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Good point. If Production really cared about protecting this woman's reputation, they would have respected Jimmy's wishes and edited it out. Beyond the fact that it might be slightly embarrassing for Jimmy's friend, is there something more serious at stake? Was this woman married when they slept together? Or were they working together or something?

The Trevor part was hard to watch. He seems like he has some mental health issues he needs to work through and as badly as he behaved, it was not fun to watch him get humiliated on TV. I hope they had someone walk him out and keep an eye on him afterward. We got some closure around Clay & AD, but I wish they would have asked him outright why he didn't share his doubts clearly with her before the wedding. Why let AD go all the way through with it, pretending you were going to say yes. Even all the altar he was smiling and joking like he was going to say yes. But he knew he wasn't ready. He explained clearly why he said No but did not explain the timing. I think Production doesn't want to admit that without some No's at the altar they don't have a show. Jeramey and Sarah Ann seem awful but Laura is unnaturally angry about it. Move on. You dodged a bullet. Johnny didn't fully explain his position on the birth control argument but I got the sense that he's one of those guys that doesn't think of condoms as birth control. He thinks of them as STD prevention, but then once you & your partner test as having no STDs, you ditch the condoms and rely solely on the woman's birth control. Chelsea seems to have gained a little more self-awareness about her own insecurity and delusions after having watched herself on TV. I wish they'd talked to her and Jimmy a bit more. The conversation with Jessica just went on and on. I'm so bored of her story and everyone raves about how fantastic she is but she showed her mean girl colors when she ripped into Jimmy about what a mistake he made by not choosing her because she was so much hotter than Chelsea he was going to choke when he saw her. I guess she's apologized since for that rant but you know it's still there in her.

Based on Christine's awkwardness when David was telling this story, she may have been telling everyone the I-pursued-him story when in reality David's daughter encouraged him to put himself in Christine's path (she said she was using a matchmaker - he or his daughter could have figured out who it was and signed him up) so she could stumble upon him.

Yes, this! Either it was never properly tailored, or it's possible she got the dressed fitted too early in the process and then lost some weight. Because that dress desperately needed to be taken in. It was practically falling off her by the end of the night because it was too loose.

Was anyone else weirded out to learn that David's daughter had scoped out Christine as a potential wife for her Dad before they had even met? She was so excited to find out that Christine had let Kody because that meant that now her Dad could try to date her. And it seemed like she had hinted that she thought Christine was a great potential match for her Dad even before Christine had left Kody. It's just got to be weird going into a first date with someone who has already watched a huge chunk of your life on TV and already knows a lot about you.

I don't think it's weird or a bad sign that Christine's daughters don't want to consider David their stepfather. My father's been married a few times, and I call the wife he married when I was 5 my stepmother, but I call the wife he married when I was 21 "my Dad's wife." No reflection on how I feel about the person.

This was so delusional! Even Suki was giving him the side eye on that one. I also raised an eyebrow on his statement that "That's what men do when we get together. We complain about our wives." Is it, really? If so, that's a pretty sad statement on who his friends are and their marriages. I think he assumes that all men low-key hate their wives, and so therefore his marriage(s) are normal.

I was so confused by Robyn's statement that she couldn't be happy in her marriage/family until all of Kody's ex-wives told her to her face and off camera that they wanted her to be happy. What in the world?!? If I were Kody or her kids I would be insulted by that. Also - Kody has been talking so much about how Christine has been bad-mouthing him to their kids and turning their kids against him that I was waiting for some bombshell of what it was she had said to them. But instead, his "evidence" was that dinner table conversation when they were talking about how Kody had told Christine he was never attracted to her. That is not Christine badmouthing Kody, that is her just repeating what Kody himself has said to a National Television Audience! If he doesn't want his kids to think badly of him, perhaps he shouldn't be an asshole on television.

