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Nurie just turned 25 and is pregnant with her third child?? 😟

If they're divorced but still living as a couple, is he paying her alimony and/or child support at all? Or is she well and truly screwed if she ever did try to leave him because she would have no source of income whatsoever? I didn't see the season where they got divorced so I am curious what their terms were, since they only did this so Ick could get his Brazilian groove on.

So Nick's plan is to keep acquiring wives two by two so the women can keep marrying each other, while he lounges at home and shops for bigger beds? That's not polygamy, and it's not really polyamory, right? If he just wants to collect wives, I'm not getting why they have to marry each other. I am new to this show - my favorite podcaster does recaps and I had to see for myself. But I am a Day One Sister Wives watcher and something about the behavior of many of these men is so weird to me (shocker). Justin, Naeem, Shane - they all seem so badly to want another wife, but when their original wives go girl shopping for them and they finally meet face to face, it's like the men sit there like deer in headlights, mumbling "heh heh" like Beavis and/or Butthead, staring at their wives to get things going while they act like they'd rather be anywhere but at a table with their wife and potential side-piece. If they want another "wife" so bad, their mannerisms sure show the opposite. It's like they all want the thrill of the chase but once Wifey brings a real-life Lady #2 to the table, they want to turn tail and run back to their blanket fort because girls are scary. I mean, Kody Brown is nothing to aspire to but at least he was the leader (in his own mind). All of these men, hands down, proclaim to want the women without any of those silly hormonal emotions. How any of them found even one woman to commit to them is beyond comprehension.

Since my tv screen shrinks the end credits of Survivor to the size of a postage stamp, I didn't realize that Tevin didn't vote Soda. I swear I am mostly paying attention, but wasn't it his idea? So he got everyone on board, and then didn't vote for her in order to get her jury vote? Seems like an idea that might have some serious blowback. I agree, she seemed to be making a pretty theatrical exit. And why did she get applause on her way out? Reserve that for Queen Sandra. Was Soda just that beloved or were they applauding themselves for getting her out? Or maybe trying to applaud her off the stage, like when the music starts playing over the Oscar winner who won't stop talking? Charlie looks like Anthony Perkins, circa Psycho. No, I'm not that old, I've seen it on tv. But I am this old, and I agree. And Maria's voice had me wondering who she reminded me of until it clicked that she sounds just like Cristina, the cop, from Ozzy's tribe on Cook Islands (my favorite season). Liz - bring your bag next time. It's a really bad look.

Normally Jill is the one shoving her camera in everyone's faces while the embarrassed birthday child stands with a frozen smile in front of his/her Twinkie with a candle in it, but this time Jill was all over Janessa. She is going to baby that child something fierce. Janessa might end up the least educated of all the Rods, by Jill's own devices.

This is something, even for Jill. What I noticed about her video...the girls were constantly pulling up the sleeves of their pinafores because they were clearly too big. It also looked like Jill had pulled the dresses from the bottom of her unwashed laundry bin because they were both very wrinkled. Also, summer frocks over black long-sleeved t-shirts is a "look," but sadly, not a good one. Janessa was clearly scared to be sitting next to the animated Chuck. Jill even wrote over the video that Janessa was "nervous." When freaky Chuck-E turned to "look" at Janessa, her face showed fright and she tried to move away but was forced to smile for Jill's video. Jill. Is. AWFUL. 50% of the video, probably taken by the other waif whose name escapes me, was of Jill and her Hunk (hands off, ladies, he's taken) shooting hoops and playing video games. I thought they were there for Janessa's birthday? That was one sad video. At least the little waifs got some pizza.

(sung to the tune of Danny Boy) My fruitful womb! The pipes, the pipes are opennnnnnn To plant a seed.....to grow and grow my grift! (points to her waifs one by one) It's you and YOUUUUU and you and you and you....."dear" Help Mahmo shine, or Mahmo will be miffed!

I admit that I have been listening to Rachel's podcast and I think she's been doing a good job at giving her side of the story. In the most recent episode she's talking with Jo. If I wasn't particularly a Jo fan before, I am now. The hateful treatment of her by the other women gives pretty disturbing middle-school mean girl vibes towards the girl who is a little bit quirky and unique. Jo's funniest line so far was, "If Schwartz were dating a tree, Katie would chop it down."

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I liked how many of the kids all posted the exact same tribute as Janelle at the same time. I love how they coordinated that as a family.

