Should Netflix Renew “Act Your Age”? - Episodes 1&2 Review

[00:00:00] What's up fam?

[00:00:18] Welcome back to Recap Kickback.

[00:00:20] It's me, your host Chappelle, and I am here with another episode of this podcast that

[00:00:26] basically just brings together a community to talk about whatever I want to talk about

[00:00:29] is normally TV.

[00:00:30] It could be music, it can be movies, it could be whatever, but everybody's invited to the

[00:00:34] Kickback and we got a lot to discuss.

[00:00:37] So as you all know, Mari is still out on maternity leave and so I had to call in the big guns

[00:00:43] to help me with this week's podcast with me, someone you might know from my Abbott Elementary

[00:00:49] coverage over on Post Short Recaps that has now come to Recap Kickback, my co-host, the

[00:00:54] principal of the Abbott Elementary Recap, it's Gia Worthy.

[00:00:58] Gia, welcome.

[00:00:59] Thank you, Chappelle.

[00:01:00] Now I want to believe that I will be an adequate replacement for Mari, but we both know that

[00:01:06] it's not true, that we can never be Mari.

[00:01:09] None of us can ever, it's not, listen, it's just a fact.

[00:01:13] It's not time for the, oh no, Gia, like you're great.

[00:01:17] I know, but like, I'm not Mari and we know that, but I also didn't recently have a child,

[00:01:22] which makes me qualified for being on this edition of Recap Kickback.

[00:01:28] See, listen, I too am not Mari and I know the people miss her.

[00:01:32] We miss her dearly.

[00:01:33] She will be back and we've got a lot of coverage of shows coming your way when she gets back.

[00:01:38] She's so ready.

[00:01:39] We've been talking, I've talked to the new baby, everything is good on the Mari front,

[00:01:44] but the show must go on.

[00:01:46] And so I've called in Gia to talk about a show that has recently cracked the Netflix

[00:01:52] Top 10.

[00:01:53] It has been renewed for Netflix or revitalized, I guess I should say, on Netflix after being

[00:01:58] canceled on its previous network.

[00:02:00] It's called Act Your Age, starring Tisha Campbell, Ken Whitley and Yvette Nicole Brown.

[00:02:06] So we're going to talk about that today, but first, we got some housekeeping things to take

[00:02:11] care of.

[00:02:12] Okay.

[00:02:13] So obviously I just want to thank everybody here for being here on Recap Kickback.

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[00:02:34] Okay.

[00:02:35] That's the goal.

[00:02:36] You know, 1000 subscribers, let's get this bad boy monetized.

[00:02:38] Okay.

[00:02:39] So keep those views coming and keep sharing the podcast.

[00:02:43] Also we've been getting a lot of feedback again.

[00:02:45] Most of the feedback is where's Mari?

[00:02:47] We miss Mari.

[00:02:48] We love Mari.

[00:02:49] Yes, me too.

[00:02:50] Thanks mom.

[00:02:52] But we got some other feedback as well.

[00:02:54] And I really wanted to go in and read it.

[00:02:55] First of all, first off, we got a Twitter DM from being underscore loud to our at Recap

[00:03:02] Kickback Twitter account.

[00:03:03] And that person is the actual person who recommended that we talk about actor A's.

[00:03:07] They said they binged it, they loved it, and that we needed to cover it here.

[00:03:11] So we're going to talk about the first two episodes today.

[00:03:13] Also, we've been reached out to by Alex Sanfilippo from Podmatch, who says that we have a great

[00:03:20] podcast.

[00:03:22] This podcast has more episodes than most podcasts do in their infancy.

[00:03:25] So we're ahead of the curve by a lot.

[00:03:28] A lot of podcasts normally don't make it past the first episode and we're three months in

[00:03:33] here on Recap Kickback.

[00:03:34] So kudos to everybody and thank you all for listening and keeping us in the conversation.

[00:03:39] In our Facebook group, Mari herself has posted the poll, should we be covering House of

[00:03:45] the Dragon here on RecapKickback.com?

[00:03:48] And Mari's in charge.

[00:03:49] So Mari says she wants to talk about it.

[00:03:51] She's a pro, she's read the books.

[00:03:54] Nobody is more equipped to talk about this show than Mari and for her to let me talk

[00:03:58] about it with her, I am very honored.

[00:04:00] So if you have not filled out that poll, please go check it out.

[00:04:03] It's also on our Twitter page.

[00:04:04] I'll post it on the Instagram and the TikTok hopefully so that we can make sure that everybody

[00:04:08] knows that if you all want it, we will try to deliver House of the Dragon coverage to

[00:04:13] you for season two.

[00:04:15] And then we also got some feedback in the Facebook group from Kyle Stevens.

[00:04:18] He says, you got to check out Wild Card Kitchen.

[00:04:21] It's great.

[00:04:22] It's crazy.

[00:04:23] He's watching it.

[00:04:24] He loves it.

[00:04:25] Gia, you are our cooking expert here on Recap Kickback.

[00:04:28] Have you watched Wild Card Kitchen?

[00:04:30] Yes, I have.

[00:04:32] And I told you about Wild Card Kitchen because this is the show that has the one, the only

[00:04:40] Rob King, Eric Ebbayong from Top Chef.

[00:04:47] What was his first season?

[00:04:48] I can't remember, but it was Top Chef.

[00:04:50] Oh yeah, Top Chef Kentucky and then the Top Chef, the second All Stars, the good All Stars

[00:04:56] season as I like to call it.

[00:04:59] But it is such a fun show.

[00:05:01] We get a couple of former Top Chef appearances for people that are in the Bravo realm of cooking

[00:05:09] shows and it is definitely a show I highly recommend.

[00:05:14] So, Chappelle, if you guys do decide to do a recap of that, you know I am down to be

[00:05:22] a guest for that.

[00:05:23] I mean, if we do it, you would have to be the guest for it.

[00:05:26] Gia, you would be my number one chock pick to talk about it.

[00:05:30] So, yeah.

[00:05:31] So again, thank you all for listening to feedback.

[00:05:34] Thank you Kyle for that suggestion.

[00:05:36] We'll talk it through.

[00:05:37] If we got this time on our schedule, we can talk about the first season.

[00:05:40] It's already out so we can get caught up on that.

[00:05:44] And then maybe if they come out with another season, we could be right there to cover it

[00:05:46] too if Gia will grace us with her presence.

[00:05:50] I feel like that's definitely a show because it's not like a season long elimination.

[00:05:57] There's new chefs every episode.

[00:05:59] You could definitely watch an episode or two and get the gist of what the show is about

[00:06:05] so we could just kind of pick the cream of the crop of the guest judges that we want

[00:06:11] to cover.

[00:06:13] Gia, I hate to put you to work, but it sounds like you worked this out.

[00:06:17] You tell me where to go.

[00:06:19] I can send you the episodes that we're watching.

[00:06:21] Oh yeah.

[00:06:22] All right, cool.

[00:06:23] All right.

[00:06:24] So thank you Kyle.

[00:06:25] It looks like, look, you asked and so you shall receive.

[00:06:27] Gia and I will get that to you ASAP.

[00:06:30] Thank you all again for listening, giving us the feedback.

[00:06:33] Last episode, we talked about Black Twitter with Nicole Weaver, Tyrone, and Jay West.

[00:06:40] It was a great panel discussion about the Black Twitter documentary on Hulu.

[00:06:44] But now we move forward to our next big project, Act Your Age.

[00:06:48] And so Act Your Age, as I already told you, came from Bounce TV.

[00:06:52] It was on Bounce TV in 2023 and it was canceled, but it's now found a new life on Netflix and

[00:06:57] has cracked the top 10.

[00:06:59] Netflix has a track record of revitalizing shows.

[00:07:03] One very popular show, Arrested Development, was canceled in 2006 and then brought back

[00:07:10] in 2013, I believe, by Netflix.

[00:07:12] And so a lot of the fans of Act Your Age are hopeful that we get maybe a new life for this

[00:07:20] show.

[00:07:21] So I decided let's go in, we take the listener's suggestion, we'll watch it, and then we'll

[00:07:26] see if we agree that we need to bring back Act Your Age.

