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Ice cream competition in Anna's backyard. T+A get their salsa outfits tailored. Alex and Emma are traumatized by a preview of their parents' sexy and cringe dance for the upcoming LPA convention in Austin, TX. You've been warned. I lost brain cells watching this episode. You've been warned.

Total switch and bait from last episode's tease. Yuck alert....the episode opens by revisiting the T+A body painting segment, fresh trauma! Jonah expresses his love for Ashley with a rack of ribs. She does her best to daintily eat the bbq. Lots of eating for Ashley in this visit. Highlight: Junior prom for Emma with Cousin Ella as her date. Alex with his gf, Allie who flew in from the farm. The robotic twins, Ryan and Sean who are spiffy in the suits and bow ties. Emma looked especially stylish in her pink gown. More boring T+A marriage/couples junk. Hope that is a TLC production crew driving the 15 year old Allie to Atlanta Airport and not some rando Uber driver, otherwise Alex should have driven her to her flight. Skip this episode.

Not proud of myself but I watched the latest episode, all nonsense filler. Amber puts a target on Emma, portraying her as a lonesome loser. Anna is a danger at the stove. Liz plays older sister to Emma, avoids making her feel like a total loser, unlike Amber. Alex has the Doublemint Twins as besties. Rut roh cliff hanger. Hint: Brice looking sheepish.

Coast is clear for those of you with sensitive gag reflex...no sex or bedroom hijinks in this episode. This is the set up episode for this season...Spoiler alerts! Joshua and his Delta 8 buddy, Brian are going to compete in a BBQ competition June 2023. T+A are learning to salsa for the LPA talent show in Austin, like they don't get enough attention and are hogs of the spotlight. Alex is having Allie come to his prom. Emma has nothing. Anna's storyline is her new house. Hope the TLC crew is using a decoy house for exterior shots like the Kardashians use to keep the crazies away from Anna's front lawn. Liz is hurting, weepy, teary eyed, welled up from breakup with Brice. With Leighton Drew' birthdate of 11/3 that means Liz was preggers with Brice's spawn when she threw his unromantic ass out and he vamoosed back to his parents' house. That will be a very special episode when Anna and Emma go buy pregnancy test kits at The Dollar General so Liz can pee on the stick. Anyone else hoping for a shotgun wedding, hillbilly style?

Jealous Amber breaking out the photo album of how she rescued Anna from the Russian orphanage to pat herself on the back every time Anna surpasses low expectations. Pathetic how Amber has to always be the center of attention. Nice that Trent and Josh are supportive of Anna risking Amber's jealous ire.

Come on...skip the vomit inducing T and A bedroom antics and enjoy Anna's double middle fingers to her parents by being the first of the kids to buy a house with her hard earned money. They smuggly wrote Anna off in high school as the bad apple and she gets to say FU by acquiring a nice home with a big backyard for her doggies. Liz's reaction to losing the house race to Anna is to have a baby.. Anna is the smartest tool in that Johnston shed of dopes afraid of Amber.

Bueller? Bueller? No one's watching the 7 with me?

Calling it early...the baby will be given a hillbilly nickname because Leighton is too la-di-da, much too hard for Trent to learn to spell. Wanna bet they are gonna build a place on the Johnston compound since Brice's family lives down the road...easier for TLC film crews.

Season 2 Australia announced. As bleak as Tasmania was visually, the South Island of NZ is not. Epic trip hiking all over the South Island before the tiktokers invaded. Alone UK next please.

Eel sniffing. Gina came into the show with the better game plan and it paid off. Reunion show next week and Mike is the one I am most interested in hearing how he processed his experience. Alone is still my favorite show of this genre.

Supposition of how it happened.... Scurrying to her pee spot, Gina locks eyes with the wallaby. Gina tackles and dispatches the pademelon with a nearby rock/log. Himalayan salt and smoke to preserve the meat. Mike came so close to trapping his pademelon. Consolation prize was a nice trout. Best episode reveals what animal Gina is ripping and gnawing flesh.

Michael moves and weeps. Mike swims in that tannic broth in attempt to unsnag his fishing lines. Gina doing the muddy work to dreg her fishing spot. No reveal yet of whose ribs she is ripping off the flesh in the tease. Zzzzz.

3 more black holes....oy vey.

Another episode where they take turns giving each other insincere compliments. The blond compensates for not losing weight by wearing bigger and bigger hats so she looks smaller optically. The brown haired one is winning....excuse me, TWINNING because she dropped a few lbs. She loves to lord it over her the blond who was always smaller. Another redo stuffed to the gills of doodads from their warehouse. The contractor who has to remove all that wall tile can curse Lamb&Co. That playhouse was too small for the winner.

Mike could have used his knit hat to corral the eel or flung it wildly on shore by scooping it instead of half hearted attempts to grab the slimey wiggler with his hands. The Tasmanian variety are short finned fresh water eels, not electric eels seen on Naked and Afraid... Maybe he was so addled with hunger he couldn't react to land it. Pademelon turned ninja walking through the trip line then a Tasmanian Devil gnawing and marking the whole gizmo with scent rendering it useless to attract other animals, just mocking him on the game cam...the only half interesting few minutes of this episode.

