The Drop was something that I didn’t expect at all from The Chicken Sisters, but it was something that I definitely needed from the show. That’s the good thing about a show like this – it gives you what you didn’t ask for, but delivers you the type of drama that you need.
As we sit here, halfway through the season, it’s this weird feeling about The Chicken Sisters. I am not sure that I like the show. I am not sure I hate it.
Growing up in small towns (in the midwest), I know that they are very dramatic. And yes, the drama is there in this show, but it’s also half played out. As a viewer, I know that it’s there. There just seems to have been a conscious choice to not let it play out fully, and we’re left with our own minds to figure it out.
I don’t want to figure it out. I want to feel like I need to grab some popcorn and watch it play out in front of me to the best of its ability. So I was thankful for an episode where everything is changing, but also an episode that was less going through the motions. This episode I was reminded of the drama, the truth always rising to the top, and the secrets that people can keep.
So yes, though I go through ups and downs with The Chicken Sisters, I have to admit just when I think maybe I am out, they pull me right back in.
DROP IT LIKES IT’S HOT
Small town events are different. Growing up, I can remember being dragged along to Tupperware parties, where I would learn everything that I NEVER needed to know about all of the families in town. It made life interesting, as I got older, but it’s also part of the reason I hate small towns.
Everyone knows everyone’s business and it is always one person that is the one to spread it.
The women of the town consider it to be the “social event” of the year, despite it being the ploy to sell some fugly leggings and drink disgusting wine. The host, then gets drunk and starts dropping gossip about everyone in town.
But it’s always Amanda and Gus that are gossiped about. Everyone loves to gossip about the Moore’s but when it comes out that Frank Jr vasectomy coming out, Mae’s had enough.
And so she tells them all her truths. I think she does it to shut them up but also partially because she’s tired of the lies. After hearing what her lies and manipulations had done to Sabrina – she knew that she had to be honest. She had to redeem herself and she had to get people to leave her family alone.
Mae couldn’t help the fact that she was a Moore, anymore than anyone in that town could help who their parents were. I just honestly think that being home has made her realize that. It’s also made her realize that she missed the town and her family. She missed the sense of community.
One of the best parts of this episode was Mae’s ability to change. I didn’t think she was capable of it, if we’re being truthful. Her self absorption is on another level. Seeing her slide into her own and really talking to the people around her. She’s found a sense of pride in her history and I do think that is something important.
We all come from different places, but we all come from somewhere. I think sometimes we need to be reminded of that and hold onto that with all we are.
25? YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME
Though I have never been through a divorce, I have several friends who have and I know that it’s not easy. Time can move on, but you can still be stuck in a moment because that moment changed everything about your life.
I think that for Sabrina, she believed so much in her husband and their life together, and she’s being faced with the past which stirs up feelings. But being left and divorced and then finding out your ex is marrying a younger model? HARD PASS. That’s a pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
No one deserves that.
I am not sure how long it’s been since her divorce, but, in this case, I really don’t think that matters. I do think that it would be perfectly normal for anyone to see an ex move on and you start to compare yourself to that person. Questions start to float in your head and they can become overwhelming.
MAGNESIUM DOESN’T DO THAT
Leah Thompson is one of my favorite actresses, so I always want to love her characters. However, when it comes to Nancy, I am not sure that I like her at all. She’s so misguided and she thinks that being someone who suppresses everything is a good thing to be.
It’s not.
Nancy was pushed to put everything aside for the sake of being one of “Frannie’s girls” and being seen as such. She acts like she has to keep everything inside and just deal with it. But, that’s not healthy.
And it’s also driving Amanda crazy. She wants to be confronted on what she did. She wants to pay for it. She wants Nancy to say something. The thing is though, Nancy doesn’t want to say anything. She’d prefer to act like it didn’t happen, which isn’t going to help anyone.
Nancy, IMO, wants to protect her son. The thing is though, he son doesn’t deserve that protection. He’s not perfect, and what he’s done and how he’s acted makes him so not innocent to the situation.
The way that Nancy wants to protect Frank Jr, I get it. I can understand it. But I don’t agree with the way she’s acting. Or the way that she’s trying to change Amanda versus trying to make her son grow up and become a man.
I CAN’T
Amanda has such guilt over everything that she does. For me, it’s hard to watch all the moments where she feels like she has to apologize for who she is.
But what’s hardest for me in this episode is seeing her feel like she needs to just settle. She needs to settle for the life that she has, versus trying to make it better. Nancy, you’re a good woman, but trying to make Amanda like you and feel like giving up things in life for the sake of your husband’s ego is sad to me.
Telling Sergio over a voice memo how she’s married and nothing will ever happen, because she’s married was actually sad to watch. It was sad to watch because she can’t bring herself to say that she’s happy. Not being happy and thinking that’s the life you deserve is just not a way to live.
Seeing how it affected Sergio, that was also a moment. Little did any of us know that Sergio was going through a divorce (he’s now officially divorced) and he’s really taken to Amanda. I don’t get though why it is that he’s okay with her being married and still wanted to be with her. He doesn’t seem like the type.
But with him throwing away a phone number from a bar once everyone leaves him be, I just can’t help but feel bad for him. I feel bad for him because I think that he’s a man that loves deeply and doesn’t just want casual. It’s just that the only person that he’s wanted to move on with is Amanda.
This has been complicated.
SNIP, SNIP
If I was Amanda, I would have walked my behind home and punched my husband in the face. No, I am not advocating for violence. What I am saying though is that the lies and the secrets that Frank Jr. has are what is going to destroy his family and their legacy. The biggest secret that he’s kept from Amanda is not telling her that he had a vasectomy.
Yup, at the drop, Amanda found out that her husband is a dirty liar and went behind her back to get a vasectomy. In my opinion it’s a decision they should have talked about, but at the very least he should have to told her he’d done. Amanda wants nothing more than to have a second child.
Frank Jr. took that away from her and he lied about it. He kept acting like it would happen and that he just needed time.
When you’re a Frannie’s girl, you’re supposed to be good. You’re supposed to put up with all of the choices that society makes for you, suppress your own feelings and be a good wife. Yes, Amanda kissed someone else and I am not making excuses for that. Will say I would have kissed Sergio too. I would have been like yes sir, put me on that counter.
Amanda wants to feel wanted. She wants to feel needed. She wants to feel loved. Frank Jr is giving her none of that. What he’s giving her is nothing. So, yes, when he came home and she looked at him and told him she didn’t know if she could forgive him, I clapped. I clapped so loud, because she is in the right here. But most importantly, she stood up for herself and that is so important.
Everyone else in the world be damned, Amanda deserves to be happy. I don’t think she should have to settle for anything less.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Frank Jr, obsessed with the chicken king guy – kinda beyond weird. I also get it though, because we all have our idols.
- Frank Jr, not even knowing the code for the restaurant shows what kind of boss he is.
- Nancy is getting on my nerves.
- The Chicken king dude – ewww
- Loved Sabrina and Maes backstory
New episodes of The Chicken Sisters premiere every Thursday on Hallmark+.
