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crochetmonkey74 · 13/01/2022 15:51

Is anyone watching? No one I know in real life watches so I have no one to talk about it with- I'm on the current series on TLC when Kody is going all crazy paranoid about Covid

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Iamdobby63 · 14/01/2022 10:13

Yes I’m watching. I started series one years thinking maybe it’s not so bad sharing your husband, I mean you get the bed to yourself several days of he week, you get to share the good and also the deeply annoying aspects of your husband. Lol. This opinion unraveled further in following series and having rewatched series one during lockdown I realised just how manipulative Kody is and has always been.

As for this last series I think he’s simply throwing his toys out the pram because other won’t do as he says so they can get the slim pickings on their husband when he can drag himself away from Robyn and her ‘perfect, compliant children. Robyn and her children are all emotional wrecks and easy to be manipulated by Kody. Having said that, I could have slapped Robyn this week when she berated Christine and Janelle for choosing their children over Robyn!

Metallicalover · 14/01/2022 10:21

I'm ashamed to say I've watched it from the beginning! What a tool Kody is! Xxxx

VelvetThunder · 14/01/2022 10:24

This has been my latest binge watch! I'm not yet caught up, but from following the subreddits, I know what's happening this season.
Kody has got worse and more angry as the seasons have progressed. But Robyn has always been manipulative too!

Tilly4321 · 14/01/2022 10:25

I’ve watched it for a long time, too - to my shame! It’s a ridiculous programme and the family are all essentially daft / deluding themselves. There is very little talk now of the religion - in earlier shows, they prayed together. Robyn is terrified of her children getting Covid, so I suspect she has brought in the strict rules. Kody is a narcissistic idiot! Meri needs a good slap (sorry, but she does). I quite like Christine and Janelle, but they would surely have had happier lives, living outside of plural marriage.

Pearlpink · 14/01/2022 10:26

I'm an avid watcher. I'm glad Christine has finally left him!

Distant01 · 14/01/2022 10:31

Oh, I didn't know it was back on. I watched it too. There was also one I watched called Escaping polygamy.

SeriousNotions · 14/01/2022 10:31

This is my absolute guilty pleasure.
I’m bang up to date, watching really bad quality YouTube on monday mornings after it’s aired in the states.
I really think kody has mental health issues relating to control and covid. The fact that Robyn has a nanny coming to the house daily but kodys own children can’t visit is unbelievable.
It’s like watching a car crash.
I’m betting that Janelle leave’s next.

BrieAndChilli · 14/01/2022 10:34

ive watched from the beginning and DH takes the mick out of me - but i continue to watch it as its car crash TV and Kody has shown what a twat he really is!
He's on about chucking his own sons out at 18 yet Robyn has 2 kids that are over 18 and he hasn't mentioned anything about them having to leave the nest.
I did like the bit this week when janelles kids said they would rather be with Christine and her kids than thier dad!!

Iamdobby63 · 14/01/2022 13:10

I wonder if Kody is now less cruel to Meri now she has proven to be ‘loyal’ to him.

I would like to see Janelle leave but I feel this quite suits her, she has a family and a man to help out (pre covid) but isn’t really interested in the romantic side. Just an opinion.

So glad Christine left, my god the way Kody treated her and their daughter prior to major surgery was disgusting, just didn’t want to be away from Robyn that long.

Who else cheered when Janelle told him to F off in last weeks? did not know she had that in her. 🤣

Justcantdeal · 14/01/2022 13:18

Watched it from the start and I've finished the last season.

Robyn has really divided the family. Can't stand her. I feel sorry for the other wives as she is definately Kody's favourite.

I'm happy Christine left him as she was never truly happy once Robyn came on the scene. Janelle will probably be next to leave him. She's always been independant. Her children are mostly grown and she also has two grandchildren.

For some one reason Meri just keeps on hanging onto Kody even though he has told her he is not interested in a sexual relationship ship with her.

BigPlanes · 14/01/2022 13:23

Ohhh glad there are others out there who watch too. There’s a few Facebook pages you can watch it on a Monday too.

Christine’s insta had a statement about leaving a while ago, I’m hoping it’s going to come up in future episodes.

When Janelle told him to fuck off I was like yeeeeesssssss.

It’s totally awful car crash telly but been watching for years. He’s just awful now, age really doesn’t make him wiser.

forrestgreen · 14/01/2022 13:29

I don't have Bt any more so thought I couldn't watch it. How do I watch it on Facebook please

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crochetmonkey74 · 14/01/2022 13:42

@Iamdobby63

Yes I’m watching. I started series one years thinking maybe it’s not so bad sharing your husband, I mean you get the bed to yourself several days of he week, you get to share the good and also the deeply annoying aspects of your husband. Lol. This opinion unraveled further in following series and having rewatched series one during lockdown I realised just how manipulative Kody is and has always been.

As for this last series I think he’s simply throwing his toys out the pram because other won’t do as he says so they can get the slim pickings on their husband when he can drag himself away from Robyn and her ‘perfect, compliant children. Robyn and her children are all emotional wrecks and easy to be manipulated by Kody. Having said that, I could have slapped Robyn this week when she berated Christine and Janelle for choosing their children over Robyn!

