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My beloved Edith Wharton is this? I guess I'm just a purist, but I feel like I'm watching a CW teen girl drama. I am beyond disappointed. While I recognize the effort to include diversity, that never ever would have happened. Girls wearing their hair down, talking back, drinking, meeting with men out of the watchful eye of a chaperone. Swimming? Just no. Edith Wharton wrote about the social customs and mores of the age and their constructions. This is just awful. Awful. I hear Sofia Coppola is working on an adaption of the Custom of the Country. Her updated Marie Antoinette was so well done. This is just bad. I dont think I can make it through episode 2. Too bad. I had such hopes.

Just finished episode 1. Wow what an asshole Sam was. The set up for the next ep is when Gretchen Carlson took over and about eating disorders,the pressure to look a certain way. I seriously do not understand the organization's insistence that the women put on the appearance of being untouched virgins. And to try and scuttle careers after their reign? That's just controlling manipulative sh#t.

I remember when my daughter moved to South Carolina and we visited her. I couldn't get over the size of the churches there. Bigger than schools and most government buildings. She said when she would meet people in the community the first time, they always asked which church she attended, before they asked what she did for a living or where she lived. And everything was closed on religious holidays, like good Friday, including the schools and government offices.

The cynical part of me thinks he did it to be able to classify his house as a church, for tax purposes

I just read that Olivia Plath (Welcome to Plathville) is planning an IG live on June 6. She says she was triggered by the documentary and wants to tell her story. Never watched that show so im not sure if she wants to weigh in to add information or just get attention

The way networks set up reality shows is that they tell the participants to set up an LLC and they sign a contract with the LLC, not the individuals. So the contracts, at least initially are with their own LLC, not TLC. I figure they sued whoever was in charge of the LLC, not TLC. Probably Jimboob

Part of the problem with leading a cloistered life is that you lack basic life skills, like recognizing you need to get paid for your labor. Its pretty twisted that the people who are supposed to teach you those things are the ones taking advantage of you.

Again I never watched the show so I have no specific opinions on any of the Duggars or spouses, but it seemed like Jill's and Derrick seemed to be mostly upset about the lack of pay and the contract manipulation. I didn't hear a lot of criticism about how she was raised or how her sibs or others were treated by family or the church. I mean yeah escaping a cult is tough. I didn't hear her bemoaning her lack of education and limited opportunities or how she was disciplined. I get that theygot ripped off Jim Bob and Michelle, but I'm wondering if they would be speaking out if JB had freely shared the $$$

Speaking as someone who never watched the Duggar show but heard about it from coworkers and of course the molestation and pornography scandals, I actually thought that blending the backstory of IBLP with the Duggars helped me frame WTH I was watching. The stories of abuse are very much in line with other cults, like Scientology. I found the whole Joshua Generation thing chilling and of course Madison Cawthorn. How many other politicians and judges are fundamentalists? I know Amy Coney Barrett is part of the People of Praise. Oh there is a push to rewrite textbooks and rename slaves economic migrants. One of my children lived in South Carolina and when we were visiting went to the state museum. In the tiny part where there was an exhibit on slavery it was very much framed as most people didn't own slaves and some slave owners were kind.

"There's no scientific basis for evolution" - Jimboob My head is exploding. And I had no idea theres a museum dedicated to creationism. Gaahhh

One of the things that blew me away was the logistics of the 1%. Im currently trying to plan a trip and planning the logistics (plane train car hotel etc) is a big pain. Can you imagine cars and planes and boats, helicopters at your disposal and people to make all your plans for you? I read somewhere that one percenters don't own that many coats because they go right from their car service through the front door of wherever they are going

I also think she realizes that he might blow it and suck as CEO. If he blows it they all suffer financially. Sure they have billions, but rich people are notoriously protective of their money. Hence Caroline saving the ends of the bread loaves.

I think Roman has been so abused and repressed that he hasn't been able to work out his sexuality. Maybe with daddy dead he can now get the help he needs to figure out who he is

So it ends with Roman realizing he's finally free. Shiv is calculating her next move. Ken being broken is on brand for Ken. I was pleasantly surprised to see in the video that Connor and Logan seemed to have affection for each other because their relationship wasn't about business. And now he's got Logans house to make into his own. I refuse to feel bad for a bunch of snotty kids who don't understand what struggling means. They have billions. No tears here.

I've been wondering that too! I suspect its one of 2 things. Either Rose was the child of the crazy uncle and aunt and he and Ewan considered her a sister OR when Rose was born she was brought over. Since it was years later I assume the war was over and people could travel again