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I don't think any kind of polyamory works for everyone involved. Someone is always going to be insecure, someone is always hoping something will change. Or somebody is really unaware of what the real dynamics are. I saw a news story about it, there was a trio of one woman and two men. It was easy to see that the two men were gay and in love with each other, and the woman was just fat and unattractive and so desperate to have somebody in her life, she agreed to do their laundry. Then there was a trio of one man and two women. The skinny sexy vivacious wife did all the talking, the man sat there smiling & nodding, and the older overweight wife who had borne all the children (and probably did all the housework,) just sat there with her arms crossed, sourly studying her shoes. It's like all the married women who know their husbands are unfaithful but are afraid to give any ultimatums or threaten divorce because they don't have the money to take the kids and run. So they pretend to be okay with it. I remember an editorial published during the Clinton -Lewinsky scandal, and the writer said something like "the first time a woman defends her husband's infidelity, she looks like a saint; the second and third time she does it, she looks disturbingly complicit." That's it, if you are going along with this, you are disturbingly complicit. There is something wrong with you.

I just assumed Justin Kirk was an hallucination. Real people aren't that good-looking.

What were the causes of death for Meri's siblings, I saw something about her sister died of cancer?

Champing or chomping, it doesn't matter if the kids move out of the house, the only escape for them is marriage. If they don't get married they will end up on Kody's planet working as Robyn's slaves.

Yes, what propaganda? That the war was almost won or that the Manhattan Project was making progress or needed more money? Had these government contractors practiced the current policy of blaming all failures on Congress for not appropriating enough money? "We didn't do our jobs because you didn't give us enough money." How many times have we heard that? Obviously, the scientists were selling secrets to the Germans and Russians because they weren't getting paid enough.

Oh please, stop feeding the catfish. Let it starve to death.

I don't know what the big deal is about the age gap between Maddie and what's his name. We haven't seen him yet. Look at Ribyn and Kody: she's 37. He's still 13.

Ok so Game Theory became a "thing" in 1944 but when did Frank have time to wander into those weeds? And isn't this taking place in spring 1944?

I agree we already knew information was getting smuggled out. But I don't know about you but I did not know that what's his name was working for the Germans or the Russians until the scene with the dead coyote and he said they should bury the thing because they were good people, unlike the Germans, who stuffed Avram into the trunk of a car. So then I knew whom he was working for. But maybe I missed something else. I think all the convoluted plot devices in which we are given the time frame "4 days earlier" "15 months earlier" etc are just devices to make sure we watch all the commercials. I didn't see the Geico ad. I think if you are seeing the ads, you're watching it wrong.

Well maybe we were all confused; I couldn't figure out who was an hallucination and who wasn't. Then I was distracted by stuff like "game theory," I said to my husband "I thought John Nash invented game theory." Husband said "I think he did, but this is a TV show." he has to remind me of stuff like that. So, Magpie was the spy in Germany, and the photos in the folder were the ones he had smuggled out, and Frank recognized the math as his own, while Avram was getting killed so nobody knew where he was so he started hallucinating from ketoacidosis. Which some people believe gives them mental clarity. See, I have trouble watching TV shows.

I don't think Woody Allen ever adopted Mia Farrow's kids, the ones she adopted with Andre Previn if I recall. I could google that but I don't care enough to do any fact checking. In any case the stepfather-stepdaughter pairing is actually very common, and legal if the child has reached the age of consent. Which is 16 in most states. How old is Robyn's daughter, 13?

Wow I just had a lightbulb moment, maybe Robyn has noticed her daughters are infatuated with Kidy so that's really the reason for the adoptions? She doesn't want him to marry them, so she's trying to make an end run around him?

I didn't really notice but I would not be at all surprised if Christnes mother is as disgusted by all the favoritism shown to Robyn as we are.

I agree I think discussions of the catfish story are just feeding the ego of the piece of shit responsible. The Romans had a term for what this person deserves: damnatio memoriae.

Well the new birth certificates are going to come back and bite Kody in the butt when he divorces Robyn and tries to marry her oldest daughter!

There, you see? The fans are more interested in monsoons than overtures. We're all geeks here.

Janelle was also married before. The 2 exhusbands, and any partners they had prior to Janelle and Robyn's entrance into the family circle, were potential STD donors as well. Their advocacy of "purity" is a complete charade.

I agree, I would have completely lost interest in this show if it had not been for this forum. Even when the moderators suspend my posting privileges (at least once a week I get my knuckles rapped) I like to lurk here and read.

She's also gaining weight. Going the way of the others. as soon as Kody can't get an erection for her he'll take it as a sign from God that he needs another wife. That's how it works for these polygamists, they get an erection, they think it's a miracle, God is picking out another woman for them, pointing the way. If they hadn't had such a plentiful supply of stupid women, this religion would have died out a hundred years ago.

Band of Brothers, the title, is a reference to the invasion of France by Henry V, "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers! For he who sheds his blood this day with me shall be my brother, be he ever so vile, this day shall gentle his condition!" It's all rather circular, these story lines.

I just had a thought, all this talk about how Janelle seems quite content to be ignored by Kody,she's low maintenance,etc. Has it ever occurred to anybody she might be gettin' a little sumpin' on the side? Wouldn't that be a hoot? She's got her career, she gets out, she meets people. She might even be getting it on with one of the show's producers. We can dream, can't we?

Issuing new birth certificates only makes sense if it's a closed adoption and the biological parents want to remain anonymous. That used to be pretty standard procedure. Now, almost all adoptees know from early childhood on that they were adopted, and a lot of them know who their birth parents are. In this case, where the children grew up with their biological father, the new birth certificates Seem just wrong.

One of the funniest things about Robyn's angst over how will the other children respond to her pregnancy is the belief that the decision is any of the kids' business. I remember reading a letter on Dear Abby or Ann Landers many years ago about a couple who didn't want to have another baby unless the toddler they already had gave his permission. The advice columnist's answer was something to the effect that nobody in their right mind leaves such a decision up to a child. Likewise, nobody in their right mind cares if the kids are okay with another baby in the family. It's not like asking them if they want a puppy. There are many things children are entitled to opine about, but a new baby in the family is not one of them.