Way back in the first season, I knew there was something hinky going on with Don’s second two wives. Now it seems they’ve run off together. :eek:
What was the book that Sarah was crying over after she got dumped?
Sarah dumped him, not the other way around. The book was something like “Options Available for Young Mothers”
They certainly went out of their way to imply that Sarah has discovered, or at least thinks, she is pregnant.
Never a dull moment on the Compound :eek:
Oh, were they running off together? I wasn’t sure why they left. I was wondering when they’d pick up the lesbian thread that was implied during that bridge game.
Poor Nicki. She does horrible things, but she really hasn’t been given much choice her whole life. Plus, all this “We must procreate” talk is…well, bizarre. They’re always implying how stretched they are for cash–um, do you think sending that many more kids to college is going to be cheap? Even if they all go in state?
Just to add the obvious…anytime everything appears to be going so good in Bill’s life (as in the scene at Anna’s at the end of this episode), the poop is getting ready to hit the fan.
Well, I would say that the return of Rhonda is certainly poop hitting fan, among other things…
Is it just me, or are the “next week’s episode” teasers much more…TEASING this year? They seem to be cut in a much more dramatic fashion than I remember last year.
Is the subplot involving Bill’s parents meant to be comical? I mean, there is a lot of venom there, but the two of them are so over the top.
And I was wondering about the “Mormon-friendly” casino they’re planning to build on tribal land. I thought that the LDS church disapproved of gambling.
It certainly makes me chuckle. Really looks like they’re going for a homage to/parody of the “Zed’s dead” segment of Pulp Fiction
There was some pretty heavy foreshadowing at the bridge party from the first season that Don’s two younger wives might not be all that interested in Don…
There is also a pretty unsubtle subplot of Heather’s interest in Sarah.
Why was Anna suddenly so okay with everything? Was it because seeing Bill with the baby before was so adorable? I just think I’d be running for the hills if a guy with his three wives AND kids showed up.
Though I did think it was funny when Nicki was like, “Let’s marry Anna and she can have kids,” and Bill’s all, “You can’t treat her like a brood mare.” Uh, that’s not what you’re doing already with your current wives?
Sure, but if you had a casino that was largely free of other taboos like booze and smoking and had plenty of other more wholesome diversions (particularly for the kids), they could probably convince themselves that a little bit of gambling is harmless.
I’m glad to see the Ana storyline is coming to a head. I don’t care how much she loves Bill and Margene; I just can’t suspend my disbelief that she wouldn’t be running away screaming by now.
Wasn’t Ana present when the wives were discussing their child care issues? It seems obvious that they’re going to stick her with raising all those children if she agrees to join them. I really don’t see the appeal to an outsider like her.
Yeah…all the more reason I don’t get why she isn’t running screaming.
And gah, can none of these people see how ridiculous it is to go to a fertility clinic when they already have eight children, and are having trouble providing childcare for said eight?
Some questions…what exactly happened to Rhonda at the end of season 2? I know she was staying with Heather, but then Heather told her mom about the blackmailing. Where did she go then?
Why were Bill and his mom on such bad terms? I know, his mom is always full of issues, but what in particular set them off this time? Sorry, it’s been a while since I watched season 2.
Also, did we ever get an answer on the gender of Selma Green?
Do you guys think that part of the “sending Sarah off to college in another state” is because Amanda Seyfried’s movie career has taken off? I know she’s set to be in the next Notebook-esque movie, called “Dear John.”
Snerk. I’m guessing you’ve never heard the old joke about the Baptist idea of heaven–a place where you can speak to the preacher when you run into him at the liquor store. People can rationalize a whole lot of ways around taboos if they’re so inclined. Especially if they’re only breaking one.
So no, your average Mormon wouldn’t be willing to go to say, Vegas, because of the booze and the skimpily dressed waitresses and all the other reasons people typically go to Vegas. And if they did go to Vegas, they’d be more likely to go to the places with the more kid-friendly attractions because they’d want to bring the whole family. So if you had a place that was clean and bright and full of stuff for the kids to do, and didn’t have booze or immodestly dresses waitresses, or people handing out ads for “escort” services, and that place was only an hour or so from a major Mormon population center…yeah, I think you’d have plenty of business. Especially if you did all the actual gambling with tokens or those little debit-card thingies, because then they could even tell themselves that it’s not really gambling because they’re not even using money.
Well, in all fairness, none of them seem to see it as ridiculous to add a fourth wife to the three they’ve already got fighting like cats in a sack, at a time when the government is vitally interested in anyone who appears to be practicing polygamy.
Nikki said something about her having burned through three more foster homes already, so I assume she wound up in the system somehow. It’s been so long since I’ve seen the last few episodes of last season that I don’t remember if she ran away again or what, but I would guess Heather’s mom responded to the threats against her kid by tossing the poisonous little bitch out of the house. With them unwilling to have her, the state put her in a foster home, where she presumably continued being a poisonous little bitch. After that home couldn’t cope with her any longer, the state found her a new foster home, and so the cycle continues.
Bill relinquished his seat on the UEB, IIRC. Lois sees this as a slap in the face, because her father was the Prophet before Roman. As she sees it, Bill had a chance to reclaim some of the family’s glory and prestige and improve her and Joey’s lot in life, and he tossed it away.
Thanks, CCL. Why did Bill give up the UEB seat?
Man, I’m also wondering now if Lois is going to go all Misery on Frank’s ass. Considering all the reasons she has to be pissed at him…
Also, what was up with that parrot? I guess it’s supposed to be a surrogate baby since Joey and new wife don’t seem to give her anything to do. But the anal stimulation was creepy. I assumed at first that she was…er…sexually stimulating him. Also wonder where she got the two grand for it.
I can see Lois stealing the bird in the very near future. So was her motivation for having Bill buy her legal marriage with Frank money (as his legal heir) or principle? Possibly both?
Better episode this week, I liked the conversation with the fertility expert where he gave up on listening to the “party line” from Nicki and just point blank asked her about the pills.
I don’t have a good feeling about the fate of that bird. I’m rooting for Lois to sell it and collect the $2000.
Anyone else notice the look on Barb’s face in that last scene? Seemed like Barb wasn’t too keen on Anna anymore, now that she knows she’s going to be OK.
My wife and my only friend who watches the show both said the same thing.
You know, it seems to me there could be a really groundbreaking paternity/custody case coming up. The thing is, everybody’s oh-so-scared about being outed as polygamists, but please–it’s only a social stigma! Yes, the “cults” are getting rounded up but the prosecutions are for arms violations or Mann Act violations or incest or statutory rape or whatever. Thing is, I’d say that both Bill and Don are immune from any legal repercussions whatsoever. They, and their wives, are all consenting non-related adults who have a somewhat unusual but in no way illegal lifestyle. They can’t even be prosecuted for bigamy, since they ALL know only the first marriage is legal and nobody’s being deceived about their marital status and rights. Nobody could possibly prove any objective harm to their kids and the worst that would happen would be social ostracism, which I’ll grant in Utah would probably be pretty severe. Don was all upset that he has no rights to his kids but he does–all he has to do is file a suit for custody, have a DNA test and Bob’s your uncle. Then it gets to be a whole “Who’s worse as a parent, the polygamist couple or the lesbians?” which would be a laff riot in UT… Talk about your fox in the henhouse!
I thought that Indian guy with the land looked familiar. It took me a few moments to recognize him, Robert Beltran, Commander Chakotay from Star Trek Voyager.
On a more serious level what do the women get from the life style as portrayed on the show? I don’t understand the appeal of being breeding stock for something so abstract as Bill’s place the Celestial Kingdom.