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Sister Wives season premiere episode of the nineteenth season has been anxiously anticipated by followers for almost a yr.
Lots has occurred since we final noticed the Brown household graced our TVs. Relationships have fallen aside. New infants had been born.
Yet sadly, the most important story to make headlines for the reason that final time the present was on the air was the dying of Garrison Brown, one among Janelle and Kody’s older sons.
Obviously, the large query for followers after his passing was how the present would deal with such a fragile topic. Would they present footage of the household grieving? Would the cameras roll on the funeral.
Now that the episode has aired, we lastly have some solutions
‘Sister Wives’ Season 19 Premiere Recap: A House Divided Cannot Stand
A home divided can’t stand. That is the title of the season premiere episode, establishing the actual stress between all members of the Brown household.
Kody is really on the outs with each single one among his former wives – and his marriage to Robyn isn’t trying to nice both.
Season 19 picks up per week after the finale of season 18. That is to say, that it began filming in late 2022.
This is vital to appreciate, as a result of give the soar backwards in time, it appeared unlikely that the episode would delve into Garrison’s passing.
Except it did, in a way of talking.
Before the episode started, a message from the producers was shared, explaining the timeline of the present. After explaining that these episodes had been filmed earlier than his passing, they shared their condolences, including that Garrison was “significantly beloved and deeply missed.”
And with that, it was on with the present.
Kody & Robyn Are “Struggling” in Their Monogamous Marriage
One week after Kody lastly ended issues with Meri formally, as seen within the season finale of season 18, he and his remaining partner Robyn go to Coyote Pass.
They look out on the huge piece of land which was meant to be the situation for his or her household compound. But the household is now not collectively. Christine explains that she now not has a stake in Coyote Pass and has moved on fully. Kody feels assured that Janelle and Meri will now do the identical.
“This was our dream as a household,” he says to Robyn. “But we’re not one massive blissful household anymore. We’re simply individuals who personal property.”
But Robyn’s clinging to hope. She says she hopes for “therapeutic,” significantly with Janelle, because the Meri cut up is simply too recent and Christine refuses to speak to Kody.
As the episode continues, it’s clear that being the final lady standing at Kody’s aspect is taking a toll on Robyn.
“We’re most likely doing the worst we’ve ever been doing in our marriage. It’s been powerful,” Robyn explains, after Kody admits they’re struggling.
“He doesn’t know the best way to blame: himself or one of many different wives.”
Janelle Takes A Stand For Her Kids, Including Garrison
When viewers examine in on Janelle, she appears to be in place. Her life appears full, attributable to her youngsters and her friendship with Christine.
However, that doesn’t imply she nonetheless doesn’t resent Kody for all of the hell she says he put her by way of – and extra importantly, her youngsters by way of.
“He wouldn’t transfer heaven and earth to repair it,” Janelle explains about Kody and his relationship with their youngsters, which incorporates poor Garrison, in addition to Logan, Gabe, Savannah, Hunter and Madison.
Speaking of Maddie, she reveals that she and her household want to make a change, and what’s extra, there’s discuss of Janelle going with them!
“We’re simply going to take a look at property in Montana,” Maddie tells a number of of the older Brown household children. “Property to construct on.”
In her confessional, Christine shares her delight by the information and what that would imply for Janelle. “I do know that’s the key,” she says in her interview. “And what’s extra, Janelle’s speaking about presumably transferring with them.”
Janelle admits that she doesn’t really feel tied to Arizona following her cut up from Kody. “Flagstaff now not feels everlasting and if I had another choice, I might most likely take it.”
When the producers fill him in, Kody will get indignant.
“I received’t discuss her,” Kody says on daughter Maddie Therefore, it’s left to Janelle to elucidate that their daughter has reduce off contact together with her father and Robyn as a result of “they can’t decide to being a constant presence in her life.”
That’s when Kody goes on the assault
“They know that I undergo from FOMO about my household, concern of lacking out, OK?” he says in a confessional interview. “So something they’ll try this excludes me is a punishment to me.”
Yep… that’s why they’re doing it… sigh.
The Baby Shower Showdown
At one level, Kody claims that he’s in a “darkish place,” particularly as a result of he seems like Christine and Janelle “detest” him and have “pitted his children” towards him as punishment.
It’s a tough tablet to swallow, contemplating that almost all of the episode takes place at Mykelti’s child sprinkle for twins – a household occasion she’s particularly invited Kody and Robyn too regardless of their ongoing feud together with her mother, Christine.
There’s numerous anticipation forward of the party. Both sides confess they’re “nervous” as they haven’t seen one another in over a yr.
Mykelti calls the state of the household “heartbreaking,” but when she hoped that having her dad and mom in the identical room would change issues, she’s sadly very fallacious.
The party footage is extremely awkward, with Christine staying as far-off as attainable from Robyn and Kody. At one level, poor Mykelti is actually the one factor standing between her dad and mom, till Christine makes a transfer to take away herself from the room.
It’s uncomfy to look at, to say the least.
Meri, Meri, Not So Contrary In The Season Premiere
Someone very absent from all of those storylines is Meri, Kody’s first spouse however final ex-wife.
Despite all the pieces that’s occurring, it seems that Janelle and Christine don’t find out about Meri’s cut up from Kody.
And nobody is conscious of the steps Meri is keen to take subsequent.
Meri travels out to Las Vegas, the Brown household homestead for years, to go to her buddy Brandi. She reveals that she’s prepared to maneuver ahead with having her non secular marriage terminated.
Kody has apparently stated some extremely hurtful issues within the time since we’ve final noticed them, like that he wouldn’t “ court docket or date” Meri now. He additionally apparently informed Meri that he by no means “beloved her” and “needed to marry her”, which is not sensible to Meri
“When a single younger man meets a single lady, why would he select to marry her and pressure love for her when he didn’t love her?” she muses in her confessional.
Meri explains to Brandi that she has numerous issues to determine now, like the place she’s going to stay and the way she’s going to maneuver on together with her life. She begins to get weepy eager about all of the “recollections” she’ll now have to let go.
“This just isn’t one thing to have a good time,” Meri admits, earlier than she lays into Kody additional.
The girls joke about him marrying extra girls, so he can sustain the polygamy way of life. But, in accordance with Meri, that’s not what Kody desires anymore.
“Polygamy isn’t truthful to girls,” Meri says Kody informed her – a reasonably stunning assertion from a person who spent 30+ years in a plural marriage.
But whether or not he really believes that is still to be seen as that’s the place the episode ends.
