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Of course he's turning into Grumpy Cat; this whole production was to showcase him as the Ultimate Stud with a stable full of adoring mares whom he keeps blissfully happy. The reality is that only the newest wife is happy at all, and even she is in tears all the time, and the other 3 are totally miserable, and he's so dumb he doesn't understand why. He really believed that polygamy was a path to earthly bliss, not just an eternal ego feast. I looked up "The Principle" on a Mormon site and found the explanation that Mormons never wanted to practice polygamy, they never liked the idea, but God ordered them to do it. Apparently Kody missed the part about how "you aren't supposed to be happy, this is an ordeal you must endure" it's just something you have to put up with . Dirty job but someone has to do it. Meanwhile women were never supposed to be happy, but were just supposed to put up with this crap and be sweet.

It's Nevada maybe they're opening a brothel

I envision the "not getting into the house " tantrum went something like this: "Mariah, stop what you are doing and get in the car" "But I was just about to go out with friends" or "I'm doing my homework." "Too bad, the film crew is here and we have to go look at the new house." "Right now? I'm busy!" "Yes, right now, get in the car we have to be filmed going to look at the new house." So Mariah stops what she's doing, cancels her plans, changes her clothes, fixes her hair and makeup, gets in the car to go meet the production crew in front of the new house. Where she is informed that she is not supposed to get out of the car because they are NOT going to look at the new house. And you think her meltdown was unreasonable? They dragged her out for THAT?

She appears to be having a manic episode. When that pendulum swings, it could get seriously dangerous for the rest of the family. She's been so emotionally invested In this polygamy thing, so desperate to believe that Kody loves her, that when it all falls apart, (and the cracks are beginning to show) that she could become a danger to herself or others. It would be great TV, along the lines of the fictional "UnREAL" but I would hope the producers would intervene in time.

We have to assume that Neumann was talking about game theory when he visited Los Alamos in 1943.The idea that anybody had to be "tricked" into working on the project is ridiculous. You might say Congress had to be "tricked" into funding it, but that would only have been a trick if they hadn't been successful. Perhaps there ere some other projects, boondoggles or scams that received funding but the Manhattan Project actually produced a bomb, it was deployed, it had the desired effect, so where was the deception?

Kody calling Aurora "mrs Brown, holding her hand going into court, all the hugging etc, if you can't see who wife #5 is going to be, you're blind. She will come of age when her mother hits menopause, and Kody, ever the egomaniac, will be looking for a younger model to have more babies. And she'll be right there.

It is relevant to Mariah's sense of entitlement, she is the only legitimate heir to the throne. Imagine if you were an only child and your dad had fathered a lot of other kids on the side. Children of first marriages have trouble enough accepting the half-siblings of subsequent marriages. And in a plural family like that, if you don't think your mother is putting you first, you would feel like an orphan. So Meri's going to bat to defend Mariah's choice of a college is appropriate. Also, didn't Kody say he pays more attention to the boys? Her father has probably been ignoring her all her life. Now, when she wants to go to college, he's more interested in Robyn and her kids than in supporting her. He doesn't have enough money to send her to college because he's too busy adopting Robyn's kids and making more babies. I'd be throwing a few tantrums myself.

Something else I thought about Meri, we snark a lot about her orange complexion, but consider her unexpected weight loss, her having had a CTscan, it's possible she's got something wrong with her pancreas, gallbladder or liver. It could be gall stones, or it could be pancreatic cancer. Nobody deserves that stuff.

I think in Kody's mind, "living together" is a euphemism for "bumping uglies"

Until Kody married Robyn, Mariah was the only legitimate child in the family. That makes her the crown princess. Traditionally, illegitimate offspring get the leftovers. That is the way families have been organized since the dawn of civilization. Meri married the father of her child before she got pregnant, and the collection of unwed mothers followed. It was their choice to pop out a bunch of children fathered by a man they weren't legally married to, a circumstance which entitled them to welfare benefits. Ignore the "spiritual marriage" nonsense. The cul de sac is populated with unwed mothers and their kids. This is not a family, they live in separate homes and do not share meals (unless somebody's making an announcement. ) Meri has now become a divorced, single empty-nester. She doesn't owe the neighbors anything other than an occasional Tupperware party

I think Meri deserves props for looking for something better. It shows she's figured out this polygamy shit stinks. As single moms, these three older wives have a pretty good deal, their own McMansions, other children for their kids to hang out with, apparently steady incomes for now. Leaving the cul-de-sac wouldn't make any sense. As long as they show up for filming they are free to do as they please. I think that's why Janelle seems pretty happy. For all we know she's banging somebody she met at the gym. Meri needs to create her own life, get a job, a circle of friends, maybe attend services at the LDS, and sit on a couch with the others once a week, talk about how peachy everything is, and collect a paycheck.

