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AnneWeber · 19/02/2021 09:43

Does anyone watch this? It's about a religious homeschooling family in Georgia US with 9 kids.
Lots of tensions and now the older kids have moved away and 3 of them have fallen out with the parents and confronted them about their homeschooling not properly preparing them for adult life.
The parents seem to try and blame everything on the daughter in law Olivia corrupting the others. It's funny how they are going to the opposite extreme doing sexy modelling etc

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TrashyPanda · 02/08/2022 18:00

Yes, I’ve warmed to Barry.

kim is just a big hypocrite.

olivia is very much in the same domineering vein as Kim.

Iamdobby63 · 03/08/2022 00:03

I agree Kim is a massive hypocrite, all of a sudden she’s fun (according to some) she drinks, the kids can have sugar etc., I just see her as being so fake, trying so hard to be ‘cool’. I think the negative public opinion got to her and now she’s pretending to be the opposite whilst blaming Barry for how they used to live.

Im getting bored of Ethan and Olivia now, either figure it out or move on.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 03/08/2022 00:33

Wow her skirt couldn't have been shorter ,could it?!

Iamdobby63 · 03/08/2022 13:13

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 03/08/2022 00:33

Wow her skirt couldn't have been shorter ,could it?!

Very modest 🤣

Just love how Kim was worried and expressing concerning that Barry might bad mouth her and yet she’s the one talking to the kids about how it’s all Barry’s fault. Obviously I felt sympathy regarding her saying she was sexually abused as a child but it’s like she’s just making excuses rather than just say, this is how we felt, this was done out of love, I’m deeply sorry you have been hurt etc. listening to her talk now about Barry it’s like she was this woman controlled by her husband and whilst I do think he is difficult she has never come across as anything other than strong and opinionated. So it’s just not flying with me, I think this is all damage control…. Or a midlife crisis

Seriously, if she really wanted to resolve things with Ethan she could, why is she waiting for him. If it were me I would at the very least write a letter.

And ps, does this woman not have any female friends?

TulipDay · 03/08/2022 13:42

I remember Ethan saying Kim is the neck that turns Barry's head, meaning that she is the one that controls things, so I'm not at all convinced by this narrative that Barry was controlling her.

TulipDay · 03/08/2022 13:43

Good point that she doesn't seem to have female friends. The guy from the gym and the old family friend seem to be more about making barry jealous.

TulipDay · 03/08/2022 13:45

I say old family friend but the kids didn't seem to think they had family friends, so maybe he was more "guy who sold them properties"

CovidCrow · 03/08/2022 13:47

TulipDay · 03/08/2022 13:42

I remember Ethan saying Kim is the neck that turns Barry's head, meaning that she is the one that controls things, so I'm not at all convinced by this narrative that Barry was controlling her.

I remember that too, it’s stuck with me and ever since I’ve looked at Barry differently. I feel really sorry for him now. Kim is totally self absorbed.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 03/08/2022 13:58

Barry is starting to look much better since the split, filled out a bit and got more colour. Needs a haircut and he'd be a DILF 😉

Amber is an odd one, not heard the last from her yet!

CovidCrow · 03/08/2022 15:32

Having seen the latest episode and Ethan thanking his Dad for not going to Moriah's concert. I think the clues have been there all along that he wasn't the bad one and it was indeed Kim controlling everything.

Also would the sexual abuse really be the reason you didn't let your DC have sugar or watch age appropriate films etc? Ok I get the home schooling thing to protect them but the rest? Nah that was her controlling them because she wanted to.

Iamdobby63 · 03/08/2022 16:27

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 03/08/2022 13:58

Barry is starting to look much better since the split, filled out a bit and got more colour. Needs a haircut and he'd be a DILF 😉

Amber is an odd one, not heard the last from her yet!

You do realise you said that out loud 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 03/08/2022 16:30

Iamdobby63 · 03/08/2022 16:27

You do realise you said that out loud 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I only said it on here which doesn't count 😉

CovidCrow · 03/08/2022 16:55

🤣😆😂

TrashyPanda · 03/08/2022 17:35

In the ep where Kim and Moriah went to visit a university, I remember Kim talking about her student days. And she sounded like a typical student, sewing wild oats - getting drunk, having several boyfriends etc. She was also scathing about her own mother and her childhood.basically implying she wasn’t a good mother

how different to her acting like she’d barely ever had a drink before with Micah. And her fond memories of her mum with Lydia.

did love that Lydia, the people pleaser, refused to agree that divorce was okay and told Kim the love of the Lord should be enough for her.

oh Kim, as you sew, so shall you reap

IdasFlowers · 08/08/2022 22:30

Oh dear. Olivia really shouldn't have been creating drama and trying to make it all about her at the family remembrance day. She never even knew Baby Joshua. Kim really should have been there instead of Olivia when they were at the farm remembering their favourite memories of Joshua.
Such an awful thing to happen. My dd was born a month before Joshua and is 15 now. It's inconceivable what happened

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/08/2022 23:16

Much as I loathe Kim I don't know how she's managed to carry on after what happened, the poor woman !

