Mothra

If Kotex wants to be treated as a Patriarch, he should act like one. A Patriarch should be above petty preferences among wives--or at least shouldn't show them--and make sure they are all treated equally, in every way, as far as is humanly possible. If the covid Protoculls were making it impossible for him to spend the night with anyone but Rubbing (and Merry? Didn't she follow the rules, too?), he should have figured out a way to make it at the very least symbolically equal--like having a tent at Christine's and Janelle's house, or a camper or something. In those big houses, isn't there a spare bedroom that could have been made a covid-free zone somehow? No way he should be throwing up his hands and saying, "Welp, I guess I have to just move in with Rubbing, since the rest of you make me sick." There has to have been another way where the deprived <snort> wives were not forced to concede their and their children's Kotex time to Rubbing and her offspring.

Yup. No way a Patriarch sleeps in an RV, even though Janelle's has a nice big bed. I never got the impression Janelle was the housewife type of wife--it's been pointed out that she's the only one who had a really well-paying job (with a 401k!) and has been unselfish in sharing her earnings/inheritance with the family. I'd say she's earned the right to be impatient about the building of her house and thus to live in whatever kind of temporary housing she wishes. Assuming she plans to stick it out with Kotex and the Gang, which certainly seems to be the case, I think Kotex should shut up about any discomfort he predicts about her RV and get off his ass. Janelle's RV is a put-up or shut-up moment afaic. And about Merry and Parowan: It's entirely possible that my memory is shot (god knows the rest of my brain is), but back when she was angling to buy that house (requiring some family money as well as her own), and Kotex was concerned that she was going to move there--pre-catfish, I think--wasn't she considering in her talking heads in fact that she'd like to move there, and would it be that big a dill? I seem to remember that she rilly was considering how she could work it out, remaining in the Gang of Four but living in this house with her mother? I guess that now her mother is no longer there, the appeal is gone for Merry. And with Christine's defection, maybe she's anxious to do her part to keep the show on tv.

It sounds like Bird is going to go to Alaska even before she's recovered from her surgery. Oh, Bird... The possibilities for medical disaster are so great and so serious that it's going to be hard for me to watch. If she still has to use a pillow to hold against her belly in order to be able to cough--or laugh--she's not ready to travel anywhere.

I feel so cheated! What happened with/to Henry that he got his shit together? Is this going to be a crossover with one of the hoarding shows? How could they not show us Henry's process? And I think having a nice(r) place to live will make a difference to DairyQueen, the smug little asshole. Like all of these guys, he feels that now that he is out of prison, he ought to be able to do anything he wants, including all the things that got him in prison in the first place. The blithe dismissal of rules about what he can and can't do while on parole--he doesn't want to ?listen? to that?--makes me want to slap him silly. He was not brought up right. But now that he's living in a middle-classy type of home, with a mentor who is amazing patient and caring toward him--who really wants to hear what he thinks--he has a lot more to lose if he fucks up again. Dr. Henry is a saint. I would get arrested myself if I were in his situation--assault and battery. And no jury who saw DQ in action would ever convict me.

Well, I've always enjoyed these guys as a pack of loony, sort of lovable, and fake, but with Bird's cystectomy showing probability of cancer in the future, I surprised myself by how upset I got. I was bored when their father died--sorry for them, but essentially not interested. But for Bird to have the decision forced on her as to whether she will want to have children in the future seems so cruel and wrong. Bird has never shown any interest in dating, and probably the best solution would be to have the complete hysterectomy and thus end any fear of developing ovarian cancer--and I hope this is what she will do. Unasked-for-sharing: my daughter, who is disabled, has the BRCA gene, and this decision was handed to me and her dad. We never believed she should become pregnant anyway, so the decision was much easier for us, but even so, during her surgery I retreated to the car and cried my heart out. It's a really, really tough situation to be in.

