S05.E05: Life After Lockup: Blindsided & Divided

[PrincessPurrsALot]

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Lindsey is blindsided by Blaine; Shawn flips out when Sara reveals the truth; Puppy ditches Eric; Aris loses it when Cameron goes missing in action; Brittany and Marcelino's date night goes south; Tayler goes into labor.

Original air date 2023.03.24

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Is that paint or birdshit all over that air conditioner?  Yes you can tell I am riveted by the conversation although I was surprised that Amber used impromptu.

[Andyourlittledog2]

This whole episode was fights I simply do not understand, probably because they were fake. Brit and Marc were the worst.  Everything she said made no damn sense. She was all melodramatic for no reason whatsoever. She kept telling Marc to go back to Vegas and I was rooting for him to do it. She isn't worth it!  But's it LAL so he's going nowhere.

And then Lindsay's freakout over Blaine being on house arrest instead of 19 years in prison was incomprehensible. She seems to be upset that he is now an inmate and she doesn't have approval to be around him?  She's mad because he can't do stuff now?  Newsflash: he can't walk to the mailbox from prison either. She's a nut.

Shawn can't understand how a woman would take her daughter to see her own father.  I guess that makes sense. Shawn doesn't understand fathers and children together so I believe he doesn't understand this.  Of course she's lying to him so that is something to get mad about but of all the things women have done and said to Shawn since we've known him and this is his red line?  Okay.

Aris and Cameron are fighting over his lying to her about looking for a job and how honest he is about not looking for a job. Cam is so shady. He simply has no idea how not to be that guy who runs the streets and does what he wants and sleeps with who he wants all the time. He just has no idea how to live the straight life. You married him Aris. Congratulations.

Puppy and Amber I love. They are the only pair on this show that I really love to watch. There's just a reallifeness to them. They remind me of the women I used to hang with in NA.  The chaos of their lives never stops because they would be lost without it. Like how I love a clean and neat house but when I achieve it I get weirded out and uncomfortable. I need a little mess to truly relax.

[anoninrva]

17 minutes ago, MrBuhBye said:

Is that paint or birdshit all over that air conditioner?  Yes you can tell I am riveted by the conversation although I was surprised that Amber used impromptu.

I think it's scraped metal.  I have to admit, I was a little skeptical that a carload of clothes wouldn't fit in the doublewide, but I don't really hate Puppy's mom.  Didn't she have cancer, though?  Of course, everyone on this show smokes, but I don't know how much longer she's going to be there for Puppy.

12 minutes ago, Andyourlittledog2 said:

This whole episode was fights I simply do not understand, probably because they were fake. Brit and Marc were the worst.  Everything she said made no damn sense. She was all melodramatic for no reason whatsoever.

Every fight here felt contrived, except maybe Aris being mad that Cameron isn't going to get a real job.  I've lost count of how many embarrassed rappers this makes, but I wasn't really impressed.  Britney just wanted to go outside for a smoke.  I'm pretty sure you can't even do that in Florida now inside a bar.

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2 minutes ago, anoninrva said:

I think it's scraped metal.  I have to admit, I was a little skeptical that a carload of clothes wouldn't fit in the doublewide, but I don't really hate Puppy's mom.  Didn't she have cancer, though?  Of course, everyone on this show smokes, but I don't know how much longer she's going to be there for Puppy.

Sadly you see people on oxygen smoking.  I watch The Challenge and one of the cast members ended up in the hospital from excessive vaping.  The jury is out on whether that’s any safer than cigarettes  I guess.

[PrincessPurrsALot]

Shawn wasn't upset that she saw her ex/her daughter's father.  He was upset that she didn't tell him.  I actually understand this.  For so many of these couples the issues come down to when they tell people something. They are married.  They should talk about things before taking action.  However, they are also on reality TV and conflict pays the bills. 

Eric was full on scary this episode.  He would have punched Puppy if he didn't remember the cameras were on. 

Chance has first grade school photo hair in his talking heads.  Maybe he is trying to grow his hair into the Blaine. 

I think Blaine was trying to explain that he is on house arrest with work release.  That is, he still goes to work and earns a living.  He has specific hours he needs to be home.  Lindsey's immediate reaction to everything is screaming.  It is obviously better that he do 3 years house arrest than 19 years in prison.  Also, he was already a felon when they got permission to live together.  It's not like his record was clear before this.  She is eternally exhausting. 

 

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I hate to ever stick up for Lindsay in any way but I can see the approval being different for living with someone with past convictions that they knew about versus current ones that they didn’t.  It does seem weird that they would let her live with a felon in the first place when sometimes they don’t let even married couples live together if one is a felon.

[JustbeingReal]

Poor Tayler is going through a lot. Chance reminds me of the prison version of Jax from Vpr haha. Eric and Puppy looked both really upset in the car. I wonder if they planned him getting out of the car and her driving away. Puppy has a good mom and friend in Amber. I'm glad she has them both. I kinda felt for Sean, he seemed hurt by Sara. Aris and Cameron are the dumbest couple to me,but they had me laughing when they were arguing lol. Brittany and Marce are like family members. You are happy to see them but used to and tired of them. Brittany's voice changed into a like blaccent when they were in the parking lot lol why. I love Brit's hair this season btw very gorgeous. I'm starting to like Blaine and Lindsay.

