When it comes to Hallmark, we know that the summer time is when they start giving us a lot of movies that tee us up for the excitement of things to come for the rest of the year. But this year, Hallmark is giving us television too.
The channel has set a return date for The Chicken Sisters.
Before you think that you’re going to have to have Hallmark+ to watch it, you won’t. When the show returns on August 10th, it will first air on The Hallmark Channel and then the following day on Hallmark+.
The adaptation stars Schuyler Fisk (Amanda), Genevieve Angelson (Mae), Lea Thompson (Nancy), and Wendie Malick (Gus).
The Chicken Sisters is an adaptation of KJ Dell’Antonia’s novel of the same name. The first season was filled with so much drama and gave us our dislike for Frank Jr., but after that season one ending, we knew that we were going to be in for something special.
If you don’t remember what happened with the first season finale, In the season finale, Amanda (Fisk) joined forces with her sister Mae (Angelson), their mother Gus (Malick) and her mother-in-law Nancy (Thompson) to face off against her husband Frank Jr. (James Kot, Virgin River) in the final Kitchen Clash showdown, leaving him to fly solo. Deemed the underdog by Mr. Chicken (Clifton Murray, Painkiller Jane), a successful restaurant chain owner tasked with casting the deciding vote, Frank Jr. was controversially crowned the winner. Sabrina Skye (Rukiya Bernard, Yellowjackets), the show’s host, quit in disgust, leaving her professional future in limbo. Amanda, Mae, Nancy, and Gus opened their own fried chicken restaurant, The Chicken Sisters, while Frank Jr. proudly opened his own establishment as a franchisee of Mr. Chicken’s Cluckery.
In season two, we’re just hoping to bring Frank down a notch, and that The Chicken Sisters restaurant stomps Frank’s franchise of Mr. Chicken’s Cluckery. Frank Jr is despicable.
The second season follows Amanda, Mae, Nancy, and Gus as they use The Chicken Sisters restaurant to officially put a generations-long feud to rest, Frank Jr. begins another by opening a Mr. Chicken’s Cluckery on Merinac’s Main Street, and someone (Elliott) from Gus’ comes back to town. In this new chapter, all leading up to Mae and Jay’s Merinac wedding, viewers will follow the Moore-Hillier women as they rise above the roost, proving that family is the only prize worth fighting for.
We’re excited for the second season. We can’t wait to see what happens. Not too much longer now.