[00:07:29] So for this exercise, we watched the first two episodes.

[00:07:32] They are found on Netflix and Gia and I are going to discuss and make a point for why

[00:07:38] we should bring back this television show.

[00:07:40] So straight out the gate, I have to ask you, did you enjoy this?

[00:07:45] I did.

[00:07:46] Especially as we recorded the Abbott finale literally yesterday.

[00:07:54] So I have run out of sitcoms really to be watching right now.

[00:07:58] And I feel like this is really like the type of show I am looking for.

[00:08:05] It's reminiscent of one of my favorite shows.

[00:08:08] I feel like some of the comparisons to something like Golden Girls are apparent, but it also

[00:08:14] has its own spin on everything as well.

[00:08:19] So bringing some of the things back that I love about Golden Girls, but also having its

[00:08:25] own spin on the show and having a cast that I absolutely love.

[00:08:30] I feel like there are three main leading ladies here.

[00:08:34] You can't go wrong with any of them.

[00:08:36] So it was great.

[00:08:37] The first two episodes really got me invested.

[00:08:40] So I do plan on watching the rest of the season.

[00:08:43] Yeah, I'd agree.

[00:08:44] I echo those sentiments exactly.

[00:08:47] Very much Golden Girls-esque.

[00:08:48] It's about three women that are over 50 starting their new life together as friends, you know,

[00:08:54] living under the same roof.

[00:08:55] And so these are three black women exploring relationships and very affluent black women,

[00:09:02] I would say, in the DMV area.

[00:09:04] And so we get to see, I guess, an underrepresented population on television.

[00:09:09] We don't see that a lot from television shows.

[00:09:12] And like you said, with this cast, these are three heavy hitters.

[00:09:15] These are the cream of the crop a lot of times when it comes to our black actresses.

[00:09:20] You see these people and you know you got some gold.

[00:09:23] Gia, this cast, they're so good.

[00:09:26] Literally like mother matriarchs, I will say, of like great black actresses, right?

[00:09:33] Like this is and I will watch anything that any of these women are in.

[00:09:39] But I feel like we often get this treatment of women as they age in Hollywood that they

[00:09:46] get relegated to, you know, the mother role, like the side role, the like the quirky side

[00:09:53] character that only has a couple scenes per season and everything.

[00:09:57] And I love like those characters too.

[00:10:00] But these are leading ladies to me and they deserve a show that is where they are the

[00:10:06] focus of it.

[00:10:07] And that is exactly what Act Your Age is.

[00:10:10] Yes.

[00:10:11] And man, you hit the nail on the head.

[00:10:13] So these three women, I want to start, honestly, I want to start with Kim Whitley.

[00:10:19] Kim Whitley, I would say, yeah, I would say is probably the most underrated of the three

[00:10:24] of these women.

[00:10:26] I feel like she just, people don't give her what she deserves, man.

[00:10:30] This is an icon and a legend.

[00:10:33] She is, I believe, I was going to say, I believe she's from Ohio, but she's going on to be a

[00:10:41] Hollywood superstar and a lot of, you know, a lot of black homes for sure.

[00:10:45] I mean, she's in a lot of stuff that we've watched, but she has transcended into other

[00:10:49] networks.

[00:10:50] But here I love seeing her as one of the leading ladies.

[00:10:55] I just feel like I can't say enough good things about Kim Whitley from, you know, the parenthood,

[00:11:03] that's so Raven, the Parkers, my wife and kids, you know, she's just been everywhere.

[00:11:08] Friday, another big role as Craig's Aunt Sugar.

[00:11:11] You know, I love Kim Whitley and I was so excited to see her.

[00:11:15] Honestly, that was what really caught my attention when I saw that she was going to be in it.

[00:11:18] So I said, okay, I have to check this out.

[00:11:20] She's so good in the role of Bernadette through these first two episodes.

[00:11:24] It feels very lived in and I really enjoyed seeing her in this.

[00:11:28] It just feels like I've known her my whole life, you know?

[00:11:30] Yes.

[00:11:31] And if you haven't heard her or if you haven't seen her in anything, you've definitely heard

[00:11:35] her.

[00:11:36] She is known for voice roles in the Cleveland Show, Black Dynamite, the Boondocks.

[00:11:41] She's done it all.

[00:11:42] She's one of those actresses that she has her hands in a little bit of everything.

[00:11:48] So more likely than not, you have been a fan of a Kim Whitley production at some point.

[00:11:56] And I think her as the center of this cast is the perfect choice here.

[00:12:04] They move into her house.

[00:12:06] The first episode is primarily revolving around her, but we get to see that she is clearly

[00:12:13] the glue of this little trio that has formed here.

[00:12:17] And again, this is where we really start to see she is an affluent realtor, I believe

[00:12:24] is her position on here, and somebody that has really reaped the success of her work

[00:12:32] over the years.

[00:12:34] And able to have this amazing townhouse apartment.

[00:12:39] I want to live there.

[00:12:40] Yeah, like a penthouse.

[00:12:41] Yeah.

[00:12:42] Like, yes.

[00:12:43] Like a penthouse.

[00:12:44] Kimberly, can I move in?

[00:12:45] I do not take up a lot of room.

[00:12:46] Yeah.

[00:12:47] My favorite thing about-

[00:12:48] I will knock.

[00:12:49] I knock on all doors.

[00:12:50] Hashtag.

[00:12:51] Yeah.

[00:12:52] Listen, if you didn't knock on all doors after these two episodes, I bet you do.

[00:12:59] I bet you do now.

[00:13:00] I live alone and I knock on all doors now.

[00:13:05] So my favorite thing about Kim Whitley is that she is 62 years old in this, and I'm

[00:13:11] sorry you could not make me believe that.

[00:13:12] I'm sorry.

[00:13:13] Black don't crack?

[00:13:14] It don't, because if you think about the age of the Golden Girls, when I was growing up,

[00:13:20] the Golden Girls looked like elderly women, and they were younger than Kim Whitley.

[00:13:24] And she is just stunning in this role.

[00:13:27] I said, oh man, nah.

[00:13:28] This is not your mom and dad's Golden Girls.

[00:13:30] You know, this is different.

[00:13:32] And they make it very clear from the very beginning with this cast that like, this is

[00:13:37] not your mom's Golden Girls.

[00:13:39] Like this is, you know, some of the plot lines are similar.

[00:13:45] I would say the pilot of Golden Girls, particularly the marriage plot in there, is very similar

[00:13:51] to the Act Your Age one.

[00:13:54] But again, it has its own spin on it.

[00:13:56] So I'm excited to talk about the pilot episode here.

[00:14:00] Yes.

[00:14:01] So that's Bernadette.

[00:14:02] Next on our cast list, we have Tisha Campbell, the legendary Tisha Campbell.

[00:14:09] Most people know her from the sitcom Martin or My Wife and Kids.

[00:14:13] Personally, I've always been partial to her in My Wife and Kids, but Tisha Campbell has

[00:14:18] been on television forever.

[00:14:20] Forever.

[00:14:21] She is a legend in her own right.

[00:14:24] From the House Party movies, Little Shop of Horrors, she's everywhere.

[00:14:28] She's a recording artist.

[00:14:29] And I just feel like, again, this is another person who feels like although she's a legend

[00:14:34] in her own right, she does feel like an unsung hero and like we just don't give her enough

[00:14:38] flowers.

[00:14:39] And so to see her in this role as Keisha, the divorcee who has reaped a lot of very successful

[00:14:48] divorcee who got a lot of money out of her divorce.

[00:14:50] And she's like the fun one of the group.

[00:14:52] You know, I think Kim Whitley's character Bernadette is fun.

[00:14:56] But when you're looking for a good time, you definitely call Keisha.

[00:14:59] I was so excited to see Tisha Campbell in this role.

[00:15:02] So same, like I feel like her two big roles before this were Martin and My Wife and Kids.

[00:15:08] I loved My Wife and Kids when I used to have like the reruns all the time on ABC Family.

[00:15:16] And her character was fantastic.

[00:15:18] But I feel like this is such a great...

[00:15:23] What should I...

[00:15:24] How should I word this?

[00:15:25] Like such a great like spin on what she's capable of as an actress.

