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The sheets had nothing to do with the pregnancy or Megan’s period. They were just bloody from Luke’s ear getting shot. They were the sheets Luke was on in the cabin bed that she must have taken with her when she went back to clean the (way too large) blood stain off the floor. I do think we were misled to think they had something to do with the pregnancy, but that was before we knew about Luke getting shot in the bed on New Year’s Eve. With regard to the blood stain being so big, my only possible justification is that when Luke was super slowly getting his shoes and socks back on, I think we saw his ear dripping blood? If he was moving super slowly from the pills and alcohol, maybe he bled in one spot more than we were shown?

Megan went to Parker’s to confront Isabella. Parker is Isabella’s only friend in the Summer 2000 timeline and who comes to pick her up when Debbie says she can’t stay at Debbie and Megan’s house anymore. Isabella is staying at Parker’s now that she isn’t staying in the airstream anymore.

The second episode with the woman with terminal cancer is very moving.

People act so oddly in this show to make the plots work. Wouldn’t most people have taken the brother home as soon as they saw the bruises on his arm? If not then, wouldn’t they have taken him home when he landed in the hospital with a head wound? They knew he was already dealing with the loss of his mother, so adjusting to that loss and the move to a facility would have been tough enough on Sam without the injuries making it so much worse. This family had money. Even if they were nervous about having him live with them full time, it seems so much more logical to me that Jiro would have taken his brother home at the first sign that he was not completely safe in the facility. They clearly had the money to temporarily hire an aide to care for Sam in their home while they looked for a new facility. I can’t believe anyone would leave a loved one somewhere they didn’t believe to be safe.

Paedon is difficult to watch, because even though I love that he’s a huge supporter of his mom, he looks and sounds the most like Kody of any of the kids and even has his mannerisms.

I’m thinking Mykelti is benefitting from the combination of Christine being a media darling right now and twins being slightly more interesting than your average reality star pregnancy.

I’ll be the odd man out and say that I see no evidence that they smell or don’t bathe. I think Leo probably pushes it too far between hair wash days and has decided leaving their hair messy is another FU to societal standards, but I think assuming they are unwashed and have BO is a stretch.

This is absolutely lovely and gets zero snark from me…

Having Kevin’s twins in the Pearson family photo is what made the absence of all the other kids so glaring. I’m assuming they didn’t have Randall’s kids in the episode because of aging issues. The current actresses look too young, and the deathbed versions look too old. I’m guessing not having Jack and Hailey there for the photo had something to do with the availability of the kid actors in terms of limited working hours? So, in that case, Nicky and Franny shouldn’t have been there either. We could have just been witnessing the adults only part of the photo shoot, and we wouldn’t be distracted by why some kids were there and others weren’t.

FWIW, I didn’t think the scene with Kate eating the desserts at the cocktail party was trying to suggest that Toby’s boss was insensitive to serve them. I think we were supposed to see that in her happy life in LA, it’s easier for her to make healthy choices. She doesn’t have the cake at the retirement party, and she’s drinking water while Madison drinks wine during their movie night. It’s not until the stress of seeing San Francisco Cool Guy Toby chatting about fantasy basketball with his coworkers and leaving her alone on their special weekend together that she gives in to stress eating multiple desserts. I think it’s supposed to be an illustration of how much happier she is in her normal routines at home.

I am happy for them and would watch a season or a special about them settling in and exposing the kids to the cool things Boston has to offer, but my first thought when I saw the announcement is that I would rather watch paint dry than watch them design another house.

Questions I wish the interviewer would ask: ”Robyn, you are in a unique position in the family because all five of your children live at home and do not need to leave the house to work or attend school. Would you have been as “compliant” with Kody’s rules if Dayton worked outside the home or Aurora was living in a college dorm and still wanted to see you?” This has driven me crazy all season, because their situations aren’t at all comparable. Christine had Ysabel’s surgery and a pregnant Mykelti. Janelle had two working sons and a daughter with special needs kids and a husband who works a ton. ”Kody, you seem to resent the term “abandonment” but how else would you describe your behavior with regard to Ysabel’s surgery? Or being there for your pregnant daughter or your grandchildren? Or even going to visit Meri as a “friend” while she was following your rules? Or making anywhere near the effort for Truely that you make for Sol and Ari?”

I worked in a now defunct learning toy store at a mall in upstate NY during the beanie craze. I was around 19 and working there during college breaks. The beanie customers were downright abusive to us. They would rattle the closed gates before opening time on the days they knew we got shipments and try to bully us into letting them in early. They would stand around and purposely be in the way if they thought we had some in the back and just hadn’t gotten around to bringing them out yet. They would monopolize our time asking questions we didn’t know the answers to about what might or might not be in the next shipment and then get nasty when we tried to politely excuse ourselves to help non-beanie customers.

I can’t believe they made me care enough about…

There is no excuse for not video chatting and/or doing outside activities with all the kids for the amount of time he would normally supposedly have been spending with those kids pre-covid. It’s one thing to have to sleep at just Robyn’s and eat indoor meals there and watch TV there, but he could have been doing more to be in Christine’s and Janelle’s kids weekly lives. Online board games over zoom with Truely and the other girls, outside coffee and chatting with Savanah, video chats or sports with the boys. There is just no excuse. If my husband couldn’t live with our sons and me right now, he would be talking to them nightly before bed, meeting them at the playground to chat from a distance, watching their favorite movies together in different houses while staying on the phone with each other, etc. He should have set up a regular schedule of several hours with each kid per week. It’s not like he’s working! Staying connected to his kids ought to be his full time job.