Karen's Magnificent Sisters Episode Guide

2X1:One to Grow On

This episode features the birthday shared by both Alex and Evan. Georgie is afraid of celebrating Evan's birthday because she is afraid that he will not have any birthdays after this one because he may die from leukemia. Her sisters, however, convince her to throw him a big party and Evan spends his tenth birthday happily. Also, we learn that John has received dozens of orders for his tape: "The Sounds of Whitsig".

2X2:The Picture of Perfection

2X3:Strikes and Spares

2X4:Living Arrangements

2X5:A Kiss is Still a Kiss

In this episode, Alex is lonely because she no longer has Wade. She then goes to her high school reunion and returns to tell her sisters that she met an old friend. However, Frankie looks in the yearbook and discovers that the man that Alex has named actually died in the Vietnam War. In the end, Alex accepts that it was a fantasy and is able to move more forward with her life.

2X6:Freedom's Just Another Word

2X7:The Family Way

2X8:The Kindness of Strangers

This is the first appearance of Alex's future love interest, Victor, the plumber.

2X9:Georgie Through the Looking Glass

This is an interesting episode because in it, Georgie spends almost a quarter of the episode looking back on a particular Thanksgiving from her childhood. She breaks down during that time, implying that she feels lost and feels that all of the skills that she has learned are useless for life. She also makes connections with her father's affair, and how her mother began drinking. She realizes, too, that she has always been the lifesaver of the family. In this episode, we also learn that Evan is in remission from his leukemia.
The funny part of this episode is when Teddy and Frankie have a cook off and try to prepare a dish that Mitch's mother makes. When Frankie serves him, he says that her food is terrible, and when Teddy feeds him, he claims that her food is even worse. Reed returns from France with an older man, Michel, and has begun drinking and smoking, probably in response to her parents' divorce.

2X19:Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back

There are three main storylines in this episode. The first is that Frankie has been put on a new assignment at work that has the possibility of bringing her a promotion since it is an important assignment. She has to work, however, with a man who is extremely flirtatious and bordering on harasssing her. She seriously considers telling her boss, even with the risk of losing the possibility of her promotion, but just before she approaches him, he approaches her and tells her that the annoying man with whom she was working on the assignment has been praising her very highly. She is given the promotion of vice president of the company. The second story is that Teddy has a miscarriage. The third story is that Alex wants to be in a mother-daughter charity event with Reed, but fears that Reed won't want to do it. Reed, however, brings it up herself, but Alex realizes later that Reed only wanted to do it so that she could use the prize money to buy herself a ticket back to France. Once they get home, Alex decides that she no longer wants to fight with Reed and gives Reed a cheque, demanding that she leave. Finally, Reed breaks down and admits that she doesn't really want to leave after all.

2X20:Eggnog

It is Christmas for the Reed sisters and everyone seems to be upset about something. As usual, Beatrice complains about the way Georgie has prepared everything. Frankie gets mad at Mitch because she mistook his comforting of Teddy for an affair. Alex and Victor want to go away for the holidays, but Georgie is angry at them because the Reed sisters are supposed be spending their holidays together as always. And finally, Teddy is still upset about her miscarriage. To make everything worse, the eggs that Georgie bought to make the eggnog turn out to be tainted and everyone gets sick. However, Teddy eventually finds a way to repair the problems and restore joy to the family with a little help from an old friend, a very old friend: Charles Dickens.

2X21:Good Help is Hard to Find

In this episode, Georgie learns that Mr. Atwatter, Evan's teacher who has helped Evan through tutoring to catch-up on all the work that he missed while he had leukemia, is HIV positive. This angers most of the parents who have children in Mr. Atwatter's class, and a hearing goes on to decide whether or not he should remain a teacher. Georgie is torn, because she is concerned for Evan's health, but in the end she realizes that Mr. Atwatter should not be treated so unfairly. She speaks out in support for him, but he still loses his job. Also in this episode, Alex's maid Juanita isd about to be deported. Alex does not want this to happen, however, because she needs her maid to get her house ready for an article in a magazine that will feature her house. In the end, Alex ends up fighting for the rights of Juanita and Juanita does not have to be deported after all.
This episode is particularly funny in the parts with Alex and Juanita!

2X22:Troubled Waters

Alex must choose between her ex-husband Wade and her boyfriend, Victor in this episode, as both of them are receiving awards on the same night and both want her to attend the ceremonies. In the end, she attends both, and brings Victor to Wade's ceremony, and Wade to Victor's ceremony. Also in this episode, Mitch wants to take Frankie fishing. Although she does not want to go and has a lot of work to do, she agrees to go. To make a long story short, during the trip, Mitch ends up throwing Frankie's cellular phone into the lake.

2X23:Working Girls

2X24:Tippecanoe and Georgie Too

2X25:The Four Elements

In this episode, Teddy puts on a show of the dresses that she has designed despite several occurrences against her. Alex and Reed fight for Victor's affections and in the end Alex tells Victor that she cannot see him anymore if it means that she has to lose her daughter. Frankie tries to calculate exactly when to get pregnant, but the plans fail after all the sisters have to come to Teddy's rescue.

2X26:A Matter of Life and Death

2X27:The First Time

2X28:Empty Rooms

2X29:Heart and Soul

2X30:Pandora's Box

2X31:Not in a Million Years