I have watched since the start and found the first few series interesting and the women seemed to have power etc but the last few series they all seem to be so so miserable!

I have mixed feelings about Robyn (I know she is a real person so don't want to be too harsh)
At first, I felt very sorry for her as she seemed a bit removed from the others, but she again has just got more and more sad and miserable looking. She has a permanent frown now.

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crochetmonkey74 · 14/01/2022 13:43

@Metallicalover

I'm ashamed to say I've watched it from the beginning! What a tool Kody is! Xxxx
Me too!
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crochetmonkey74 · 14/01/2022 13:44

Tilly
I like Christine and Janelle is probably my favourite- Christine has got better as her confidence has grown

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BalladOfBarryAndFreda · 14/01/2022 13:46

I haven’t seen the latest series or 2 but have caught a fair few of the older eps. Kody’s ego is quite the thing.

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crochetmonkey74 · 14/01/2022 13:50

I agree with Kody being nasty- in earlier seasons I didn't think this as much but occasionally you see flashes of anger or strangeness on his face- like he barely controls himself-

once, they were having a photoshoot and he got hot and angry and he started making these uncontrolled grimaces and then in the very latest episode, he says he wishes everyone is happy and he has this rictus grin and seems creepy and controlling and just unhinged.

My theory is that when there were lots of little kids, everyone was distracted with lots to do- now that they are all adults they realise they don't actually get on. Also, as the wives have got older and more confident - they are less enamoured with Kody.

I've watched a few polygamy shows and Kody is by far the most objectively attractive and charismatic man I've seen so I think he was probably a 'big deal' at his church so the women may have felt 'lucky' to get him.

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Tilly4321 · 14/01/2022 13:52

Kody’s ego is quite the thing. It certainly is! And it looks as if he’s still managing to get his silly hair permed in spite of all the Covid rules.
I have to say, although we only see a little of them, the older children seem to be growing up as sensible adults, considering their unusual upbringing.

VelvetThunder · 14/01/2022 13:55

I agree that the women have definitely got more confident. Once they moved to Vegas and got their own homes, they realised that actually they are more independent than they thought. They realised that they could live by themselves and didn't need Kody as much.
The kids have now grown too and the older boys are realising what their dad is actually like.
Ha, yes Kodys meltdown at the photos 'look down the lense'
I'm so glad Christine finally left! And proud of Janelle finally sticking up for herself more and telling Kody to fuck off. Hopefully she too will distance herself more.

TrivialSoul · 14/01/2022 14:00

I used to like Kody, he seemed to be a hands on dad and worked hard for his family. Now I just think that he is a selfish creep. He has created all these rules so that he can stay just with Robyn. His older children are right to choose to live the way they see fit and not to pander to his ridiculous rules.

Iamdobby63 · 14/01/2022 14:04

Anyone have any insight as to what Kody was referring to during a (particularly cruel) therapy session with Meri where he states some thing along the lines that she deceived him into marrying him, can’t remember the exact words?

I get the impression that she can be prickly and I believe she fell out with Maddie when they worked together but Kody seemed particularly angry at her during that time. This was last season or the one before.

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crochetmonkey74 · 14/01/2022 14:16

@Iamdobby63

Anyone have any insight as to what Kody was referring to during a (particularly cruel) therapy session with Meri where he states some thing along the lines that she deceived him into marrying him, can’t remember the exact words?

I get the impression that she can be prickly and I believe she fell out with Maddie when they worked together but Kody seemed particularly angry at her during that time. This was last season or the one before.

Yes I remember this - I found the therapy sessions episodes really compelling. I took him to mean that she was initially very keen and positive about plural marriage, but then was very negative and prickly with each new wife and caused issues but it could have been about something else- I swing between feeling really sorry for Meri and then finding her so disingenuous and prickly- she also bears a grudge. Mind you, the other episode Janell was saying about Meri was difficult about people having access through her bit of the house as if it was unreasonable and when they showed it I thought Meri was right- I would have hated everyone coming through all the time!
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Iamdobby63 · 14/01/2022 14:30

@crochetmonkey74 You be right, he could have meant that. I wish they had expanded on that.

I swing on Meri as well, I guess I cut her some slack as I imagine it would have been so difficult watching the others enjoying multiple babies. Absolutely agree with the access through her house, who on earth would want that! I feel she over played the victim on the cat fishing episode and perhaps that’s why Kody has been so angry with her, I mean she did have this emotional affair and if that person had been genuine would probably have progressed.

I really am too over invested in this 🤣

WakeUpLockie · 14/01/2022 14:36

I don’t watch but watch round up type videos on YouTube (can’t think of the word!!) and follow them all on social media. Just LOVE Christine, always my fave, and really hope Janelle follows her lead.

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crochetmonkey74 · 14/01/2022 14:39

I'm fascinated by their finances too - how do they afford it all?

Sometimes I think it does look fun to have such a big family - especially on the Christmas morning episodes but I have a friend with a really large family (she is one of 9) and I know the reality is much more annoying- never getting a clear reply on the family whatsapp, everything takes ages to organise etc

I am also way too invested in this programme!

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