I agree with airing whatever they've got in the can now and then ending the show. It would seem that if they kept on going, Garrison's passing would have to be addressed in the season to follow, and for the sake of the kids - adults or not - who had no say in having their lives documented for entertainment, the Brown parents need to put an end to the filming. There are no Sister Wives anymore. Even a Janelle/Christine or solo Christine spin-off would be pointless. Certainly Kody and Robyn can't carry a show on their own. Time to bow out.

Why do Tim and Heidi need 6 apparatuses for making coffee? I mean I get that it seems to be Heidi's thing, but she'd better make darn sure she lives at least 100 miles away from her future mother-in-law, otherwise Jill will be over there with her waifs ordering skinny vanilla lattes with a dusting of cinnamon and extra whipped cream from Tim every other day until he has to file for bankruptcy. As for Jill giving anyone a lecture about the proper use of a smart phone..... 🤐 EDIT: I thought about it for a minute and realize that I also have a drip coffee maker, an electric kettle and a French press, so... 🙃

Schwartz's hair might not look so stupid if he didn't seem to be styling it with melted butter and axel grease. In the dark. I kind of dig Jo showing up for her confessionals in leggings and a t-shirt with minimal makeup and regular hair, as opposed to some of the questionable fashion statements from Katie, Sandoval, etc. And when Jo asked Schwartz if he was embarrassed by her, his "NO!" didn't seem at all convincing to me. She deserves way better.

Jill asks, "How many of YOU have graduates this year?" 😉 And then she disables the comments. I look forward to not being able to recognize Samuel if/when he ever gets to escape to college and eat real food for a few months before Mahmo yanks him back home because reasons.

That baby doll is terrifying, and also that's a lot of perm rods in Jill's cosmetology table. Haven't seen a colorful selection like that since the early 80's.

I like Venus for these reasons. The men are aware that she's not going to follow their instructions and then it becomes a dog-pile situation where Q at the water well is pontificating like "that's it then I am voting Venus and that's just how it's going to be, period, that's it, that's the decision, end of story." Man, get Q a win, some fire and half a blueberry muffin and suddenly he's running the show. I'd like to see him leave sooner rather than later. Old School - I can pretty much recall the winners and place most of the cast on their correct season from season 1 - 40. New School - I was listening to RHAP recently and Rob was discussing some NS players...Gabe? Lydia? Matt? And I'd have to look them up to remember who they were if I cared (but I don't). Look, you don't know that papaya's backstory and what it had to do to find its way to a tree in Fiji. 100% agree, but I miss his old banshee-screaming shtick like, "Penner! Talking back to me!" Or "Get a load of this guy, can't even make it up the rope wall! He's literally the slowest person we have ever had on this show, what an utter disaster for the Blue Tribe!" Now he's all "Sunshine and rainbows! THAT'S how you do it on Survivor!" I miss Snarky Jeff. But I think he's gone forever.

This bugged me, along with Kody not sitting in between his own mother and Robyn. I saw the snarky comments, and I understand why the comments were made, but those pictures that the National Guard published (and I am not clear on whether or not Janelle okay'd that beforehand) should have had the comments turned off. But I found the body language interesting, as usual. David and Christine were holding hands, as were Logan and Michelle and Aspyn and Mitch. There was no actual need for Kody to grip Robyn's knee in the front row, in my useless opinion. Both Kody and Robyn could've taken a hot second and reflected on how that physical demonstration might appear to Janelle and the rest of the family. It could have been a simple adjustment to holding hands for support. The hand on the knee seemed out of place for the somber, sad occasion. Either those two have absolutely zero self-awareness, or they honestly just don't care.

Came here to say this. So each kid probably gets to share a couple of scoops of Superman ice cream with their siblings, followed by a ride on Sandy, regardless of how old they are - while the customers give a wide berth to the crazy blonde lady screeching at her kids to smile while she films them each taking a turn on the horsey and the employees are like, oh no - they're back.

Personally I would love a downstairs cellar basement attic to store the things that don't fit in my pantry closet, like my collection of sweat blouses and baseball bonnets.

I don't know why I feel the need to look so closely at these pictures that Jill posts but they are oddly fascinating. In addition to the highly inappropriate "memorial wall" in a child's bedroom, I notice what looks like a doll's detached head in a bucket, a flat yellowed pillow on a shelf that Jill is keeping for reasons? And why does a 6 year old need an industrial-type clock in her room - something you would see at a bank? Outside her room in the hallway, what am I looking at - a lighted set of shelves containing Willow Tree figurines? What is this woman's obsession with lamps and cabinet/shelf lighting in multiple spaces of every single room? How is their electric bill not $15,000 a month? I always did like those "hidden pictures" pages in my Highlights magazines as a kid...this is the twisted and scary version of that, I guess?

