Mothra

I agree with everything you say, but Glenn will never *not* allow her to use him--i.e. he'll never move away--because "Daddy, if you go, I might lose my tv show whine whine whine" and Glenn knows that without that income who's going to take care of her? She's unfit/unemployable for any real job. She is the most unlikeable person on TV (and I'm including political figures here) and nobody wants to spend time around her unless they're being paid to do so. Glenn's got a big fat fabulous monkey on his back. I don't know whether he'd be smarter to escape her clutches and resign himself to writing her a check every month, or to hang in there and be humiliated weekly. Another thing is, he's got to see how unappealing she is, not necessarily physically, but emotionally, psychologically, spiritually--she's never going to attract a partner unless it's some guy willing to whore himself out in order to be on tv.

She has no idea of what her dad is going through with the loss of Babs. She thinks he is going to get over it and finish grieving and do things on his bucket list. That is, "his" bucket list--Glen has no bucket list. She showed no sensitivity at all in clearing out her mother's belongings with even talking it over with her father. I suspect (well, and he said so) he would have liked to have her clothes in the closet, for now anyway, so he could see them, smell them, cry into them. She just won't leave him alone because she doesn't want him to what--wallow in his grief?--jeebus she's awful. So she's lost 100 lbs, and she looks better for it, but she's still dressing and behaving inappropriately. Her jealousy over her cute niece is palpable--her life now seems to be devoted to demonstrating (to Daddy? to everyone?) that she is Better. And somebody remind me: Does Whit live in North Caroliner or South Caroliner?

Oh my glob yes--I saw that scene in the previews, and I haven't been able to wipe the grin off my face since then. I've been away for a while, but I hope everyone remembers that I am the poster who yammered on and on about her beaver teeth--and she did finally get them filed down! I'm not surprised she's in braces, though--it's all the thing, with purely cosmetic ones available online if you can't afford/don't need the real thing.

Is everyone on vacation? I just watched the two-parter (WATN) about good old Angie, and I now understand the value of giving good blow jobs to get someplace to live. Even if she had really had to live in the park, she should have been able to make enough money to afford some cheap motel room. Actually, she probably did make enough for shelter but blew it (heh) on oxy. I'm glad she finally seemed to get it and has lost a lot of weight, but I still find her loathesome. I've been using (prescribed) medical marijuana to help me sleep, and I find it makes me very, very sympathetic with the poundticipants--it's been wonderful to *feel* so deeply about them--but even my altered state of mind resists the charms of Angie.

I think this ties into and reinforces Scarlett's comments above. He and his mother both are reacting like petulant babies, but Geno's immaturity in dealing with (unnecessary) conflict is more blatant. I wonder if the mother has been intentionally overfeeding Geno because her WLS wasn't totally successful. She is overweight imho and she worries that if Geno succeeds like his uncle did, she will lose her matriarchal position somehow. We've seen on other shows that there is often a competitive aspect in weight loss when one has already lost weight and a) wants to supervise the poundicipant's diet, maddening the P, or b) refuses to take responsibility for over-feeding the P. If the P. succeeds, the enabler will often gain weight.

I was taken aback when Geno really started a fight when it was totally unnecessary, when she told him she couldn't go to Houston with him because of her health, and he didn't just leave it alone. Why did he have to say "well, you weren't going anyway?" Why not just be grateful to be relieved of the burden of how to tell her she wasn't coming? Why go out of his way to hurt her feelings like that? Passive-aggression is strong in this one, and I didn't see it coming.

Re: Cameron's red suit: I think it was just fine because he felt good in it, and Aris had no objection to it--maybe she thought he looked good in it, too. In my day, around 1903, daring young men wore stupid-looking brightly-colored wedding costumes, too, and I think they might have been worse. They involved things like baby-blue jackets with broad bands of navy trim and excessively ruffled pirate shirts. They looked ridiculous, of course, and Cameron looked ridiculous. Like him, they thought they were hawt. The look I really like is on the Gypsy weddings shows, where the young men doff their jackets and often their shirts for the ceremony, then put it all back on for the reception--plus a top hat. I think Ashley's jewelry business went kaput because people fearing covid don't feel like buying jewelry. Her business was online, yes, but a certain amount of it involved having a table at sales. My husband's cousin Clare makes beautiful fine jewelry, and while she sells some from her website, most people want to see and handle expensive jewelry before they buy it. She lost money during covid, too, because she couldn't take her wares to specialty shows. If Ashley is selling real jewelry and not collectible costume jewelry, I expect her experience was the same. Plus she has acknowledged she was not saving any money and probably was in debt paying for her high-flying lifestyle.

