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THIS. And we all know that Lady SheRa didn't come to play, and by "play" I mean: Get a job Downsize her lifestyle If they lose the TV show, the Kodster is going to have to figure out how to keep this woman (and her children) in the manner in which they've become accustomed. It remains to be seen how Chody will financially participate in the lives of his non-Sobyn kids in terms of schooling, future events like weddings, etc...but you can best believe that he will be expected to foot all bills relating to Sobyn's kids. If that is a struggle...well, if a legal wife has to sue someone's ass for divorce to get her kids "the life they deserve"....I would not put it past her.

Get the fuck outta here with this. The only things I'm blinded by when I watch this show are boredom and confusion. Fear and terror? You give yourself way too much credit, MPK. People didn't see any dimensions in the character of Che because the character was poorly conceived and written. If this is the creative hill you're prepared to die on, MPK, how about acknowledging some responsibility for that? Oh right...gaslighting your audience into thinking that it's their fault they didn't like the character is much easier. Got it. edited for spacing

Sigh...yes. Remember the old Mer who was prickly and complicated, but also loyal, passionate, and on fire about pretty much everything? I miss her. This Mer just nods and smiles and seems perfectly reasonable, very moderate, an...zzzzzzzz.

Yes. The title character of this show has now essentially become a reoccurring guest role...at least that's how it feels..but EP has a lot of power behind the scenes and I don't think she'd sign on for more seasons if she wasn't okay with the direction her character was going. I'm inclined to believe that this is some long, drawn out exit strategy for the character and that EP is totally here for it. Unfortunately, it's pretty much like watching paint dry for me.

If I ran the room coming into season 2: Miranda/Che: I'd wrap this shit up quickly, but in a way that gives Miranda a platform to move forward as a character and doesn't necessarily pit Che as the villain. We see Miranda and Che settling into LA, but the cracks start to show immediately. Between becoming the next Roseanne and being a self-proclaimed narcissist completely uninterested in a traditional relationship, Che quickly grows tired of Miranda and what they see as Miranda's unrealistic expectations. Miranda, on the other hand, tries hard to live her best "rom-com" life, but ultimately realizes that she's made a mistake in throwing in her whole lot for what was at the end of the day, just a really intense crush. There is a good-faith effort to make it work, but at the end of the day, these two recognize that it's not working, and they have a difficult but necessary adult conversation. This results in Miranda going back to NYC to do some much needed soul-searching.

Yes- this show always seems to know how to do something story-wise with births and babies, but the writers have never been strongly invested in what happens to the main character's kids beyond that ...that being said, I thought the young actress playing Zola did a good job with what she was given this week. Other random thoughts: -Stop. Just stop with the stupid fever-dream episodes. I had no idea what the point of that whole thing was. I could have maybe understood something like this if it had happened when Maggie was first introduced on the show, but at this point, it's like "Oh...Maggie's been harboring all this anxiety about her place in the Grey family all this time?...Huh. Ok. And I care because...why?" -Nick/Mer- I wonder if it got back to the writers that there was a persistent fan theory floating around that Nick was nothing more than figment of Mer's imagination. The show seems to be now desperately trying to build a character/backstory for Nick when that groundwork should have been put in place as soon as SS was a lock to come back- thus the niece/Silver plot. I think they're trying to show that Nick has people in his life outside of Mer, that he's capable of experiencing/causing tension and conflict, and that he's not just the weirdly perfect robot boyfriend that was initially introduced to us. I'm baffled as to why we don't get to see Nick actually interacting in a meaningful way with the people in Mer's life..you know, like her kids, her family, her colleagues. -Kai/Amelia- I'm fairly neutral on this one. I do think ERF/CS have good chemistry together, so I'm willing to see where this goes. I like the character of Kai, but ERF doesn't seem to have a lot of range as an actor so...

Just gonna leave this here: https://okmagazine.com/p/paedon-brown-says-kody-unvaccinated-against-covid-sister-wives/

I don't think I'll be tuning in and I really don't have a horse in this race, so to speak, but I imagine that there is a place out there for this kind of cooking show, particularly amongst the TLC demographic (and I'm sure that TLC has done some kind of market research on this). Giving her a digital platform is probably easy for the network to do, and it's an easy way to test whether or not people would be interested in more "Just Christine" programming. My guess is that while her food probably won't be the healthiest or the most sophisticated fare out there, it will probably be simple and easy to make, inexpensive for the average household to prepare, and good for families/groups...that ticks a lot of boxes for a lot of home cooks out there.

