Welcome back! Last week, Lifetime’s Love at First Flight premiered and I was here to tell you all about how weird it is. Now, it’s time for episode two. So, make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position and that your seat belt is correctly fastened, and let’s get this party started.
At the beginning of this episode, our couples are leaving York. As OG Stephanie and Ryan joke about the fact that they have no idea where they’re headed- except the airport, she gets a text. They’re going to Nashville. She is extremely excited to see Graceland, which is in Memphis. Other Stephanie (OS) and Michael are also headed to Nashville? Oh. I kind of thought they were going to mix things up. OK. Anyway, they’re having fun in the car. I’m worried about Jenna and Cale, because Jenna is terrible. They are sitting silently in the backseat of a car. It’s very awkward. As Michael and Alma head to the airport he asks her if she knows what state Nashville is in. When she replies “Tennessee,” he tells her “you’re the only ten I see.” It is terrible and I loved it. She did, too. Don’t lie, Alma.
As they arrive in Nashville, it’s day 4 of the show. Like before, the couples will be given challenges and, if they succeed, they get to stay in luxury accommodations. If they fail? Not so much. First up, Alma and Mike have to write a song about their relationship and their “experience of love.” They just met. Michael sings to her “I was nervous; started sweating.”
OS and Michael are at a butcher shop making sausages. Why do they always get such terrible challenges? Michael made a lot of sexual jokes as they made sausage, so that was a thing that happened.
Jenna and Cale drive up to a farm and Jenna wants everyone to know “I don’t think I have been to a farm. Maybe as a kid, like a petting zoo, but not like a real like ‘we’re makin’ milk’ farm.” You don’t really make milk on a farm, Jenna. Anyway, they have to 
shovel manure and she says “I can’t even clean up my dog’s poop without gagging.” As always, Cale is a good sport while Jenna is awful. She hands her shovel over to the farmer and leaves. He openly hates her. Now they have to milk a cow. She’s fine with it until a cow urinates, and now she says she won’t do that, either. The idea of luxury accommodations finally makes her come back into the barn, but they don’t get a pint of milk by the time the buzzer goes off and, as many times as she says to the farmer “you have to give it to us!” they aren’t going to be staying in the best hotel tonight. Damn you, Jenna. Cale should get to stay in a good hotel. He worked his butt off.
Back to Alma and Mike in the studio. They are both pretty bad singers, but they were comforting each other and it was cute. Except now they have to go and sing out on the street and make $50 busking to get the good hotel for the night. Mike is super uncomfortable and I am uncomfortable watching him. Alma wants him to approach randos on the street and ask them to listen and my discomfort continues.
OG Stephanie is writing Ryan a note to slide into his locker under his door, and they head to a vintage shop to get boots and many things with fringe. Then they’re off to go line dancing. Why do some couples have to shovel poo and others get to go dancing? I guess some people would maybe rather shovel poo than dance on television, though.
Speaking of poo, Jenna and Cale are arriving at their accommodations for the evening. “Jenna’s attitude,” Cale narrates, “goes from not happy to horrifyingly not happy” when she finds out they’re going to be staying in a tiny house. She wants to know if there are two of them or if there are two bedrooms. It’s your fault you’re staying in this, Jenna, so shut up. Cale is laughing and making the best of it, because he is a hero. He offers to share the loft with her snd she says no, so she says she’ll sleep on the couch and then gets mad when he doesn’t offer to sleep on it himself. “Hey, I milked my cow” he says to the camera with a shrug. Amen, Cale.
OG Stephanie and Ryan are at the honky tonk, and they have to dance alone on the dance floor in front of the entire bar. They weren’t the best dancers, but they were fun and silly and went with it, so they get to stay in a nice hotel. And then they totally kissed you guys.
Alma and Mike also won their challenge and get to stay in a nice hotel, but Alma thinks that Michael didn’t do enough to approach people. She says she’s afraid it means he’ll be able to leave her like her dad did. Umm, wow. So he asks her if this is about them or about her past and she is indignant. Then she leaves and slams the door, insisting she’s not mad. Is this what she’s going to do every night? They have a good talk in the morning and decide to start over.
OK, you might want to avert your eyes because OG Stephanie and Ryan are getting room service and it appears that they slept in the same bed. She has him change his shoes and does his hair for him when they’re getting dressed, so that’s interesting.
OS and Michael get a text that they’re going horseback riding. Finally, they get to do something fun! Although she was kind of into making sausage, which is literally the activity people use as an example of something you don’t want to do. She hated the horseback ride, so I do not understand this woman. When they get to the front porch sittin’ portion of the date, she says she wants a stay-at-home dad for a husband, and he is clearly not feeling that. After the commercial, they are arguing about prenuptial agreements. OS won’t sign one, Michael thinks they’re a good idea. In the interviews, she keeps saying that she thinks he’s acting like a boy and she needs a man, but she’s hopeful there is a man in there.
Meanwhile, back at the tiny ranch, Jenna is willing to admit that she “may have overreacted a little bit.” She says that, after they spent an evening in close quarters, they got to know each other better, and they’re grateful for it. At breakfast, they get a text that they’re headed to a distillery where they tell the proprietor that this is their first date because they’re starting over. He tells them they make a cute couple and she says “that’s so interesting of you to say.” Try harder, Jenna.
Ryan keeps doing a bad southern accent and it’s driving OG Stephanie crazy. He promises her it will go away as soon as they leave Nashville. They both seem to be kind of realistic about the fact that they need to have more conversations about the tough stuff before they think about marriage, and that they will find things they dislike about each other as that happens. I’m rooting for these two. And for Cale, with someone else.
Let’s see what happens in week three.
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OK, catching up to episode 2 now. I keep feeling like there’s got to be a twist with Jenna and Cale, like they are going to be the only couple that ends up proposing, because otherwise, well, wow are they mismatched. I think she thinks her bluntness is charming, but it’s not. I can’t get past how she openly said in episode 1 that her last relationship was with a married guy, and she acted kind of surprised that it didn’t work. Not sure about Michael and Other Stephanie…maybe she can dial it down when she feels secure with someone. I liked that Alma seems to be able to reflect after over-reacting or over-thinking. OG Stephanie and Ryan seem great, so I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.