for people to join, and I was like,
I gotta get on this because I had a ex
boyfriend text me like when Chicken Sister started and he
was like, hey, I know you're like homework and you
like Chicken. So do you watch a show?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So did you watch the first season of this show
when it was originally airing?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, So here's the deal. I'm coming in cold to this.
So I just I just I was like, I had
him all recorded. I talked to my mom. I was like, Mom,
you watched the first season? Should I do it? And
She's like, oh, yeah, you should watch it. And I
just haven't had time. But they're all sitting in my
queue and I was like, really know what, I'm not
gonna binge it. I'm just gonna jump in, watch the
(01:32):
watch the finale, and take it as a finale, possibly
a series finale. Well we don't know yet, we don't know,
so yeah, I'm coming in like your friend who just
happened to come over while this was one and watch it?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Kind of like when my husband. My husband is a
big fan of Days of Our Lives and I haven't
watched that show since I was in high school. So
I walk in, I'm like, wait, what's going on with
and he's like you can't. He's like, you need to
watch it every day or not at all. So yes,
I'm very from being that person. So a little bit
more about you before we talk the Chicken sisters. I mean,
(02:06):
you talk Lifetime regularly. How did you get into that
lifetime reviewing life?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh goodness, I mean it's been like since birth, probably
you know, coming home from school watching the little tawdry
after school special, you know, type of murder, cheerleader murder. Yeah,
all the cautionary teen tales like don't be homeless and
go to Harvard or don't be fifteen and get pregnant. Yeah, yes, yes,
(02:37):
So a long time Lifetime watcher. And then I was
in Chicago working in storefront theater running with my friends
and we decided not to renew the least on the building.
We were like, okay, we've done the thing. So my
friend Drew took all the recording equipment because we weren't
going to do anything with it, and he started a
podcast network and he's like, you watch those Christmas movies right,
(03:00):
because I was writing like little on Facebook when Facebook
was a thing. I was writing like many many like
jokey synopsies about you know, I don't even remember. This
is probably twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah. And then so we started a podcast there. I
was on his network, and then the boys found me
or they started their podcast. They reached out and they
were like, hey, you know about podcasts and you're talking
about the movies we want to talk about. How do
we do that? It's like, who are these people? They're
so crazy? Then they blew up and then they were like, hey,
come along the ride with me, and I was like, okay,
(03:38):
that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Really well, we of course will leave links in our
show notes, but you can listen to Patrick on the
Lifetime Uncorked podcast hallmarking over there a little more salacious usually.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Though usually yeah, and I only do the Hamewark Christmas
ones because you gotta watch the Christmas ones. Sure, but
I do Lifetime Murder all year round.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
All year round. I love it. I will say Murder
is more Wendy's vibe than Hallmark Christmas, so she'd be
all in on that.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, you know, the Lifetime is a little crazy with
They're they're really into the true crime right now. True
crime is like their bread and button.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Ripped from the headline situation.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So that gets tricky, tricky to talk about because you're like,
this really happened.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't know, I'll talk about it respectfully without.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ye and you now, which which is great. They have
the people that are actually like involved, Like Honey Boo
Boo was like narrating the Honey Boo Boo story.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They just did a Courtney stodd In one where Courtney
Stott and kind of got to reframe her her marriage
and like all that crazy stuff with her like coming
being a minor and like how that was problematic. You're like,
yeah it was, but at the time it was very
salacious and everybody wanted to talk about it, but she
was like, uh yeah, not my life. Yeah, this is
(04:54):
my life. Wow. She just wanted to sing. She just
wanted to be a singer.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We're going to get into the Chicken Sisters season, hopefully
not series finale because we are left on a cliffhanger, but.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
A big cliffhanger, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So we're going to kick it off and tell me
what your first impression of this episode was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, So I listened to a launcha episode before coming
on so I could get the kind of gist of
how the podcast work and what happened in the episode before,
because I was like, I at least need to know.
Sounds like there was a big storm, so we're getting
liked the aftermath of that, and it didn't really look
as like storm tattered as I thought it was going through.
In my imagination when you guys were describing it, I
(05:45):
was picturing I don't know what I was picturing, but
I guess my imagination ran wild on that. But this
was very homework version of a.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Really only that Mimi's restaurant was destroyed and everything else
remains standing.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, so you know, my first impressions were like trying
to figure out who people were and everything, and I,
you know, quickly figured out, you know, Wendy Malik is
like the matriarch, and then there's her daughter, and then
her daughter's daughters and then the daughter's darter. So that's
where the sisters thing come in and got all that.
But my question to you is, why is everyone so
(06:20):
mean to Frank Junior? What did he do?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh? My goodness, Patrick, how much time do you have?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I was like, everybody is so mean to this man.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Up until this episode, I have been saying, all love
to James Cott, but Frank Junior is the worst, the worst,
the worst. Okay, season one, he he was a terrible
husband to Amanda. And the whole premise of season one
is there's this kitchen clash series and it's the two restaurants,
rival restaurants, fighting against each other, and Frank ultimately betrays
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them in the end. And this season has been kind
of about the women reclaiming their lives from them men,
and Frank Juniors continued to be kind of terrible throughout,
and I've been saying all along, I don't want a
Frank Junior redemption story because I could feel like that's
where we were going. I'm like I don't want it.
I think I'm gonna surprise some people today because I
(07:13):
was pretty impressed with how it was handled, because I
was ready to just see Frank Junior right off into
the sunset. But okay, well we'll talk a little bit
more about him.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And he's the guy who who was in the chicken
shop or the chicken one of the chicken places, the
one that didn't get taken down by the storm with
the recipe, right, that was him.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's him. Yeah, so that's part of the whole part
of the split. At the end of season one is
this dude bro podcast or Christian kind of comes in
and brings Frank under his wing to open this big franchise,
which is terrible because they.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Had they had the powdered gravy in the background was exactly,
that's the bad place. That's the bad place, exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And Frank infuses it with what he knows, having worked
in the chicken restaurant that's actually good his entire life.
And now Christian wants to take that recipe from him,
and Frank obviously does not give him the real deal.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
He is put in some fake ingredients.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Indeed, indeed, so I got to say, as far as
first impressions, for me, I really feel like this episode
tied this season up with such a nice bow. I
do have a couple little wishes about things that I
had hoped would happen, but for the most part, I
was so much of what we were hoping for came
to fruition in this episode. And we should start with
(08:37):
Frank Junior's turnaround. So you as a watcher saw a
coming in brand new kind of the surprise on people's
face over and over again when Frank Junior would come
in kindly and they're like, what's happening here? What's going
on here? I can't And I think did it come
off as like distrust when you're.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Watching that, it seemed to me like he obviously did
something like really bad, and because like the narrator was
dogging on him, like everybody was like, man, he sucks,
but then his actions were like totally going against that.
So for me, I was like, oh, he seems kind,
he seems not that bad. He seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But yeah, I think they did a great job with
his story. And I the thing that I really like,
again I've been saying I don't want it. I don't
want it. They The one reason, and Alonzo touched on
this last week, the one reason I did want it
is he has a daughter, and you want that harmony.
