Grifter Lives

Rent to Own, like furniture

Kody is so insecure and jealous of his sons that he was grabbing Savannah to make Gabe jealous or to show Gabe how he's literally such a hands-on, loving father. And for all their COVID concern, Janelle and her children sat in their interior living room with Kody. When he's not around and they're alone, they social distance on the outside patio. I don't remember what exactly Gabe said in the backyard scenes, but I believe he twice told Janelle flat-out that he didn't care if Kody visited.

Meri is using this show to more blatantly promoting her outside businesses - Rice Krispy treats aren't some delicacy - especially 30 at a time - and she has sold some the actual LulaRoe clothing she's worn on the show. (Kody guessed that she gave him 18, as if he'd distribute one to each child.) Robyn is desperate to steal back centerstage for at least an entire season. She's been the worst, most disingenuous about her concern for her sister wives. Every episode this season, she has made her potential pregnancy an issue, when nobody else seems to care. For example, at the Dargers, she had to protest loudly that Kody must have been openly discussing her fertility, because she thinks that she's the only wife of child-bearing age. And, last week, she mocked her sister wives while declaring she is so young with plenty of time ahead. She'd have a child just to force everyone into one house where they'd have to be her nursemaids. I hope Mr. Right does come along for Meri so that TLC drops this show for a spin-off. I'll hate-watch it for the freakshow characters. And, I and Google articles about Kody and Robyn's bankruptcies, evictions, and attempts to be arrested in Utah for speeding while professing to be polygamous.

They're really close to the highway. You can see the traffic and intersection in the background in the Meri shots. Did they celebrate their anniversary at a highway rest stop?

Meri's doing well in filming Kody, but he can't even make the effort to film her or adjust his stupid tripod. That's why she's off-center in all her solo shots, and you see him gesticulating with both hands.

Meri's eyes look like she may have been crying during parts of her couch interviews.

They're already divorced, but I think that he and Robyn would have to buy her out on a Prairie Dog Plague Flats plot that they co-own. (She better not hold her breath.) He's holding onto her, because she out-earns him and has more assets (Lizzie's).

My theory: There's a 3-year gap between Gabe and Gwen. Janelle left the family and moved to Wyoming alone shortly after Gabe was born and gave birth to Savannah around the time she returned. (I think Savannah was the reconciliation baby.) I don't put it past Kody to have not forgiven Janelle for leaving and to take it out on Gabe and Savannah. And, Gabe is vocal about how little attention Kody pays to Janelle now.

She used to have - and may still have - a sign in her kitchen, "I Kiss Better Than I Cook." Maybe that's why Kody missed her.

So, Truely's birthday was April 13, and Christine's birthday was April 18. Kody & Meri's anniversary was April 21, but they don't count it as one of the April celebrations.

We posted simultaneously! Kody hugged Savannah twice, as he was mocking Gabe. Gabe should piss on him a la Mosby to show who's the alpha male.

The hostility between Kody and Gabe is palpable. And sadly, that banana reminded me of Meri and the Catfish. They should never have flashbacked last week!

Janelle was an "outliner." That's Meri's eye make-up. She meant, "outlier." Nice that her "husband" shapes her self-perception.

Weird: That may be her own wardrobe on the portable racks. None of the clothes have loud, tacky patterns. Also Weird: She has a double bed. I'd think that Kody needs at least a king-sized bed for himself. You know Robyn has a California King in boudoir merlot velvet.

Who is surprised that Janelle doesn't make her bed and Meri sleeps alone?

It looks like Christine has her LulaNo inventory on a double rack in her master bedroom, but the shirt on the end was a solid fuschia, so I am not quite sure.

There's some Tony-Mykelti wedding reference/ joke in this somewhere. (At least it was a unicorn, and not Truely, but it should have been Kody or Robyn?) And, it didn't look like it was filled with candy.

Garrison is actually working - on construction sites, where there are probably precautions. At this point, Gabe's school has gone to distance-learning. So, they are mitigating some of the risk. I admit that I wasn't fully paying attention to their argument, but I think that they're making clear that they are reciprocating Kody's rejection of them. They're another version of the fundie Lost Boys.

People said it on the other threads: Gabe and Garrison could live by themselves. At least Savannah could stay with Christine, or Janelle and Savannah could stay with Robyn or Meri in one of the large houses. (Robyn even has a guest house.)

Kody hates, hates, hates that Gabriel has a girlfriend or is not in complete isolation. He's jealous, or he fears the exchange of hormones. Kody owes accountability to society. That's why he has 18 children, 3 babymamas and is a lifelong grifter.

Scene 1: Janelle's children on the back porch, talking about distance learning. Gabe's wearing a flannel shirt. Scene 2: Janelle appears in the empty chair, and Gabe has changed to just a t-shirt.

Yet again, I'm embarrassed to be the only one here.

If Julia reacts like that to the theoretical throuple, wait until she learns and sees that her in-laws are actual swingers.

Yara spent 4 months, buying baby outfits.

Compare and Contrast: Mom Jovi's pristine car to Tamara's rolling hoard.