Two things about all this: dragging all those children into the courthouse. Who does that??? It's not an event or venue to take children to. Then, the outfits they wore: lace, chiffon, sequins. They were dressed for a wedding, not court. I was glad to see they put a tie on David-Dayton but the young man is old enough to wear a suit and the solemnity of the occasion warranted it. Anyway, the whole thing about raising kids to believe that legal marriage doesn't matter but adoption is an event of cosmic significance is interesting. Either the legal status of a relationship matters or it doesn't. You can have it both ways.

She'd had a CT scan because of some other problems she'd been having and it showed thickening of the cervix so she was referred for a Pap smear and it sounded like she'd never had one before.

I think Kody and Robin were asked how long have they lived together (5 years) and are you legally married (yes) so they implied, but did not actually say , that they were married for those five years. No perjury there. Since Robyn is too beautiful to cook, who fixes the meals when Kody dines with her and the kids? Those other wives should change their locks, quit cooking, lose weight, and get extreme makeovers. Christine should be charging for any childcare she provides. And she needs to get her antidepressant adjusted before she goes postal and kills the whole family.

We don't need a new law. Somebody needs to lure the catfish out for a rendezvous and beat the crap out it. Or con it into going on a trip to Mexico, steal all the money and identification, and leave the thing south of the border. There are ways to deal with a catfish.

I watched the last 5 minutes. He was kissing Robyn. How long before Christine figures out she's got all the status of a nanny in this family? She's the help, period.

Oh no! Now I'll have to watch the episode to see whom he was kissing? Somebody get to the bottom of this so I won't have to!!!

I was too astonished by the Duke University poliovirus treatment for glioblastoma. Seems it was featured on 60 minutes but I missed that. Had to look it up, it's very interesting. Last November a 29 year old newlywed named Brittany Maynard ended her own life because of a glioblastoma, suposedly incurable. Were the clinical trials at Duke already going on? I remember the suicide issue intensely because my own daughter was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer one year after she got married, at the age of 30. She was offered an experimental protocol and decided against it. She talked about how if the standard treatment didn't work, then she would sign on for a clinical trial of something different. So I reacted on a very emotional level to this show, thinking (1) how it was too bad Maynard didn't enroll in the Duke study, because it might have cured her, and (2)how it was actually selfish of her to kill herself and NOT enroll in the study, because even if she died the information obtained might lead to a cure for somebody else, Consequently I paid no attention at all to what anybody was wearing.

You can't put your finger on it?? You've got to be kidding! Aurora's getting in line to be wife #5 Of course it's creepy and disgusting. But when you're a pugs must, it's what you do. About Meris Orange complexion and mop hair. Maybe she goes to the sMe salon as Bob Massi. I saw him on FOX news the other day and thought what a mess, orange skin and wild hair. Maybe it's Vegas.

I was just playing with my youngest cat whom I acquired 8 weeks ago in a hypothermic, dehydrated, unconscious state from another farm where I was told "oh yeah he's the runt he's going to die" and I put him in my egg incubator and called him Schrodinger, and for 2 days I was afraid to open the box and see if he was alive or dead or both, but I kept peeking in and giving him Gatorade until he crawled out by himself. So now I call him Lazarus. And I thought how Darrow put Frank back in the box and now he's like Schrödinger's cat, and we don't know if he's alive or dead or both at the same time.

Oh wow, Kody hates talking about all the wives' complaints about him? Too bad, either he's the problem, or polygamy is, and they've already announced polygamy is ordained by God and makes everybody better, so I guess it can't be polygamy.

Wouldn't it be great if Robyn gets fat, the other wives leave and get skinny, and Kody's divining rod doesn't know what direction to point to.

I just read some of this. These victims must have shit for brains! I don't care how lonely and miserable you are, getting scammed out of that kind of money because you're in love with a person you have never met? Who does that???I especially liked the part about how they were in Las Vegas waiting for "Sam" to be discharged from the hospital, but never visited him in the hospital. Oh of course, like that happens! So how much money did Meri lose?

This episode was so ridiculous I might quit watching the series. I get why the Djinn was pissed at Dad, saved all his money for a hostile takeover of Dad's company, & wanted to kill dad, but that doesn't explain spending money gratifying other people's revenge fantasies (buying up Dads company could have happened sooner if he'd just saved his money) Or why he's living in the U.S. as a female wearing a hijab. It was all ridiculously complicated and made no sense at all. The whole plot line was nuts. Why didn't they just say the Djinn was an alien from another planet pissed off at what the British have been doing to Stonehenge, his ancestral home?

From another blog: "I know one of the men that filmed season 3 in Atlanta.....this person has/had warrants out for his arrest by former employers. He has a DUI and a judgement against him for unpaid attorney's fees.He's been terminated by nearly every employer he's ever had. He stole $2700 from his football club...he's a complete sociopath." It goes on and on. I figure it might be an ex wife or somebody with an axe to grind saying all this, and former employers don't issue arrest warrants, but it sounds like the "experts" have hit it out of the park again.