You want him to be a good person for her,
at least if none of these other women. His mother
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was still trying really hard to have a relationship with him,
And so I think he did take accountability and own
up for the stuff that he did and actually apologize
and then took it a step farther and built that
big improbable arch for the Weddy.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Oh yeah, so uh, you know, and like when he
was with Sergio two, like how he was like being
cool with that and like he could tell, like, Amanda, Sergio,
we're getting together, and he was like, you know, not
encouraging it, but he was like trying to get to
know him a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, certainly not stopping it. I mean he calls him bro.
The look on Sergio's face is my favorite in that moment.
And so yeah, I really appreciate the writing team here
making me believe in this redemption and not just feeling
like it was something we had to do to check
a box. So that's my biggest moment. What are somethings
you liked about this episode.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So I was so happy that it was the wedding
episode because I love a wedding. It was funny to
me that, you know, tornado comes through the town, the
town bands together not to fix the town, but to
put on the wedding. So that was that was great.
I was like, man, this town has their priorities in check.
They're not gonna let this chicken sister not have her wedding.
(10:52):
And it was like so like the decor was so
beautiful and like everything was so I kind of think,
like a mismatched like tablescape is so cool. Like I
loved how they were just like pulling on it must
because they were pulling all the random things out of
everyone's houses. Right.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, but I wasn't like this plan. No, definitely not
the plan. They had this big, beautiful setup. It was
blown over by the tornado. It just felt so much
more personal, Like this felt like the way it always
should have been in this town.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah. So I love that, and I love I love
the archway that you mentioned with the purple flower so beautiful.
The wedding could have been longer for me. I could
have had like most of the episode be the wedding,
but that's okay. We had things to get to I understand,
but I was like so happy for the wedding to
be to be the episode that I was doing. And
(11:40):
oh my gosh, being ordained online so funny. That was hilarious. Yeah,
where they're like this is this really this easy, and
you're like, yeah, it actually is. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It was great. There's a really interesting scene in this movie.
It's the morning after the slumber party the breakfast, and
the breakfast scene is filmed in a single shot and
it's really well choreographed and they go through the entire
kitchen and all the characters are there, and I actually
rewound to see because I was like, did were there
any cuts? No, like straight through the kitchen, and I
(12:10):
just like the thought and choreography that is put into
that moment to make sure all the pieces come together
and everyone's passing the dishes. It was a little bit
of a departure from the kind of cinematography we see
in the show, and I call it was really well done.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, It's almost like a play when you do like
a long shot like that, because everybody has to be
like hitting exactly where they need to be. And like
you just rehearse it a bunch and then you kind
of do it, and yeah, it's a really cool effect.
So that's exciting that Hallmark is experimenting with different types
of camera work. And you know, speaks well of the
directors too that they can they're being backed up to
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take the time to do that because it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, I agree, And I think the writing team on
the show is really interesting. I don't know if you know,
but it's a completely different showrunner from season one to
season two, and season two the showrunner as Aaron Gibson,
who is a comedy podcaster. She has a highly successful
podcast turned into a TV show, and a lot of
the writers are big in the comedy world as well,
and so I think they've really been trying to do
(13:14):
something really different with the show. It's definitely different from
the standard Hallmark stable of writers, and so I think
this show I don't think does very well on Hallmark unfortunately,
because I think it's interesting and I think they're trying
new things and I kind of wish more people would
give it a chance, especially I text Wendy's not here
because Wendy did not enjoy this show, and so I said,
(13:37):
let's try something different. But I texted her last night
I was like, the finale is genuinely so good, especially
because she had watched all the first season. I so
I think you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Should, right, she give a watch, give it a chance.
I love that the comedy people are coming in because
you know, comedy like takes a lot of work, and
you know it seems like so off the cuff, but
it's actually so like precise. That wedding planner she walks
up on the wedding site and just like screams bloody murder.
That was hilarious. I like rewound that three times, so
(14:08):
I was like, is this really happening? This is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Rickay Bernard is such a gem. I love her as
Sabrina in the show.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It's so funny some of that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
One of the small threads I love is Gruster, who
is her romantic interest. He was in season one, there
was kind of a flirtation, and he only has been
back for one episode of season two. But I love
that we see like it's hinted. We didn't see them
in the Tornado episode. He came out back the episode
before that, and Alonzo and I were thinking like, well,
happened with Sabrina and Gruster. It kind of hints that
(14:38):
maybe they were sheltering in place together or something is
going on there. He calls her sweetheart. It was a
nice little moment. Nice to see them close the loop
on that a little bit, give us some closure, knowing
that maybe they'll have something going forward. Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I was definitely shipping them. I was into that for sure.
And the teenage daughter also being like, oh Mom, what's
happening here? Like that relationship with the mom and the
teenage daughter to like talk about, like, oh you have
a hot boyfriend. Mom like that? Yes, great.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Both moms have that moment with their daughters, and the
daughters I like, are both fully supportive and on board
with these new relations.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's awesome to be able to have that type of
conversation with your teenage you know, daughter, mother daughter. That's great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I loved that, And as the mother of a teenager,
I can only dream that we have that sort of relationship. Ah.
A couple other things that I think are worth pointing
out in this episode. We get closure on the train
finally stopping in town. This is something we were visiting
every single episode. The broke Well two things. The broken
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train arm was a cause of conflict about the entire season,
and they do finally get it fixed, all thanks to
Nancy finding her voice. And then the very end of
the episode, we learn the train is stopping in Marynac.
The train has not stopped in Marynac for many, many
years and Alonso I hope he appreciated this moment because
(16:03):
he was saying, last week we have this kitchen clash exposure,
and so they were hoping this is going to bring
all these new people to town. It was so great
for their restaurants, and we didn't really see that come
to Fruition, and now we finally get that right in
the closing moments of this episode, so everything it's all
coming together.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's when all the French people came into the restaurant, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Amanda out and she sees this huge line of people
because the train finally stops in town.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I got it, okay cool.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I had also suspected that Nancy was going to run
for mayor and she is. I feel very proud of
myself for guessing that one. That's going to be great
for season three if we get it.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right. And then it would be her rival who would
be her rival mayor, well.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The current mayor probably who was played by Lachlan Monroe,
who you probably know because he's been in a billion things.
You'd definitely recognize his face. But he kind of fell
down on the job this season, and so she had
to step in and so hopefully she boots him on
out of there. A big vibe of this season has
been these women finding their voice and stepping into their power.
