Also, and I say this as a human with an immense amount of empathy for injuries and illness (both acute and chronic), Kyle especially is just SUPER whiney for a kid who stole a car AND totaled it and got away without permanent injuries. Kyle had to be in a wheelchair because “his back.” That was the entirety of the diagnosis. No matter, let’s make like the show and skate across all this like freshly resurfaced ice right on into some “lessons learned”! The medical stuff felt like they were really flying by the seat of their pants. This is all couched as the teens not wanting to discuss it, but I’m pretty certain it was more an issue of plotting. Jackson and Tyler ( Carson Rowland) get into a tussle in the waiting room, which leads to Tyler breaking his arm, which is very, very bad because BASEBALL!!! It’s never really sussed out exactly what went down or even how Kyle ended up driving Tyler’s car. Eventually, all the teenagers also make their way to the hospital. It turns out that Nellie Lewis (Simone Lockhart) was riding in the car with Kyle, and, while she comes out with only a few scrapes, her parents, Trent ( Paul Rolfes) and Mary Vaughn ( Allison Gabriel), are pretty pissed at everyone except their own perfect children. Kyle, of course, is going to be alright, but it’s going to take a lot of inspirational quotes, most of this season, and some actual (mostly off-screen) therapy to get him there. Season two picks up immediately after that with Helen ( Heather Headley), Dana Sue ( Brooke Elliott), and Maddie ( JoAnna Garcia Swisher) praying in the hospital waiting room while Still Terri-Bill Townsend ( Chris Klein) makes a nurse’s life incredibly difficult by badgering her for information and undeserved hospital access. All of the other teens had dumped their phones into a bowl at a post-prom party at Jackson Lewis’ ( Sam Ashby) house-because he’d forgotten that with or without cell phones, nothing stays secret for long in Serenity?-so they weren’t answering their parents’ frantic calls. You know, when you’re not irked out of your skin by one or all of the above things.Īs you may recall-or not, because shows like this are not designed to stick-when season one ended Kyle ( Logan Allen) was pulled from the driver’s side wreckage of a car, while the identity and status of the passenger was still unknown. But, I’ll tell you what! You whip all that together with the insistently upbeat music, the questionable accents, the labored dialogue, the overly staged town backdrop, and you have a perfect visual concoction to lull your precious brain cells into a hypnotic state of binging bliss. Which isn’t to say that they’re not dealing with real and weighty issues-they are, including pregnancy loss, infertility, adoption, infidelity, marriage reconciliation, grief, physical trauma, and anger management, to name a few-but it’s done in such a way that they never really dip below the surface, and almost everything is solved with a few good (or Godly) kernels of wisdom. Amen! Though, really, it’s more like drama by snippets because scenes get cut just as stories are getting particularly juicy, which keeps things from ever getting too deep. We remember you fondly, oh fortuitously-timed broken pipes and sweet wet tees so gamely plastered to well-toned pectoral muscles. Before you start watching, go ahead and pour one out for much of the levity and flirtatious moments you may have enjoyed during the first season of Sweet Magnolias, because the second season leans much harder into the DRA-MUH and the Faith (more specifically, the Jesus).
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