[00:15:32] Keisha in this show is like the free spirit.

[00:15:35] She's the artist.

[00:15:36] She's very open about like her...

[00:15:39] She's had many marriages, none of them successful.

[00:15:43] She kind of does whatever she wants and she's not afraid to get down when needed to.

[00:15:49] And also the current winner of the Amateur Stripper competition.

[00:15:54] So like we are in the presence of royalty here.

[00:15:57] Yes, go grandma, go.

[00:15:59] You know, no, I'm joking.

[00:16:01] I was offended when they did that joke.

[00:16:03] I said, damn.

[00:16:04] But no, Tisha Campbell, a queen.

[00:16:07] And it was fun to see her in this role.

[00:16:09] And then of course, last but not least, what can you say about Yvette Nicole Brown, Gia?

[00:16:14] There's so much there.

[00:16:16] Just...

[00:16:17] I had to rewind when I first saw her to be like, this is like, did they really get Yvette

[00:16:25] Nicole Brown?

[00:16:26] Like, did they get her?

[00:16:28] And they did.

[00:16:29] And I was so happy.

[00:16:31] I love her.

[00:16:34] I think I was first introduced to her in Drake and Josh when she played the manager of the

[00:16:41] movie theater.

[00:16:42] Yeah, Helen DuBois.

[00:16:45] She was the best character in that, like bar none.

[00:16:50] Her and Crazy C were holding up that show, right?

[00:16:54] Like they knew the rent was due.

[00:16:58] So I was a big fan of her.

[00:17:00] And then I got to know her more like on the community, which I think is probably the role

[00:17:05] that most people know her for where she played Sheila.

[00:17:11] Similar vibes to Shirley in Community.

[00:17:18] It's been a while since I've seen Community.

[00:17:21] So Shirley in Community.

[00:17:25] And I was a big fan of her there as well.

[00:17:28] She was, you know, such a fun character on there and kind of similar vibes to what we

[00:17:33] get here.

[00:17:34] She is the recent widow here.

[00:17:38] She was a politician's wife, I believe.

[00:17:41] And she did a lot of work and gets no credit for the amount of work that she did for her

[00:17:49] husband's career over the years.

[00:17:50] So I think this is the character I'm most excited to see development in the next couple

[00:17:56] episodes.

[00:17:58] Yes, Evina Cole Brown, one of my faves of all time as well.

[00:18:02] I remember her from Tropic Thunder.

[00:18:04] I remember I love her from Community as well, just like everybody else does.

[00:18:08] But I think the thing that stands out to me the most is that she's kind of a sci-fi nerd

[00:18:14] like me. She watched The Walking Dead.

[00:18:16] I remember her on Talking Dead all the time after the show.

[00:18:20] She's also been guest host on different talk shows because she has a point of view.

[00:18:25] I'm so excited to see exactly, you know, what they all bring to the table later on in the

[00:18:30] season, because through these first episodes, I was impressed.

[00:18:33] I really enjoyed this.

[00:18:35] And, you know, I guess I enjoyed seeing them play off of each other because they are big

[00:18:40] megastars in my eyes.

[00:18:42] And honestly, they have the careers to stand on all of the like on their pedigree and say

[00:18:48] like we deserve to be leading ladies in these roles.

[00:18:51] So it was time.

[00:18:53] You know, it just felt like it was time for us to get something like this.

[00:18:56] And we got it. And I really enjoyed those two episodes that we watched.

[00:19:01] Shout out to the creator of the show, Alison Faust and Miles Worden, one of the primary

[00:19:08] writers of the show.

[00:19:10] They did such a good job.

[00:19:11] I think I've seen somewhere that Alison had been in the writing spaces for a very long

[00:19:18] time. I'm trying to remember.

[00:19:20] I think she said she did a couple of the scary movies with Keena Ivory Wayans.

[00:19:25] And she also worked on My Wife and Kids.

[00:19:28] So it made a lot of sense for maybe like the sitcom to follow, like My Wife and Kids that

[00:19:32] she ends up doing to be this, you know, because we have Tisha Campbell in there as well.

[00:19:37] So big, big shoes on all of these women.

[00:19:41] They are icons.

[00:19:43] And I like these two episodes a lot.

[00:19:47] I really did. They were so funny and it did want me.

[00:19:50] It led me wanting more, you know, to like, OK, maybe I should complete the whole series.

[00:19:55] So maybe after we talk this through, maybe we do consider following up later on with a

[00:20:00] whole series overview of the first season.

[00:20:02] Because our goal is to get this thing renewed right now.

[00:20:05] It is not renewed.

[00:20:07] It is it is Netflix putting it on the top 10 and us saying, hey, everybody go watch

[00:20:12] this so we can get more of it.

[00:20:13] Right. Absolutely.

[00:20:15] I am ready to start advocating for Act Your Age season two.

[00:20:20] I have seen enough of season one to know that it needs a second season and I can't wait

[00:20:25] to see the rest of this.

[00:20:28] But this is like the type of shows that I have always wanted more of, you know, like,

[00:20:34] yes, we are going to be having like a women focused show, but it's on black women.

[00:20:40] And I'm sure they're going to have some episodes revolving around dating or their

[00:20:45] roles as mothers or their roles as like wives in their past relationships, like

[00:20:52] especially with the character of Angela.

[00:20:55] But it's really going to be focused on them.

[00:20:57] Like they are the leading ladies.

[00:20:59] They are the stars.

[00:21:00] And we're going to be learning more about the trials and tribulations of all of these

[00:21:04] characters. I am so excited, excited to see what we have in store for them.

[00:21:10] All right. And so we do need to get into it.

[00:21:13] So our first episode is called Secret and Lies, Secrets and Lies.

[00:21:18] And it's very much about that.

[00:21:20] We meet Bernadette.

[00:21:22] They call her Bernie for short.

[00:21:23] She is going to get married and she surprises her two friends, Keisha and Angela

[00:21:30] with this news.

[00:21:31] But prior to that, we kind of get the dynamic that these people have.

[00:21:36] It's like Bernadette is in the middle of this friend group.

[00:21:38] And then Keisha and Angela are almost like frenemies.

[00:21:41] Right. Because they get along enough to live together, Gia, but they're sniping at

[00:21:47] each other the entire time.

[00:21:48] They're at each other's throats.

[00:21:49] They tolerate one another.

[00:21:52] They both love Bernie.

[00:21:54] They want what's best for her.

[00:21:56] They were both very excited to what they thought the initial news was, which is to her

[00:22:02] getting a key to the city.

[00:22:05] That's how you know that these are affluent women, because this is like just everyday

[00:22:09] business to them.

[00:22:11] Right. Yes.

[00:22:12] And so we get we get an idea.

[00:22:15] We get the vibes on there.

[00:22:16] So like but these are clearly two very different women.

[00:22:22] So you can kind of put two and two together for maybe why they don't always get along.

[00:22:28] Right. And so Bernie is getting the key to the city.

[00:22:31] They come to see her.

[00:22:32] But the surprise is that she's getting married.

[00:22:35] She's getting married tomorrow to a man named Richard.

[00:22:37] And there's immediately some trepidation from Angela.

[00:22:41] She just doesn't she doesn't feel like this is right.

[00:22:44] You know, it feels very rushed.

[00:22:46] And she thinks that maybe they're getting married for the wrong reasons.

[00:22:51] And so deep down in her mind, she's thinking, how do I make this wedding stop?

[00:22:56] You know, this is obviously a mistake.

[00:22:58] How do I shut it down?

[00:22:59] But there's more drama coming her way because Bernie also has a secret that she's been

[00:23:04] holding from Angela.

[00:23:06] Apparently, Angela's late husband Davis, who we can't stop saying so much good stuff

[00:23:11] about. He and Bernie once slept together prior to him passing away.

[00:23:18] And I was shocked because I was thinking, oh, we're getting into this right now.

[00:23:22] We're doing this now. Episode one.

[00:23:24] OK. They really just dropped that on us and expected us to be OK for the rest of like

[00:23:30] the like 15 minutes left of the episode.

[00:23:33] Mm hmm. And it's funny because they didn't tell us that what we will eventually find

[00:23:38] out is that this this affair happened prior to Angela and Davis's marriage.