Edited March 26, 2023 by JustbeingReal

[PrincessPurrsALot]

13 hours ago, MrBuhBye said:

I hate to ever stick up for Lindsay in any way but I can see the approval being different for living with someone with past convictions that they knew about versus current ones that they didn’t.  It does seem weird that they would let her live with a felon in the first place when sometimes they don’t let even married couples live together if one is a felon.

But Blaine was working with the greatest attorney ever.  I'm sure ponytail guy checked on whether there would be any issues with Lindsey and Blaine living together.  He is the best!  Sorry, just practicing my Chance-level lying skills. 

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Hey if she can’t live with him she can always go back to Deonte next season.  He did burn his love doll so he is probably pent up.

[sempervivum]

I think we need the equivalent of poltical term limits for this show. No more than 3 seasons of a LAL character- this means YOU Brit, Marcellino, Lindsey, Shawn and yes, Puppy and Amber. Maybe Sharp needs to do a 'where are they now' follow up show, but keep the main show FRESH.

Also, Shawn needs to discover Just For Men hairdye for that sad, moth-eaten stache of his. 

[Jeanne222]

This whole cast needs to be replaced.  They grew old before their time due to the lifestyles they are living!

No homes.  Just hotels, rentals or duplex.  Nobody cleans up and nobody works.  Why don't puppy and Amber get together and clean up mom's house?  They always use her when they have no place to go!  I think mom is the only homeowner in the cast!

Seeing B & M again....say it isn't so.  She's never going to trust him and he wants to get back to Las Vegas tables.  They had a beautiful home there.  All gone now.

The fights are all so fake.  Must be hard to get dating an inmate people.  Oh well!

I do hope everything is ok with Taylor's new baby boy.

[Uncle JUICE]

Woof, I hate this show so much, thank god baseball is going to be back this week. 

First of all, there's the whole nonsense with Blaine's "house arrest." I'm putting it in quotes because I don't for one second believe that situation is anywhere near real. There's no way that was a real lawyer like three weeks ago, the guy with the borrowed suit, taking a meeting in someone's mom's dining room on their glass table. I don't have the interest level to look and see if that guy's even facing charges, but my suspicion is the ENTIRE thing, charges on down, is fake. Even that ankle bracelet. This show tried to get me to believe that when the cameras just happened to be there, Lindsey is so overwhelmed by desire for this guy that she's mounting him and disrobing him in front of cameras...and that this is the first time she'll have seen him naked since that deal? More than one couple this week pretended like they were about to have sex in front of the camera only to have it kaiboshed for reasons other than "WE ARE FILMING A TELEVISION SHOW" this week. Red flag for me.

THe Shawn stuff was straight ridiculous. I hate those two. I wanted nothing more in life than to have one of those balloons break. WTF grown up person does that, fills up water balloons and puts the in her shirt? Then we're supposed to believe that her husband is like "Let's have sex" right then? Come on now. 

I like Britney and Marcelino I guess, she seems to have an idea about life now, but I'm getting less comfortable with people drinking on television. She's clearly loaded at the end. Marcelino is in for a very, very long sentence of hearing about his indiscretions in her drunken rages, man. Either forgive and move on, or break it off. I know it's not that easy, trust me, but those really are you r only two choices. If she's acting, then she's a pretty good actress. 

 

[Uncle JUICE]

Oooofff, forgot to mention the absolutely disturbing Puppy stuff. That dude is dope-nodding on television. He's intermittently incoherent, it's really, really hard to watch. That's a dangerous person that Puppy should be a million miles away from. 

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Marcellino and Britney live near Tampa and there is a casino there so not sure why he can’t play poker there.  

[DanaMB]

19 hours ago, MrBuhBye said:

Marcellino and Britney live near Tampa and there is a casino there so not sure why he can’t play poker there.  

It’s about an hour and a half- 2 hours away. Not sure how Brit would feel about him being gone all that time. Well, pretending she actually cares and everything isn’t just all for the show. 
 

The next time I’m at the casino I’ll check out the poker areas and report back. 😂

[Jeanne222]

19 hours ago, MrBuhBye said:

Marcellino and Britney live near Tampa and there is a casino there so not sure why he can’t play poker there.  

There sure is!  I wonder how good he really is?  I used to watch poker tournaments on tv.  They start out with a hundred or more buying in.  I've never seen him!

[Elizzikra]

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Marcellino and Britney live near Tampa and there is a casino there so not sure why he can’t play poker there.  

Or get a job doing something else.

[PrincessPurrsALot]

1 hour ago, Elizzikra said:

Or get a job doing something else.

We learned in an earlier season that, much like Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon Vacation movies, Marcelino is holding out for a management position. 

[ChristmasJones]

Was it just me or was Eric nodding off while they were driving home before she left him in the middle of the road?  I suppose he could just be very tired.

[PrincessPurrsALot]

Eric was 100% nodding off.  Eric looked stoned out of his mind. 

[ChristmasJones]

Ok, I thought I had that right. It reminded me of Ryan on his way to his wedding on Teen Mom