(17:13):
So it's definitely a matriarchy, as you mentioned. And finally,
Nancy and Gus, former rivals now best friends, both on
their first flight ever together traveling to Italy. I thought
it was great.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, I want to see that show. Can we get
like a summer in Italy?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah right, I'm envisioning it like Real Housewifestyle. What's the
one where they go to crappy Oh, crappy Lake, That's
the one i'ming. Oh nice, you have a Bravo watcher.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm not a Bravo watcher, but sometimes I watch Andy
Cohen on the Late night Oh yeah, I like the
celebrity interviews. You know. I want to be one of
those the bar boys whatever those boys are called. The Yeah,
let's do it together. Yeah, we'll do it together. You
(18:02):
pour the drinks, so now like prep the ice or
something perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, I don't have any idea how to make
most cocktails, but we'll have a good time back there,
right Or anything else you liked about this episode?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, it was just good, good vibes, like even the
stuff that was more not spooky, but you know, like
the recipe stuff could have been. Like I was feeling
a little tension there. I was like, oh no, is
he going to give away the recipe? Like it was
kind of stressed me out. And then I saw him
put the put the fake ingredients. I was like, Okay, Okay,
he's cool. He's cool. Yeah, it was good. I thought
(18:36):
it was a good season finale.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And the vowels, I have to say, the vowels are
very sweet, very touching. May really has been struggling with
you know, the men in this town leave and she's like,
that's the Mimies curse, like the men always leave. And
she last episode, if you heard Alonzo and I talk
about it, she was like, I think that's me. I
think I'm gonna be the one who runs. And so
(19:00):
seeing them have this great moment, I feel like she
and Jay are absolutely meant to be together. So I
thought their vows were beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I want to talk about her dress, but I think
I wait for this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let's talk about her dress.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that dress, the yellow like that was passed down
from her. That's her grandma, right.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's her mom.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh, her mom. So that the dress like was so modern.
I was like, we're doing sleeveless in like, you know,
the seventies. That's pretty. That's a little ahead of the curve,
so very trendy.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I also wondered it looks like because Gus had held
it up earlier, and I was like, is that the
same dress? Because I was like, did they have time
to alter the sleeves? It felt like it wasn't exactly
the same dress.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It just okay, maybe they did.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, let's pretend like it's exactly the same dress.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Right, because the cut of the dress was more I mean,
it could have been eighties, I guess sure, but I'm like,
in the seventies they were not doing sleeveless. They had
those big floppy you know, they had like the silk sleeve. Yeah.
Well I thought it was a pretty dressed.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
And not white. Yeah, she has you know, may Is.
She's from New York. She's very like when season one
her New York apartment is sleek and beautiful, and so
that's kind of the vibe of the original wedding. That's
kind of the vibe of her original wedding dress. I
hated and this whole transition into our wishes when Amanda
(20:29):
puts her hair up into that bun, I'm fine with
a bun. It was terrible. I mean it was like
something I would do. As I'm sitting here with me,
I was like, please give her a better wedding day hairstyle.
So I was thrilled when she steps out of that car,
she's in the yellow dress and her hair, I mean it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Looks like her. Yeah, that's what you want on your
wedding day. You want to look.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Exactly, you want to look like yourself. Yeah. I was like,
that bun is tragic. Get that off of her head.
Did you have any wishes as you were watching this episode.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well, of course I wish for more shirtless hunks in
any TV movie. We didn't get any of those, and
how we could have worked that and maybe we could
have had like the grooms room where the grooms are
getting ready, but we didn't really get like again, the
wedding was like very fast, so we had other things
to work on. I understand we could have had Frank
(21:24):
Junior climbing the tree with no shirt on, right, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Give us a little James Contracts action. I'll take it, right.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Just those are my things and then no otherwise, Like
I think that.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Wait what was the question and things you wished for
in this episode?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh right, okay, yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I have two really big wishes.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
One.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Jake Foy was a staple in the series in season one.
He does not come back as Kenneth in season two.
I had hoped that he'd come back for the wedding.
The beginning of the season, it's set up by his
husband that he's out of town because his sister just
had a baby and he'll be gone for a couple weeks,
and so in my mind, I'm like, I'm sure he's
off doing another project, but they're surely going to bring
(22:10):
him back for the finale. He's one of May's best
friends from their childhood.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh yeah, that he wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
He was very missed. We see Patrick in the background
in some of the set up scenes, but he's not
even really highlighted in the wedding, and Kenneth doesn't make
it back. Jake four, you were missed.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, I mean, if you're the best friend from childhood,
you gotta be.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
There, right. And the other storyline, now, this is something
you wouldn't have picked up on in this episode. But
Frankie who's the daughter of Amanda and Frankie Junior, and Lindsay,
who is Sabrina's daughter, there has been some hinting at
some romantic tension between these two. They've never acknowledged it.
(22:52):
I think there are some people who don't believe that
it's there. But I am shipping these two big time.
They are moving to New York together. I do think
it's completely wild that Amanda says, text me when you
find an apartment in New York. Her child, who never
left the town of Marynac is supposed to go off
to New York as an eighteen year old and figure
out the New York apartment scene. Seems yike wild to me,
(23:15):
But text me when you find an apartment. But they're
gonna live together, so that sets us up for, you know,
some future storylines if we get a season three. I
would have liked a little bit of a moment that
hints at we're heading somewhere with these two. We didn't
get it. I don't know if they're moving away from it.
You know, they're playing it real safe. But I still
(23:37):
am shipping Lindsay and Frankie.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay, well, that's interesting that it was even there too.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I sider, yes, I fully believe there. I mean, I
need someone on TikTok to create a compilation of those
moments between the two of them set to some dramatic
Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Please right, and you really do find yourself in college.
That's when you're like, you know, yes, same thing, and
that's what college is for, so not just with your sexuality,
like with everything. So sure, it seems seems like a
natural progression for them to explore that. That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, we shall see. Well it's time for any Did
you see that moments moments that made you say what
is happening here? Or something you loved hit me?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, So we had a really nice wedding montage that
I liked a lot. That was really fun when they
when they were searching like the wreckage of the storm,
of the of the Chicken Hut, what is that it's
called Yeah, yeah, mabies meemies. When they did the thing
with the flowers and they handed the flower around there,
they said, like one thing they were thankful for that
(24:47):
was that was very nice.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
That was very nice.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I like that, And and I was like, is this Thanksgiving?
Why are we Why are we doing this? But yeah,
I guess they needed to get out their feelings about
you know, growing up there and some good writing in character,
like you know, they really thought back to like these
characters like being in that growing up in that environment.
So yeah, I really felt that. And then well we
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have to talk about the tree, the climbing the tree.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Tree. Can you believe they made Frank Junior after all
of that fall out of that tree? No, highly dramatic.
I mean I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
He put out that big ladder that was like a
fireman's ladder, wasn't it. That was huge?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, I was like, what are we doing trimming this tree?
Like I call somebody just and don't get on a
ladder like that by yourself, Frank Junior.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
No, somebody has to hold the bottom. And you know
he had that hook saw that was like out of
a horror movie. I would never I mean I don't
even know. I've never even seen that tool before.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
It was like Clark Griswolds hanging Christmas lights. I was like,
this is not going to end well as soon as
I saw that ladder.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, yeah, and and like he's for sure dead right,
I don't know, I don't. I mean it seems they
left it open. They left it open, but.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
They certainly left it open. And I you know, it's
funny because again I was saying, I don't want a
Frank Junior redemption story, and then after this, I was like, Okay,
I'm okay with Frank Junior being around. And just when
they made me like him, they're gonna rip him away
from us. Maybe I'm gonna need.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
To see what could happen with him next.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I mean, it's true, it's true. Well, yeah, he's he's
served his purpose and that's the show. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah. I mean we didn't get the shot of like
the body, you know, like the the crime scene body,
so there's hope, there's hope.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, we get a call from you know, the hospital
and not the medical examiner, so I guess that's bad hurt.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
True, Yeah, Oh, that's very true.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
My biggest digit to that moment. Shawna, our girl Shauna
played by Caitlyn Howden, one of my absolute favorites. Speaking
of comedy, I mean, Caitlyn Howden does a bunch of improv.
