Grosse Pointe Backyard Society – Pests – Evaluation: The Mess Simply Retains Getting Messier

“Pests” – GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY. Pictured: Matthew Davis as Joel. Picture: Mark Hill/NBC ©2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Current-Day Chaos: Messy Relationships, Useless Canines, and Undesirable Houseguests 

In the meantime, within the current, Birdie is ghosting her son, Alice is obsessing over her canine’s homicide, and Catherine is coping with her worst nightmare—Gary, displaying up at her home with a gun. Naturally, Catherine’s husband (bless his naïveté) feels for Gary’s plight – getting kicked out for dishonest by his spouse, and as a substitute of calling the cops, invitations Gary to remain of their pool home. Catherine’s horrified face says all of it.

Alice, nonetheless satisfied somebody murdered her canine, picks up its ashes and plots revenge. When she realizes her monetary state of affairs is dire, her husband, Doug, pressures her to maneuver into his mother’s rental home. She resists, sensing that Doug is slowly molding her into his mother and father’ life path, and vows to him that she is going to get her job again in order that they will proceed residing their goals. Doug can sense that Alice is not as dedicated to the connection as he’s, even suggesting that she liked Molly greater than him, however Alice insists she is all in.

Simply when Catherine thought issues couldn’t get any worse, she crosses paths with Gary’s pregnant spouse—an unwelcome twist that turns her guilt into full-blown panic. Already grappling with the fallout of their affair, this revelation provides one other layer of remorse. Confronting Gary, she calls for to know the way he can stay with himself after every thing he’s completed. However he shortly flips the script, hitting her the place it hurts—she cheated too, so what makes her any higher? Catherine desperately desires him out of her life, however he has the higher hand. If she pushes too onerous, he may blow up her marriage straight away.

The Brett and Alice Scenario 

Brett’s storyline has been lighter in comparison with the others, however this episode takes a flip. His son’s faculty mission results in an argument along with his ex, and within the warmth of the second, she drops a bombshell: Brett has all the time been in love with Alice which is why she left him. This appears to catch him off guard, however the second it sinks in, you possibly can see the wheels turning.

Alice, alternatively, continues to be hyper-focused on her canine’s homicide investigation. Alice stays satisfied that her former scholar, Peyton, is chargeable for Molly’s loss of life. Decided to get her job again, she makes a take care of his mom—she’ll use her connections to assist Peyton get into the College of Michigan if his mother convinces the college board to reinstate her. However when Alice lastly confronts Peyton, she shortly realizes he could not have been the one who killed Molly. Together with her prime suspect dominated out, the thriller stays unsolved… for now.

Last Twists: A Gun, A Lie, and a Physique That Gained’t Keep Buried 

Simply as Alice is lastly shifting on from Molly’s loss of life, she stumbles upon a handgun in her closet. After which it clicks—Doug killed her canine. This revelation is about to shatter their already fragile relationship—and with Doug’s darkish secret now uncovered, he simply is perhaps the quartet’s homicide sufferer.

In the meantime, in a surprising twist, Officer Joel is definitely Birdie’s son’s adoptive father, and the 2 are embroiled in a secret affair. He finally ends up serving to her cowl up the homicide, turning what began as a confession into an sudden alliance.

Within the final flash-forward, the core 4 are dealing with one other downside: the physique they buried must be moved once more as a result of a koi pond is being put in within the backyard. Simply after we suppose issues can’t get extra difficult, Joel (Birdie’s cop-lover and her son’s adoptive dad) drops the useless man’s telephone at a high-end shoe retailer—the place Gary works. Are they setting Gary up? Or is he the physique they’re shifting?

“Pests” is an aptly titled episode—between meddling mothers-in-law, undesirable home company, and literal homicide cover-ups, everyone seems to be being stricken by one thing they simply can’t shake. The present expertly balances pressure and humour, making the characters’ more and more horrible selections one way or the other really feel relatable.

Birdie’s reckless confession, Catherine’s life spiraling right into a Gary-infested nightmare, Brett’s realization about Alice, and the jaw-dropping reveal about Doug all arrange an explosive street forward. If Episode 1 was planting seeds, Episode 2 is the place the weeds begin taking up—chaotic, not possible to regulate, and a lot enjoyable to look at.