I was sorry to hear that Gabby had been beaten up by her boyfriend, and honestly I wonder how many more of these women (and some of the men, too) have suffered physical abuse at the hands of men who are shown to us to be short-tempered, violent in their responses to other people, unwilling to follow rules, etc. Most of these guys seem to feel entitled to at least an initial period of being allowed to do pretty much whatever they want and really, really resent anyone's interfering with their celebratory partying. They think they can ignore rules like curfews and not associating with other felons and become unreasoningly angry when challenged. They refuse to acknowledge or maybe can't understand that this is the behavior that got them in trouble in the first place. Seems to me that's an excellent recipe for creating an abuser, and I bet a lot of them are. I don't care that Cam is ugly as home-made sin and closer to the ground than a chihuahua. I like him a lot. He seems good-hearted and is trying hard. I hope he and Aris and Aris' daughter have a happy life together. Poor old Travis. Can't catch a break. Of course he's not with Ashley for the money--but holy shit, he's just out of the can, and she had led him to believe he could work for her at least in the short run. Now he not only has the job/income he'd counted on, he doesn't even have a roof over his head. At least in prison it's three hots and a cot. Or so I've heard. Madly in love, of course, with Michael. And Tit-sling Girl seems to be exactly right for him; she's pretty unflappable and doesn't act all bowled over by what a catch he is. I think they truly love each other. His work ethic (or whatever it is) is impressive. I'm still Nathan's friend, just because of Sky-lar's cell phone. She still doesn't get it and continues to whine to whoever is in earshot that he's so suspicious and jealous that she thinks he's using. What a shit of a girlfriend. Too bad she's pretty; it's going to be hard for him to ditch her. Her mother is a harpy. That's all for now--poached eggs on homemade bread toast are calling my name ever so sweetly.

I was so much on Nathan's side during this restaurant scene that I wanted to take Skylar outside and explain to her why he was so upset. Nathan is apparently not very good with his words. She kept assuming that he was jealous of whoever it was who was calling her. Not at all. He was pissed that she insisted on answering her damn phone and talking, when this was supposed to be a special date for them. He was objecting her her rudeness; he didn't care who was calling her. She should have turned the phone off. I could maybe understand if Nathan had been the one just out of jail, who--like one of the other returning citizens, whose name of course I don't remember--who wasn't accustomed to the new addiction to talking on the phone in any and every situation. I think his anger was as much his frustration at his inability to communicate as it was with her insistence that the caller was an old friend, so he had nothing to worry about.

Oh, Princess--just what I've been longing for!

What I need to do is print out a sheet showing each of these guys' faces, with names in large font. I can remember the names of only a few of these refreshed citizens, so it's hard to express my deep feelings about each couple. And I mean "express" the way Dr. Sandra Lee does. I know who Monique is (I think we should be aware of and careful not to ugly-shame some of these guys--they can't help it, and god knows they've tried their best with beautiful tattoos. Anyway, I kept thinking what a great troll-target she would be in any kind of unmodified discussion group. She rises to the bait like a mighty pink salmon; she is programmed to respond, ineptly, to every taunt and threat. Her boyfriend, the bodybuilder, who is *ugly*, is absolutely 100% correct: Don't feed the trolls! I liked the fact that he did not seem embarrassed by Monique's appearance and introduced her as his girlfriend. I liked to see her working out with him, although her knees are going to pay for those squats. But she didn't whine or resist doing a specific exercise, and they seemed to be having fun together. Really kind of refreshing on this show. I think the bodybuilder's disdain for the phone and particularly social media has a lot to do with his attitude toward his gf and his interest in doing things other than playing with his phone, doing sex,catching up with his old friends, or becoming a rapper.

I know a couple who are really obese--they're short, so 250 (my estimate) is really a lot for them to weigh--and they drink "coffees" all day long that are essentially milkshakes. They're both type 2 diabetics on insulin, so they just shoot up when they eat/drink too much. My friend the woman said she allows herself two York mint patties every night "because that's a reasonable serving." Oy. I value our friendship too much to come down hard on her; she has other problems as well (bipolar disorder) so my job is to be her friend, not her medical advisor. But she and her husband are so oblivious about what they're eating (and drinking) it breaks my heart. Another friend of mine, a man, had gastric bypass surgery and almost bled to death. His recovery was slow and painful. But as soon as he was able, he started putting on the weight again. He was a real estate agent and drove me around when we were looking for a house. He kept the drink holder in his car filled with M&Ms and ate them all day long. A little bit of high-calorie food eaten non-stop didn't make him have dumping syndrome or anything. First he got a wound on his foot that wouldn't heal; then his leg was amputated; then he refused to cooperate with physical therapy to learn to use his prosthesis. All his teeth fell out and he became incontinent. And he died.