She has a comedy podcast. She's a delight on this show.
When she bursts into Amy's in tears, it was great.
But my favorite is the big reveal that she's secretly
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the author of the smut series Queen of the Cowboys.
They've this has been a series. It's made an appearance
throughout this season. Everyone's reading, you know, these smutty cowboy books.
And the fact that this is the spicy novel that
she has secretly published under a pen name. Shawna is
kind of a jack of all trade. She's a renaissance woman.
She's the one responsible for the Chicken Sisters franchise, and
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so of course she's kind of connection that's gonna help
Amanda publish her book the way that she wants to
do it. Loved it. I thought that reveal was pitch perfect.
She's like, I'm a hit on book talk. Loved it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Oh, and that Chicken Sister book was so cute with
the Chicken Sisters being chickens with the hair. Oh my god,
I loved it so cute.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, finally coming to fruition, we get you know, she's
had these she's I mean, that's finally getting to express herself.
This has been a long running storyline. She's had this
kind of like artistic side hustle that's never really been
a just side no hustle, and so yeah, getting to
publish that is real great. I love those little chickens.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I really would like I would buy that book.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Totally me too. I was like, it looks like a
Calvin and Hobbs, like they even like published it, and
like that's what a comic book looks like. Great. Yeah, Well,
is there a character who you really loved in this
episode who stood out to you?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So aside from the main characters, there's the guy who
comes in from the city and like it is so rude.
I I love that guy. That guy was hilarious. He
was like, very very rude though incredibly like the city,
your typical city person coming into the country.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Talking the publisher.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yes, yeah, yeah, the publisher. I've seen him in some
other like Lifetime movies, Like he's like a Canadian auctor,
I guess and he's always playing these type of big
jerky yeah, so I loved him coming in and just
her name is Amanda, right, the cartoonist, and she's like, actually, no,
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that's a how I'm going to roll around here, like
we're not doing this book with you. So they sat
up really good. So he was really fun for me
to watch and then see her play off of him
and be like, ah, and then you see that she's like,
you know, yes, a strong woman, a business owner taking
her creative passion and turning into a business that's hard
to do so and people always want to tell you
(29:45):
what to do when you're a creative coming.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Height like you couldn't possibly understand creativity and business at
the same time, right, Yeah, you know that seems so
funny because his female coworker is like trying to put
the brakes on and trying to cover for him and
trying to like and just completely fails because she had
gotten the balls rolling with Amanda in a previous episode.
And then this guy comes in and just fully tanks
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the deal.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Was totally kind of funny to watch, and she's.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Like, he can be a little bit groff. I was like,
you hate him, Just go ahead and say it because
he's the worst too.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
That's okay, maybe you should find a new business partner
After that, I'm sure they had a talk on the
on the plane ride back and they were like, this
isn't going to work out.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I kind of like, because this show has had no
shortage of terrible men, and so I like that, right
on the heels of the Frank Junior redemption, you know,
we kind of replaced him with this guy. I appreciated
that we're not We're not done with terrible men. And
Marynac Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Very interesting kind of pov like the show has. So
it's something you don't see often. So I think it's
really actually refreshing to see that kind of like writing
and just like the perceptive of like how men can
be just the worst when they don't even realize that
they're doing it, you know what I mean. Like the So, yeah,
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it was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
This is gonna shock everyone. I mean maybe not after
listening to this episode, but my feathered friend of the
week is Frank freakin Junior. Look, I have was willing
to accept that he was going to move on at
the end of the season, but now that he may
actually be moving on, I'm really going to miss him
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because I think James Cott played this episode with a
ton of warmth and believability and sincerity, and I was
very interested in seeing the ways in which he finally
stepped up. And on a side note, the only reason
I really wanted his redemption was for his daughter. And
you could see in some of those scenes where he's
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connecting with his former mother in law and his mom
and his ex wife how important that is to her
or just standing in the background. So hats off to
Frank Junior.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, alrightp maybe I know, we don't know. Okay, I
have a question. Okay, what does a feather a feathered friend?
Where does that saying come from?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Just ate it up simply because about the chicken sisters?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, that is so funny as it is funny. I'm
like this saying, I've never heard this, the orgin of this.
How did this come to be?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
We were just you know, chicken puns abound.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, I'm like, maybe it's a Southern thing that I'm
not aware.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Of, just a weird girl's gone Hallmark thing.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I love it. You guys are so creative and like, yes,
that is such a girl's gone Hallmark thing for sure,
we love a literation.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's right, that's right. Having fun is allowed. Well, Patrick,
this has been so much fun. Can you tell our
listeners the best place is to find you outside of
this episode?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh yeah, so you can follow me, Patrick Miguel is
my personal social media or Lifetime on Court is if
you want to follow Lifetime things, and you should. But
you know, if you don't care about Lifetime or you
don't have time for Lifetime, I understand. I also have
a website, lifetimeoncourt dot com, where you can read my reviews,
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typos and all. Sorry about that, you know. I have
Grammarly grammarly now, so that helps a little bit. But yeah,
I don't have a proof reader, so it's all just
whatever I'm writing in the moment. And I will be
doing the Christmas movies, so that's exciting. The homework and
the Lifetime. Lifetime hasn't announced any of their Christmas and
they probably won't until like December. They're they're very on
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the fly. Like I had a friend of mine, Michael Divorzon.
He's a writer and he knows Oprah, so I try
to keep keep on his good side. I'm like, oh,
you're you're friends with Oprah. The movie came out on Friday,
and he messaged me on Tuesday and was like, hey,
I just got worried that this movie's coming out. Can
we do like an interview or something really quick? And
(34:04):
I was like, no, I don't have time to do that.
That's crazy. You just found out your movies being released
like three days before it comes in. Yeah, incredible. But yeah,
I'm around, So if you want to hang out, let
me know if you know any single men. I'm single.
I'm ready to mingle.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Hey, well, we're going to link all of places you
can find Patrick in our show notes. Be sure to
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This is a Bramble Jam podcast. Welcome to a Girls
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Gone Hallmark, a Homewark review podcast. I'm Megan and I'm
a long time Hallmark fan. Today we are reviewing the
season finale of season two of The Chicken Sisters, and
I have the absolute pleasure of being joined for this
episode by Patrick Serrano, host of the lifetime Uncorked podcast
alongside Dan and Bran of doc The Hallmark. Patrick, thank
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you for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh yeah, so excited. You know, you sent out the
request for for people to join, and I was like,
I gotta get on this because I had a ex
boyfriend text me like when Chicken Sister started and he
was like, hey, I know you're like homework and you
like Chicken. So do you watch a show?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So did you watch the first season of this show
when it was originally airing?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, So here's the deal. I'm coming in cold to this.