If Kody and Robyn had even a modicum of sense between them, they would simply disappear from this show because like @Meow Mix said, whatever they do is going to be lose-lose. And I don't think that I would ever want to hear from them again, knowing how deeply they have hurt and manipulated Kody's non-Robyn kids over the years. I have to think that whatever is in the can already for this season will be it for the show. I don't even necessarily need to see "Christine and Janelle: Sister Wives No More!" or whatever we were potentially going to get. Everyone can just move on, shill more MLM stuff and see how it goes. Of course, I also think that Kody and Robyn heavily depend on the show's income, which could sway their decision to keep filming. But the very last thing any of us need to see ever again is Robyn crying, whether or not those tears are real or pretend. She simply cannot. No one believed her then, we sure aren't going to believe her now.

It amazes me that Jill happily posts pictures of the interior of her house with nary a care that bedrooms don't have windows (against fire code, I believe all rooms need two exits, either via door or window), not to mention every single outlet in that place has about 14 plugs and extension cords snaking out of them. I would absolutely love to see them get inspected, but I don't know how that happens unless they potentially get reported? In my mind, this is Jill's twisted way of keeping Janessa dependent on her. By putting her alone in a big house, she could be fostering a fear in Janessa of being by herself, thus needing Mahmo even more. And I am sad that this thought even occurred to me but Jill has her reasons for doing what she does.

Kody may have not had had an inkling, but I guess the question I have is, how hard and how far can you push your child and still sleep at night? Obviously now that question takes a very dark turn. I just cannot fathom speaking so terribly about my children on national television. Say it in private, or to your wife, or in a text, etc. But no matter how angry Kody was at the time, he went way too far with the things he said - knowing that he was saying them for a camera and could not take them back. I would not wish Kody's pain on anyone. He never imagined the outcome of his words, but at the same time, how could he not? They are your children, and words matter, and he seemed to want to really hurt them with his words. I wonder if we will ever hear from Kody going forward on the show.

I assume they feel absolutely gutted, as I believe many of them have probably been with the family for years, but to quote the great Heather B from Real World New York (season one, yes I am old): "they used what we gave them." In other words, Kody could not have been made to be a villain if he hadn't said the terrible things he's said about several members of his family. I doubt very much that the producers told him to disparage his sons on national tv for "wanting to get their pencils wet," among other equally awful things he's said for the cameras. That was all Kody, IMO. I read the article linked above as well as @General Days 's excellent response. If GD is not currently employed as a professional writer/journalist, then I don't even know what to say.....you should be. This show has never been "boring" to me, a watcher since Day One. Initially I was fascinated by the large family, how the wives interacted, how Kody split his time, how the kids got along with each other, and even what the wives wore for their then-purposes of modesty (I am not even going to lie, I sometimes found the way they layered their clothes interesting and - don't laugh - cute). I am trying to think if there was ever a time during this show that I found boring, because I was always watching for the family interactions and dynamics. When things got dark with Meri's catfish, I started to get uncomfortable because her pain and loneliness radiated off the screen in waves of misery. I thought, should I be "entertained" by this over my popcorn and glass of wine? I guess I justified it by thinking that if she didn't want to be filmed so vulnerable, she wouldn't do it. I have no idea if she was roped into a contract, or was getting pressure from the rest of the family...and that was just the beginning. Who knew we were in for a pandemic and Kody's reign of control and all the horrible things that followed. So I don't quite know where I fall on feeding the SW beast by watching and commenting. I know I will never do a re-watch, but if they keep filming and airing, I will likely keep watching. And if they stop filming, I will respect that too and come to terms with this forum slowing way down and maybe stopping altogether. And even though the show used what Kody gave them, I do sometimes wonder about his mental health and how he is handling what happened to his son.

That is some seriously messed up six degrees of separation...or in this case, like 1 1/2 - 2 degrees. Just trying to think of cute nicknames for Edelweiss...Ed? Eddie (that's kind of cute). Edey? Weissy? But I imagine if you're going to give a child that kind of name, it's going to be used loud and proud by her parents at every opportunity.