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I get the impression from interviews with him on the show and elsewhere that Tzarina had major performance anxiety issues throughout the season, many of which didn't air (probably in favor of her romantic entanglements) but she always ultimately rose to the occasion, so to him it was just the latest in a series of talking her through her anxiety and not letting her run from it. And given her over the top attachment/attraction to him, it wouldn't surprise me if she played up those insecurities to get the one on one pep talks from him. Possibly.

The onion is literally a stack of sliced onion over oil lit on fire. She's just anxious about the whole patter/showmanship thing. Do they expect her to juggle eggs on a spatula and toss them into her hat? People literally train to do that, and she hasn't. If the captain thinks they'll be satisfied watching her merely slice and grill veg and meat, he's the one shortchanging them by denying the vaudeville act of Keith Stone.

On rewatch, the guest asked the question in two parts: Can we have a drink? and then more softly "orshouldwenotbecausewe'rediving?" I think Aesha just heard the first part and responded on autopilot, tuning out the second part. I do like that production now openly contradicts people's wrong recollections on the spot. Seems like when diving is planned the night before everybody should be shut off at a certain time - after all, drinking at 2 am and diving at 8 is probably illegal, too.

I noticed the bottles, too. A whole pharmacy. I'm sure that like their MLM supplements, they consider them "natural" and harmless.

From the editing into multiple cuts (prejudicial) I took the issue as her yammering on and on about her entire family saga, as opposed to the "tell us something deeply personal that has molded you into the person you are today" stories that others had shared, stories that might make the others think twice about the motivations behind certain behaviors, and be more charitable. Uncles sleeping on park benches and then becoming photographers isn't the same thing as infant neglect, parental abandonment, foster care, being raised by a woman who tolerated no emotions and no sound from a child. "I may have been born in London, but I had an immigrant family and never felt like I fit in at home or at school" would have been more illuminating.

The business class thing makes me laugh, because these women have tons more money than I have and I fly business/Mint when possible. If it's not available I'll book two coach seats so I can relax without close encounters with total strangers. And I don't know how long their official trip was, but I also don't spend a day flying each way just to spend 72 hours somewhere, so I'd also tack on private time. They feel like she's out of their league, so they're intent on proving that SHE thinks so.

I'm fine with the second Christmas morning with (half) sibs. Otherwise everybody's sitting around looking at the outsiders open their outsider presents a day late. I imagine the sister who accompanied Truely wanted to see Kody, but even moreso didn't want Truely to be the lone outsider. It wasn't so long ago they admitted there wasn't even a place for her to sleep, so it would also be a good way to scout out how she's treated within the dynamic, and enable her to see her dad without (as much) anxiety. I think Meri was over all of it a couple of years ago but playing up the "I'm still here!" angle not only to collect a paycheck but to make Kody squirm and look bad. She made multiple wry statements last season that seemed very clear that she was trolling him. Now with the other women gone she can troll while being a bit more aggressive. I could be conflating it with Thanksgiving, but I thought Janelle said the KIDS got a house, so she wasn't paying for it. Sol looks so much like Logan.

Yup - I noticed it, too. All I can think is that it's not truly live because that was definitely an edit. An edit that changes nothing in terms of outcome, but should be addressed, because it was so unsubtle I picked it up live and rewound to verify what I'd seen. Multiple times.

Sooo... did it look to anybody else that Cory's mouth said "Jag" but the sound that came out said "Red"? Is he a ventriloquist?

I think Dayton got banished to a giant private RV in the back yard, which is the worst possible punishment for a teen guy. Sadly, I wonder if she realized the risk of issuing the invitation and having nobody show up was real. Had she been asked to visit the Christmas rental while the kids were in town, even if not on Christmas day? It would have been kind to invite HER to see THEM on Christmas eve, to still partake of that piece of tradition, even if she wasn't the hostess. It seems unlikely that they'd all travel to get to their destination then pick up and head over to her house once they were all together. I don't want a book - I want them to start from Season 1 Episode 1 and have Christine and Janelle and whatever adult kids are interested on a big sectional commenting on what was REALLY going on. Would cost the network close to nothing and I bet it would get higher ratings than most of the last 5 yrs.

Little kids may also struggle when they last saw somebody as a gawky teenager and now they're a grown man or woman.

If according to Gwen, nobody except Mikelti spoke to them at her wedding, I wonder how much of the greater family estrangement is about Leon and not so much that infamous Christmas swap family text incident. I would hope Leon is seeing solidarity from (most of) their siblings (I think Gwen indicated that more than one person had issues with it). Disowning one of my siblings would be a major escalation of the already existing stepmother drama. That was a few years before the current moral panic propaganda Kody's probably been ingesting 24/7 on social media (on top of obvious predisposition to hostility towards nonconforming folks). I've seen people I previously knew as accepting or at least indifferent swallowing the poison and becoming militant against trans folks (on social media, anyway).