TrashyPanda · 09/08/2022 00:04

Olivia is very self-centred and selfish.
this time it bit her on the arse.
hopefully this is a wake-up call for her.
she was perfectly happy in her relationship with Ethan when she was the dominant force, introducing him to new things and new ideas.
when he grew more confident and started asserting himself, that’s when Olivia became discontented.

before Moriah spoke about (what sounds like) her PTSD, I was just thinking how awful it must have been for all the children too, as they were there, saw what happened, saw their poor mother’s reactions etc. it must have been hellish. They were all very young - 10 and under. Olivia was so insensitive to the trauma the whole family endured. Sadly, all the children seem to have repressed their feelings and reactions. Kim and Barry should have got professional help for them.

IdasFlowers · 09/08/2022 08:20

I'd forgotten about Hosanna. Does she live too far away to visit or would she have been there but away from the cameras?

Batceanera · 09/08/2022 12:40

Moira should tell Olivia she is upset that her siblings plan was taken over and her dad was invited. She could have rang her dad and said it would be better for just siblings if that is how she felt.

I understand why Kim would feel left out.
Moriah marks important dates by visiting her brothers grave. Why don't Kim and Barry plan something every year. You would think parents would lead this. Kim would not have been left out is she arranged something. Maybe agreeing timings would not make good TV?

Barry was so kind mentioning Kim being left out. She is gaslighting their separation and selling it as 100% his fault.

It has been years and I can understand Ethan wanting to heal a divide. His parents separation have opened the door for his own. He should grow and change. How he goes about it, is very hurtful.

Olivia is rigid and controlling and protects her boundaries based on her horrible experience Kim has convinced herself she has no responsibility to why her older children fell out her her. They are both entrenched and quite similar in that regard

Olivia counts herself as one of the kids. Whilst she is part of the family, she did not grow up as a sibling and so will not see any redeeming qualities in Kim.

What was Lydia changing her sibling nappy at 4? I bet all the kids were expected to help raise their younger siblings.

I can see Ethan living on his own back on the farm.

Hosanna married at 19/20 and moved to Ohio. She doesn't want to be on the show.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 09/08/2022 14:02

Oh they've all seem what a manipulative cow Olivia is FINALLY!!

CovidCrow · 10/08/2022 00:53

Yes finally!! They've had enough of walking on eggshells around her to stop her creating some drama.

My god did Olivia really say she had suffered 'past trauma' at the farm? Trauma? Erm no love, running over and killing your baby is what you call trauma. She really is a self centred control freak isn't she? Making the day about her, what a horrible horrible bitch.

I too can't stand Kim but bloody hell having to go through what she has? Absolutely awful.

I just want Ethan to divorce Olivia and go back to his family. He can forgive his mum and they can all live happily ever after 🤗

Iamdobby63 · 10/08/2022 17:53

Of course what we are watching is a whole group of people who are all as emotionally inept as the next and all these issues would be easily resolved with open discussion. Bloody ridiculous actually.

I didn’t get the impression that Olivia felt Kim should be excluded from the grave site visit and I don’t think she should feel forced to be in her company if she didn’t want to. But I do think Olivia could have handled that better by simply stating or asking Ethan if he minds if she ducks out for that part. To be fair the whole relationship with Kim does all seem to be a sudden turn around.

As for Kim, she needs to just serve the papers rather than bang on about all the ways Barry did her wrong. We get it, it’s all his fault.

They may only be 23 but Ethan and Olivia need to learn they are too old for sulking. Oh and the whole lot of them need a whole heap of counselling 🤣

Batceanera · 10/08/2022 21:36

Their inability to communicate is what the show is about. Olivia was self centered and definitely shat the bad over the memorial. Moriah nailed it in her interview but did not address this with Olivia.

Ethan called Olivia out on her behaviour He was upset she could not put him first, shame it was afterwards and cross. The main difference between Olivia and Kim is that Kim shrugs off her culpability. No one could buy her doe eyed 'i have not idea why anyone could be upset'.

Olivia was totally in the wrong, I understand why she wants to have boundaries with Kim though. Ethan's pivot was understandable in the frame of the memorial and his brother. I can also understand why Olivia felt blindsided with his u -turn. Ethan is the least communicative out of them all.

HibiscusIsland · 12/08/2022 00:16

This article popped up in my news. screenrant.com/welcome-plathville-barry-buff-body-workout-glow-up/amp/
Look at Barry's arms! 😮
Definitely not my cup of tea still though.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 12/08/2022 00:27

I told you he was a DILF!!!