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Unfortunately, there are some members of the gay community that also do not feel being bi is real. Also, some members of the gay community do not want to date bi people. So Gwen may be extra sensitive regarding her sexuality. Hopefully, Paedon can educate himself and come to an understanding and acceptance of his sister’s sexuality.

I’d watch a season of Christine et al if just to see how she’s getting on now that she’s single— although she has been single in practice for quite some time. I’d definitely tune in if she started dating. But yeah, probably not much more than a season’s worth of material there. Kody and Robyn really do not have much of a storyline anymore, either. It’s glaringly clear that they do not live a plural marriage anymore. Meri and Jenelle are exes. I could not care less whether they move again— find those types of episodes exceedingly tedious— nor do I care to hear them discuss Coyote Pass for the umpteenth time.

Right, Howard will inevitably hear about the scene that Saul Goodman made in the clubhouse from other members and put two and two together. Doesn’t mean Howard can prove anything— but he’ll likely want to keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary. Will he find out eventually that Saul and Kim visited the Kettlemans?

All I kept thinking during the “get Howard” scenes was, don’t Kim and Jimmy have anything better to do? I mean, life’s too short for this crap. Saul is supposedly building his practice, and Kim is saving the poor. Why waste time and energy on an elaborate revenge plot that could ruin your own lives?

Just watched this and even though I know net to nothing about crypto, couldn’t help but be dumbfounded by the guy who invested everything he had in it. He was a software engineer—not stupid. I guess otherwise smart people can make dumb choices. My opinion is that Cotten is actually dead. I read that he went into septic shock, which can kill someone in a day. He was the Bernie Madoff of crypto. Took the money and gambled it on more crypto and lost money. But who knows?

I think Rachel was still somehow clinging to magical thinking that Anna wouldn’t, couldn’t be so morally corrupt as to not pay her back? They did not write the Rachel character well, imo. As a personal anecdote, years ago I used my Amex card to shop at a local mall. Paid the bill, done—didn’t use it at all for a few months. Then, started getting bills for charges at that same mall for different dates. I happened to be out of the country on several of those dates and had not even gone back to that mall. It took A LOT of phone calls and runaround to get the charges off. Fast-forward to the next year, and I get a letter saying that due to an internal accounting audit at Amex, the see I still owe them $$. I had to go through the whole rigamarole again to get the charges dropped. So I imagine things were not so easy in real life for Rachel.

Right, I follow someone on YouTube that explained the only things that count as far as being able to monetize videos are views, subscriptions, engagement, etc. —not whether people leave negative comments.

My pet peeve regarding music is gatekeeping. The whole, “You can’t be a true fan of x, y, or z music because ______” (insert arbitrary criteria). What? Who cares if I am a fan of a certain type of music or a particular band/artist? Or if I am not familiar with everything about a music genre or artist? I like what I like.

This article talks about a study over a 12-month period, suggesting that suicidality is reduced, hardly definitive. I think that so much more needs to be studied objectively about early gender-affirming treatments and their long-term effects on transgender children. Also, there needs to be more emphasis on the fact that gender-affirming treatments and surgeries are not the magic cure-all for every mental health issue that a transgender person may have.

I took it as Will saying “the devil made me do it,” in a way of deflecting full accountability. He, WS, made a choice and acted on it— saying anything else looks like one is trying to blame an outside force, imo. Maybe the Oscars should have an enclosed penalty box, like they do in hockey, for Will Smith if they allow him to come to future shows.

I didn’t know about Jada’s alopecia, just thought she was going for a certain look. Does she have acute onset, or traction alopecia? Certain hairstyles, treatments, weaves, etc. can cause hair loss. Menopause and peri menopause can cause hair loss, too. Chris Rock’s joke wasn’t funny, but it wasn’t as egregious as making fun of someone who lost hair because of chemotherapy. Bald jokes have been made forever and are hacky, too. At any rate, Will’s over-the-top reaction was puzzling, to say the least. And violence is not the answer to a perceived insult. He should have been escorted out of the building, imo, and someone else could have picked up his Oscar for him.

I guess I’m just a little bit of a softie—I can feel a tiny bit of compassion for someone even if they are unlikeable, even if they are wrong. Maybe I feel even bitches need love? Maybe it is her weakness that makes me feel a smidge of pity? However, I agree that Meri makes it more and more difficult to have any feeling of sympathy for her— her bitchy behavior, her pettiness, her stubbornness, etc. I also can’t stand Meri’s secretiveness. She always seems like she’s withholding something— information or her true emotions—putting up her “walls.” It’s incredibly toxic for any kind of relationship whether it is romantic, familial, or friendship.

