General Days

So Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn put money into a big family account. That account was used to help fund all sorts of things over the years, including college and cars for the kids. I have no idea if Jenn was right or wrong, but Meri didn't correct her, and they didn't show a couch interview with any of the other parents correcting her, either. What Jenn said is that the other kids got college and car money from that account, but Leon got nothing. You had said: According to Jenn, Meri didn't just fund the difference between a state uni and Westminster, Meri paid all of it. I am not trying to be difficult. I'm just not sure how to word it any more clearly.

From what Jenn said last night, Meri didn't just "fund the difference." Leon got no family account money for either college or a car. Meri paid for all of it. The other kids got help.

Do you all think we will have to wait until fall for season four? This Deadline article notes that production wrapped in early December 2024, so it seems possible that it could be ready earlier. The thing is, previous seasons premiered in and ran throughout fall. Season 1: November 1, 2019 to December 20, 2019 Season 2: September 17, 2021 to November 19, 2021 Season 3: September 13, 2023 to November 8, 2023 Generally speaking, I enjoy shows with limited seasons. Watching feels like less of a commitment. When the season is short AND there is a two-year wait until the next season though, a show starts to lose me. And because I didn't spend 22 episodes in a year, immersed in it, the storyline sort of leaves my brain, too. That means rewatching, which is also something of a commitment, but without the reward of new material. This is just whining, but I don't understand why broadcast networks can put out 20-something episodes per year, and edit and air some of those episodes, while the season is still in production, but it takes streaming platforms two years to put out six to ten episodes. It's not like streaming has to find a timeslot in the schedule, or pair a show with other shows that might expand its audience and keep people tuned in for the evening.

That might have been the worst episode of Sister Wives in the series. It was certainly among the most pointless. And I'm saying that as someone who has found the new content (i.e. not the royal wedding) this season reasonably interesting. Yeah, me too. I think Meri probably has a fulfilling life outside the Brown family. She has a pretty big group of good friends (Gwendlyn has talked about Meri's friendships, too). I think LulaRoe runs a predatory business, but because she has name recognition and a large following, she has made some pretty good money with it. She travels a lot, etc. Part of the issue with Meri's life as shown on TV is that Leon and Audrey want no part of the show, and don't want to be discussed on the show, so we don't see that part of her life. That makes Meri seem more alone than she is. If Logan was Janelle's only kid, the view we get of Janelle's life on the show would be different too. I don't think Meri's is mostly focused on life as a former sister wife. I think her friends like Jenn, and Brandy, and the other women know that Meri needs content to stay on the show, and are just giving Meri something for the show to film. (And they probably enjoy bagging on Kody after watching him mistreat their friend for years and years.) Also, the show asks questions, or asks the Browns to do or talk about something relating to their relationships. They prompt the scenes we see, especially when it's people getting together to talk about thing. I suspect Meri chose to wreck the old yard sign on TV a few weeks ago, and go to the cul-de-sac, and talk about Kody with her friends, etc. in order to make content to keep getting paid by the show. Yeah, Maddie is a non-LDS Christian. Her husband, Caleb, was never any flavor of Mormon. The mainstream LDS church is starting to change its tune about crosses, though. They've changed their symbol on a lot of Google maps locations from an outline of Moroni with a trumpet, to a cross. Mormons are starting to wear crosses, too. I think the church is trying to rebrand.

As a remarried homeowner, Christine's Utah residence no longer looks like a fly-by-night Kody dodge. Christine has one or both parents there and probably some siblings, too. She's from Utah. Some of her kids live there. Her husband has an established business there. I'm not too worried. Besides, I don't think Christine ever wanted to prevent Kody from seeing Truely, anyhow. She wants Kody to pay his fair share of Truely's support, and he should. It seems likely to me that he is balking, and that's what his court action is really about. The Yahoo report is an In Touch article; Yahoo republishes via some syndication deal. Here is a link to the original in In Touch. The In Touch reporting seems a little sketchy to me. Thank you for sharing it, @Kellyee. I'm not coming down on you. I just get annoyed, because I think In Touch could afford to be accurate. I also don't put much stock in the source In Touch used: That YouTuber breaks news sometimes, but I often feel like she gets one bit of information and suggests conclusions I think are too big (at least based on what she's going on). This part of the In Touch/Yahoo piece is inaccurate: We have seen Truely's life play out since she was Christine's last baby bump. Truely had always lived in her mom's homes: Lehi apartment (in the Lehi plyg house) Las Vegas rental Las Vegas cul-de-sac house Flagstaff house. To the extent he did tried to be present in all the families, Kody rotated between the moms' houses. Truely never lived with Kody and Robyn. There was talk about Truely staying over at Kody and Robyn's when she went back to Flagstaff to visit, but I'm not sure that ever took place. This wording is inaccurate, too: Christine did make some questionable claims on the show, but it was never about Truely "moving in" with her, because True always lived with her. It was more about her moving away with the child. Christine claimed that by moving to Utah (and taking Truely with her), it might preserve/save Truely's relationship with Kody, because Kody's tendency to ignore all the kids who aren't Robyn's kids wouldn't be right in Truely's face. It sounded like rationalization at the time, because Christine offered it as a "reason" for leaving, quite some time after she left. That article just pushed some buttons. It's like someone Googled stuff and made big assumptions, or used AI to write the bones of the piece, and doesn't know enough about the show to correct mistakes. They didn't even differentiate between "moving" and "moving in."

I think it was shorter this time. That's what she said.

Look what you've done!

You wanna tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing? Go outside, turn around three times and spit. And curse. Do everything. Go!

I spoke too soon. Now the Robyn/Kody content seems recycled too. The talking heads might be new.

I feel like we're seeing wedding special scenes interspersed with "new" Kody/Robyn content. None of the Moab stuff seems new.

Ah well. Better luck next time, Kody.

Now, that's not true. Tony was there.

Here comes the Robyn pity party. "We're the outcasts..." blah blah blah blah blah.

As a kid, I was as into the Alan/Monica/Rick/Lesley storyline as I was into Scotty/Laura/Luke. I'm so sad we've lost her. Poor old GH has had a rough couple of years.

I don't think there was a stunt performer. Sister Wives is a bare bones production. They don't have a big budget or all that big of a crew. Stunt performers are part of the SAG-AFTRA union, and union regs. require productions using stunt performers to also hire a stunt coordinator. Besides, there was no real drama, from a fall which was over soon enough. The real Kody/Robyn drama of the episode was their tense discussion. There was no payoff from the fall itself. If the production were to script a stunt scene, and pay for stunt performers and supervision, they would milk it for all it is worth. Robyn would have been brought to a hospital, where they could have heaved a sigh of relief at her clean bill of health (after Kody bitched to the camera about rolling an ankle — or something else as serious as his 99ºF "death's door" Covid fever — when he ran to "save" her). Also though, stunts are risky, even when performed by professionals. Every stunt runs the risk of failure, and failure can result in injury and even death. Imagine if a stunt performer was injured while faking a scene for a "reality" TV show. That news would get out, and it would hurt the production company's reputation, and the network's. Too much risk for too little reward. If they wanted to contrive drama, there are cheaper, safer ways to do so. For instance, they could talk Robyn into faking throwing Kody out of the house for a few weeks, at no additional expense or risk of injury or exposure. I'm not saying the Browns (or even Puddle Monkey) are above it. I'm saying I don't think they have the budget, and I don't think production milked enough payoff out of the moment for it to have been contrived. I think Kody and Robyn were just reckless, stupid, and lucky, which is so on brand for the Browns.