So I just I just I was like, I had
him all recorded. I talked to my mom. I was like, Mom,
you watched the first season? Should I do it? And
She's like, oh, yeah, you should watch it. And I
just haven't had time. But they're all sitting in my
queue and I was like, really know what, I'm not
gonna binge it. I'm just gonna jump in, watch the
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watch the finale, and take it as a finale, possibly
a series finale. Well we don't know yet, we don't know,
so yeah, I'm coming in like your friend who just
happened to come over while this was one and watch it?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Kind of like when my husband. My husband is a
big fan of Days of Our Lives and I haven't
watched that show since I was in high school. So
I walk in, I'm like, wait, what's going on with
and he's like you can't. He's like, you need to
watch it every day or not at all. So yes,
I'm very from being that person. So a little bit
more about you before we talk the Chicken sisters. I mean,
(02:06):
you talk Lifetime regularly. How did you get into that
lifetime reviewing life?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh goodness, I mean it's been like since birth, probably
you know, coming home from school watching the little tawdry
after school special, you know, type of murder, cheerleader murder. Yeah,
all the cautionary teen tales like don't be homeless and
go to Harvard or don't be fifteen and get pregnant. Yeah, yes, yes,
(02:37):
So a long time Lifetime watcher. And then I was
in Chicago working in storefront theater running with my friends
and we decided not to renew the least on the building.
We were like, okay, we've done the thing. So my
friend Drew took all the recording equipment because we weren't
going to do anything with it, and he started a
podcast network and he's like, you watch those Christmas movies right,
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because I was writing like little on Facebook when Facebook
was a thing. I was writing like many many like
jokey synopsies about you know, I don't even remember. This
is probably twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah. And then so we started a podcast there. I
was on his network, and then the boys found me
or they started their podcast. They reached out and they
were like, hey, you know about podcasts and you're talking
about the movies we want to talk about. How do
we do that? It's like, who are these people? They're
so crazy? Then they blew up and then they were like, hey,
come along the ride with me, and I was like, okay,
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that's it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Really well, we of course will leave links in our
show notes, but you can listen to Patrick on the
Lifetime Uncorked podcast hallmarking over there a little more salacious usually.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Though usually yeah, and I only do the Hamewark Christmas
ones because you gotta watch the Christmas ones. Sure, but
I do Lifetime Murder all year round.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
All year round. I love it. I will say Murder
is more Wendy's vibe than Hallmark Christmas, so she'd be
all in on that.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, you know, the Lifetime is a little crazy with
They're they're really into the true crime right now. True
crime is like their bread and button.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Ripped from the headline situation.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So that gets tricky, tricky to talk about because you're like,
this really happened.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't know, I'll talk about it respectfully without.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ye and you now, which which is great. They have
the people that are actually like involved, Like Honey Boo
Boo was like narrating the Honey Boo Boo story.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
They just did a Courtney stodd In one where Courtney
Stott and kind of got to reframe her her marriage
and like all that crazy stuff with her like coming
being a minor and like how that was problematic. You're like,
yeah it was, but at the time it was very
salacious and everybody wanted to talk about it, but she
was like, uh yeah, not my life. Yeah, this is
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my life. Wow. She just wanted to sing. She just
wanted to be a singer.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
We're going to get into the Chicken Sisters season, hopefully
not series finale because we are left on a cliffhanger, but.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
A big cliffhanger, I know.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So we're going to kick it off and tell me
what your first impression of this episode was.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Okay, So I listened to a launcha episode before coming
on so I could get the kind of gist of
how the podcast work and what happened in the episode before,
because I was like, I at least need to know.
Sounds like there was a big storm, so we're getting
liked the aftermath of that, and it didn't really look
as like storm tattered as I thought it was going through.
In my imagination when you guys were describing it, I
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was picturing I don't know what I was picturing, but
I guess my imagination ran wild on that. But this
was very homework version of a.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Really only that Mimi's restaurant was destroyed and everything else
remains standing.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, so you know, my first impressions were like trying
to figure out who people were and everything, and I,
you know, quickly figured out, you know, Wendy Malik is
like the matriarch, and then there's her daughter, and then
her daughter's daughters and then the daughter's darter. So that's
where the sisters thing come in and got all that.
But my question to you is, why is everyone so
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mean to Frank Junior? What did he do?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Oh? My goodness, Patrick, how much time do you have?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I was like, everybody is so mean to this man.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Up until this episode, I have been saying, all love
to James Cott, but Frank Junior is the worst, the worst,
the worst. Okay, season one, he he was a terrible
husband to Amanda. And the whole premise of season one
is there's this kitchen clash series and it's the two restaurants,
rival restaurants, fighting against each other, and Frank ultimately betrays
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them in the end. And this season has been kind
of about the women reclaiming their lives from them men,
and Frank Juniors continued to be kind of terrible throughout,
and I've been saying all along, I don't want a
Frank Junior redemption story because I could feel like that's
where we were going. I'm like I don't want it.
I think I'm gonna surprise some people today because I
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was pretty impressed with how it was handled, because I
was ready to just see Frank Junior right off into
the sunset. But okay, well we'll talk a little bit
more about him.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
And he's the guy who who was in the chicken
shop or the chicken one of the chicken places, the
one that didn't get taken down by the storm with
the recipe, right, that was him.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
That's him. Yeah, so that's part of the whole part
of the split. At the end of season one is
this dude bro podcast or Christian kind of comes in
and brings Frank under his wing to open this big franchise,
which is terrible because they.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Had they had the powdered gravy in the background was exactly,
that's the bad place. That's the bad place, exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And Frank infuses it with what he knows, having worked
in the chicken restaurant that's actually good his entire life.
And now Christian wants to take that recipe from him,
and Frank obviously does not give him the real deal.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
He is put in some fake ingredients.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Indeed, indeed, so I got to say, as far as
first impressions, for me, I really feel like this episode
tied this season up with such a nice bow. I
do have a couple little wishes about things that I
had hoped would happen, but for the most part, I
was so much of what we were hoping for came
to fruition in this episode. And we should start with
(08:37):
Frank Junior's turnaround. So you as a watcher saw a
coming in brand new kind of the surprise on people's
face over and over again when Frank Junior would come
in kindly and they're like, what's happening here? What's going
on here? I can't And I think did it come
off as like distrust when you're.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Watching that, it seemed to me like he obviously did
something like really bad, and because like the narrator was
dogging on him, like everybody was like, man, he sucks,
but then his actions were like totally going against that.
So for me, I was like, oh, he seems kind,
he seems not that bad. He seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But yeah, I think they did a great job with
his story. And I the thing that I really like,
again I've been saying I don't want it. I don't
want it. They The one reason, and Alonzo touched on
this last week, the one reason I did want it
is he has a daughter, and you want that harmony.