I think they'll take the first three episodes to just replay what happened this season- lots of recap footage and lots of TH segments where the remaining four give endless variations on "I'm still angry"(Kody), "It's an adjustment but I'm happy she's happy"(Janelle), "I'm still trying to take it all in"(Meri), and Robyn fake crying and making it all about her. The next four episodes will then do the deep-dive into the endlessly fascinating world of how to subdivide Coyote Pass..more sitting on lawn chairs and having pointless conversations about that. If they're picking up in 2021, then COVID isn't over yet, so that will buy them a couple more episodes where they can recap this season's Covid arguments, show more recaps, blah, blah, blah. That will leave a couple of episodes for all thingks related to poor Robyn's youngest children who don't remember their sibling's names anymore and that older kid from the former wife who just had a baby in Utah.

I do too. I think the reasons are pretty clear- she's new and shiny at this point. They're still somewhat newly wed and she's now pregnant with their first child together. He doesn't have the baggage with Robyn yet that he does with all the other wives...and as we know, Kody is good at dividing his love, but sucks at multiplying it.

I just watched a handful of older episodes from seasons 1-3. A couple of rando observations: The cold sores. So many cold sores. I'd forgot about that. The ladies all look so much better in these early episodes- their makeup looks nice and clean, and the eyebrow situation isn't out of control like it is now. Meri's hair- although it's never been great, is so much nicer without the gazillion pounds of hair product in it. Kodyn's pregnancy with Sol announcement - Janelle's face. Oof. Dead eyes. They'd just moved into all the Vegas rennals and I imagine all she could think about when she heard about the precious new addition was the rapidly dwindling bank account and no job prospects in sight, save carrying open house signs for Mona. Season 3, Episode 4- The Four Lives of Kody Brown. This episode should be renamed "Look at the Mountain, 1.0". Christine flat-out says that she no longer feels special; Kody is favoring Robyn and he's not giving enough time and energy to her marriage (Christine). She blames Kody for the disproportionate attention, but quickly (and unconvincingly IMO) walks back any suggestion that Robyn is also to blame. In the wives TH segment, Meri basically says she wants to smack Christine sometimes because it's essentially her fault if things aren't going well in the marriage and that she just needs to work harder. Because all of the wives are there (remember when that was a thing?), we see Christine's facial expression as Meri is saying this. She looks humiliated that Meri is saying this, angry, and also deeply chastened...you can see the struggle. Christine just resolves to "be happy"...and so her long journey continues.

I agree with you- CN is doing a good job on The Gilded Age. Maybe another part of the problem is that CN started getting her two characters mixed up...I could totally see Ada gettin' the vapors for someone like Che. I'm joking...kind of. This latest CN interview, though. FFS. I'm not bringing anything new to the table here, but just adding my voice to the chorus of disapproval. She's so in the weeds with this that she can't see the bigger picture. You can blame your audience all you want for not being progressive enough, not being able to move on from SATC, etc. but the simple fact remains that the show failed in its execution of this story line. There were a dozen different ways, many of them suggested in this forum, how the show could have told the same story of Miranda's paradigm shift in a way that was both dramatically satisfying and retained the basic tenets of the character. That is not what they did and the results speak for themselves.

Well, I think this was just one of the problems with the storytelling and character development. We actually got to see very little of how these two work as a couple- what do they talk about when they're just hanging out? Do they talk? Do they just have sex? Do they share their dreams, goals, etc? Have they shared anything meaningful at all with each other about their lives? How is it that they've both professed their love for each other, but we the audience struggle to understand how that possibly could have happened?....The show is making the audience work way too hard to fill in the blanks here.

OMG. Yes. It bugs the shit out of me when I hear this assertion that fans are "too sentimental about the past", "unable to let characters change/move on/be different", blah, blah, blah. I don't consider myself any of those things. I consider myself to be someone who has CONTEXT with these characters and just expected AJLT to move forward with the same care and consideration to these characters as they did in SATC. I had no problem with Miranda "blowing up her life" on paper, but I expected/wanted it to unfold in a way that was messy, glorious, sometimes funny, sometimes infuriating and painful, and always human. What I got was a story line that was sloppily conceived and written with all the corners cut in order to make this life-change happen in a 10 episode arc. What I got was a supposedly life-altering love interest in Che, who from a writing perspective, never transcended beyond "plot device" (and I don't actually fault SR for this- I'm one of those Grey's Anatomy dinosaurs and have seen how believable, layered, and wonderful they are when given good material). So, yes, indeed- the call is coming from inside the house.

Yeah, I'd love to see how SATC would have handled that...in this show, we'd probably see Miranda thinking that being called out as the "finger-banged chick in her friend's kitchen" as the coolest, sexiest thing ever and then we'd have to watch her immediately rush on over for some "Che Time" 🤮