[00:23:44] I just realized their name is Angela Davis.

[00:23:47] But Angela and Davis's marriage.

[00:23:51] I didn't realize that.

[00:23:52] Yeah, so technically, I guess it's not an affair.

[00:23:55] But, you know, this man has lived a life.

[00:23:59] I think he was married to Angela for 30 years and then he died.

[00:24:02] So this is a secret they've been keeping from Angela for a very long time.

[00:24:07] And Bernie, now that she's faced with her marriage, she has talked to the marriage

[00:24:12] counselor and they've really been pushing the idea of you got to be honest.

[00:24:15] Right. You got to get this stuff off your chest before you go into a new relationship

[00:24:18] because you don't want to bring that baggage with you.

[00:24:20] So she feels like it's her duty to tell Angela what happened.

[00:24:25] But Keisha is not OK with that.

[00:24:27] She wants to have a good time this weekend.

[00:24:28] So her job this time will be to distract both of them from getting their secrets and

[00:24:33] lies all out. Yeah.

[00:24:34] How would you feel if you found out that someone that you were married to once had

[00:24:39] well, had slept with one of your friends, but they were already dead and you couldn't

[00:24:43] say nothing to them about it?

[00:24:45] I would go down to hell myself.

[00:24:50] I mean, like, OK, when I first first had this rumor, like this secret dropped on us,

[00:25:01] I was just like, well, how are they going to end up living together?

[00:25:03] Because like I could never write because it made they made it sound like and I'm

[00:25:07] assuming purposefully that this happened while they were married.

[00:25:14] And so I was just like, this is so out of pocket so fast, especially because it's a

[00:25:21] friend. Right. Like it's the it's one thing if it's a rando, right, that like you

[00:25:27] don't really know. But there's like a special type of betrayal when it's a friend,

[00:25:31] when someone that you consider like one of your closest friends.

[00:25:34] Um. But, you know, like these people do have a past life, so, you know, if this was

[00:25:43] something that happened before, I feel like I wouldn't care as much like, I don't

[00:25:48] know. I would be mad I couldn't at least get revenge about it since like the husband

[00:25:54] was dead because like.

[00:25:56] They should have told me, you know, right, I feel like this is something that could

[00:26:00] have been covered like before the wedding happened.

[00:26:04] Mm hmm. And it would have been fine, but, you know, they got to be extra about it.

[00:26:09] Right now I'm with Davis on this.

[00:26:11] I'm taking this one to my grave.

[00:26:12] You know, you got to like y'all can sort this out with I'm going.

[00:26:17] Absolutely not.

[00:26:18] No, he got off too easy.

[00:26:20] All right. Let's let us discuss that.

[00:26:22] Davis got out of this scot-free and only only Bernie had to deal with the fallout

[00:26:29] here. Yeah, that is true.

[00:26:31] One thing we will learn about Davis is that Davis was a the mayor at one point.

[00:26:35] And so Angela was essentially the first lady of the city that she was living in.

[00:26:39] But she's also very affluent in her own right because she was in law school with the

[00:26:45] Obamas. So it was her, Davis, Michelle and Barack in law school.

[00:26:49] And she is quick to remind us that she was number one of the four of them.

[00:26:53] And so while Davis has managed to exit this earth without any of the blemishes on his

[00:26:58] record, she has yet to get the accolades that she deserves for being the strong woman

[00:27:03] behind the man, but also probably better than him in a lot of ways.

[00:27:07] You know what I'm saying? Like she wasn't keeping something like this away from him.

[00:27:10] Well, kind of. We find out later on that she did to maybe have a relationship with her

[00:27:16] ex prior to the marriage.

[00:27:17] But if it's prior to the marriage, does it really count?

[00:27:20] I feel like that's on that is between the couple.

[00:27:25] You know, if you guys are fine with it before you're married, then good for you.

[00:27:30] Me, I am nosy.

[00:27:31] I want to know every relationship you had prior to me, like before your life changed

[00:27:38] for the better. And I want to I want to know all the details.

[00:27:42] Right. Like I want to know everything.

[00:27:44] I don't think I'd get mad, but I still want to know.

[00:27:47] You still want to know. Yeah.

[00:27:50] Another person who has a secret that they're keeping is Jacob.

[00:27:54] Jacob is Bernie's son.

[00:27:57] He is apparently supposed to be in college, but he is no longer doing that.

[00:28:05] He is living with his I don't know what really how to describe the relationship between

[00:28:11] Jacob and Olivia, but his friend, their besties kind of.

[00:28:18] But like it's weird.

[00:28:19] It's weird because I thought the entire first episode they were together, right?

[00:28:23] Like, yeah, I thought they were together.

[00:28:26] And then the second episode makes it clear that they're not together and that they're

[00:28:31] just best friends.

[00:28:33] But like like I know I was not crazy watching that episode.

[00:28:38] It did seem like they were together in the premiere.

[00:28:41] Yeah. So Jacob has dropped out of college and he's going to live with Olivia.

[00:28:46] Olivia is Angela's daughter and he's Bernie's son.

[00:28:51] So they have like a familial type relationship to an extent.

[00:28:55] Right. They both call each other's moms auntie.

[00:28:58] And there's that.

[00:29:00] Right. But then also we seem like there is like some, oh, y'all would be cute together.

[00:29:06] Kind of getting thrown out by the moms at different points.

[00:29:10] So I start thinking, OK, well, they're not siblings.

[00:29:12] They're obviously together.

[00:29:14] Maybe he's left college and they're now shacking up or something like that, unbeknownst

[00:29:18] to their parents. But no, he is pining for her.

[00:29:22] There is a moment where they say, oh, you would look cute together.

[00:29:26] We've always thought y'all would look cute together.

[00:29:27] And he says, me too.

[00:29:28] And that's when I say, oh, oh, y'all aren't together.

[00:29:31] Wow. Yeah.

[00:29:33] Oh, this is bad.

[00:29:36] This is bad for my boy.

[00:29:38] Yeah. This is some Gregory and Janine type pining.

[00:29:41] You know, this is not good.

[00:29:44] Do not bring Gregory and Janine into this.

[00:29:47] I'm just saying.

[00:29:49] Gregory finished school, OK?

[00:29:51] That is true. That is true.

[00:29:53] No, Jacob is just living with Olivia and secretly being in love with her while hiding

[00:29:59] that from his mom and trying to break up her marriage.

[00:30:01] They got a lot going on here.

[00:30:03] Jacob's got to get a lot together before he starts like starts stopping his mother's

[00:30:10] impending nuptials.

[00:30:11] Right. Like.

[00:30:14] You got to figure out the college thing or at least tell Bernie about the college

[00:30:18] thing and then maybe figure out what the Olivia situation like.

[00:30:23] You got a lot. Pick a struggle like you've got it.

[00:30:25] There's so much going on right now.

[00:30:28] I even just like stumbling over my words now because it's just like there's just so

[00:30:32] much there that you need to sort through here.

[00:30:36] Yeah, and he's very funny.

[00:30:37] The actor who plays Jacob had me had me dying throughout throughout this.

[00:30:43] And I had actually never seen him before.

[00:30:45] So I wasn't familiar with his work.

[00:30:46] His name is Nathan Anderson.

[00:30:48] And I'm looking now.

[00:30:50] He seems a relatively new actor.

[00:30:52] And so I'd be very excited to see if he's in anything like, you know, in a lot more

[00:30:57] projects moving forward.

[00:30:59] But I do think like, yeah, I think he's got a good chemistry about him on the show.

[00:31:04] And then, of course, there's Olivia as well, who another, you know, probably younger

[00:31:11] actress that I had never heard about before.

[00:31:13] But I was actually very impressed with her role here because she's completely

[00:31:16] oblivious to Jacob and his pining for her.

[00:31:21] I mean, it feels like she's oblivious, right?

[00:31:23] She did let him come live with with them.

[00:31:25] So, I mean, with her.

[00:31:26] So there's no way she really knows that he's in love with her.

[00:31:29] Right. I don't even know.

[00:31:32] Like how much does she know?

[00:31:33] Maybe it's one of those things where she's like, yeah, maybe.

