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Anonymous wrote:Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

I completely agree with this. I think it’s just people and liberal shows hating on born again Christians mostly.

Why did she leave her abusive spouse and go to a person that hit her mom? Do you think sober people don’t hit people? Do you think Christians don’t abuse people?

I kept waiting for that part of the show -- where her dad who seemed kind and stable started being abusive towards his second wife -- but it never happened. The abuse happened in the past, when he was married to a woman with bipolar disorder, it seems? And when he was drinking. He seemed to have cleaned up his act and had a loving, stable home with a nice wife and two kids.

She was in a desperate situation and had a stable home available to her. She should have stayed there until she got on her feet. Her dad wasn't abusive towards his current wife, kids, or grandkids. Under the circumstances it was the best option for her.

Anonymous wrote:I found Andie McDowell to be really overacting and I'm wondering if she was determined to show that she can really act, after years of people calling her "wooden." I actually never thought she was a wooden actress, just soft-spoken and quiet. The character of Alex's mother is just too much. We get it - she is mentally ill.

I like Margaret Qualley, but her nasally voice is annoying.

But she does well to demonstrate that a mature adult with an illness is not a safe option for child care or really anything that requires commitment and dependability.

This show is very well done. Difficult to watch but very good.

I found Andie McDowell to be really overacting and I'm wondering if she was determined to show that she can really act, after years of people calling her "wooden." I actually never thought she was a wooden actress, just soft-spoken and quiet. The character of Alex's mother is just too much. We get it - she is mentally ill.

I like Margaret Qualley, but her nasally voice is annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m wondering why on earth she couldn’t have tried getting a job at a fast food place, or perhaps the Dollar Store, or a grocery store. Surely there was something else she could have tried before settling for the absolute worst possible scenario? That’s the only part I’m having a hard time with. It just didn’t make any sense - paying for the uniform, supplies, toll and gas to get there, hauling the vacuum around with her… could she have even *tried* McDonalds, etc. first?

Because those places make you wait weeks for your first paycheck and she didn't have enough money to feed her kid until then. So, she went some place willing to pay day by day.

Yeah the point was she needed the money as well as the pay stub ASAP for the benefits she wanted access to.

Plenty of fast food places have signs up saying, "Start today, get paid today," or things along those lines. It seems like she took the very worst job possible without even seeing what else was available.

I don’t think it’s set in the incredibly unusual labor market of post pandemic 2021. Usually you don’t instantly get paychecks. And jobs want some experience/skills, even fast food.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m wondering why on earth she couldn’t have tried getting a job at a fast food place, or perhaps the Dollar Store, or a grocery store. Surely there was something else she could have tried before settling for the absolute worst possible scenario? That’s the only part I’m having a hard time with. It just didn’t make any sense - paying for the uniform, supplies, toll and gas to get there, hauling the vacuum around with her… could she have even *tried* McDonalds, etc. first?

Because those places make you wait weeks for your first paycheck and she didn't have enough money to feed her kid until then. So, she went some place willing to pay day by day.

Yeah the point was she needed the money as well as the pay stub ASAP for the benefits she wanted access to.

Plenty of fast food places have signs up saying, "Start today, get paid today," or things along those lines. It seems like she took the very worst job possible without even seeing what else was available.

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Anonymous wrote:Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

I completely agree with this. I think it’s just people and liberal shows hating on born again Christians mostly.

Why did she leave her abusive spouse and go to a person that hit her mom? Do you think sober people don’t hit people? Do you think Christians don’t abuse people?

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Anonymous wrote:Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

I completely agree with this. I think it’s just people and liberal shows hating on born again Christians mostly.

I agree with this and I am a lefty, feminist, atheist. There was stability there. The child was young, you could shape their values differently down the line, but she was in dire straits and this was a place to land for a bit.

I do think it kind of goes with the theme though; she's not equipped to do this, had a kid too young, is repeating family patters across generations, and is so just stumbling around like a lot of aimless 25 year olds who can't figure out their lives. Her stakes are just so much higher with a kid in tow.

Still watching and loving it! I’m also a single mom and found her desperation so relatable.

I watched the entire thing. Thought it was excellent. Andie MacDowell is annoying, but that is the intent. It is stressful to watch, but important to watch to understand what a lot of people have to deal with.

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Anonymous wrote:Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

I completely agree with this. I think it’s just people and liberal shows hating on born again Christians mostly.

Whyyyy didn’t she go with her dad? She has quite a few people trying to help her out- dad, Nate, Regina.

Very stressful to watch. Two wrong turns and this could have been me. I’m from the same place and SES.

Anonymous wrote:Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

I completely agree with this. I think it’s just people and liberal shows hating on born again Christians mostly.

Anonymous wrote:Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

^^^ who TF thinks like this?

Her dad was relatively stable and offered her a clean, safe place to stay, with backup care for Maddy when she was sick. I kept waiting for there to be strings attached or for him to be a monster. But her only reason for moving out was a realization that YEARS PAST when he was an alcoholic, he hit her mother. He's now sober, a Christian, and keeps on her ex boyfriend to get him to go to AA meetings. I think she was crazy for turning down his help. She should have done almost anything to stay with him and his wife who also seemed kind and stable.

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Anonymous wrote:Just finished the episode with the baby daddy on the couch and I was so mad I was yelling at the tv.

One thing that distracted me is that she started wearing $150-$200 Blundstone boots.

When I was on vacation in Seattle I noticed homeless people wearing North Face and Columbia jackets. DD pointed out to me that I work and we can't afford North Face - how were the homeless people getting them. So we brought that up to a friendly waitress - she said people donate their old ones to homeless shelters, Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc. So Alex wearing fancy boots shouldnt' distract you. Just like you shouldn't be angry my DD wore a cashmere sweater that was in a bag of sample clothes from a friend of mine who worked at the Gap while I was on welfare and food stamps.

The amount of Gonzaga Hs gear I see on the homeless. 😂