Heyoooooooo. How’s it going? Can you guys believe 2023 is almost over? It’s been a wild year for me. I’m going to be honest, I’m going to try and finish this blog before Christmas. So that means next week another review. Key word is TRY. I have another show I plan on reviewing starting in the new year. It’s highly likely I’ll just continue using the Ready or Not Reviewed! WordPress as A. I am stupid and I can’t figure out how I created this website to look how it does (with my sweet header) and B. I don’t care. I write stuff for fun, not to look professional. So yeah, once we bid adieu to Busy and Amanda, if you are so inclined, stay tuned to say hello to some new peeps here. *mysterious music*
Well enough of that, on with the show. The episode opens with Amanda making cookies for her and Milan’s third anniversary. You would think third year possibly? But no, third month. I guess with teens the amount of months matter, unless you were in a long ass relationship in your teens (I was so I didn’t care about this stuff). Apparently their third month anniversary is also on the same day as Phyllis and Stephen’s wedding…so a real event to actually celebrate.
Amanda continues to tell Busy that the day of she will be making aka ordering pizza for dinner with Milan, giving him gifts and watching videos. This show was too PG to consider taking things further. Busy’s like umm what about your family, aren’t they going to ruin your game? Amanda says Phyllis and Stephen will be on their honeymoon, Phoebe will be asleep and Gregory (who I guess now lives with them?) will be at some concert.
Amanda then starts going on about her future wedding plans and being super corny. She even mentions thinking about Milan in her wedding daydream, which is embarrassing, but relatable.
Suddenly the doorbell rings, and it’s Milan with a huge bouquet of flowers for Stephen and Phyllis’ wedding gift. Amanda brings them back totally smitten, and tells Busy that he definitely bought them for her and not Stephen and Phyllis. LOL delulu Amanda strikes again, if they were for her why wouldn’t he say that?
The next morning, Phoebe, Gregory and Amanda are all up in the kitchen. Phoebe wants to do a surprise breakfast in bed, which Gregory and Amanda instantly say no to because it’s too complicated/annoying to put together. Amanda then suggests Waffles aka likely Eggo’s since they require no effort. Phoebe then asks what everyone is doing after the wedding. Amanda says Greg is going to a concert, which he immediately says no to because his friend gave Gregory’s ticket to his girlfriend. This worries Amanda, as now he is going to be around to put a damper on her romantic plans with Milan. As if Gregory would even care, he seems very whatever about Amanda’s life. Phoebe then starts whining that no one stays home and plays with her. Poor kid was born in the wrong generation, if she had an Ipad she would have no need for her older siblings.
Phyllis and Stephen wake up and Phoebe yells at them to stop because they are doing their lame surprise. The adults tell the kids to hurry the fuck up, as they need coffee to function and leave the room. Amanda then puts on her pouty face to try and figure out how to solve her current dilemma.
Later on, Amanda is calling Busy at her job to bug her to try and get tickets to the concert to get Gregory the hell out of the house. Busy tells her she’s a lowly stock clerk, and she has no idea why Amanda thinks she has these mad connections to concert tickets. Busy tells Amanda she should just make different plans, but Amanda keeps whining and asks Busy to see if she can somehow pull them out of her ass and make it happen.
The next day, Stephen and Phyllis are finally getting married. The kids are all waiting around for Phyllis to hurry the hell up, while Stephen paces nervously. She comes out in the most boring wedding attire. I’m not saying that you need to be a crazy bride and go nuts, but her outfit literally looks like something you would wear to the office.
They arrive at City Hall (not sure which city, because it’s not Toronto’s), and they are in a rush on account of Phyllis. Phyllis’ shoe heel ends up snapping off, and Phoebe offers her gum to fix it and it actually works. It’s such a random scene, I’m not sure why they are setting them up to have some stressful wedding day with annoying shit happening. I guess it shows that no matter how low key you try to make it, your wedding will always have something stupid happen on it.
In the chapel, as Phyllis and Stephen are saying their vows to one another, Amanda for some reason has the hiccups and is borderline interrupting the event. Again, not sure why this is a thing, but it is. Phoebe offers to scare Amanda to try to get her to stop, and I had to get a screenshot of her face here, because it is pretty hilarious.
Anyway, the ceremony ends, and Phyllis and Stephen run off to their limo to catch their plane to go on their honeymoon to Florida.
Back at home, Amanda is still bugging Greg to get the hell out of the house. Again, why doesn’t she just tell him she wants an evening alone with Milan? Gregory is not her real brother, I’m sure he wouldn’t give a crap if Milan fingerbanged Amanda.
The doorbell rings and it’s Busy, and somehow she has pulled off some magic, because she has two tickets to that concert Gregory was supposed to go to. Apparently someone won them in a contest and never picked them up. Amanda and Busy tell Gregory, and Amanda then says he should go with Busy. Busy is a pretty awesome wing woman, because it would be super weird to go to a concert with someone you barely know. But yes, Amanda’s little plan is working perfectly. She casually mentions to Gregory once he says he will go that she might invite Milan over, and Gregory is like ok I’m on to your little teenage bs, but again, he really doesn’t care.