[00:31:37] But also we're friends and we don't want to like ruin that.

[00:31:41] I'm sure we'll learn more in the rest of the season.

[00:31:44] But like this relationship is the biggest question mark to me because I don't know

[00:31:49] where like what direction they're going to go into, like with these two.

[00:31:54] But the actors themselves were great.

[00:31:58] Yeah, that's Mariah Robinson from Chicago Med and from various other projects.

[00:32:05] And so I'm very eager to see what happens between the two of them.

[00:32:09] But our more pressing matter is this wedding and all these big reveals.

[00:32:14] So Keisha knows that she needs to distract Bernie and Angela.

[00:32:17] So she decides to take them to a gentleman's club where the strippers are

[00:32:21] scantily clad and so are the other patrons of the gentleman's club.

[00:32:26] And that's when it starts to really set in, you know, the age difference between

[00:32:30] these women and maybe some of the younger leading ladies of other shows,

[00:32:34] because they're comfortable in a gentleman's club, but they're also like

[00:32:39] a little bit more buttoned up than you would think for people at a strip club

[00:32:42] for a bachelorette party.

[00:32:44] But yeah, they were able to get VIP bottle service because they dropped Angela's name.

[00:32:49] Now that's when you know you got some clout.

[00:32:51] They bootleg Michelle Obama is doing it.

[00:32:55] My heart broke for her when somebody called her that.

[00:32:58] It was so bad.

[00:33:00] I, I couldn't I would never recover.

[00:33:03] Never, never recover from there.

[00:33:05] But but, you know, again, these women have money.

[00:33:09] So like they can afford bottle service and they have the clout

[00:33:14] to achieve such a status.

[00:33:17] So there is a what's the word?

[00:33:21] There is a perk to being a woman of age at the gentleman's club.

[00:33:27] You have money.

[00:33:28] Yeah, you got money.

[00:33:29] You got good seats, you know, and you got bottle service.

[00:33:33] Yeah. And again, they walked right in.

[00:33:35] They didn't have to get on the list or anything.

[00:33:36] They just dropped Angela's name and it was all good.

[00:33:38] Some shenanigans occur.

[00:33:40] And then eventually Bernie starts feeling too guilty to keep this to herself.

[00:33:44] And she has to come out and say the words, you know.

[00:33:49] She said it.

[00:33:50] She admitted that she slept with Davis prior to this, to him and Bernie.

[00:33:57] I'm sorry, him and Angela getting together.

[00:33:59] And while this initial shock does slow Angela down.

[00:34:03] She's OK. She's fine.

[00:34:05] She bounces back because she too has like like we said prior to the marriage

[00:34:09] has a previous life.

[00:34:10] So, you know, she understands.

[00:34:13] See, yeah, but also like I feel like you could have said this way earlier,

[00:34:19] like it was before the marriage.

[00:34:21] So I don't know.

[00:34:23] I think this could have been resolved 20 years ago, personally.

[00:34:27] Yeah, at least 20, maybe 30.

[00:34:29] I mean, like this like 30, 30 and some change years ago,

[00:34:33] you know, like this has been resolved easily.

[00:34:36] But then we wouldn't have the premiere episode.

[00:34:39] So I guess we all win.

[00:34:41] Yeah. The other big reveal eventually comes out as well.

[00:34:45] Angela is not a big fan of this relationship with Bernie and Richard.

[00:34:50] She's just like, hey, maybe explore what this means for you.

[00:34:55] You know, she's concerned.

[00:34:58] A weed cookie later, there is a confession made by Bernie

[00:35:02] where she calls Richard and she leaves him a voicemail.

[00:35:06] It says something to the effect of,

[00:35:10] are you trying to be her Jay-Z to her Beyonce?

[00:35:13] Or do you need to go to the left, to the left?

[00:35:15] It was it was very 50 year old woman.

[00:35:22] It was great.

[00:35:24] Yeah, they were they were toasted on the weed cookies.

[00:35:28] I don't know if that's is that your bag.

[00:35:30] Is that something you partake in?

[00:35:32] I've been known

[00:35:35] more so to fall asleep, though, like my phone is far away from me

[00:35:38] when those are when

[00:35:42] when that is in my system.

[00:35:45] Yeah, the shenanigans occur.

[00:35:47] Yeah, the shenanigans occur.

[00:35:49] I feel like honestly, I am older than them because I usually use them to fall asleep.

[00:35:54] So, yeah, these women were wide awake and making mistakes.

[00:36:00] Yes, mistakes were made.

[00:36:04] And, you know, like I am blessed to live

[00:36:09] in the great commonwealth of Massachusetts, where such paraphernalia is legal.

[00:36:16] You know, thank you.

[00:36:18] Thank you, voters.

[00:36:19] And, you know, we're just we support the legal process here.

[00:36:24] Yeah, I live in Texas where it's basically the Middle Ages.

[00:36:29] So nothing, nothing legal except guns.

[00:36:32] You're not like executed for weed down there?

[00:36:34] Like, yeah, pretty much.

[00:36:35] Yeah, literally nothing is legal.

[00:36:38] Yeah, that's the only thing legal, though.

[00:36:39] Murder. That's it.

[00:36:40] Everything else off the table.

[00:36:44] Yeah, but but it's legal where they are, too.

[00:36:46] Again, they're in they're in the DMV.

[00:36:48] And so although they are higher off the weed cookies,

[00:36:51] the one mistake they do make is they let Bernie get a hold of her phone.

[00:36:54] And yeah, she ends up talking to her soon to be husband.

[00:36:59] And based on the message that she got,

[00:37:02] it's not going to work out for the two of them.

[00:37:04] And he shuts it down.

[00:37:06] And so now she's all alone.

[00:37:08] She's alone.

[00:37:09] We find out Keisha is alone because of her divorces and her husband.

[00:37:13] She might have got all the stuff in her divorce, all the money.

[00:37:15] But her husband got all the friends.

[00:37:17] And Angela, we know, is a widow.

[00:37:19] So between the three of them, they got a lot of time on their hands,

[00:37:22] a lot of money, and they want to get the French,

[00:37:25] the French group back together in one spot.

[00:37:27] And so Bernie invites them all to live in their penthouse in the DMV area.

[00:37:33] And I don't think this sounds like a dream.

[00:37:34] You know, a bunch of rich people live on roof.

[00:37:36] Yeah. Good time.

[00:37:38] Oh, yeah. Oh, my God.

[00:37:40] The that that house, right?

[00:37:43] Like that living space.

[00:37:47] And only three people are living in there.

[00:37:49] And like I'm sure they have rent figured out in some way

[00:37:51] that they are not concerned about. That is the dream.

[00:37:55] Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah.

[00:37:56] I'm sure whatever this is, it's owned.

[00:37:59] And so they're not paying rent to to Bernie.

[00:38:01] They're just going to be moving in, drinking wine, dancing,

[00:38:04] doing the electric slide and having a good time.

[00:38:06] So the first episode leaves you in a moment where you're like,

[00:38:10] dang, what could go wrong?

[00:38:11] You know, obviously there's some personality differences,

[00:38:14] but through the first episode, I was very happy with the premiere.

[00:38:17] Oh, yeah, it was great.

[00:38:18] It made me very excited for what comes next.

[00:38:23] You know, like I was invested in the characters

[00:38:26] to get an idea of who they all are as personalities

[00:38:30] and what possible dynamics could be coming into play in future episodes.

[00:38:36] Yeah. And so we move into that very quickly with episode two.

[00:38:41] Episode two, it starts with, you know,

[00:38:44] what we see is I guess when they first start getting into the cohabitation,

[00:38:49] the growing pains of living with somebody as grown people.

[00:38:53] It's automatically hard to live with other people like, you know,

[00:38:56] when you're in college or you're younger, you know, it feels like, OK,

[00:38:59] having a roommate, that's normal.

[00:39:00] But I guess when you've lived a full life, you've had marriages,

[00:39:03] you've had a divorce, you've lived by yourself, you've made your own money.

[00:39:07] Cohabitating at that point has to be a lot harder.

[00:39:10] Right. You have your differences.

[00:39:12] You have the things that you're just completely setting your ways about.

[00:39:15] They're non-negotiables.

