Girlfriends Season 2 Reaction: Darnell's Dress Fight Almost Made Us Walk Out, and a Church Scene Left Us in Tears

Watching these four episodes of Girlfriends back to back gave us one of our angriest reactions and one of our most emotional. Darnell's behavior over Maya's dress was enough to make you want to physically leave the room, while the church scene in episode seven caught us off guard with real tears. In between, we spent a lot of time yelling at Lynn's freeloading boyfriend and getting invested in Joan and Toni's friendship breakup.

The dress fight almost broke us. In "Untreatable," Maya buys a $300 dress after her friends egg her on at a store, and it wipes out the money meant for a fuel pump. When Darnell reacts by snapping at her and telling her to return it, we could not believe how he acted once she tried to fix it herself by getting a refund. "I've never been so irritated I wanted to walk out of the room while watching something," came the reaction, followed a moment later by "He's making me so mad." We worked through why his reaction landed so badly: Maya was being a team player by getting the money back after he told her to keep the dress, and shutting her down for it felt unfair given they share finances and both work hard for the household.

Lynn's boyfriend's laziness, and Toni's meltdown, tested our patience. We got frustrated watching Lynn's boyfriend sleep all day while Lynn worked shifts to cover rent, and we had little sympathy for his plan to draw a map of black movie star homes instead of getting a job. On the Toni side, her firing and the friendship blowup with Joan hit differently once we noticed something about the scene itself: "the audience laugh track was like zeroed out. It was the weirdest thing," raising the question of whether the audience already knew what was coming because they had seen a previous take of it, since there was almost no laughing during her breakdown.

A cold-feet engagement and a guess about Greg's art. We spent time on the on-again, off-again engagement between a police officer and her fiance, and made our own prediction that Greg's gallery show, said to be inspired by Toni, would turn out to be about heartbreak rather than a happy reunion, comparing the idea to an Alanis Morissette style breakup song.

Greg's revenge and the church scene got to us. Once Greg's Halloween stunt against Toni was revealed as payback, and Toni hit a real low, Joan's refusal to let her back in surprised us given how long they had been friends. Then the church scene turned things around. "I was not expecting to cry" was the admission, and we agreed the sermon about forgiveness landed for both Joan and Toni.