I think it’s a little of both. I don’t think Meri thinks she can one day resume her old position entirely, but I do think she’s clinging to the hope that she and Kody can one day have some kind of relationship, even as “buddies.” I’m not a fan of Meri’s, but I had some compassion for her over the catfishing incident. She was dealing with loneliness and, I speculate, some form of depression. She got the rug pulled out from under her in more ways than one. She got a massive smack down and public humiliation when it was revealed that Sam was not real, and a woman, to boot. If Meri still has any religious faith, it must seem to her like a punishment from God for betraying her spiritual union with Kody. However, Meri’s crappy behavior and apparent lack of accountability for her part in the incident have tempered my compassion for her since then.

The more I think about it, and the more posts here and other articles I read, I wonder if Sarma had any diagnosed mental health issues? She married Shane/Anthony so quickly, trusting that he had actual money. She was a Wharton graduate, not uneducated and naive. She bought the “immortality” promise, the “black ops” baloney, etc. She was draining money from her business without getting anything back from Anthony. Was she delusional? It’s difficult to get a good read on Sarma, as she is an unreliable narrator in the series. And lastly, as someone posted above, why couldn’t she find vegan food in Vegas— or just go to a grocery and pick up some things? It’s not like she needed to cook on a stove.

I agree, Sarma still didn’t seem to take accountability for many of her actions. I do get that Anthony sort of brainwashed her and manipulated her over years, but how he ever got that foothold in the first place still mystifies me. I guess it’s the same thing with cults, though. Anthony created his own mini- cult with Sarma. Another Netflix documentary, The Puppet Master, about Robert Hendy-Freegard in the UK, is similar to this story. He controlled his victims through fear over many years. He had them convinced he was a spy, a member of MI6, and that the IRA were after them. Mind- boggling.

@Mahamid Frauded Me, I hope you were kidding when you said Janelle could stay in Robyn and Kody’s basement, because we know there is no way in Hades that would happen. I don’t think there is any love lost between J and R— they just coexist, imo. This not a show about polygamy anymore, it’s about the failure of polygamy in this family. Kody is only married to Robyn and has a friendship with Janelle. He barely tolerates Meri as a spiritual wife (in name only—imo, there is nothing spiritual about it) and has an ex, Christine, from whom he is estranged.

Meri needs to know how to read the room. She should have known that doing a cooking video titled “just” anyone at this particular moment would be taken as stepping on Christine’s new venture. Even if Jen has been using the “just” on her Instagram handle— it’s not a good look, Meri.

Can it be “Paddy?” Asking for a friend…

Can’t get past the first few seconds of the video, but some of the comments are gold! Meri is catching flak for shading Christine.

Edited to add: I don’t mean that order and (relative) quiet are not possible within a large family, but it takes a lot more effort (and discipline) with the eight children Meri wanted than with the one she actually had.

Also, I wonder if Meri’s parenting style was different depending on which kid was the offender? If Mariah misbehaved, was she given a verbal lashing or a gentle reprimand? Meri likes order and quiet, but she’s has the luxury of that because she only had one child, and was head wife until Robyn staged a bloodless coup.

Yes, I was raised Roman Catholic, too. I figured it might be similar to the Brown’s in that their religion still considers them married. However, it makes no difference to Kody anyway, because as a polygamist, he can marry again in the church. What puzzles me is that they are sealed for eternity, so if Kody is still a true believer, does he think Christine will be joining him in the afterlife, or has he abandoned all of his religious beliefs, except the one that suit him?

Gimme a break, real-life Neff. Anna got away with much because she's a good con. "Con" for confidence, that is--she knows how to draw people in, apparently. Also, Anna's weird accent and European identity helped muddy the waters in vetting her. And if Anna is all "alone" in America, why doesn't she just go back to Germany, as her criminal sentence requires, instead of staying in a NJ jail and suing because she got covid? All the while, the taxpayers paying for her because she does not have money left from selling the rights to her story. Her lawyer argues that Anna should be able to stay here because she has a "business" (!) and a place to live. Huh??

I couldn't even get through the series completely. I skipped some episodes and fast-forwarded through much of other episodes. I already knew the story of Anna Sorokin, but I wanted to see how this series handled it. What a disappointment.

I can imagine Meri standing outside the McMansion singing her rendition of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from Dreamgirls. Sounding nothing like Jennifer Hudson ( or Holliday), of course, but more like the braying stubborn donkey that she is.