You want him to be a good person for her,
at least if none of these other women. His mother
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was still trying really hard to have a relationship with him,
And so I think he did take accountability and own
up for the stuff that he did and actually apologize
and then took it a step farther and built that
big improbable arch for the Weddy.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Oh yeah, so uh, you know, and like when he
was with Sergio two, like how he was like being
cool with that and like he could tell, like, Amanda, Sergio,
we're getting together, and he was like, you know, not
encouraging it, but he was like trying to get to
know him a little bit.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, certainly not stopping it. I mean he calls him bro.
The look on Sergio's face is my favorite in that moment.
And so yeah, I really appreciate the writing team here
making me believe in this redemption and not just feeling
like it was something we had to do to check
a box. So that's my biggest moment. What are somethings
you liked about this episode.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So I was so happy that it was the wedding
episode because I love a wedding. It was funny to
me that, you know, tornado comes through the town, the
town bands together not to fix the town, but to
put on the wedding. So that was that was great.
I was like, man, this town has their priorities in check.
They're not gonna let this chicken sister not have her wedding.
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And it was like so like the decor was so
beautiful and like everything was so I kind of think,
like a mismatched like tablescape is so cool. Like I
loved how they were just like pulling on it must
because they were pulling all the random things out of
everyone's houses. Right.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Yeah, but I wasn't like this plan. No, definitely not
the plan. They had this big, beautiful setup. It was
blown over by the tornado. It just felt so much
more personal, Like this felt like the way it always
should have been in this town.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah. So I love that, and I love I love
the archway that you mentioned with the purple flower so beautiful.
The wedding could have been longer for me. I could
have had like most of the episode be the wedding,
but that's okay. We had things to get to I understand,
but I was like so happy for the wedding to
be to be the episode that I was doing. And
(11:40):
oh my gosh, being ordained online so funny. That was hilarious. Yeah,
where they're like this is this really this easy, and
you're like, yeah, it actually is. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
It was great. There's a really interesting scene in this movie.
It's the morning after the slumber party the breakfast, and
the breakfast scene is filmed in a single shot and
it's really well choreographed and they go through the entire
kitchen and all the characters are there, and I actually
rewound to see because I was like, did were there
any cuts? No, like straight through the kitchen, and I
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just like the thought and choreography that is put into
that moment to make sure all the pieces come together
and everyone's passing the dishes. It was a little bit
of a departure from the kind of cinematography we see
in the show, and I call it was really well done.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, It's almost like a play when you do like
a long shot like that, because everybody has to be
like hitting exactly where they need to be. And like
you just rehearse it a bunch and then you kind
of do it, and yeah, it's a really cool effect.
So that's exciting that Hallmark is experimenting with different types
of camera work. And you know, speaks well of the
directors too that they can they're being backed up to
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take the time to do that because it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No, I agree, And I think the writing team on
the show is really interesting. I don't know if you know,
but it's a completely different showrunner from season one to
season two, and season two the showrunner as Aaron Gibson,
who is a comedy podcaster. She has a highly successful
podcast turned into a TV show, and a lot of
the writers are big in the comedy world as well,
and so I think they've really been trying to do
(13:14):
something really different with the show. It's definitely different from
the standard Hallmark stable of writers, and so I think
this show I don't think does very well on Hallmark unfortunately,
because I think it's interesting and I think they're trying
new things and I kind of wish more people would
give it a chance, especially I text Wendy's not here
because Wendy did not enjoy this show, and so I said,
(13:37):
let's try something different. But I texted her last night
I was like, the finale is genuinely so good, especially
because she had watched all the first season. I so
I think you.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Should, right, she give a watch, give it a chance.
I love that the comedy people are coming in because
you know, comedy like takes a lot of work, and
you know it seems like so off the cuff, but
it's actually so like precise. That wedding planner she walks
up on the wedding site and just like screams bloody murder.
That was hilarious. I like rewound that three times, so
(14:08):
I was like, is this really happening? This is great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Rickay Bernard is such a gem. I love her as
Sabrina in the show.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
It's so funny some of that.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
One of the small threads I love is Gruster, who
is her romantic interest. He was in season one, there
was kind of a flirtation, and he only has been
back for one episode of season two. But I love
that we see like it's hinted. We didn't see them
in the Tornado episode. He came out back the episode
before that, and Alonzo and I were thinking like, well,
happened with Sabrina and Gruster. It kind of hints that
(14:38):
maybe they were sheltering in place together or something is
going on there. He calls her sweetheart. It was a
nice little moment. Nice to see them close the loop
on that a little bit, give us some closure, knowing
that maybe they'll have something going forward. Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I was definitely shipping them. I was into that for sure.
And the teenage daughter also being like, oh Mom, what's
happening here? Like that relationship with the mom and the
teenage daughter to like talk about, like, oh you have
a hot boyfriend. Mom like that? Yes, great.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Both moms have that moment with their daughters, and the
daughters I like, are both fully supportive and on board
with these new relations.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's awesome to be able to have that type of
conversation with your teenage you know, daughter, mother daughter. That's great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I loved that, And as the mother of a teenager,
I can only dream that we have that sort of relationship. Ah.
A couple other things that I think are worth pointing
out in this episode. We get closure on the train
finally stopping in town. This is something we were visiting
every single episode. The broke Well two things. The broken
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train arm was a cause of conflict about the entire season,
and they do finally get it fixed, all thanks to
Nancy finding her voice. And then the very end of
the episode, we learn the train is stopping in Marynac.
The train has not stopped in Marynac for many, many
years and Alonso I hope he appreciated this moment because
(16:03):
he was saying, last week we have this kitchen clash exposure,
and so they were hoping this is going to bring
all these new people to town. It was so great
for their restaurants, and we didn't really see that come
to Fruition, and now we finally get that right in
the closing moments of this episode, so everything it's all
coming together.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That's when all the French people came into the restaurant, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Amanda out and she sees this huge line of people
because the train finally stops in town.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I got it, okay cool.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I had also suspected that Nancy was going to run
for mayor and she is. I feel very proud of
myself for guessing that one. That's going to be great
for season three if we get it.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Right. And then it would be her rival who would
be her rival mayor, well.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
The current mayor probably who was played by Lachlan Monroe,
who you probably know because he's been in a billion things.
You'd definitely recognize his face. But he kind of fell
down on the job this season, and so she had
to step in and so hopefully she boots him on
out of there. A big vibe of this season has
been these women finding their voice and stepping into their power.