Meghan was the poster child for weight loss at the very beginning, as I recall. Because she wore makeup, styled her hair and dressed nicely, she was the prettiest, too, and able to lord it over Vanessa. I think she really liked that role, of being "better" than Vanessa and their other friends because her weight loss was moving right along, and she was the prettiest. Her relationship with Dr. Proctor bordered on the flirtatious (on her part). Then Vanessa began to succeed, after a ghastly, drawn-out period of being unable and unwilling to stick to her diet. She was poor and ugly; her obesity wasn't firm and cute like Meghan's but loose and floppy and repellent. Meghan's weight loss stalled (I think partly due to Vanessa's success) and now she's feeling mean and jealous and spiteful. Since she is no longer Queen Bee, she doesn't get to tell the other ladies what they're doing wrong; she's no longer an example for them to look up to. I think it's all psychological in Meghan's case. I think she was so invested in being the best at weight loss and at being pretty that she just can't tolerate anyone else catching up to her and getting all the praise from "Proctor" and their friends. The only attention she's getting now is worse than negative; people are not giving her much sympathy or concern because they know she's capable of doing so much better.

Monique was very upfront with viewers too about her weight-loss goal--to lose 100 lbs. I think she could do that and still be plenty curvy. I was surprised that she filtered her photos when Travis knew they were not realistic--maybe they were to show off to his fellow-prisoners. Travis is some kind of physical trainer, or trainer-wannabe--and I think they might be a successful couple. If the sex is good, in my experience, the pounds come off, so there's that.

Janelle continues to have problems with fever blisters and lip chapping. Like everything else on this show, even the big changes, like Christine's "divorce", seem insignificant against the static background of Kotex's assholery. As it was, so it shall be.

I'd love to see Christine and Janelle as single (dating or no) women trying to maintain a relationship between their children and the children's father--which is, after all, what he wants more than anything-- with delicious meetings of the two women concocting plans to infuriate Kotex and Rubbing. I think what's going to happen naturally is that once Janelle is free of the shit that is Kotex she will magically drop all kinds of weight and end up as a beautiful career gal, gorgeous and competent, full of self-confidence so that she is able to scoff at Kotex--to his face. She will make Rubbing look like the block-headed virago she is. And Christine is definitely (imo) interested in finding a new man, and as she recovers from Kotexvid she will become beautiful and relaxed, those frown lines will disappear and she will openly laugh at Kotex when he tries to lay shit on her about betraying him. Her boyfriend/husband will love her fiercely because he has seen the inner strength required in her to cut herself loose. He will be taller, better coiffed and in superb physical condition, much better than Kotex. Rubbing will be forced to acknowledge that Christine is fully divorced because it's obvious she's Done It with another man, and that will make the corners of her mouth turn down even further. Christine and Janelle will aim for monthly visits with the rest of the kids' family, and the weekly show will be about the joy and snark of their prep for those visits. Rubbing and Merry, meanwhile, will be gnashing their teeth and tearing their hair because they're stuck with this Terrible Two of a husband, owing so much money on land they can't afford to build on or to sell (because of the loss of TLC money). Pressure will be put on Merry to sell her B&B. It will be a joy to watch, and I'm signing up right now.

Kotex kept urging the wives to talk (about Christine), then made some snotty remark to Janelle about discussing her house plans as Janelle was leaving. The thing is, every time anyone else tried to say anything at all, even about Christine or the perfidious Janelle Boys, Kotex went into enraged toddler mode and started yelling about how he hated everybody (except you know who) and he hated everything and everybody hated him and didn't want him to have any fun at all. Yelling and jumping up and acting crazy, and these mothers did what you're supposed to do: ignore the tantrum and wait until the kid yells himself out. But he never did yell himself out. My wish: Christine would establish a tradition of her extended family and her McDreamy boyfriend with the best hair ever come to wherever Kotex and Rubbing (and Merry) are living, rent an AB&B (a rilly luxurious one with ample reading lights by the beds) and invite the kids' dad and Janelle and her significant other (and her kids) to a Brown Family Christmas Celebration. TLC will run it as a two-hour special, with biggest paycheck going to Christine. Every damn year.

You've solved Kotex's problem! He needs a slam book!!! Remember those spiral notebooks where teenage girls wrote one name per page and then passed them around for everyone to make shitty comments about that person? It was a precursor of the internet that has received no credit at all--anonymous means of saying nasty stuff about someone, spreading lies and rumors--everything Twitter offers, 60 years ahead of its time.

