Grosse Pointe Garden Society – Companion Planting

The time of this episode continues to be an excellent storytelling device that keeps tension high while ridiculing future disasters. We start the next six months and Catherine proudly opens a lakeside cabin for the birds, but with a catch. The bodies buried in the garden will be moved and buried on the property. Catherine, Alice and Brett all do it, but the birds draw the line on living on top of the corpse (fairly). It seemed like a solid plan…until they realized someone was looking at them. World Health Organization? Why? What exactly did they see?

Back to the present, the group has not considered moving quiches for the time being, but instead brewing trouble in their personal lives. Oh boy, this is brewing.

Katherine and Tucker: Psychology Chess Competition

“Company Planting” – Gross Puppet Garden Association. Pictured: Jocko Sims plays Tucker and Michael Silberblatt plays Brian. Photo: Mark Hill/NBC©2025 NBCuniversal Media, LLC. all rights reserved.

Tucker’s behavior is disturbing, but it also reveals his character. He reacted without impulse – he played the long game. Tucker eventually revealed that he felt partly about Catherine’s cheating because he took her for granted, rather than realizing how lucky he was. To some, this seems super sweet, but can anyone really be so tolerant? The final “Ride or Death” speech? It seems too good to me.

Meanwhile, Alice and Doug’s relationship is rapidly circling. She surprised him by suggesting the couple’s consultation, which he obviously didn’t expect. Things got worse when Alice killed the dog Molly at him during the first treatment. Doug’s reaction was ambiguous at best – he claimed he accidentally let her out, but did not shoot her. Alice doesn’t buy it and even threatens to conduct forensic tests on the bullet. At this point, Doug and Alice are spiraled. Instead of realizing the deeper seed problem in marriage, she uses Molly’s murder to avoid what really happens between them. Doug angrily threw the bullet into a clearing, but Alice dragged Brett to help her find it.

Alice is actually looking for bullets to prove the fact that her husband is a killer, and it is a messy way. Brett (who is becoming the rational voice of the show is unlikely to appear) says perfectly: If you need physical evidence to prove that your husband is the murderer, then maybe take a closer look at your marriage. At the end of the episode, Doug finally snaps up a step and is honestly with his parents? Can you blame him? This relationship cannot be fixed.

Brett: A good dad with a bad future

Birdie’s storyline offers some emotional depth and some relief, even if it reveals the cracks in her tough look. After Ford tricked her into buying an Xbox, she forced him to work hard in the garden – where he was immediately stung by bees and had a serious allergic reaction. Birdie’s panic in the hospital felt primitive – she couldn’t even answer basic medical questions about her son, emphasizing how far she was from his life.

Then there is an understatement tension between Bird and Ford’s stepfather Joel. The bird went back to her old way, playing with fire, and I had a feeling that she would be burned to death again.

Kidnapping, car and a mysterious name

The biggest climax of this episode is that Gary was kidnapped by the muzzle. We don’t know who brought him, but we know that Catherine’s husband acted too suspicious to comfort. Can Tucker arrange this? Or connect to “Quiche”? Either way, Gary is in serious trouble.

Then there are private investigators. How much did he actually see? What is he going to do with this information?

The episode ends with a cliff–for the next six months, Brett works in the garden as a policeman walks in, asking about the fancy garden party the night before. “You’ve got to know someone’s name any chance-” cut it black before he mentioned the name. Could this be about “quiche”? Did the person they were murdered report missing?

“Company Planting” is a slow-burning masterclass of tension and stratified storytelling. Each character spins in its own way, and the iconic mix of humor, drama and suspense of the show is fired on all cylinders. The six-month jump continues to be the chef’s kiss, ridiculing the big consequences while we desperately hope to see everything fall apart.

Between Tucker’s creepy calm, Alice’s marriage collapses, kidnapped, and the stakes never get higher. And that mysterious last line of the police? It feels like the next episode will be explosive.