[00:39:16] And then you have to deal with other people's quirks as well.

[00:39:20] Gia, let's start with the bedsocks of it all.

[00:39:25] Tell me. Tell me you're not a bit.

[00:39:27] OK, cool. I was about to say, Gia, I have to walk off this podcast.

[00:39:30] Tell me you don't wear bedsocks.

[00:39:32] OK, first of all, absolutely not.

[00:39:34] How do you wear socks to bed?

[00:39:38] I don't get it.

[00:39:39] And they get so irritating, right?

[00:39:41] Like they just like they're itchy.

[00:39:43] And no. So I am not for the bedsocks.

[00:39:49] I do have a couple fuzzy socks that I use for to,

[00:39:53] you know, walk around the house and whatnot.

[00:39:56] Um, but also I don't know.

[00:39:59] I don't know about you, Chappelle.

[00:40:01] But when I did have roommates,

[00:40:05] I live alone now, which is one of my favorite personality traits about me.

[00:40:11] But. Why would you just take someone's socks out of the dryer

[00:40:16] and wear them yourself like Bernie?

[00:40:18] I was rooting for you here.

[00:40:20] And I just can't support that.

[00:40:22] I'm sorry. What's mine is mine and what yours is yours.

[00:40:26] Yeah, they've known each other for a very long time.

[00:40:28] But please don't just take my stuff.

[00:40:29] You know, like that just feels like a bare minimum requirement of friendship.

[00:40:33] I think like my longest friendships have been like

[00:40:36] currently are the ones that have lasted like 10 years and stuff like that.

[00:40:40] Like I even then I am not borrowing anybody's socks.

[00:40:44] I'm not I'm not just taking somebody's socks to use for myself.

[00:40:48] If I need a pair of socks, they will give me a pair of socks.

[00:40:51] But like it is not I'm not down bad, that bad yet.

[00:40:55] So so you have a lot of siblings.

[00:40:57] What about a sibling?

[00:40:58] Because siblings often kind of adopt the yours and mine.

[00:41:03] Absolutely. I was just about to get into that.

[00:41:05] And also, absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[00:41:09] No, I think it helps that.

[00:41:12] So my I have one sister and three brothers.

[00:41:18] So brothers are not necessarily looking to wear my stuff anytime soon.

[00:41:27] And my sister and I have like different enough styles

[00:41:31] where it's like if she needed to borrow,

[00:41:34] if she wanted like to borrow something or she needed

[00:41:37] like socks or some new outfit or anything like that,

[00:41:41] I wouldn't mind giving it to her.

[00:41:42] We're similar sizes, so that wouldn't be a problem.

[00:41:45] But just taking it like I can't imagine going into her room

[00:41:49] and just like grabbing something like it's mine and wearing it out

[00:41:54] and just like acting like there is nothing wrong.

[00:41:56] Like at the very least, you ask.

[00:41:58] I think this is like a very specific sibling experience, but also absolutely not.

[00:42:06] But I know that like the typical sibling experience is that it's like

[00:42:11] what's yours, mine and what's mine is also mine.

[00:42:13] See, for me, I'm a what's mine is mine.

[00:42:17] If you want to ask for it and you will probably get it.

[00:42:19] I am not that territorial about my stuff.

[00:42:22] My brother is the polar opposite of me.

[00:42:25] He knows that I am not territorial about my stuff.

[00:42:28] So he takes it freely.

[00:42:29] My brother would take food.

[00:42:31] Are you the older one or is he the older one?

[00:42:33] I am the older one.

[00:42:34] I am the older one.

[00:42:35] Yes.

[00:42:36] Yeah.

[00:42:37] And he would take food out of my hand and not even ask.

[00:42:40] He's reaching in the fries and walking away as if nothing happened.

[00:42:42] If we're talking about food, absolutely.

[00:42:45] Absolutely.

[00:42:45] There are minutes I am starving because of all of them.

[00:42:49] I have walked into plenty of rooms where my brother is half of his outfit is mine.

[00:42:55] Just, and it's like, it's normal.

[00:42:57] I'm like, how did you get that?

[00:42:58] Where did you, how did you get into my home?

[00:43:00] You know what I'm saying?

[00:43:01] Like, those are the questions I asked my brother and he has no, like no

[00:43:04] question about it, but he's like, I'm not going to ask for anything.

[00:43:07] And I'm like, I'm not going to ask for anything.

[00:43:09] I'm just going to ask for my brother.

[00:43:10] And he has no, like no qualms about it.

[00:43:13] So.

[00:43:14] My dad famously says that my brother's favorite food is whatever we're eating.

[00:43:20] Like whatever I am eating or he is eating, that's my brother's favorite food.

[00:43:25] Yeah.

[00:43:26] See, this is why my brother and I could not live together because immediately

[00:43:29] I know my stuff, it becomes our stuff and his stuff will be his stuff because

[00:43:34] I don't have it in me to treat him like that.

[00:43:35] Um, not net, not clothes, but like a video games, uh, Xbox consoles,

[00:43:41] uh, Xbox controllers, um, room space just in general using it.

[00:43:47] So people can play Xbox in two different places.

[00:43:49] And the arguments I have had for people to just clean up after

[00:43:54] their damn stuff in my own room.

[00:43:55] There is still a glitter spot from like when, remember when slime was popular.

[00:44:00] I hope my students are listening to this right now because there is this gold

[00:44:04] glitter spot on my black area rug in my dad's house, in the basement that I

[00:44:10] purchased with my own money, my own college student money that never got out.

[00:44:14] And I am still mad about it.

[00:44:16] So yeah, I hope they know I did not forget.

[00:44:20] No, we will never forget.

[00:44:27] In the words of Sandra Diaz Twine, I don't forgive and I don't forget.

[00:44:31] That part.

[00:44:32] Listen, we, we deal with all of that and more in this episode with these

[00:44:36] friends, um, immediately out the gate.

[00:44:38] We see Angela is rearranging Bernie's stuff because the kitchen

[00:44:41] isn't set up to her, her liking.

[00:44:43] We get Bernie wearing a sock.

[00:44:45] Zia, you're just not good with any of this.

[00:44:46] Are you?

[00:44:46] No, no.

[00:44:47] This all bothers me so much.

[00:44:51] I just, I like who just, who just arranges your kitchen without like this, this was

[00:44:58] a listen, I still love the show, but this episode was triggering to me.

[00:45:02] Yeah.

[00:45:03] I thought the most upsetting thing about this episode would be the fact that it

[00:45:06] opens with them standing over the lifeless body of an older man.

[00:45:10] Uh, but no, honestly, honestly, all of these territory.

[00:45:15] Right, exactly.

[00:45:16] I was not concerned with how this man died and why, uh, Keisha's holding a knife

[00:45:20] over him, why Bernie's doing chest compression?

[00:45:23] Like I, I, it didn't bother me at all, but what bothered me was please don't

[00:45:27] bring your ugly paint painting into my home and expect for me to look at it every time.

[00:45:32] Because that painting Zia was hideous.

[00:45:34] I feel like you could have just put the painting in your room, right?

[00:45:38] Like, like just put it in your room.

[00:45:42] You have your own space.

[00:45:43] This is a huge, huge space for your paintings.

[00:45:48] Yeah.

[00:45:49] And the cool thing is that Bernie is the landlord of this building, right?

[00:45:52] She owns this building.

[00:45:53] So she essentially is like, look, just put it in a hallway behind

[00:45:57] a plant or something like that.

[00:45:58] I just don't want to see it in my home.

[00:45:59] And up to that, I'd say yes, please.

[00:46:01] Because Keisha felt very strongly about this ugly ass painting.

[00:46:05] Uh, there's hair in the painting.

[00:46:08] There's eyeballs glued to the painting.

[00:46:11] I saw an ear.

[00:46:13] An ear, a couple, I think it was like maybe like three ears.

[00:46:16] It was awful from beginning to end.

[00:46:19] Yeah.

[00:46:20] And so nobody is a fan of this.

[00:46:23] This, this painting is so bad that it eventually causes Mr.

[00:46:27] Henry's, the nosy downstairs neighbor to pass out and almost have a heart attack.