A few months ago, I suggested and offered for free a good way to keep this benighted shitshow going. It involved courting a younger and more beautiful woman who would provide direct competition to Rubbing, a woman who came equipped with a fortune of her own and adorable children who had trust funds so Kotex wouldn't have to worry about paying for their education. TPTB chose to ignore this excellent idea, so I offer an idea for a new Sister Wives series. The Sister Wives are four women who are already best friends, who spend their days working in some rewarding, creative, well-paying job, and their nights in partying together, watching White Lotus, talking about books and chess--they rilly, rilly enjoy each others' company. They are all four courted by this stud of a FLDS guy who rilly believes he will get his own planet if he marries enough women, but who is reluctant to change his Casanova ways. He is very good-looking and hung like a horse. He has the equipment and he knows how to use it. He's not too bright, but also not somebody you'd be embarrassed to go to a restaurant with (I mean, like, he knows how to use a fork). They all get married in one big FLDS wedding, so no wife is #1, and they buy and move into the Playboy Mansion. The women take turns with their husband--he is rilly good for nothing but sex, but that's all right because their relationship with each other and their outside lives is fulfilling enough. When some of the women want to have a baby, they go to the Genius Sperm Bank or to a male friend at work, and their husband, who is not totally sure where babies come from, is overjoyed. Do you see where I'm going with this TLC? What do you think?

Sandy W. answered this better. Quoting Jesus, of course. Said in Mathew, Mark and Luke.

I don't think it's a matter of "can't remember." I think it's a case of "on reflection, I realize what a jerk I sounded like, so I'm going to deny I ever said that, or if I did say that, I told you I changed my mind and you just don't remember. Because you bad-mouth me behind my back to your children, not because I'm a lying asshole. Because let's not forget who's the victim here, and it's me." Yeah, if Kotex wants a good relationship with his sons, why is he trying to communicate with them through Janelle (who he thinks is saying bad things about him to them)? Why doesn't he pick up the damn phone, not just to make holiday plans, as you suggest, but also to arrange to meet with them and talk things out without the disloyal wife there?

And remember what a dick he was about her not having surgery--we figured no insurance--but kept taking her to this guy who claimed his (painful) bracing and the exercises he prescribed were making a difference in the curvature of her spine? I wish Kotex had been introduced early on to a woman who had not had surgical treatment of her scoliosis in childhood. If he despaired of Ysobel's perfection because of steel in her spine, I wonder what he would think of an older--say in her 30s--woman who had scoliosis but *no* steel in her spine.

So we got to see Kotex "interacting" with Truely. Truely was trying to get away to play with one of Rubbing's kids--I think--and Kotex had trouble letting her go. Did he actually ask her if she wanted to go with him to work? I guess this was in the previews for next week, and while I do feel sorry for Truely for having to go through this--and admire her for her ability to stick up for herself ("I'm not sure I want to spend the night")--it looks like it's going to be delicious viewing of Kotex's inability to have any kind of relationship with kids that are not Ofrubbing.

I noticed that Rubbing didn't have a nasal cannula feeding her oxygen, too. I think that's just what EMTs and ER staff do, automatically, if you're having the slightest trouble breathing. She did look like hell, but maybe that was partially due to lack of makeup. Does anybody know for sure if any of them was vaccinated? Kotex slid effortlessly from being the victim of Christine's perfidy to being the blameless victim ("we followed the protoculls!") of covid. I think he may have the idea that the patriarch is never wrong, never at fault, even though his patriarchal wisdom was not enough to protect the loyal part of his family. The *least* loyal, in fact, who flouted the protoculls and whose behavior (all that travel) probably would have made Dr. Fauci cringe, did not suffer at all from her wilfullness and disloyalty--she was rewarded! She got everythink she wanted! No wonder his wittle brain is all stwessed out.

Amen. My god, Kotex is a whiner. He proudly showed his thermometer reading of 98.9 or something--*that* isn't a fever, asshole. Over a hundred before you can count it as a fever, at least around my house. And all the talk about Rubbing's being hospitalized for covid--she was in the ER and they sent her home because she wasn't sick enough to be admitted. I had covid and was in the hospital for five days and btw I never had a fever. And I love Kotex's blaming their getting covid on one of those kids' bringing it home from school. I want to hear him say, we took all those extreme precautions, and we still got it, while the other wives who were capricious about it, didn't get it. I totally approve of social distancing and masks (I'm going to wear one for the rest of my life--long covid is no joke), but jeebus he was having them wash their mail long after Dr. Fauci said the virus was airborne and not much of a threat on surfaces. And did he and Rubbing ever get a positive covid test? She looked pretty sick, but unless she tested +, she could have had any number of things. I think he was desperate to get covid, just so he could again be the victim.