Heathen

I wish they'd have faked CPR rather than doing it incorrectly -- with horizontal arms, for instance. But that's the kind of thing that I just find absurd. More stuff -- the wildly inappropriate behavior of some staff members. Hello, Luka and Abby.

I'm finishing season one (again) now. We talk about the show jumping the shark in later seasons, but even from the start, there was a LOT of totally ludicrous artistic license going on. Example: the way the show treats seizure patients. I have epilepsy. So did my late grandmother. Both of us spent time in the ER after seizures. Neither of us got Ativan for uncomplicated (non-status) seizures the second we rolled through the door before the doctor even looked at us. Not to mention, the way the show does CPR.

Unless Benton/Corday/Anspaugh has been operating for 77 hours straight and is called into a trauma while walking out of the hospital, then all the mysterious Surgeons X have the flu, broke their leg skiing, or are out of town at their mother-in-law's funeral!

Season one, "Motherhood" -- Lewis delivers her own niece because Coburn is twenty minutes away. In a busy, big city hospital, there was only one OB on duty ("she's doing a crash C-section in four")? Is that level of staffing legit? Also, the birth was entirely too normal for ER, or the caricature ER became later. Shouldn't the baby have been breech or sideways (I'M KIDDING, PEOPLE) or been an alien? I can't stand Kathleen Wilhoite to this day.

I'm aware of that. One of my aunts had one at 47 (IVF), one great-aunt was even older (natural), and my great-grandmother had her thirteenth at 45 (natural). However, I very much doubt either was the case here as much as the writers not thinking. They needed Mrs. Benton to be old enough that dementia and her physical problems made sense, which they might not have if she were ten years younger.

Season 1 -- Peter's mother turned 76 years old, and Peter was a third-year resident and thus about 29 or 30 years old. So she was 47 when he was born? The writers didn't think that one through.

I remember when Carol was dating Shep, and there were holes in her roof with snow coming into the living room. I also remember her mother, Helen, urging her to cozy up to her rich Uncle Miko. In a lot of ways, Carol was a loser.

Yes.

Genetics play a big, big role in wrinkles. Some people are wrinkly at 17, some people are not wrinkly when they're old enough for AARP. I don't think Nathan went to real college. I'm guessing his "degree" is from some online diploma mill that fundies use. ETA: I was right. It looks like something called Independent Baptist Bible College, which is not accredited.

South Dakota also has a moron for a governor. Topic: I hope Jinger has an easy delivery and nobody gets covid.

So much for breaking away from her in-laws' beliefs.

Well, Jill acts like she's about twelve, so that explains the idiotic mugging for any and all cameras.

Psssh. People are always saying Anna's or Jessa's or whoever's face looks pregnant, and they're usually not.

It always was to some extent, but it got really really bad. I'm so sorry, FJers, if some of us don't have time to follow the Duggars and other fundies as closely as you do. FFS. I wonder if Jill ever gets her eye makeup completely off.

I gave up on FJ years ago because it descended into cliquishness, bullying, and virtue signaling like so many other forums. Not only did it cease being fun, it became an ordeal. I went back a year or two ago out of curiosity, and I didn't even recognize the site. Topic: it's interesting that Amy and Angie both got married "late" by some fundie standards. Maybe they weren't pressured by their parents into marrying young. Ahem.

I thought Jinger was supposed to be Josie's mother, not Joy.

It's genetics.

In Chandler Bing's voice: Could that picture BE any more filtered??

There is nothing wrong with living in a trailer/mobile home/modular housing.

Maybe he's bottling it all up.

It's genetics, not raising his eyebrows too much. Some people are wrinkly at 17, some people aren't wrinkly at 47.

Did I miss an announcement that a Duggar child had been kidnapped? Point: it's disingenuous to say that child abductions happen because someone didn't watch their children on their gated property. Topic: I think Henry is the cutest of the Seewald children so far.

Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom, Jaycee Dugard while walking to the school bus stop in a semi-rural area. I can go on and on. Suffocating one's children won't necessarily keep them from harm. Topic: Ivy looks a lot like Jinger, to me.

I hereby nickname Titus the Buttless Wonder.

My sister calls her kids by various combinations of their names. I don't find it odd.