Kate almost convinced herself that fried eel was good...the very oily tip triggered her gag reflex and almost triggered mine with her retching.... Mike finally! What...wait...bad decision. Michael, those are the smallest holes. Gina, the tannins are going to stain your veneers. Chris, you make 6 gone in 12 days. This has to be some kind of Alone record for this many to be dunzo in the shortest time. Another snooze fest.

Jeff (gonna miss your common sense) got the heave ho and in-house contractor Owen is their hammering dude. Justin, the dark haired twin's spouse is now a fixture on the show, pun intended. He is a jack of all trades...mopping up mistakes, doing grunt work, bearer of bad news( septic tank/ sewer problems in a tease). The blond's teen son was laying flooring in another episode. TH stated that buyers were taking 5...10...15 walkthroughs before pulling the trigger means soft soft market at the time of filming.. Walking through 15 times seems far fetched..must be bringing in every family member and their dog in for a look see. Spoiler alert: Butt crack sofa. $3K of sherpa ugly.

For those who follow Jen on Instagram she has apologized and asked for grace to forgive Will's Tiktok since removed with him dancing along with Madagascar Movie penguins while explicit and foul lyrics from Three 6 Mafia's "Half On a Sack" played. She states he is new to his own social media account and has veered off the road with his choice of musical content. I am guessing Zoey will out vulgar Will when given the chance to post on her own social media account. They grow up so fast....

Agree. Indigenous Lands+fragile environment+protected wildlife=bad teevee None of the usual building projects in hopes of procuring food. No dock, fish traps, or paddle boat fishing gizmos. Mike's kayak is one sharp stick away from being a tarp with holes. A non endangered animal will have to drop dead of natural causes into their fire to be eligible to eat. Guess the Tasmanian strategy is to bring hooks and fishing line, saw, sleeping bag(or hunk of salt), a pot, paracord and 5 bags of food. 5 bags of food would get them deep into the game. Chris is an outstanding Aloner, to film his panic attack is the opposite of that woman last season who attempted to curate her emotional outbursts. Chris has 3 fish in 11 days, best fisherman. Kate, the botanist has the knowledge to gather food and all she has to show us so far is plant soap.

Can't be the platypus....protected Pademelons weigh up to 14 pounds for males, 10 pounds for females.... Tasmanian devils can reach 30 inches in length and up to 26 pounds. Wallabys get up to 40 pounds and 6 feet long including their tail. Taste like beef. Common wombat get 39 inches long and up to 57 pounds. Good wombat tastes like rich aromatic pork, bad wombat meat tastes metallic. Her blasé face as she rips off a hunk of meat from the back reminds me of Tom Hanks in Castaway eating lobsters.

Very interactive season... home viewers adding their own loud retching gagging soundtrack as they watch this season. Chris ping pongs all over the emotional map. He asked for a sign to stay and landed a trout...that was good teevee. Even though he sucked down the roe as a snack he was unable to get a fire started ate the trout sashimi style. Bet he was glad he didn't catch an eel. Raw eel....🤢 Duane is yet another builder who after finishing their shelter loses interest in staying. And the prize money is not worth the feelings of loneliness, yadda yadda yadda. Duane's family may not feel the same as Duane who threw away a 1 out of 6 chance for a good chunk of money. Agree, he had the best stretch of waterfront property. The water looked clear and lacked the tangle of roots to snag fishing hooks. Chris' water is brackish, dark from tannins, perhaps? If I had been an Aussie Alone applicant and got rejected, I would be pissed watching these quitters. I can't be the only one who finds Michael unlikeable. He looks like the poor man's Adam Driver but still off putting. Post your guess what animal carcass Gina is ripping the meat from in the opening.

My local library bought the blue ray of the special when I suggested the purchase. You might want to do the same. The theme song stirs up the fuzzy feels for The Detectorists. Enjoyable to watch but it was over too soon. Leaving us fans wanting more.

How about Hot Tub Girl? Girl has it all planned... Thinking her beau doesn't quite know what he is unleashing.

Carlos Biggeman, the photographer is not afraid to show his feels. His intensity radiates through your teevee screen. His match is so perfect, she is of another time and is enthralled with his protestations of love. On a side note, I stayed at an AirBnb on the same body of water that Carlos lives, it is a spectacular place to visit.

I am inclined to think that the first guy and first gal wanted to go home during orientation week when they got acutely homesick and couldn't wait to tap out. They wasted 2 spots that could have gone to other contestants. The hunter guy was beside himself, no guns, no arrows...he was completely out of his element and seemed angry that the producers set him up for failure. Night one, he foolishly set his tarp so the rain drained into his sleeping bag and clothes. He doesn't seem the type who has ever camped in his life. I can't be the only one to suspect he staged a pratfall so he could get back home to have a warm brekky and shoot his weapons. The robust retching of the botanist as she tried to down the eel has ruined my appetite for unagi. She says she doesn't like eel or fish...I'll be ready to mute her heaving and barfing mealtimes. Kayak building underway. Hopefully, someone will build a pier to make fishing and eel catching snag free.