Tara Ariano

No episode description, but: more of the usual, I'd imagine.

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I mean...chiropractor. That's a fake doctor. And she's also a personal trainer with her own gym!

I got a screener for this one and it is the most quotable one yet. Here's the mom.

MAKE O VER!

Season finale! Edited to add: Not the season finale at all! My bad.

Passable high-res photography is not necessarily the same as "good"! Anyone can take a snapshot to capture a fleeting moment, but if you're looking for family photos to frame, you might want to have a professional photo session. Whatever I might think about Tyler and Wendy as parents, what they showed of their work in the episode was pretty strong. Shooting families is hard!

Everything isn't for everyone.

Jamie's experience from the reality shows she's been on before this is that the most important criterion for casting is looks. I think she was expecting a Bachelor-standard generic hunk type, but I guess all the ones who were in the pool for this thing took off when they found out what the premise of the show actually was. The fight between Vaughn and Monet over her girls' night seemed very heavily edited to me, so while I don't want to give her the benefit of the doubt just because of the shade he threw at her for not cooking (and...her dog does seem annoying to me, and I have a dog) (and love him), I can imagine a scenario where she didn't necessarily know when he'd be back because when he's away they don't talk, BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LIKE EACH OTHER. I don't want to say he set a trap for her so that he could come home and be pissed that she didn't clear the decks for his return, but I don't think that's impossible either. As I said in my post, I wonder how many of Vaughn and Monet's problems are due to bad phrasing in the questionnaire, so that, for instance, "Do you want a very traditional marriage?" meant "I want him to make most or all of the household money" to her and "I want her to be a geisha" to him.

They said at the beginning that they still owned their house and were renting it out; assuming they didn't have a mortgage (which is possible), between that income and what they make as apparently pretty in-demand photographers, they could be doing pretty well. This was a big letdown for me after the huge freaks of the series premiere, in that Tyler and Wendy seemed to be having an adventure that was kind of a pain in the kids' ass sometimes but that wasn't wrecking them. I think the producers deliberately followed them during a camping phase to make their lives seem especially rustic, and only for a couple of days (they cut up the photo shoot for two different out-of-sequence acts of the episode, which you could tell by what everyone was wearing and the fact that they didn't show the clients in the first bits of footage at all); sometimes they stay in hotels, and presumably eat in restaurants where fresh produce is available. I agree with everyone who said the Whitacres won't be able to keep this up full-time much longer: it was probably no big deal when the kids were little, but I feel like Wendy, at least, will not get too precious about it and will realize that the kids need to go to real school if they're going to get a decent start for college, not to mention that Isaac will need to have access to regular visits with the same orthodontist. (Even in this episode she said she envisioned a future where they were only on the road half the year, so given the way she talked Tyler into the trailer, I bet her six months on/six months off plan will come to fruition before too much more time has passed.) They've clearly figured out how to handle the logistics (setting up a business model that works; dealing with all their banking and bill-paying and whatever), so spending summer vacations traveling while living in a permanent home the rest of the year would be a perfectly fine compromise -- just not one that would get them on a show like this!