Culver clearly thinks he's the darling of the season, and acting accordingly. As in Joao's worst season, I'm sure his talking heads are full of leading questions about how cool he is, how lame Joao is, etc, even as they're compiling footage of him lazing around while the others work. [Not an excuse for either one's behavior, just an observation that the person getting (and deserving) the biggest dick edit is often gleefully enjoying their interview segments, which they wouldn't if they weren't finding support there] I feel bad for Adam, and I think a lot of his problem was never being taught in the first place. Until Joao arrived, I think he was just pointed at things and told to do them, instead of being supervised once at each new task, then checked off to do it unsupervised, which is probably what they would normally do with a green deckhand, and probably what Joao was willing to do from this point on. That said, I totally understand dismissing him, because the Captain isn't just filming a tv show where you keep the good guy around until he redeems himself. He answers to the boat owner(s), and even if the production crew has rented the yacht for the season, he's ALREADY had a sexual assault incident and a sexual harassment incident on board and there's only so much he can be expected to accommodate. (I draw the line at the speedos, though. I think he shouldn't have done it, or gone along with the sexpot promotion Bravo has done. He seems like a thoughtful, serious person, and shouldn't go too far into the beefcake stuff. And I'll say the same if they get another woman captain and she serves dinner in a bikini.)

I definitely think the ear piercing adventure was to illustrate to the network that Kody can work with other costars, not that he was just the premise for the original other interesting women to interact. (Not that they're particularly interesting outside of their marriage situation, but we've all been following the show for years purely on wondering WTF their thought processes have been regarding him. He's been comic relief.) Secondarily, I think it was a shot at the other kids - see what you could have if you weren't so disobedient? Not realizing this stuff is precisely why they've let him go in the first place - he's merely confirming what they already know. I had a fairly typical middle class 60s childhood (the Dad in the original The Wonder Years was my Dad down to a T). It was home from work, dinner with the family, read the newspaper, watch the news, family then watches tv, bed. Occasionally involved us in chores in the yard, a week's vacation a year. I can see a young Kody being a much more hands on father than mine ever was, playing with the kids, especially the boys, using the kids to get away from the moms, etc. My Dad didn't do that stuff (none of my friends' dads did either)... but he was THERE. As Nora Ephron pointed out, "children would rather have a mother who's miserable in the next room than one who's ecstatic in Hawaii." Well, as soon as they moved to Vegas, Kody might as well have been in Hawaii.

All she had to do was create a single, good quality t-shirt/sweatshirt with a logo and she could have been making money for YEARS off it with minimal overhead. The success of that might even have led to more. But she preferred the fantasy to the bare minimum of effort.

Rolling Stone expose of Gary's assault on production staff It's bad. Also allegations about Ross' behavior. On a far more superficial note, apparently they are put up in a hotel during days when there's no production, which seems like a perfect time to catch up on the rest they always insist they've never had throughout the "season."

Isn't the first rule of coral that you don't touch the coral?

Don't see a new episode listed but was a little annoyed at the faux drama about the new "greenhorn." It was pretty clear she was brought on to be an extra pair of hands, no more. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, table sorting, filling bait jugs, maybe a wheel watch --- things that save the guys some time and a few steps, but not a working deckhand. I CAN see the deckhands being annoyed if Keith did this as a storyline and could have actually hired somebody who would do more. Otherwise, good for her helping out, but why pretend she was supposed to be climbing in and out of the pots like a regular greenhorn?

I think I actually did understand it when she said it. I think she was saying that divorce is messy enough for monogamous people, and they process the upheaval and hostility as a newly single person. But people in plural marriage who split are STILL in marriages with other people, and those other people suffer the fallout as well. In other words, SHE was dealing with the fallout.

I would DEFINITELY sign up for Janelle and Christine watching and giving commentary on the series from episode 1 .

Ah, reality show manipulation. I remember Penn Jillette saying that on celebrity apprentice they'd put everybody except ONE person in the van and make them sit for an hour while they filmed a talking head, even though the hotel was literally a block away from the set and they could walked back in minutes. But they wanted them trapped, hot, tired, irritated, and talking trash about the person who was not present. Manipulating conditions improves the odds of certain outcomes, and they're very good at it. I think I recall them saying production doesn't stay on the boat overnight, so I shudder to think what might have happened if Luke had waited until they were gone. I found this episode disturbing, but well produced. The women's reactions (with one glaring exception) were relatable. I hope Margot gets the support she needs since this must be bringing a bunch of stuff up now that the information is "out there." Aesha's voice can drive toothpaste through a brick wall at times, but she is one good person (and boss).

It's got to be easier than DEAN MARTIN, though! I honestly thought Utah would lead to thoughts of Mormons and then somebody might have had an inkling.

Poor Donny is no doubt getting roasted by family and friends for being completely unknown to these folks. Maybe they should have gone with Marie as the celebrity relative and put in one of those meal plans she hawks all over tv?

I'm sure he's seen this side of her before. That may have been part of her power within the group - being real when the cameras were off but staying sweet and propping up the franchise on camera in return for being left alone. But knowing it was all over anyway, no need to keep up the on-camera facade and tolerate direct disrespect.

Those go kart scenes made me long for the Cape Cod palm trees of my youth. (Could have shot around them, decided not to!)