The Blended Bunch on TLC

[Anonymous]

Uncle Quinn must have googled what it is to be a TLC reality shizz stirrer. I think he forgets, with his crying jags every episode, that it’s not his show! But, he obviously loves his sister and the kids.

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The oldest girl, Emma is struggling with the situation. I hope that is the case and not that she is just plain mean. She is rude with Harper, the cute little Shemwell girl. But on the latest episode she grabbed her blood sister’s arm so she would listen to her. Someone needs to figure it out before she is completely gone. She’s acting like a brat.

[Anonymous]

Uncle Quinn needs to back off. Unless he has been through this in his own marriage, he has no idea what he would do in this situation. I don’t like him much!

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Anonymous wrote:The oldest girl, Emma is struggling with the situation. I hope that is the case and not that she is just plain mean. She is rude with Harper, the cute little Shemwell girl. But on the latest episode she grabbed her blood sister’s arm so she would listen to her. Someone needs to figure it out before she is completely gone. She’s acting like a brat.

Think about what she is going through. Her mother is a horrific twat who kept having children knowing they had a 50% chance to die. Yes die of cancer. And the stepfather is awful controlling nasty yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone watching this? Show about a widow/widower who married one another very quickly (~1-2 years?) after their respective spouses passed and have a combined 11 children (7 for her, 4 for him). Just saw the first episode and it makes me so uncomfortable - the children (particularly the woman's older ones) seem so unhappy and resentful being pushed into this combined family. The house seems chaotic and I feel for the children who are still mourning their lost mom/dad. Anyone else?

Me. The whole situation is yucky, for lack of a better word.

He wanted a babysitter, she's a loon, those poor children. Given she had 7 knowing they could get dad's genetic disorder, shame on her.

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[Anonymous]

This show made me sick last night.

Dad in the grocery store with his kids discussing his dead wife's pregnancy. Really??? Who does that?

Both parents are crazy, horrible, and plain old creepy.

[Anonymous]

For some reason I’ve been watching this show every week. The thing that sticks out the most, other than Quinn needing to look up the definition of boundaries, is that Spencer is nowhere near ready at this point in his grief to even go on a date, nonetheless be married to somebody else. I can’t even imagine the immense guilt he must have; he breaks down every episode talking about his first wife. There is no way his marriage to Erica is going to last.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I watched it and it made me sad. And what you posted isn't even the worst of it. The widow's dead husband had an inherited disorder that meant he would almost certainly develop cancer (not skin cancer) and die before age 40. They had a 50-50 chance of passing that disorder on, but chose to have 7 children, 3 of whom have it.

You might want to come on over to the Primetimer forums and chat with us about the show: https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/116792-the-blended-bunch/?do=getNewComment

WTF!!! No wonder they haven't shared that info on the show. Those poor children! Read that there is a 13% chance for glioblastoma and an almost 100% chance the women will get breast cancer, most likely before they are 40. insane to keep having kids knowing this. and it seems they knew before they even STARTED having kids.

And the oldest girl has had a malignant brain tumor since she was two and she kept having more children! The man she remarried ran a red light that resulted in the accident that killed his wife.

Just looked it up. Left turn across oncoming traffic while his light was red, and a tractor-trailer t-boned their car, right here in Virginia. Wow.

And as for the new couple: "They started dating in December of 2018 and got married six weeks later in January 2019." That seems a responsible thing to do when 11 children are involved. /s

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I really feel for Emma. I don’t think they should force the adoption or the name change on her.

And when Erica said “you never know what might happen in the future” regarding a potential pregnancy, my jaw dropped. It’s not all about you, woman. Your kids are really struggling and they are already more than you can handle.

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the mom skateboarding with no helmet ...ugh

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Ok. let me introduce myself. I am quite familiar with the area the deadly van crash was in Va. My mom and dad owned a farm out by there and I would visit them taking that route ( from Northern Neck of Va ). It is mostly large farm land out there and not busy really ( state route ). I cant imagine how Spencer would not stop at a red light . Its not like other areas of Va where you have to make it thru a light or wait 3 min for the next. ALSO--I found it ODD that the way Spencer described the day of Aimee's death, sounded like an episode of Dateline. : I took the day off, we slept late, everyone was having a good time, we went for ice cream later..." just sounded like it was tooo fairy Tale.


Also, why does their home in Utah look like an apt building ?

why does the mom whip that huge van around the kids at a speed that is unsafe while they are on the sidewalk...very easy for one of them to run out in front of the van.

[Anonymous]

Did the mom even begin to think if her kid got cancer she would be living at the hospital for days on end. who is going to watch the other children ? and yes, you always worry a child can have an accident or illness when you have them...but she KNEW it was a death sentence and still had kids...Thats like saying " well, my kids cant swim but Im gonna home school them on a boat trip around the world "..why put them in that predicament ? cps needs to be involved...I am surprised the hospital did not teach her the dangers of having more kids. I think one day they all will drive off a cliff someplace in Ca and kill them all because their dream life did not work out

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Anonymous wrote:Did the mom even begin to think if her kid got cancer she would be living at the hospital for days on end. who is going to watch the other children ? and yes, you always worry a child can have an accident or illness when you have them...but she KNEW it was a death sentence and still had kids...Thats like saying " well, my kids cant swim but Im gonna home school them on a boat trip around the world "..why put them in that predicament ? cps needs to be involved...I am surprised the hospital did not teach her the dangers of having more kids. I think one day they all will drive off a cliff someplace in Ca and kill them all because their dream life did not work out

That’s the thing they brought up a couple episodes ago. They knew the dangers of their children inheriting the gene even before they had children. Her husband inherited it from his mother. The fact that they had their first child, who was tested for the gene and tested positive, and then went on to have so many more freaking children after that, is completely reckless and horrible. Her party line was that she just trusted God not to make her kids sick and they would get through it. Yet, here she is having lost her husband and father of her children and now dealing with four of her kids who will almost 100% get cancer in their lifetimes. What they could have done is IVF and an egg retrieval with embryo testing where they could have chosen only embryos that did not have the gene included. Then they could’ve had their millions of kids who would not face nearly certain premature death. She seems like a straight up psycho to me. She is laser focused on Spencer and family 2.0 and doesn’t seem to give her first husband much thought or discussion. Maybe that’s her way of handling grief, but when I watch, she seems totally obsessed with him, and, I don’t know, between him crying about his first wife every episode and some of the ways he looks at Erica, I think he might have some buyers remorse.

[Anonymous]

why did Spencer tell the older girl to teach her sister to ride a bike with no training wheels. She told him she did not feel comfortable with it. He replied as long as she tried he would not hold it against her that the little girl would not learn...Then, after a few hours, the training is a bust and Spencer begins to dump on the older girl for not teaching her. SHE TRIED. wow.

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Anonymous wrote:The oldest girl, Emma is struggling with the situation. I hope that is the case and not that she is just plain mean. She is rude with Harper, the cute little Shemwell girl. But on the latest episode she grabbed her blood sister’s arm so she would listen to her. Someone needs to figure it out before she is completely gone. She’s acting like a brat.

Think about what she is going through. Her mother is a horrific twat who kept having children knowing they had a 50% chance to die. Yes die of cancer. And the stepfather is awful controlling nasty yuck.

And doesn't Emma have a brain tumor that was diagnosed when she was a toddler, but hasn't grown since? It's a wonder she's not homicidal.