This is just anecdotal, but I have noticed in all of the divorces I have been around, women tend to say "It was good once, but he changed" and men say, "It was never good. We were never actually in love." It's just so common. So it's interesting to be that it's really no different in polygamy. Kody is trying to convince himself and everyone else that he was never actually in love with any of his first three wives, and its was never a love marriage.

It's funny to me that Robyn was complaining that people lump her and Kody together "That if Robyn thinks this, Kody thinks this," etc. And then no less than TWICE she directly told him what he thinks. "You don't believe that, Kody, you believe this." Talk about completely un-self-aware.

I am really liking this show and surprised that I can't find anyone discussing it. Things I love about it: The teams aren't competing against each other, only against the task and the clock. Because of this, teams can do different tasks. We don't have to watch multiple teams do the same task over and over (a la Amazing Race) and we get to see a wide variety of locations and tasks. The locations are amazing, and gorgeously shot. The tasks are very cool and legitimately difficult and dramatic. The teams and their backstories are well chosen. They all seem very game and you don't get the usual American reality show cast of wannabe influencers. Things I don't love: Earning the money/moving forward depends on answering a trivia question. This works well when it's something they can answer by using clues around them (measuring the snake, weighing the tarantula, finding the answer in a newspaper in the room they're in, etc.) but it's terrible and boring when it's a random trivia question that depends on them just guessing a history fact. Questions I would love answered: I love that the clues can be vague and difficult, but how do they keep the participants from going completely off the rails, going to the wrong location? Did some of the participants genuinely get lost, hike for hours and hours up the wrong mountain, or down the wrong trail in the rainforest, etc. and they just didn't show it in the final edit? Or are they getting subtle clues that they're on the right track? If they attempt to do something incredibly dangerous that is not actually the correct task, will the cameraperson stop them? I'm thinking of the gondola task, where it told them to get into the gondola. If, instead of searching for the way to bring the gondola up to the top, they decided to try to climb down the wire and get into the gondola midair, would someone have stepped in and said, "Woah, woah, don't be crazy; that's not actually what we're asking you to do." In several instances, they are breaking into a private location that appears unmarked. Did any teams ever accidentally break into the wrong house, break down the wrong door, or steal the wrong car? Would someone step in and stop them from breaking the law or causing property damage to something that's not actually part of the task?

Funny edit from production, having Robyn say in voiceover, about the Zoom call, "I wanted all the kids to see me smiling and wishing everyone well," while playing video of her glowering and looking annoyed on the actual Zoom call.

Janelle saying that she wants to stay in polygamy because she wants a partner but she also wants independence is kind of sad, because it means she has not seen a monogamous marriage where the wife is independent. There are plenty of monogamous relationships - married or not - where both partners have the independence she enjoys. Hopefully she can figure that out. Also...Robyn's been sobbing all season about how she just wants a big family and she's losing her dream of them all being a family together...and then instantly shuts down the idea of the whole family gathering together. What is that about? Does she even hear herself talking?

I'm glad that Meri could see through to the truth when Robyn was telling her that Christine told Kody that "the whole marriage was hell." That wasn't what Christine said - we know it, and Meri can sense it. It may be what Kody "heard" in his narcissistic brain. I just wish Meri would have helped Robyn see that as well, how Kody twists everything. She could have / should have said: "Do you really think Christine said that? Can you picture her saying that? I'm pretty sure she didn't say that. But that's what Kody heard, and now he's presenting it to you as the truth. Now don't you see that there are probably many many other things where you are getting the wrong idea because you're only listening to Kody and not using critical thinking to figure out the truth?"

My interpretation of what he was really saying in this moment was "The sacrifices I made to [pretend to] love you!" He wasn't attracted to her; he's admitted that multiple times. So in his mind it was a big sacrifice to suck it up and pretend to be affectionate and pretend to love her. I wish he would just listen to himself and realize -- what kind of person would want to stay with someone who considers having to love them a HUGE sacrifice?