<p>The guy (Kody) creeps me out everytime I look at him.</p>
<p>Umm, sorry, I missed last season or most of it. Can someone please give a very very brief explanation of the “investigation” and why they left Utah so quickly. Thanks!</p>
<p>I have a different question. I do not care how people live and what their preferences, but isn’t it illegal? If so, how is that being on TV? I am very confused, but I cannot watch it anyway, it is way too boring as most stuff on TV anyway, especially after Oprah took over my favorite Discovery Health, I cannot find anything to watch at all, just flipping thu and falling asleep…</p>
<p>Yuh, I suspect that speculating about the back-story, the real personalities, and so forth is much more interesting than the show itself.</p>
<p>I ended up watching last night (what can I say, I got sucked into Long Island Medium, ha ha). I think it’s terrible how so many of the kids are going through a rough patch, and they can’t have any privacy… Turn the cameras off and get them some help! Yikes.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can compare the Duggars to this family at all - the Duggar kids are some of the happiest, most well-behaved kids I have seen on TV, and their family is extremely financially responsible (which has been discussed on many episodes). Only the oldest Duggar boy is married, btw (only one daughter-in-law so far).</p>
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<p>I haven’t gotten a chance to watch this show yet, but according to the Wikipedia article he’s only married to one of the women. The others are just spiritual wives or something like that, which is probably protected legally and if not would probably be hard to prove in court since there’s nothing that actually outlaws one person having intimate relationships with multiple other people.</p>
<p>Thing is, if I met one of these women in the grocery store I would think she was pretty “normal” but then to see their mentality/lifestyle…eek…who would ever know? and WHO would think any of them would be interested in that a-hole Cody!</p>
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<p>That one teen boy seems clinically depressed. I kept yelling at the screen, “take him to a psychiatrist!”</p>
<p>It is interesting that they didn’t seek out an LDS Youth Group. My guess is that the main stream Mormons would get all over the parents’ cases, while folks like the Presbyterians would bend over backwards to appear non-judgmental.</p>
<p>I watched the baby announcement episode before that. Interesting that the teens were not excited. How long before the teens - esp the girls - are totally creeped out by their dad, realizing that all he is doing is sleeping with as may women as he can, in the name of religion?</p>
<p>I saw an episode last year in which the teen daughters were all saying that they wanted to be exclusive wives and not sister wives.</p>
<p>As for the legal issue, he can’t be charged with bigamy because he hasn’t tried to legally marry wives 2-4. He could be charged with adultery in some states, where laws against it are still on the books, but those charges aren’t filed too often any more. And if any of the moms are collecting welfare, as long as he’s paying token child support it’s all legal; welfare would make up the shortfall.</p>
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Yes, I remember that episode too. One girl (I believe Janelles daughter) was very adamant about not wanting the polygamist lifestyle when she grew up.</p>
<p>I think it’s crazy that the moms and dad think the kids should be choosing the polygamist lifestyle… After all the drama that has gone down with the investigation, etc, why would you ever want to live that way? Especially if you saw how hard it was on your mom and family. No way!</p>
<p>S and D of wife #1 in BIG LOVE also felt this way, even wanted out of Mormon Church, as I recall.</p>
<p>Okay…just turned on Dr. Phil and what is on makes Cody not look so bad! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>There is a guy on with 3 wives, twin sisters and their cousin. If that’s not bad enough, there are 24 children living in a 6000 sq. ft. home together. The show just started and I already want to puke.</p>
<p>Now why, if you were under some sort of investigation with the law in one state, and you decide to up and move to Las Vegas (not exactly a quiet secluded hide-out) AND announce on TV where you were moving to? I’m pretty sure Colorado PD has phone service so that maybe they could call the Las Vegas PD? I could think of a million other places to “hide-out” and start over but…Las Vegas?? Not sure if the son is clinically depressed or trying to figure a way out of this loopy domestic situation - writing a tell-all book. And if the “father” wanted to talk to him about how he is feeling, what says “LOVE” like doing that discussion in front of the camera crew right? I feel bad for the nice little Presbyterian minister - couldn’t the wives get on the same page before they wasted the nice guy’s time? Oh, but then how could they fill the hour…hmmm, I think if TLC replays each snip-it over and over and puts on more commercials plugging their other shows, sure you can make an hour. If you peeled back the actual footage without duplications - there is about 15 min.</p>