What does real friendship look like when life stops going to plan? For Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, one answer involves a house full of friends, his sister’s fried chicken and an unexpected encounter with Denzel Washington.

Chill catches up with Judge Greg Mathis, Linda Mathis and Amir Mathis for a conversation about the people who showed up, the roles that changed his career, and the values he wants his sons to carry. He remembers the friends brought together by Butch Lewis, tells his side of House Party’s original casting story, and explains how Michael Strahan committed to Brothers before seeing a script.

Along the way, there’s a two-week trip to Los Angeles that turned into ten years, Linda asking whether his wife still laughs at his jokes, and Chill’s distinction between possessing money and owning your name. They also talk NCIS: New Orleans, reuniting with Tim Allen on Shifting Gears, and moving into directing.

Old friends compare stories, tease each other and get into what showing up really means.

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Long before Diarra Kilpatrick created and starred in Diarra From Detroit, she was a four-year-old student in Linda Mathis' preschool classroom in Detroit. She even spent mornings at the Mathis home before school, while Judge Greg Mathis was developing a friendship with her father.

Years later, Diarra returns to the Mathis couch for a conversation about the people and places that shaped the storyteller she became.

Diarra talks with Linda, Judge and Greg Jr. about Bates Academy, Detroit Country Day, playwright Ron Milner, leaving Detroit, finding her voice as an actor and writer, and eventually creating Diarra From Detroit. She also opens up about working with Kenya Barris and her husband Miles, staying authentic in an industry that often asks people to change, losing her mother, becoming a mother herself, and the emotional inheritance she hopes to pass on to her son.

And because this is still the Mathis couch, the conversation includes childhood stories, plenty of Detroit humor, and a Coney Island alibi game that quickly gets out of hand.

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Celebrity hairstylist and longtime Mathis family friend Lawrence “Ray” Parker II joins the family for a conversation that goes far beyond hair.

Ray shares how he went from studying music at Hampton University to working with major names like 50 Cent, Olivia and Naomi Campbell, and how one unexpected salon client helped open the door to Hollywood. He also gets candid about trust between stylists and clients, being taken advantage of in the entertainment industry, and why he believes “the chair is sacred.”

Plus, Ray breaks down changing hair trends, reveals the secret behind his own hair, and explains how he turned years behind the chair into his own product line and plans for a manufacturing plant in Atlanta.

Then the family pitches Ray their own billion-dollar hair ideas to see which one he thinks could actually work.

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