Tuca & Bertie season 2 sees Bertie meeting her inner bird bro

After last week’s trip to “Planteau,” Tuca and Bertie are back home and working on themselves again.

And being confronted with her former mentor and assaulter Pastry Pete’s apology tour and his new Sorry Streudels, Bertie is frustrated and feeling powerless.

During therapy, Bertie is asked to connect with her innermost, ideal version of herself, and surprisingly pictures a relaxed and chill bird bro named Kyle, leading her to physically project him into the world (and Tuca to sleep with him, of course).

With Kyle’s guidance, Bertie plans to make a revenge pastry cart to sell opposite of Pete’s that will attract all of the bros, but it goes a little too well as hordes of bird bros descend into madness.

The ever chaotic Tuca is job hunting in this week’s episode again, and instead of actually applying anywhere, finds that she’s perfectly suited as a traffic cop.

Of course, Tuca can’t be law-abiding for too long and soon turns an orderly traffic stop into a crime scene before going to help Bertie with her bros.

This week’s episode didn’t get as in-depth and personal as it could have, but it was good to see the show address the recurrence of trauma for survivors of abuse and assault and the squiggly paths that recovery can take.

While Bertie may have a long way to go in her healing, by the episode’s end, she stood up for herself and told her boss the truth about her pastry side hustle before outright asking if she could be the office birthday cake supplier, something season one Bertie would never have had the courage to do.

However, it’s important that Tuca & Bertie doesn’t lose sight of Tuca’s progress as well in an effort to keep her in the purely comic relief role, but I trust the writers have a greater plan in store.

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