General Days

Oh, good for her. She seems like such a sweet young woman.

Taking Leon out of it, to respect their identity now — is Gwendlyn the first Brown girl to graduate college? Has Aurora graduated? I don't think Maddie did. I'm not sure about Aspyn. Mykelti did not. Ysabel, Breanna, and Savanah are still of college age. Truely and Ariella are still too little.

I know you posted this a while ago, but what did they say on the show that made you think they're now saying there's only one Farway tree? There are definitely more than one, although Victor said the one that's also a bottle tree (which took Tabitha to the lighthouse, and took Dale...poolside) is supposedly special. No, there's definitely more than one tree, because the first Farway tree that Victor shows Ethan (in S01.E04, "Between a Rock and a Farway" is not a bottle tree. I missed whatever happened to make people think they retconned it, but I also don't think they did retcon it.

Right. I always understood that Primetimer "Small Talk" threads were supposed to be like the old TWoP Meet Market threads, which actually had a "no show discussion" understanding. The Meet Markets were chit chat only. When I tried to chat here in early November though, I was thread-nannied to the Primetimer-wide chit chat thread. I just couldn't find the General Show Discussion thread, which is pretty sad, since I posted in it less than a month ago. I missed it, when I was looking through all the thread titles yesterday, because of how it was named. So I was thinking the Rewatch thread was our only general show discussion thread (which also has the jokey name first).

Oh, the Josephine's Restaurant private room. Thank you! I kept thinking of all their different couch segment sets, and I couldn't figure out what was Anne Frank-ish about any of them. They've eaten there before this season. One time, all four wives met there, soon after they moved to Flagstaff. I seem to recall they were kind of giving Meri a hard time for not being around much. I think she still must have been moving from Vegas, or had lost that first rental but not landed the second one yet, because she said something about staying at a hotel. It might also be the place where, last season, Janelle, Christine, and Christine's close personal Flagstaff friends* got together. It was after Christine broke with Kody. It might have been on her original wedding anniversary (or perhaps divorce anniversary) with Kody. *They weren't close friends. She said she met them while planning Ysabel's high school graduation party. Christine moved back to Utah just a few months after Ysabel graduated from high school. It was enough of a prompt for me to figure out what the earlier post meant.

Thank you! I was looking for it, and couldn't find it. I've found it now. I think I missed it, because the "jokey" name is first. If I was Empress of Primetimer, our thread format would be: PLAIN NAME: JOKEY NAME

It was more about comparing how each of the parents functioned in polygamy and what it did to them (but I seriously don't even remember the angle now). It felt broader than what would belong in one wife's thread, or Kody's thread. And I'm not in the midst of a rewatch, so I didn't want to put it in that thread. It's gone from my head. If it comes back, maybe I'll start a thread (although it seems a little silly this late into the series).

Thanks, AZChristian. I knew I could add one, but I didn't want to duplicate something we already had. Now I don't even remember what I wanted to post about. 🤣

The Anne Frank room? That reference went clear over my head.

Do we have any thread to discuss all or some of the Brown parents as a group (the way we have the Brown Kids thread)? I paged through all the topics, and didn't find one, but I could have missed it.

I agree. I would want to maintain my privacy, too. Plus, I think because some of their Browns' friends and family are still in polygamy, they are more camera shy than even most regular people might be. I do also feel like — if you don't want to give people a candid look at your life, don't do a reality TV show. When my kids were young, and I first heard about Jon & Kate Plus 8, I realized having reality TV show cameras in my house would feel like a nightmare to me (and I only have three kids). I don't understand why the producers are content to put out this stuff. I don't need this in the live-action scenes... But I think we deserve some of this in couch segments and "Tell Alls"...

+ I can't stop feeling like they're just contriving decoy events for the show to film. I started thinking this last season, when Christine had her 50s-themed 50th birthday party — in broad daylight. We already knew (from her social media) that Christine had thrown a 1920's Murder Mystery party for her 50th. We didn't see that, we saw the low-rent version of a party, that did double duty as Mykelti's twin pregnancy announcement. https://people.com/tv/janelle-brown-celebrates-christine-browns-50th-birthday-at-murder-mystery-party/

Here's the Netflix tweet about the season two renewal.

Meri should write that book. Married Once, Divorced Twice is too good of a title to pass up. SPARE ME Robyn saying she has been gaslit (in the previews), especially considering how she treated Meri during the strict Covid protocol days. Meri sat alone in that house, seeing NO ONE. Even Kody was asking Robyn, "Why can't Meri come over, since she's isolating?" To Meri's face, Robyn would blame Kody. To Kody's face, Robyn would say Janelle and Christine would get upset if Kody and Robyn visited with Meri. I don't usually blame Robyn for family troubles, because I think that excuses Kody, when no matter what she did or did not demand, he favored her; he put up with it, kowtowed to it, and let it dictate how he treated his other wives and children. The way she treated Meri during Covid was inexcusable though. And once Robyn was finally called out on camera about it, she let Meri come over and visit -- Robyn's kids were thrilled to see her.

I like Meri's friend, Brandy. I think having friends like Jenn and Brandy is good for Meri. They tell it like it is. Meri's other two friends who were at La Caille with her, last week (I forget their names) were pretty straight shooters, too.