MIL hogging the living room

[alliejay81]

MIL is here (she's in our social bubble). She's currently in our living room watching something on Netflix not suitable for DS so I had to make DS go in the family room.

WIBU to tell her to turn it off? It's not wildly unsuitable think adult themes / language: DS is 11. Not entirely sure why she's watching it, I guess DH must've put it on for her (he's currently mowing the lawn).

@SenecaFallsRedux

Designated Survivor? That's not suitable for an 11 year old? If anything, it's a living civics lesson in the constitutional succession to the presidency of the US. I must have forgotten the raunchy parts.

First two seasons are fine. Third one is definitely more mature. Possibly still ok and would provoke some interesting conversations, but I'd want to watch it with him, rather than him catching bits out of context.

Glad it's all OK now.

@feistyoneyouare

Good lord. Whatever happened to being courteous to guests and respecting ones elders?

So does 'respecting one's elders' mean they automatically get to decide what's watched on TV and no one else gets a say?

When she put it on, OP and her DS were elsewhere in the house/garden doing other things. Does she need to sit in silence until the whole family is there to vote what goes on the TV.

She probably just thought she was taking herself out of the way.

I honestly could not get worked up about this.

Is that the one with the dead wife and transwoman outing before moving into the White House?
I don’t remember any raunchy bits. Tbf I usually fell asleep anyway so my grasp of the plot line is sketchy.
Tell her to watch madam secretary instead. Far superior. And family friendly.

Fuss about nothing.

It was designated survivor

I think I'd actually rather watch Human Centipede!

To be fair, I only watched the first few episodes of Designated Survivor, so perhaps the protagonist turns out not to be such a dull-as-dishwater character later on. I just wasn't prepared to sacrifice any more hours to find out..

Blimey, all this over designated survivor series one. That’s some over reaction. Do you always dive off the deep end before finding out the real situation?

not convinced she'd be happy if I plonked myself down in her house and started watching my programmes!

Your whole family was somewhere else and she was alone in the room. Hardly the crime of the century to put the telly on and watch what she wants. Your son having to sit in the family room hardly constitutes deprivation.
Despite your updates I think you were being a bit of a bitch for no good reason. Try not to do this on your holiday or you will ruin it for everyone.

It’s all a bit controlling and bitchy op, you were all doing something else, she was just watching something perfectly innocuous on the tv to entertain herself. There is no need for you to sit and watch things like this with your son, he’s eleven not five.

Hopefully you’re just a bit stressed about your holiday and don’t normally react like this when someone puts the telly on.