Hah. Point taken. More from rmontro: I'm quite surprised Raiven ended up marrying Bear. I hope things work out for him/them. Bear definitely seems to love his son. It *would* be spelled "Raiven," wouldn't it. I think Bear is endearing, and I'm in favor of just about anything that makes him happy.

Throughout this series, Tammy has been put on diets by doctors who do not shame her--or Dr. Proctor tries not to--but of course she feels ashamed when she time after time doesn't lose an ounce. She has been allowed to believe that WLS will magically cure her eating disorder, or whatever it is that makes her eat so much (and otherwise abuse herself, emotionally and physically). Her family nags, nags, and nags. They think they are helping her by being so mean, but my god, it's been years. Does nobody notice that none of this has helped at all? That all these efforts--from everyone involved--have, if anything, caused her to eat more? Clearly, there's something very wrong with Tammy, and no one seems interested in trying to figure out what it is. She loathes herself more than all the rest of them (and us) combined, so of course she doesn't want to talk to a therapist about her feelings. Those are my two big takeaways from this show. Tammy really loathes herself and feels more deeply than anyone that she is a waste of oxygen. She is one of the most depressed people I've ever seen. Don't be fooled by her foolishness. And two, barring some research breakthrough that would help people like Tammy, there is no medical help for her. I've said it before and I'll say it again: either forcibly restrain Tammy, violating all her human rights, to control her food intake until she loses an appreciable amount of weight, ideally enough that she can feel good (or better) about her body; or forget trying to force her into the normal eat-less-exercise-more diet mode. Listen to what she says she wants (mostly to be left alone, it seems to me) and try to keep her comfortable as she commits a slow suicide right in front of us.

I see Gabe is sticking with the Keith Richards school of eye makeup. But I don't recall his hair being blond last season, or so long. I have to tell you, I don't think this is a good look for Gabe. Haven't watched yet (recorded; I'll watch later) but I'm surprised to see Bear's girlfriend back in the picture. Good for Bear!

Did anyone else appreciate the extra effort Rubbing put into her makeup for the Christine announcement meeting? The other wives looked the way they always do; the contrast between Rubbing's appearance at the meeting and her appearance in the cut-aways was startling to me The Shirley Temple ringlets and the overdone eye makeup--and does anyone ever look sexy or even civilized if she looks down at her finger every time she wipes her eyes? It's really kind of gross, like inspecting your snot when you blow your nose--were hysterical to me given the other wives' not-giving-a-fuck makeup.

My hat is off to Janelle, and I owe her an apology for sneering at her greenhouse plans after I got a look at the nice raised beds she has in her backyard. She apparently *is* a serious gardener and may well have put greenhouses on her imaginary plot in Plague Pass. But what I really want to do is offer an idea to TLC--and I don't require financial compensation or even screen credit for it; I'm just such a fan of Kotex I can't bear the thought of the show ever being over. How about this: With Christine's departure (run, Christine, run!), Kotex is down a wife, so he and the remaining women go looking for someone to court, and this is who they find: Former two-time Miss Utah (and her three adorable children--much cuter than Sol--Zehebuly, Corenio, and M'laneya) who was rescued from Warren Jeffs last year has recently moved to Flagstaff, seeking to start a new life. Thanks to the settlement awarded her from the various Jeffs trials, she has millions of dollars, which she has augmented via mastery of the crypto-currency markets. Her children have trust funds to cover all their expenses, including a full-time nanny for each of them, for their lifetimes. Looking for a man, a polygamous man, chunky and short, with problematic hair, who has an established record of fertility, she happens to meet Kotex while she is scouting Prairie Plague Akers for a place to build a temporary homelet while she waits for someone to court her. This woman is independently wealthy, goiterless, and trained to do as she's told by the patriarch. She is much more attractive than Rubbing, having mastered the arts of makeup and curling irons from her time on the pageant circuit. Courting this woman drives Rubbing right over the edge. Meri likes her, hoping to at last have a friend who isn't a catfish or her mother, and Janelle says, "whatever" and goes back into her RV. Christine subscribes to cable and becomes a constant viewer, finally joining us here. You're welcome.

