Sweet Tea & TV

Ah, another one of Suzanne’s exes. This time it’s Dash Goff, the writer, and he’s sad, but he perks himself by individually meeting with each cast member. By the end, we all learn a few things: 1) Suzanne was a terrible spouse (?), 2) reading is important, and 3) Dash sure knows how to write some uncomfortable stuff about Southern women. Stick around for this week’s ‘Extra Sugar’ to discuss Dash IRL, Gerald McRaney and his marriage to the one, the only: Ms. Delta Burke. 

Phew! We did it! We squeezed in for a last-minute virtual viewing of the recent Designing Women play. That’s right - we said play! Set in 2020, as one would expect, LBT’s thoughts on politics, religion, and public health were on full display and we had…thoughts. 

A holiday gift from us to you! We had originally planned to take the next couple of weeks off for the holidays. But, then we watched the recent Designing Women play and ended up with a special sweet treat for the podcast. We’ll start this week with a sneak peek of our reactions and we’ll be back next week with what we’re calling “The Full Sweet Tea & TV Treatment.” 

Our "Designing Women" and poor Anthony have a knack for finding the most eccentric clients. This time it comes in the form of Mr. Tyson, who enjoys painting stick figure portraits and giving away anything that happens to be in his pocket at the time. Did we mention he falls in love easily? Meanwhile, Bernice shows up looking for help--and boy is that a mouthful. 

Stick around for this week’s ‘"Extra Sugar" where we’ll talk about Alice Ghostley, who played Bernice.

Grab some tissue, no, like the whole box ‘cause this one is a gut puncher. Designing Women takes on the AIDS crisis, homophobia, and contraception in schools all in one episode. 

Stick around for this week’s ‘Extra Sugar’ where we discuss the real events that inspired this one...right down to the episode title, as well as Designing Women’s place in LGBTQ TV history. 

Hooray for an Anthony Bouvier episode! This time, he finds himself a lady friend and cooks up a scheme to have her and her parents over for dinner, while making them think he’s wealthy and successful, as one does. Unfortunately, his lady friend’s daddy isn’t super into the whole thing and he cooks up a little scheme of his own to get rid of Anthony. (Hint: This scheme is adorable and cries a lot. And wins over Anthony’s ever-lovin’ heart.) Oh, did we mention we finally got his origin story? 

And hang tight for ‘Extra Sugar’ where we dig into a teeny reference to Tuxedo Road here in Atlanta.

Mary Jo is having a rough go: she finds out Ted is getting remarried, while simultaneously luring their kids away with his extravagant lifestyle and gifts. Suzanne teaches us a lesson about frenemies (sort of), Charlene almost gets the hang of metaphors, and Anthony reaches gold-level status.

Hang around for this week’s scrumptious "Extra Sugar", where we’re talking Turkey Day, but with a Southern twist. It’s Nikki’s Nibbles y’all!

It’s season 2, y’all! Our “Designing Women” gals find themselves sprucing up an old gas station for an unexpected client, who Julia goes off on and Charlene (de?) pantses to see if he is her future husband. And if we’ve learned anything: be sure to have a licensed professional check out any funky moles. Stick around for this week’s Extra Sugar where we talk all things 1987.

As we recorded season 1 of "Sweet Tea & TV", some alarming gaps in Nikki’s movie history came to light. What were two podcasters to do?? Watch the darn thing and talk about it. What first reactions did someone in 2021 have about a 1990 rom-com where a sex worker finds fairy tale romance with a handsome corporate raider? You know we’re not going to say! But we will tell you we broke down some fun trivia and the movie’s enduring legacy. And don’t worry, we connected the movie to the South and "Designing Women." All is well. 

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sure, we’ve wrapped our review of "Designing Women"'s first season (and incidentally the first season of the podcast), but we need ONE more episode to process it all. So we did what we do best: we ate the snacks, drank the drinks, and chatted the chats(?).

Stick around for ‘Extra Sugar’ where we talk about the less-than-stellar critical reception from, well, pretty much only male critics. Because, if they’ve taught us anything, do we really need multiple female-led casts?

Most importantly, thank you to everyone who tuned into our first season! We’ve appreciated the interest, the comments, and even the corrections. :)