(17:13):
So it's definitely a matriarchy, as you mentioned. And finally,
Nancy and Gus, former rivals now best friends, both on
their first flight ever together traveling to Italy. I thought
it was great.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, I want to see that show. Can we get
like a summer in Italy?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah right, I'm envisioning it like Real Housewifestyle. What's the
one where they go to crappy Oh, crappy Lake, That's
the one i'ming. Oh nice, you have a Bravo watcher.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I'm not a Bravo watcher, but sometimes I watch Andy
Cohen on the Late night Oh yeah, I like the
celebrity interviews. You know. I want to be one of
those the bar boys whatever those boys are called. The Yeah,
let's do it together. Yeah, we'll do it together. You
(18:02):
pour the drinks, so now like prep the ice or
something perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I mean, I don't have any idea how to make
most cocktails, but we'll have a good time back there,
right Or anything else you liked about this episode?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, it was just good, good vibes, like even the
stuff that was more not spooky, but you know, like
the recipe stuff could have been. Like I was feeling
a little tension there. I was like, oh no, is
he going to give away the recipe? Like it was
kind of stressed me out. And then I saw him
put the put the fake ingredients. I was like, Okay, Okay,
he's cool. He's cool. Yeah, it was good. I thought
(18:36):
it was a good season finale.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And the vowels, I have to say, the vowels are
very sweet, very touching. May really has been struggling with
you know, the men in this town leave and she's like,
that's the Mimies curse, like the men always leave. And
she last episode, if you heard Alonzo and I talk
about it, she was like, I think that's me. I
think I'm gonna be the one who runs. And so
(19:00):
seeing them have this great moment, I feel like she
and Jay are absolutely meant to be together. So I
thought their vows were beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I want to talk about her dress, but I think
I wait for this.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Let's talk about her dress.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that dress, the yellow like that was passed down
from her. That's her grandma, right.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
That's her mom.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Oh, her mom. So that the dress like was so modern.
I was like, we're doing sleeveless in like, you know,
the seventies. That's pretty. That's a little ahead of the curve,
so very trendy.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I also wondered it looks like because Gus had held
it up earlier, and I was like, is that the
same dress? Because I was like, did they have time
to alter the sleeves? It felt like it wasn't exactly
the same dress.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
It just okay, maybe they did.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah, let's pretend like it's exactly the same dress.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Right, because the cut of the dress was more I mean,
it could have been eighties, I guess sure, but I'm like,
in the seventies they were not doing sleeveless. They had
those big floppy you know, they had like the silk sleeve. Yeah.
Well I thought it was a pretty dressed.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
And not white. Yeah, she has you know, may Is.
She's from New York. She's very like when season one
her New York apartment is sleek and beautiful, and so
that's kind of the vibe of the original wedding. That's
kind of the vibe of her original wedding dress. I
hated and this whole transition into our wishes when Amanda
(20:29):
puts her hair up into that bun, I'm fine with
a bun. It was terrible. I mean it was like
something I would do. As I'm sitting here with me,
I was like, please give her a better wedding day hairstyle.
So I was thrilled when she steps out of that car,
she's in the yellow dress and her hair, I mean it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Looks like her. Yeah, that's what you want on your
wedding day. You want to look.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Exactly, you want to look like yourself. Yeah. I was like,
that bun is tragic. Get that off of her head.
Did you have any wishes as you were watching this episode.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Well, of course I wish for more shirtless hunks in
any TV movie. We didn't get any of those, and
how we could have worked that and maybe we could
have had like the grooms room where the grooms are
getting ready, but we didn't really get like again, the
wedding was like very fast, so we had other things
to work on. I understand we could have had Frank
(21:24):
Junior climbing the tree with no shirt on, right, I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Give us a little James Contracts action. I'll take it, right.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Just those are my things and then no otherwise, Like
I think that.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Wait what was the question and things you wished for
in this episode?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh right, okay, yeah, I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I have two really big wishes.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
One.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Jake Foy was a staple in the series in season one.
He does not come back as Kenneth in season two.
I had hoped that he'd come back for the wedding.
The beginning of the season, it's set up by his
husband that he's out of town because his sister just
had a baby and he'll be gone for a couple weeks,
and so in my mind, I'm like, I'm sure he's
off doing another project, but they're surely going to bring
(22:10):
him back for the finale. He's one of May's best
friends from their childhood.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh yeah, that he wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
He was very missed. We see Patrick in the background
in some of the set up scenes, but he's not
even really highlighted in the wedding, and Kenneth doesn't make
it back. Jake four, you were missed.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, I mean, if you're the best friend from childhood,
you gotta be.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
There, right. And the other storyline, now, this is something
you wouldn't have picked up on in this episode. But
Frankie who's the daughter of Amanda and Frankie Junior, and Lindsay,
who is Sabrina's daughter, there has been some hinting at
some romantic tension between these two. They've never acknowledged it.
(22:52):
I think there are some people who don't believe that
it's there. But I am shipping these two big time.
They are moving to New York together. I do think
it's completely wild that Amanda says, text me when you
find an apartment in New York. Her child, who never
left the town of Marynac is supposed to go off
to New York as an eighteen year old and figure
out the New York apartment scene. Seems yike wild to me,
(23:15):
But text me when you find an apartment. But they're
gonna live together, so that sets us up for, you know,
some future storylines if we get a season three. I
would have liked a little bit of a moment that
hints at we're heading somewhere with these two. We didn't
get it. I don't know if they're moving away from it.
You know, they're playing it real safe. But I still
(23:37):
am shipping Lindsay and Frankie.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay, well, that's interesting that it was even there too.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I sider, yes, I fully believe there. I mean, I
need someone on TikTok to create a compilation of those
moments between the two of them set to some dramatic
Taylor Swift song.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Please right, and you really do find yourself in college.
That's when you're like, you know, yes, same thing, and
that's what college is for, so not just with your sexuality,
like with everything. So sure, it seems seems like a
natural progression for them to explore that. That would be fun.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, we shall see. Well it's time for any Did
you see that moments moments that made you say what
is happening here? Or something you loved hit me?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Okay, So we had a really nice wedding montage that
I liked a lot. That was really fun when they
when they were searching like the wreckage of the storm,
of the of the Chicken Hut, what is that it's
called Yeah, yeah, mabies meemies. When they did the thing
with the flowers and they handed the flower around there,
they said, like one thing they were thankful for that
(24:47):
was that was very nice.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
That was very nice.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I like that, And and I was like, is this Thanksgiving?
Why are we Why are we doing this? But yeah,
I guess they needed to get out their feelings about
you know, growing up there and some good writing in character,
like you know, they really thought back to like these
characters like being in that growing up in that environment.
So yeah, I really felt that. And then well we
(25:15):
have to talk about the tree, the climbing the tree.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Tree. Can you believe they made Frank Junior after all
of that fall out of that tree? No, highly dramatic.
I mean I love it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
He put out that big ladder that was like a
fireman's ladder, wasn't it. That was huge?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, I was like, what are we doing trimming this tree?