When I heard Density say she's had so many kids already, all I could think of was a cardboard box on the sidewalk that said, instead of "Free kittens," "Free kids--take one!"

My absolute favorite part of this episode was when Og was at his "friend's" house wanting guidance about his love life. His friend, another he-man from the neolithic I guess, offers Og a drink, and Og says "sure," and his friend says "mojito OK?" That's when I began sputtering. Not a beer, not even vodka rocks. Not even industrial-strength wine. A mojito. But the climax was watching Og sip his mojito through a dainty straw. Talk about a paradigm shift. Gave me the vapors.

It does not require even a high-school education to know simple verb conjugation. That is taught is upper grade school levels and in middle school. I know these guys have all, at some point, been exposed to the tenses of the verb "do"--thanks to compulsory education through age 16, they can't have avoided it. Did they think that what they were being taught--hell, what they were being exposed to--has nothing to do with Real Life? Even snotty bougies like nose-in-the-air Britney needs to go back to fifth grade. No wonder so many of these guys end up in jail, or in various other terrible situations. They don't speak the language.

Furthermore, there's famously Claudette Colbert: and Brigette Bardot: And now I'm realizing this may be a generational thing. How old are you, anyway, Mr. Buhbye? I think I may have outlived certain definitions of "sexy" and I sure as hell have watched movies older than dirt. Carry on.

Oh, Mr. Buhbye... This is not cross-dressing. This is *sex* dressing:

Oh, I beg to differ about the men's pajamas. That's *sexy*, Mr. BB. Haven't you seen any Doris Day movies? No, Sharna's pajamas are ladies' pajamas, flannel in winter, cotton in summer (I almost said nylon, but that's too clingy and might suggest the presence of lady parts) (which Mark would just as soon not know about, thank you very much) (or maybe Sharna would just as soon not want Mark to know about as it might inflame carnal impulses). No, bedtime is not sexytime for Mark and Sharna (she's saving herself for...Santa? Jesus? Bill?). That's why I think it's so sad that Bill was quick to say that Sharna didn't have any negligees. I think there was a note of sadness to his declaration. Look. It's none of my business, but does Sharna have any children of her own? They sleep in separate bedrooms. She doesn't own a negligee. Is Sharna a Vestal Virgin? No negligee *sigh*.

And every time it was brought up in their list of why we hate Bill, Sharna jumped in right away with "which is a lie!" Every damn time. Hook me up with the group going to Sharna's house to search her closet. Mark seemed positive she doesn't own a negligee--that's sort of sad, coming from her husband. I was thinking more in terms of leaving buttons unbuttoned, or wearing tights without a big top, although I can't see Sharna in tights, ever. I'd pay money to see her dressed the way she was when Bill found her clothing "provocative." Which is, of course, a lie.

Maybe they no longer fit. Or maybe she feels skin-tight = sexy. I can't imagine that she's actually physically comfortable in all that too-small spandex. The StitchFix outfits did look nice on her. Whatever the reason she's not wearing the old ones, she ought to buy some more. It's possible those outfits were free to her, in return for making sure everyone knew where they came from, or maybe they sponsored her video shit. It's my opinion that she gritted her teeth and wore them, thought they made her look (whatever notsexy is in her book) unstylish? Old-ladyish? and when the contract was over, she gave them away.

