Grifter Lives

Remember: They bought a warehouse to tape their talking heads. I guess it's not multipurpose.

Here's what they knew 9 months ago: They were into a one-year lease that had would end in a year from the date signed. Maddie would deliver in August. So, Kody's plan was to fly last-minute to North Carolina and fly back a day or two later, because nobody in the family could possibly anticipate otherwise. They deserve each other for all of eternity.

Here's horrible: When I look at Janelle in the talking heads, all I see is her fat rolling under her clothes and that growing chicken McNugget on her face. That last visual is courtesy of this board!

Like father, like daughter. Kody and Maddie are the experts. Christine and Janelle, who birthed 11 or more children between them, look on adoringly as Kody speaks of pregnancy.

I was wrong. They just showed the entry sign for the Maramara on Park Avenue. She's staying across town and closer to Grand Central.

I think that Darcy is staying at the Time Hotel, too. Or, that's where she chose to meet him.

Tom really is a jughead.

How can she change her manicure every day, but keep her outdated look for decades (into a new century)? I can't stand looking at (or hearing) her.

Under her chins, Lisa has no neck either.

I've only seen the ad for next week and read the description above. It's more Brown revisionist spin. Nancy is shocked that Kody & Meri's marriage is dead-ended. She is the premier therapist-to-the-polygamist-stars and their counselor for a decade or more now. Why would that be news to her? Kody regrets his fast courtship to Meri. The Browns have lectured us on their spiritual callings, polygamist courtship rituals, and the Brown parents have all pushed their children for quick engagements (unless it's Mariah's) to harvest the TLC dollar. Kody's "being done hearing how [he's] wrong" is probably totally unrelated to his relationship to Meri. I'm anticipating that he's going to report that Robyn was right about renting, because of a delay in their closing. The timeline is completely blurred: So, Kody left North Carolina, because he needed to sign papers in Arizona, but had time to drive to Las Vegas with Meri to rehash their unsalvageable relationship, while Maddie's in Hour 12 of her 86-hour labor. The only real time marker is Meri's LulaNo striped shirt, which she'd been shilling in her social media.

Kody's more excited to talk to Caleb than hear about Maddie's imminent giving birth.

'You've got to choose which heel you'll die on." Robyn, last week or the week before (it's all one big, boring blur)

The Godly compromise: Robyn gets to rent the house until Kody will buy it.

Flashback to the 86-hour labor - just what we wanted Maddie says that she'll use it against Axel for the rest of his life. The child should start therapy now.

Meri throws a fit, because she has to pack everything, including dishes handpainted by Grandma Lizzie (product placement), Mariah and her. They make a LuLaNo (no product placement allowed) "fire sale" joke, and next thing we know - Meri doesn't have to evacuate and is going to stay with her inventory. The family doesn't fret or worry about Meri's safety. They leave. To validate (product plug for Nancy, psychologist extraordinaire), Christine over-emotes and repeats herself in the talking head. As an homage to DayunBriannaAroura, she even pants like a panic attack. I hate these people, and they're just getting warmed up.

Wow! An episode on packing and moving. We haven't seen that every season and all this season. What a compelling plot twist.

The framed marriage certificate: "Should I keep it?" And, it's all a big joke for Meri and Robyn. (Robyn: "We'll burn it with our bras.") These women are so dumb and delusional that they say things to convince themselves of their revisionist history and supposed empowerment. . . . I'm speechless.

Here it is - everyone is just standing there, watching her, until Saint Sobbin' hugs her, giving her strength to get her act together.

Even when his shirt is on, I can't unsee those nipple tattoos. I hate Geoffrey. I hate him even more when he's acting like he has so much integrity and honesty.

Why did they show us Big Ed sitting with his legs folded? I thought that Sharp only posed the women like that.

So, there was no anniversary trip? Nancy must have been too busy with her other clients. Even Janelle got a ride to somewhere where she could eat leftovers from her dirty Tupperware. I almost hate to say it, but, since they both suck anyway. . . Kody's weight loss is more obvious.

That was posted here or on the 90-Day Fiance thread a few days ago.

To justify the private tuition at Westminister, Mariah argued that returning to Utah was her best chance to become a sister wife. In one of the early seasons, when they moved to Las Vegas, Meri said that she and Mariah would get up early so that Mariah could attend an LDS study group. In her talking head last week, Mariah said that she'd probably be a sister wife, but be so miserable that she'd leave in a few years. She implied that she wouldn't be a first wife (to hide). The accompanying photo montage only included photos of a pre-pubescent Mariah attending church services. Meri showed more conflict than Mariah and still seems to struggle to reconcile her religious belief with Mariah's sexuality. She couldn't actualy say that she disagreed with her church - which is completelyunderstandable since she's been immersed her most of, if not all, her life. Christine tried to help her by over-reacting loudly, but I'm not quite sure that she openly rejected the AUB tenet. Meri then deflected again by saying (meekly) that she's grateful that "three awesome sister wives" reacted better than she did initially. I think that all the children fell away from the AUB when they moved and lost their community. The family's observance became more and more the Church of Kody. Their parents literally sold their souls for Z-List fame and big houses. They're trying to recover here and there in the current season, but their talk of religion centers on waiting for God's next miracle - providing Robyn a 7-bedroom rental. Kody said that he expected most of his children to migrate to Christianity. Maddie followed Caleb's faith. Mykelti married an LDS convert from Catholicism, and Aspyn married someone from their own church. Other posters report that one of the sons converted to mainstream LDS.

At some points in the bike-riding lesson scenes, one of the bikes had training wheels on it. Kody even pushed Truely on the bike with training wheels, but she was still wailing. Also, the scene started with (1) Kody's declaring that the tricycle was unsalvageable and (2) as someone earlier noted, Truely's scolding King Sol that he had been riding bikes for years. But, soon enough, Aereola was riding the broken tricycle freely (when she wasn't chasing Truely). Kody also said that they bought Truely that bike that day and let her choose it - which wouldn't explain her pure resistance or wrong-sized bike.

Shelby the realtor never seals the deals. She's barely any better than Janelle. Kody negotiated directly with the developers with his BAFO, which resulted in his running the utility lines. And, Kody called the seller Craig/Curtis directly about possibly renting instead of buying or rent-to-own, instead of Shelby's doing her job. When Kody asked Shelby about renting, she replied, "It doesn't hurt to try," or something equally as lame. If they actually asked her to show them rentals, she instead showed them homes for sale. They seemed to have started their rental search without her. Only the Browns would think that she's a good agent after she failed to anticipate the prohibitive cost of running utilities on the land they did buy - except that Kody's probably still strutting that his lawyer told him to sell the land and make a profit.