Re-Watching from 20-35 yo and funny/insightful takeaways after growing a whole lot.
I am now on season 6 and have had a lot of thoughts since but wow. Wild the differences in opinion on the women and situations. It really makes you realize how different you are and how much you can change. Another thing is my realization of the amount of change that happens to them appearance wise and how little I knew as this was coming at me when watching season by season. It makes me sad to think about my young self seeing all of this unrealistic change happening in front of me and not realizing the impossibility of beauty standards that I was trying to live up to. I now find it less and less attractive and concerning to see the amount they change themselves. It ALSO makes me wonder about their children and the way they may end up feeling about themselves… I should note that I cannot afford to do the things they do and the temptation I would likely have to do the same things but it feels good standing on my high horse about that as a broke person ha. I also am completely removed from social media, this being the only platform I’ll use to search for things ha, which has allowed me to reevaluate my appearance goals ha.
The hardest person to deal with is freaking Erika. She is so cool and measured at first and now to know what was happening. Ugh, how to marry the two people? At the very least, I definitely didn’t have an appreciation for the amount of times people came for her and she stayed measured and very calm compared to so many women in past seasons but now I know she has likely been accomplice in her husbands dealings. Damn, saying that feels so bad and dangerous because I am passionate about reasonable doubt and haven’t looked into it but also she seems too smart. Anyways, this is one example of the train of thought and thinking about myself watching it the different times… idk that there is anyone else who can get this introspective watching reality TV but turns out I can ha.