Well, since I didn't want to go to Jessica's wedding anyway, I feel entitled to put my bitch hat on. 1. What is it with young men, especially young men taking part in a wedding, thinking that suit pants, a dress shirt, and a vest constitutes formal wear? It looks stupid and disrespectful, is what it constitutes. I was willing to give them a little bit of a pass thinking that it was just too hot to wear the suit jacket (in which case they should've worn the jacket without the vest. Christ, it's not like they're having to stand in the blazing sun for two hours. Man up.) until they showed up at the reception in proper dress. They looked so nice in their suits. What's the matter with young folks these days? 2. Congratulations to Whitney for putting on clothes for this entire episode. She was as appropriately dressed as she gets. Now she needs someone to tell her that while clingy knit fabrics are stretchy and therefore comfortable to wear, when she's dressing up she ought to explore less clingy clothing. Not just as more suitable for her body type, but as more appropriate to the occasion--no one else's clothing showed their bodies more explicitly than hers did. 3. Did they really make Babs spend the night in an AirB&B? Her first outing, when they don't know how it's going to go? I hope to god that plan went the way of involving dogs in the wedding ceremony. I'm glad she seemingly had such a good time and hope it doesn't harm her recovery or even tire her out too much. 4. What happened to Le Blur? Whitney's method of courting Lennie stuns me: expose on tv everything he might be embarrassed about in his personal life. His addiction (well, that might be relevant), his bad teeth *that he has never been able to afford to have fixed*, his never having owned a suit. What a shit she is to him. He, desperately imo, takes it and asks for more. The man needs a job. Why didn't she pounce on the idea of a vacation trip to France to visit the French Man? I'll tell you why--but I think you already know. 5. Finally Glenn grows a spine and tells Whitney he's not going to let her remodel the first floor of his house to accommodate Babs on her return. Finally they all seem to acknowledge that she's never going to be able to live in her house. I understand their reluctance to admit this to themselves, but now will Whitney finally shut the fuck up about the first-floor bathroom? Now will she lay off nagging Glenn to retire? If he and Babs are living at Abbotswood, why should his normal daily life be disrupted? He was gone at work all day when they lived at home--why should he not go to work every day, just because his address has changed?

No, but my car's is. She wasn't named after my car?! Cancel that cute onesie I was going to send.

I sometimes *almost* feel a little sorry for Kadouche. Imagine being jerked, seemingly overnight (because god knows he's incapable of picking up hints along the way that everything isn't just the way he wants it) from the middle of the 19th century into--what? the mid-1960s? Christine might be burning her bra even as we speak. No wonder it's taking him so long to begin to grasp his new reality--his paradigm shift, if you will.

Dumber than Avalon Hybrid?

Yup. So Krotchlessy doesn't want a polygamous marriage now that he's seen Paree; Christine wants out because she doesn't feel like she's been in a polyg marriage ever since Rubbing sidled in; and Meri and Janelle are OK with how things are, just as long as nobody expects them to do anything. No, officer--no polygamites here, sir.

I've been wondering about this demand for joint custody. Since they are not married, who's going to grant Kooty any custody at all? Kooty can't claim it's a common-law marriage because he's already married. It seems to me that what we have here is a single mom who has raised his children with financial support from him; does that count toward getting joint custody? And what would it look like? Would Truely have to go from Utah to AZ every other weekend or what? Spend summers and holidays with Koochie? But what about Covid? There's a pair-a-dime shift for you, sir. About the time she'd have been quarantined long enough to keep Robbing's children safe, it's back on the plane for Utah. How old is Truely? Does she get a say in the matter? Wouldn't it crush Koolio's butt if she said she wanted to live with him and Rubbing full time? What to do, what to do...

Yeah, but her work boots. I think Alley-Oop must have Devil Dick, at least for Kayla. Maybe DD isn't an objective attribute but subjective; otherwise, why wouldn't old Tiffany be clinging to that woolly mammoth loincloth? I had assumed that if you have Devil Dick you could rely on it when dealing with *all* the ladies, but apparently not. Is Chazz being paid a bonus to act so stupid? And Amber, Amber... we all counted you as the one worthwhile Returning Citizen, the one who was going to build a productive, happy, *normal* life. But you can't keep your nose out of Puppy's biz. A toast to the Amber who might have been.