Grifter Lives

Robyn and Kody may have given her a pacifier so that she doesn't yap through all their scenes. She may create background noise that requires heavy editing or discarding scenes. For instance, when Kody and Robyn shared the big, fun news that polygamy was decriminalized in Utah, the first real reaction was Areoblabla's declaring, "Mommy's house is beauty." Robyn looked pained. The next scene was Kody in a couch interview, apologizing that that Ari was just a non-stop lifeforce. Regarding Utah's polygamy decriminalization: In that earlier episode, we saw two scenes where Kody & Robyn and Christine tell their children the big news and how great it was that their advocacy over the past decade led to the result. In the last scene of the finale, Kody, Robyn, Janelle and Meri tell Christine that it's no big deal, they're not going back to Utah, and a change in the law means nothing. They all completely gaslighted her.

Last night's show was boring and looked like the set-up for fake family conflicts: Natalie vacations in OK at Mama Mike's ("Why she call me a hooker?" in the previews); Julia dreams of a Las Vegas hot tub with no pigs in sight, instead of the one on the swingers' doomsday farm; Andrrrei faces the Double Chucks & Coven's business valuation, which involves an altercation on a boat but nobody is thrown overboard; Kolini stays in Utah for a month, and Tammy and Mother Asuelo somehow get there to continue their violent shakedown. For at least 273 reasons, Angela actually repels me from watching. She becomes more reprehensible in every scene. Mykul's lost all dignity. At least Tiffany and Ronald actually lived together before she debates if she should give him the cold shoulder (bad joke intended). This season will be a hard slog, but I stay for everyone's brilliant snark.

I'd stay mid-Strip at a Caesar's or MGM hotel, or any mid- to high-end hotel (never ever at the Stratosphere, Excalibur, Circus Circus). There may be tons of deals now, but weeknights are always cheap, The prices soar for the weekend. Admittedly, I haven't been there for a few years and I'm not necessarily rushing back.

Non Jovi & Yara stayed in Old Las Vegas, which was out of character and cheap. Brandon & Julia are staying off the Strip, which is even worse. But, to TLC's credit, that is where Brandon would go, and Julia wouldn't know any better.

I thought that you also have to lose weight (like 30 pounds) to be considered a candidate.

"Do you mind if I use my phone? Nevermind that I'm not wearing a mask, and my window is closed. If I hee-haw and whoop, you'll find me adorable."

TLC's theme for this season is family drama. They're the ones promoting the Kolini and Mike's Mom's visits, and they've been promoting the Family Libby party boat fight. Yara's floated her return to Ukraine with baby Mylah Vox.

Is it that the Family Libby lives in Florida that they're not wearing masks? Or, was this filmed pre-COVID? I think Andrrei got his license after their last season. But, then Kalani & Asuelo and Angela haven't mentioned COVID, either.

Despite her IQ of 110, Natalie has been really dumb about rings. She kept the low-budget engagement ring, bought herself a $3 ring and now paid $10 for his & her vedding bends. She should have emotionally blackmailed Mike for an expensive wedding ring that she could sell once she ditched him.

Uncle Beau! He's the breakout star of their story.

So, Natalie went from religious zealot to psychic friend. . . after she married Mike.

His rule: All cash. No blow jobs.

Kalani's another margarine tub, with cleavage.

Asuelo just said Sa-Moa, and Kalani toned down her Ws in it. Maybe they followed the earlier Clitorious discussion.

Betty warns Julia not to be sucked back into the glamour of Las Vegas showgirl life, but reminds Julia that her place is on the hoarder farm because the end of the world is near. Betty can't hide that she thinks Julia is a prostitute.

They weren't as boring - It's insane that there could even be competition.

Brandon's even pathetic at manspreading.

Andrrrei's sweat stains and nipples are really prominent. What did we do to deserve this?

Elizabeth's right eyebrow is really wacky.

Winter de La Familia Chantel also visited a reality-show surgeon in Atlanta. But, Angela has the same agent as Mama June, and she is using the same network, I believe. May we never see her on Sonobello commercials.

Mike's pupils were really dialated in that interview. Crying or stoned, like the bachelor party and the one-night stand with Sarah?

How could Mykul not be aware of Angela's concern about her weight, when she yelled at him that she was getting gastric surgery on the last tell-all?

Same. I couldn't even stand having the Angela & Libby journeys (I hate that term)on my TV as background noise earlier today.

When Kody asked Ysabel if she could go to NJ alone for scoliosis surgery, Christine comforted her by telling her, "That won't happen. It's not that you're not important." That remark supports Kody's irrelevant ultimatum (postpone or cancel) to the full detriment of Ysabel's mental, physical and emotional health. It also reinforces Christine's basement-wife soliloquy that she put everyone else's children before her own.

Christine is complicit. She allowed his preposterous and heartless idea that Ysabel go to NJ alone to be presented as an option. Christine should have slammed it down and told him that his suggestion was so unconscionable that it was unspeakable. But, he stated it and described it a few times and asked Christine and Ysabel independently if Ysabel could handle the surgery by herself. Christine finally turned to Ysabel and assured her that she would not have to go alone. But, at that point, Ysabel already stated that she wasn't needed and wanted to flee. Christine acted appalled in her sofa interview - but she was appalled by Kody's speaking his obscene idea, not his actual discarding their child. I imagine that she'd react harshly and instantly, in contrast, if Kody suggested an obscenity like she share a kitchen or seal Ysabel as the 34th sister-wife to an elderly polygamist, who happens to be her parents' direct ancestor, ASAP for the insurance coverage. Yet, Christine claimed that she never knew that men (in her sect) could be such bastards, when she remains married to one who revels 24/7/365 in reminding her.