Like I call somebody just and don't get on a
ladder like that by yourself, Frank Junior.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
No, somebody has to hold the bottom. And you know
he had that hook saw that was like out of
a horror movie. I would never I mean I don't
even know. I've never even seen that tool before.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
It was like Clark Griswolds hanging Christmas lights. I was like,
this is not going to end well as soon as
I saw that ladder.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, yeah, and and like he's for sure dead right,
I don't know, I don't. I mean it seems they
left it open. They left it open, but.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
They certainly left it open. And I you know, it's
funny because again I was saying, I don't want a
Frank Junior redemption story, and then after this, I was like, Okay,
I'm okay with Frank Junior being around. And just when
they made me like him, they're gonna rip him away
from us. Maybe I'm gonna need.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
To see what could happen with him next.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
I mean, it's true, it's true. Well, yeah, he's he's
served his purpose and that's the show. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Yeah. I mean we didn't get the shot of like
the body, you know, like the the crime scene body,
so there's hope, there's hope.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Yeah, we get a call from you know, the hospital
and not the medical examiner, so I guess that's bad hurt.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
True, Yeah, Oh, that's very true.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
My biggest digit to that moment. Shawna, our girl Shauna
played by Caitlyn Howden, one of my absolute favorites. Speaking
of comedy, I mean, Caitlyn Howden does a bunch of improv.
She has a comedy podcast. She's a delight on this show.
When she bursts into Amy's in tears, it was great.
But my favorite is the big reveal that she's secretly
(27:22):
the author of the smut series Queen of the Cowboys.
They've this has been a series. It's made an appearance
throughout this season. Everyone's reading, you know, these smutty cowboy books.
And the fact that this is the spicy novel that
she has secretly published under a pen name. Shawna is
kind of a jack of all trade. She's a renaissance woman.
She's the one responsible for the Chicken Sisters franchise, and
(27:46):
so of course she's kind of connection that's gonna help
Amanda publish her book the way that she wants to
do it. Loved it. I thought that reveal was pitch perfect.
She's like, I'm a hit on book talk. Loved it.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Oh, and that Chicken Sister book was so cute with
the Chicken Sisters being chickens with the hair. Oh my god,
I loved it so cute.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, finally coming to fruition, we get you know, she's
had these she's I mean, that's finally getting to express herself.
This has been a long running storyline. She's had this
kind of like artistic side hustle that's never really been
a just side no hustle, and so yeah, getting to
publish that is real great. I love those little chickens.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I really would like I would buy that book.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Totally me too. I was like, it looks like a
Calvin and Hobbs, like they even like published it, and
like that's what a comic book looks like. Great. Yeah, Well,
is there a character who you really loved in this
episode who stood out to you?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So aside from the main characters, there's the guy who
comes in from the city and like it is so rude.
I I love that guy. That guy was hilarious. He
was like, very very rude though incredibly like the city,
your typical city person coming into the country.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Talking the publisher.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yes, yeah, yeah, the publisher. I've seen him in some
other like Lifetime movies, Like he's like a Canadian auctor,
I guess and he's always playing these type of big
jerky yeah, so I loved him coming in and just
her name is Amanda, right, the cartoonist, and she's like, actually, no,
(29:24):
that's a how I'm going to roll around here, like
we're not doing this book with you. So they sat
up really good. So he was really fun for me
to watch and then see her play off of him
and be like, ah, and then you see that she's like,
you know, yes, a strong woman, a business owner taking
her creative passion and turning into a business that's hard
to do so and people always want to tell you
(29:45):
what to do when you're a creative coming.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Height like you couldn't possibly understand creativity and business at
the same time, right, Yeah, you know that seems so
funny because his female coworker is like trying to put
the brakes on and trying to cover for him and
trying to like and just completely fails because she had
gotten the balls rolling with Amanda in a previous episode.
And then this guy comes in and just fully tanks
(30:08):
the deal.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Was totally kind of funny to watch, and she's.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Like, he can be a little bit groff. I was like,
you hate him, Just go ahead and say it because
he's the worst too.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
That's okay, maybe you should find a new business partner
After that, I'm sure they had a talk on the
on the plane ride back and they were like, this
isn't going to work out.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
I kind of like, because this show has had no
shortage of terrible men, and so I like that, right
on the heels of the Frank Junior redemption, you know,
we kind of replaced him with this guy. I appreciated
that we're not We're not done with terrible men. And
Marynac Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Very interesting kind of pov like the show has. So
it's something you don't see often. So I think it's
really actually refreshing to see that kind of like writing
and just like the perceptive of like how men can
be just the worst when they don't even realize that
they're doing it, you know what I mean. Like the So, yeah,
(31:07):
it was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
This is gonna shock everyone. I mean maybe not after
listening to this episode, but my feathered friend of the
week is Frank freakin Junior. Look, I have was willing
to accept that he was going to move on at
the end of the season, but now that he may
actually be moving on, I'm really going to miss him
(31:28):
because I think James Cott played this episode with a
ton of warmth and believability and sincerity, and I was
very interested in seeing the ways in which he finally
stepped up. And on a side note, the only reason
I really wanted his redemption was for his daughter. And
you could see in some of those scenes where he's
(31:49):
connecting with his former mother in law and his mom
and his ex wife how important that is to her
or just standing in the background. So hats off to
Frank Junior.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, alrightp maybe I know, we don't know. Okay, I
have a question. Okay, what does a feather a feathered friend?
Where does that saying come from?
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Just ate it up simply because about the chicken sisters?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, that is so funny as it is funny. I'm
like this saying, I've never heard this, the orgin of this.
How did this come to be?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
We were just you know, chicken puns abound.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, I'm like, maybe it's a Southern thing that I'm
not aware.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Of, just a weird girl's gone Hallmark thing.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I love it. You guys are so creative and like, yes,
that is such a girl's gone Hallmark thing for sure,
we love a literation.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
That's right, that's right. Having fun is allowed. Well, Patrick,
this has been so much fun. Can you tell our
listeners the best place is to find you outside of
this episode?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh yeah, so you can follow me, Patrick Miguel is
my personal social media or Lifetime on Court is if
you want to follow Lifetime things, and you should. But
you know, if you don't care about Lifetime or you
don't have time for Lifetime, I understand. I also have
a website, lifetimeoncourt dot com, where you can read my reviews,
(33:18):
typos and all. Sorry about that, you know. I have
Grammarly grammarly now, so that helps a little bit. But yeah,
I don't have a proof reader, so it's all just
whatever I'm writing in the moment. And I will be
doing the Christmas movies, so that's exciting. The homework and
the Lifetime. Lifetime hasn't announced any of their Christmas and
they probably won't until like December. They're they're very on
(33:43):
the fly. Like I had a friend of mine, Michael Divorzon.
He's a writer and he knows Oprah, so I try
to keep keep on his good side. I'm like, oh,
you're you're friends with Oprah. The movie came out on Friday,
and he messaged me on Tuesday and was like, hey,
I just got worried that this movie's coming out. Can
we do like an interview or something really quick? And
(34:04):
I was like, no, I don't have time to do that.
That's crazy. You just found out your movies being released
like three days before it comes in. Yeah, incredible. But yeah,
I'm around, So if you want to hang out, let
me know if you know any single men. I'm single.
I'm ready to mingle.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Hey, well, we're going to link all of places you
can find Patrick in our show notes. Be sure to
be in touch if you know anybody. Thank you for
listening to this episode of Girls Gone Hallmark, a Bramble
Jam podcast. If you love this podcast, we love your
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(34:44):
We'll be back next time with more Homemark reviews. Goodbye, bye,
all right friends, Before we go, just a quick heads up,
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