[00:46:33] We haven't really talked about Mr.

[00:46:34] Henry's much, but, um, he sucks.

[00:46:37] This guy is all in a business.

[00:46:39] He won't let them live their life.

[00:46:40] He has complaints about everything.

[00:46:42] And, uh, he is going to let these women know how he feels about them at every turn.

[00:46:47] Uh, we find out he's a very lonely man and he has a son that's a police officer

[00:46:50] who will later on come to his rescue when he damn near has a heart

[00:46:53] attack looking at that painting.

[00:46:55] Um, what did you think about this storyline overall?

[00:46:57] Okay.

[00:46:58] Can I like share a little antidote here for my experience?

[00:47:02] So I live in a condo complex and I am on the second floor of this complex.

[00:47:07] So there is someone that lives directly underneath me and has very similar vibes.

[00:47:12] Right.

[00:47:13] Like very, uh, similar, like complaints about my business and all that stuff.

[00:47:19] I had so one time, right.

[00:47:21] Um, I, when it was getting close to winter, you know, like Massachusetts

[00:47:26] weather, sometimes it's hot, sometimes it's cold.

[00:47:28] So I put on like automatic, um, heat so that it gets to a certain

[00:47:33] temperature and then it turns off.

[00:47:35] But when it was hotter out, I would just turn it off before I left the house

[00:47:38] and then like turn it on, um, like while I was out and about, and before I go to

[00:47:43] bed, right around when it was still like 50, 60 degrees out, I would turn the heat

[00:47:47] off while he had a problem with this and he could hear it.

[00:47:49] So then one time when I did have the heat on, he called the condo complex to complain

[00:47:56] about what I was doing with my heat because he was worried about the pipes.

[00:48:01] So they called my dad.

[00:48:03] Cause my dad is, uh, like the technical owner of this, of my space.

[00:48:10] He calls me, I tell him to go check it, but I know it's on.

[00:48:12] Cause I looked at it before I left and long story short, I was right.

[00:48:18] And now I vacuum very late at night now.

[00:48:21] Yes.

[00:48:22] And tap dance as well.

[00:48:23] You know, I've been taking up tap.

[00:48:26] I've been taking up clogging.

[00:48:27] Um, just like get like different, different types of, uh, uh, very

[00:48:32] obnoxious, uh, hard heel shoes.

[00:48:35] Um, I guess you could say that's now I now vacuum, um, anywhere between like 11

[00:48:41] PM to 2 AM at night, just, you know, and this is, it's been about a year.

[00:48:46] And yes.

[00:48:49] Yeah.

[00:48:50] He deserved it.

[00:48:50] Yeah.

[00:48:51] That listen, let's, let's all just mind our own businesses.

[00:48:53] How about that?

[00:48:54] You know, um,

[00:48:55] when I, all of this to say, when this episode aired, I just think the

[00:49:02] women didn't go far enough, you know?

[00:49:04] Like I feel like I just think there are things that they could have done to

[00:49:09] combat, um, this neighbor's complaint.

[00:49:14] Cause really what is he going to do?

[00:49:15] He's complaining to the landlord, right?

[00:49:17] Like, yeah.

[00:49:18] Yeah.

[00:49:18] Like who you're going to talk to about it?

[00:49:20] You know, I think she, she, she threatened to put baby oil on

[00:49:23] the floor in front of his door.

[00:49:25] I said, oh, she should have done that.

[00:49:27] You know, like don't just say you're going to do that actions.

[00:49:32] Yeah.

[00:49:33] So listen, all of this comes to a head, uh, in several different ways.

[00:49:37] Um, first off the painting.

[00:49:40] Um, eventually it comes out that this is just an awful painting, you know,

[00:49:44] a damn near kills Mr.

[00:49:45] Henry's and they have to talk to, uh, to Keisha about her artwork and say,

[00:49:49] listen, we know you love it.

[00:49:50] I don't love it.

[00:49:51] Let's not force this up on each other.

[00:49:52] And so she kind of comes to terms with that.

[00:49:55] Um, as far as those, uh, bed socks goes, Angela decides instead of handling

[00:50:01] this like an adult, she's going to sneak into, uh, Bernie's room and.

[00:50:06] Gingerly remove the socks from her feet, wash them, dry them obviously.

[00:50:12] And then put them on her feet so that she can get a good night's sleep

[00:50:14] because she cannot sleep with her socks off, which is obviously her fault

[00:50:19] because that's a, that's a criminal, uh, like a trait, right?

[00:50:22] That's, that's a sign of psychosis is that you cannot sleep without socks on.

[00:50:26] Like, what are you talking about?

[00:50:27] Yeah.

[00:50:27] You can't sleep without socks.

[00:50:32] Girl.

[00:50:33] I know she's been going through a lot with her husband dying

[00:50:37] and everything, but like girl.

[00:50:39] So this is a trauma response is what you're saying?

[00:50:41] Yes, absolutely.

[00:50:42] There is no logical explanation for this.

[00:50:45] Yeah.

[00:50:46] And, uh, so she felt like it was logical to go into that bedroom

[00:50:50] and take those socks off.

[00:50:52] Um, were you surprised when we found out that, uh, when she entered, she found

[00:50:59] Bernie paddling the pink canoe, as they say.

[00:51:03] Um, I can't believe they went there in the second episode.

[00:51:08] You know, like I thought like that's like a later down the line, like, you

[00:51:12] know, after you tested the waters of like one year.

[00:51:14] Warm it up a little bit.

[00:51:15] Yeah.

[00:51:15] Yeah.

[00:51:16] We were already warmed up apparently.

[00:51:18] Apparently one episode was enough.

[00:51:20] Um, she was, uh, spending some quality time with herself.

[00:51:26] Um, and this is why you knock, but also like how brave of her for doing

[00:51:32] this with other people in that household.

[00:51:36] Yeah.

[00:51:37] Yeah.

[00:51:38] This was a, this was a shock.

[00:51:39] Angela is probably the least equipped person to walk in on

[00:51:42] something like this as well.

[00:51:43] Like of the three of them, she's the one who this, this is going

[00:51:46] to hit the hardest for her.

[00:51:47] Okay.

[00:51:48] And so because of this, they have to establish some, some boundaries,

[00:51:52] some normal ass boundaries, not before you enter don't move other people's

[00:51:57] stuff without talking about it.

[00:51:58] Don't take other people's things.

[00:52:00] These to me, this feels like something you, these are the conversations you

[00:52:03] have before you move in with somebody.

[00:52:06] Uh, you shouldn't have to stay with somebody for a week and all of this

[00:52:09] happened before you realized we should set some rules and like, I get that

[00:52:13] they are, they were all friends before this.

[00:52:16] Um, so maybe they thought that.

[00:52:19] They did not need to do something like this, but also like, this is like

[00:52:25] the first thing that you do when you're an RA or like when you go to college,

[00:52:30] you make a roommate agreement.

[00:52:31] Don't touch my shit.

[00:52:33] Don't, you know, knock when you come in or have a, have a code for when you

[00:52:38] need some alone time in your room.

[00:52:39] Like there, you know, they're just, there, there has to be rules

[00:52:43] because otherwise chaos erupts.

[00:52:46] Yeah.

[00:52:47] Um, and there was chaos, but they got to the bottom of it.

[00:52:50] They all came to terms with what was going on.

[00:52:52] They saved Mr.

[00:52:52] Henry's life and then, uh, they move on to bigger and better things.

[00:52:56] But the B plot is something that I really wanted to talk about.

[00:52:59] Olivia and Jacob, they're still living together.

[00:53:02] And like you said, in this episode, it becomes abundantly clear that there is

[00:53:05] no romantic involvement between the two of them.

[00:53:07] Um, but they are cute together.

[00:53:10] Gia, the whole black Dean of it all.

[00:53:14] Do you remember the plot to black Dean too?

[00:53:16] No, I do not.

[00:53:17] And I feel like very, um, I felt very Caucasian in this moment.

[00:53:23] I will say, look, they made this shit up, but a black Dean apparently

[00:53:27] is a fictional black cartoon superhero or superhero character.

[00:53:32] Um, who was a mixed, like it feels like maybe very black dynamite,

[00:53:36] black exploitationist, um, because, um, he, um, he's an African

[00:53:41] American studies professor.

