"Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters." But when that sister is Christine Ebersole (and a gift, not a blood relation), Murphy is not going to be so devoted, especially to the gift giver, frank, going too far in trying to give Murphy what he thinks she wants. He has hired an actress to pretend to be her sister, and the chatty Christine who rattles on a mile a minute soon gets on Murphy's nerves. The two-time Tony winning Broadway veteran is very funny and an automatic scene stealer, and at first, Murphy is impressed by how Frank arranged for the fake sibling to know only things that Murphy would about her upbringing and childhood. By the end of the day though she's ready to party with the blood pressure monitor that Miles got her. The chirping of Christine really gets the last started, and they don't stop as long as she's speaking. The performance could have been really annoying, but Christine's performance not only makes you laugh but feel sorry for the attention that her character, Maddie, is so desperate to have. Delightfully silly but really profound in Frank's feelings of disappointment in not giving Murphy something that he really thought she wanted.
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