Later that night, Amanda allows Phoebe to stay up a bit later to see Milan. Side note, but I’ve grown to really like Phoebe. I thought she was obnoxious at first, but she’s a pretty cute/weird kid. So yeah, Milan comes over, and Phoebe is drawing him a picture of I guess Amanda and his wedding? I’m not sure, but they do talk about that. Milan kind of jokingly grills Phoebe for more details about their future wedding, and Phoebe plays coy. Amanda is like don’t say a word, because you know Amanda has probably told Phoebe every single detail of the event. Finally, Amanda orders pizza and kicks Phoebe out so she can get all cozy with her boyf. Oh and I should mention, there is a generic “oooooooooooo” romantic ballad playing. I missed these made for the show songs, though this one is pretty boring.
Once the pizza arrives, Amanda starts lighting candles and having them drink their pop from wine glasses. Milan says “do you normally go all out like this for pizza?” and Amanda is like “only on special occasions.” Now Milan’s face is like shit I forgot something, and Amanda decides to toast to their long ass three month relationship, which I guess in her eyes means a borderline engagement.
Phoebe comes out and ruins the mood, asking for a slice of pizza. Amanda is pissed, but Milan is like one piece can’t hurt, so you can tell he’s not exactly in the same head space as Amanda right now. After that, a short scene of Phoebe brushing her teeth and asking Amanda weird tooth fairy questions.
Finally Amanda is able to give her anniversary gift to Milan, which were the cookies. He clearly had no idea it was their anniversary and says as such and that he got her nothing. She says it’s fine because he’s thoughtful in other ways, like giving her mom flowers (for a teenage boy, that is pretty thoughtful). She asks what he thought of her when they first met, and he said she was intense and cute (as we have all learned through the years of watching this, that is true). Milan asks what she noticed about him, and she says he was also cute. He’s like yay we’re both superficial. You are teenagers, of course you are.
So yeaaaaaaah. Remember this happy picture, because it’s about to end in 0.000000001 seconds. Amanda then tells Milan she never felt this way about anyone, and drops the L word on him. This scene is big yikes. Also, she’s brave as fuck, cuz I would have NEVER said it first as a teenage girl, so I give her kudos for having the guts to do that. Milan’s face is like…..ohh fucckkkk. He then says that Amanda is…great. God this is a cringe scene to watch! Amanda face cracks, and it’s really painful to see.
Now it’s super awkward between them, because Milan didn’t say it back. So he decides to bail, and thank God, because this scene is becoming too rough to watch.
Later on, Busy and Gregory get home from the concert (obviously Busy was coming back because she thought she’d be hearing about the sordid details of Milan and Amanda’s night), and find Amanda softly weeping in the dark living room.
Amanda runs off to her room and confesses to Busy that she told Milan she loves him, but that he didn’t feel the same way. Even Busy is like wtf I can’t believe you actually told him that.
Busy decides that popcorn is the remedy for heartache (I figured it would be ice cream, but popcorn is good too). Gregory is like yeah guys don’t show their feelings, that was a lot of pressure blah blah. Not all guys are stoics like you, Greg. Phoebe then wakes up and decides to eat all the food.
The next day, Milan and Amanda meet up in a park to discuss the previous night’s events. Amanda says she’s kind of embarrassed, and Milan says let’s forget about it. But Amanda says she can’t because the words were said and you can’t really take shit like that back. Milan then says he likes how things are with them, and he doesn’t want things to change, but Amanda’s like well that’s off the table since we feel differently about each other. Milan then asks if they are breaking up, and Amanda’s like basically yes. He asks if they can be friends, and she said not at this point, and walks away. It’s very calm for a breakup I’d say.
The episode ends with Amanda putting all her pictures and other Milan paraphernalia into a box. She’s definitely keeping that stuff, I like that sentimentality about Amanda.
Ugh, I hate sounding like a hater, but I didn’t like this episode either! I guess the writer’s felt they had to break up these two since the end is neigh, but I wish they did something more dramatic, like Amanda losing her virginity to Milan. I dunno, I guess this is kind of realistic, but would a teenager dump someone for not saying “I love you” back so early in the relationship. Is that really a deal breaker? I have no idea. I am just disappointed with the outcome of this relationship.
Next episode……well….it’s the big one. The last hurrah, the final countdown. Amanda has learned some big life event news that will change the course of Busy and Amanda’s friendship. In addition, we learn it is unwise to travel is really old, shitty elevators.
Next week (probably), we say goodbye to Amanda, Busy and the rest of the characters of this show. I don’t know if I am ready!!!! But I guess we have no choice, all good things must come to an end. Until next time.
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