[00:53:43] So he wears a bow tie, obviously.

[00:53:45] Uh, and he is his superpowers that he is the HNIC, the head Negro in charge.

[00:53:50] Again, obviously.

[00:53:51] Um, and his catchphrase is you just failed your pop quiz.

[00:53:57] And so this is their favorite superhero together, Olivia and Jacob.

[00:54:02] They bonded over him.

[00:54:03] And so Jacob has decided that he wants to, um, he wants to dress up as black

[00:54:10] Dean so that he can win the affection of Olivia who would then be black

[00:54:14] Dean's, uh, nosy TA that he wants to seduce and ride off in the

[00:54:19] sunset with in a Cadillac.

[00:54:20] So that's what Jacob's going for here.

[00:54:22] And he does, he does dress up as black Dean.

[00:54:25] Uh, he's got his underwear on the outside of his pants.

[00:54:27] Very quail man of him.

[00:54:29] Uh, he's got a bow tie, very nation of Islam of him and it's a little raggedy.

[00:54:35] Not gonna lie to you.

[00:54:37] It's not the, it's not the best, but you can tell he's putting effort into it.

[00:54:40] Gia, are you rooting for Jacob?

[00:54:43] Oh my God.

[00:54:43] Yes.

[00:54:44] Like he is a nerd.

[00:54:45] He's like adorable little nerd.

[00:54:47] He's got to figure out a lot in his life before I personally think he can be

[00:54:52] pursuing a romantic relationship.

[00:54:54] Right.

[00:54:55] Like he's got to still like, I did not forget about the college thing.

[00:54:58] Okay.

[00:54:59] Like he, he still has not told his mother about it.

[00:55:01] So you need, he needs to get himself together, but he does mean well.

[00:55:08] And he does seem like a very sweet kid.

[00:55:12] Um, I really shouldn't be calling him a kid cause like he is of college age,

[00:55:16] but like, to me, college students are still kids, right?

[00:55:18] Like, yeah.

[00:55:19] Yeah.

[00:55:20] Them babies.

[00:55:21] These are babies.

[00:55:22] Yeah.

[00:55:23] Unfortunately for Jacob, Olivia does not have eyes for him, but she has eyes

[00:55:27] for a man named Malcolm who, uh, is a more polished version of Jacob.

[00:55:32] Right?

[00:55:32] So Jacob has his makeshift outfit that he completely made from scratch.

[00:55:36] You can tell.

[00:55:37] Uh, and then Malcolm walks in, uh, and his very much, you know,

[00:55:41] official black Dean costume.

[00:55:43] Uh, and it's clear that Olivia only has eyes for Malcolm and it's

[00:55:47] like, this is the struggle, right?

[00:55:49] We're going to watch Jacob pining for her while she's with the other guy.

[00:55:53] Who's got it all together.

[00:55:55] Who's got the good outfit, very smart.

[00:55:57] He quotes bell hooks.

[00:55:58] What else could you want?

[00:55:59] You know, as far as Olivia is concerned when, but Jacob is right there by

[00:56:04] the end of the episode, he just looks over and says to Malcolm, I hate you.

[00:56:07] And so he can't even hide his disdain for this man.

[00:56:10] Uh, Jacob is in hell.

[00:56:12] He's down bad.

[00:56:13] And personally.

[00:56:15] I'm rooting for him.

[00:56:16] I got to watch the end to see if he makes any type of progress by the

[00:56:20] end of the season to winning Olivia's heart, because she just doesn't feel

[00:56:24] like she's interested at all right now.

[00:56:26] Yeah.

[00:56:26] I think, I think they both just need some time to kind

[00:56:29] of figure out what they want.

[00:56:30] And maybe, maybe it doesn't up that, you know, they're better off as friends.

[00:56:34] I'm not necessarily like sold a hundred percent on their relationship right now.

[00:56:40] Like just because you grew up together doesn't mean you're for one another.

[00:56:45] But I do like the character separately.

[00:56:47] And hopefully that means like, if they do come together, it

[00:56:50] will be a very cute relationship.

[00:56:52] Yeah.

[00:56:53] Jacob talks to his mom, Bernie and tells him, you know, like, I mean, tells her

[00:56:56] like, Hey, Olivia is just, I'm in love with her.

[00:56:59] It's I know it's my deep dark secret.

[00:57:01] She's like, bro, everybody can tell.

[00:57:02] Everybody knows anybody with eyes can see it except Olivia apparently.

[00:57:07] Um, and he, and he tells her that, you know, I'm crazy about her, but I don't

[00:57:11] know how to move about this because she's my best friend and she gives him some sage wisdom.

[00:57:16] She says, sometimes it's better to have a best friend than the next lover.

[00:57:20] And so, um, you know, this could end bad for him.

[00:57:24] Like you were saying, maybe they're not made to be together, but it feels like

[00:57:27] he's not going to come to that conclusion easily is going to have to get some

[00:57:31] bruises throughout this season before he decides to let that one go.

[00:57:36] Um, but again, I can't help a root for him.

[00:57:38] I think Abbott has desensitized me.

[00:57:40] I think it's made me soft.

[00:57:42] I think it like after the season we just went through, it's like anything is possible.

[00:57:46] You know, like we can, but also he is just like a lovable character.

[00:57:51] He's young.

[00:57:52] He's kind of nerdy.

[00:57:54] He has a lot of stuff he has to figure out.

[00:57:56] Like you, there's nothing to dislike about him yet.

[00:58:00] He's very funny.

[00:58:02] So like, I want good things for him, but we will see what those

[00:58:06] good things are down the road.

[00:58:08] Yeah, we will definitely see because those are our first two episodes.

[00:58:11] That's Act Your Age episodes one and two.

[00:58:13] Um, we have, obviously there's more episodes of the season left and we will

[00:58:17] cover that if you all decide that you want to hear it, so please leave in the

[00:58:21] comments on recapkickback.com or YouTube page, uh, youtube.com slash at recap

[00:58:27] kickback drop down in the comments and let us know, do you want more coverage

[00:58:31] of Act Your Age, should we finish the entire season or should we move on to

[00:58:33] something else?

[00:58:34] You let us know because, um, personally I don't want this show to be canceled.

[00:58:38] I've been seeing a lot of good feedback on it since it's hit Netflix.

[00:58:42] And again, if we're not watching and supporting our shows that are black

[00:58:45] led or minority led or people of color led, then they're going to fall to the

[00:58:49] wayside.

[00:58:49] So many of the other shows have been put on pause, um, such as Summer

[00:58:53] House Martha's Vineyard.

[00:58:55] Um, rap shit is gone now.

[00:58:57] Grand crew is gone.

[00:58:58] Now you get my gist.

[00:58:59] We're losing a lot of recipes here, y'all.

[00:59:01] So we got to push through and we got to promote these shows when we have them.

[00:59:05] Absolutely.

[00:59:06] A hundred percent.

[00:59:07] Cosign everything.

[00:59:09] Yes.

[00:59:09] And Gia, in the meantime, Abbott we know has been renewed because Abbott will go

[00:59:15] on forever.

[00:59:15] It will go on forever and ever and ever.

[00:59:17] And so we will be back next season to talk about Abbott Elementary season four

[00:59:21] episodically right here on recapkickback.com.

[00:59:24] But in the meantime, thank you so much for coming on here and talking to me

[00:59:28] about Act Your Age.

[00:59:29] It's been so much fun.

[00:59:30] Thank you.

[00:59:30] And thank you for introducing me to the show.

[00:59:33] I have not been really keeping up with the Netflix shows in general.

[00:59:38] So this was a, uh, like a nice treat for, for me.

[00:59:43] Like this was a nice little surprise to my week that I ended up really enjoying.

[00:59:48] Yeah.

[00:59:48] And, uh, until Abbott returns, what else do you have going on in your world?

[00:59:54] Oh my God.

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[01:00:24] And I'm very excited to, uh, see how this season ends.

[01:00:28] Even though again, this was like the worst elimination almost ever.

[01:00:33] Um, and I hated every moment of it, but it's okay.

[01:00:36] It's okay.

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