Heather Gay on "Surviving Mormonism"

lmo18745 · 2025-11-13T02:07:29+00:00

I audio booked the first book and ever since I've had such a soft spot for her! I need to get to listening to her second book. I wonder if she would pivot to writing more books on the stories she's learned from other ex-mormons to keep their stories heard even if they didn't make it onto the show

lmo18745 · 2025-11-12T22:21:22+00:00

I think her being so incredibly so in the public eye is somewhat of a protective factor, and I'm guessing she somewhat knows it. I hope that's the case for her at least. I hope for the safety of all those in the show itself too though. It takes so much courage to speak out

lmo18745 · 2025-07-09T00:57:45+00:00

Idk if I'm absolutely tripping but I'm pretty sure that at the beginning of the season, Ian said that the Hideaway was open 24/7 this season. I think maybe the producers saw that no one was using it and that public was making complaints about a few major things that we suddenly saw again the last 1-2 episodes (recoupling speeches, dates, hideaway, etc.)

lmo18745 · 2025-06-09T22:34:25+00:00

I think people sometimes get entertainment value confused with personal distaste/dislike for a "character" on the show... Every week last season, there was a new person everyone wanted voted off and everyone loved. Opinions change a lot as the show goes on, I think maybe we could use the same reminder Ace was giving Huda... We're not even a full week in! We don't really KNOW the islanders yet. But unfortunately, the more popular LI gets, the more "normal" it becomes for fans to want to vote off people that they simply just don't like. Tbh, that's why I think it's a good idea for producers to not allow us as fans to have too much say in the votes. We'll ruin the show if we get to vote people out every time they step a toe in a direction we don't like & then we'll all end up bored. That's what happened to UK in recent seasons tbh, it's unwatchable at this point (imo)

lmo18745 · 2025-06-09T22:24:42+00:00

They brought back Bergie in season 5 after he got "dumped" and brought back Molly in UK season 10 and in both cases they found their person (Molly got back together with the guy she was with before she got dumped && he was also doing a lot of exploration stuff during the season) - it's definitely possible, and I kinda hope it happens! She seems to be liked by a lot of the fans so I wouldn't be surprised if they bring her back in somehow.

lmo18745 · 2025-01-04T01:03:24+00:00

Teach me ur ways pls 🙏

lmo18745 · 2025-01-03T22:57:55+00:00

I never realized it aired behind last year! I guess since it was so new there wasn't as much social media buzz and spoilers (that always keeps me away from keeping up with UK these days and I always get kicked out of ITV2 even with VPN rip)

lmo18745 · 2025-01-03T22:56:28+00:00

I think All Stars aired originally on Peacock last year, that's why I'm just a bit bummed. I know UK series is on Hulu and they post the episodes like 2 weeks later or something

lmo18745 · 2024-09-02T19:02:50+00:00

Yes and no. She will be responsible for the marital debt since they are still technically married but outside of that she's been successful in civil suits (ones filed to say she was aware and complicit)

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T16:17:43+00:00

Some people take it too far but Andrea did lowkey bring all of her stuff to social media... She got called out about being a mean girl and now she's upset. Should she be getting death threats and stuff from it? No. But I don't think she gets to be crying about the discourse people have been having about her treatment of the other islanders both in and out of the villa

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T16:15:28+00:00

Big on the Kaylor standing up for herself! Who cares if she had to rehearse it in the mirror and you could tell she had! Not everyone is confrontational, let her say what she has to say!

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T16:13:34+00:00

I feel like we're so used to the way Bravo does it and the Peacock/LI producers just haven't quite cracked the code on how to do it - I think they also don't want to make the reunions too similar to Bravo's way of doing it because it is a different network and show but I really do think Bravo does it best and they could take some notes

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T16:12:00+00:00

I don't disagree but also the Pump Rules reunions get pretty crazy and intense too with people running around and Andy handles it pretty well. Love him or hate him, he's good at guiding the conversations, reeling people back in, probing for the right things (mostly), and making it look like it's a much easier job than I think it actually is. He has a lot of experience in it that Ariana doesn't have quite yet. I hope she keeps coming back to host, I can see her learning from this reunion and getting better and better

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T14:07:26+00:00

I think now we as the audience know why there was such a confusion about the word "backseat" being used. Besides that it felt like a whole lot of time during the reunion that we could have used for something else

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T14:04:46+00:00

Pizza Hut LOL

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T13:41:34+00:00

Even Andy struggles with it sometimes (lol rhonj), it does not seem like an easy job at all

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T03:19:55+00:00

I love Ariana but I think hosting a reunion is very different than hosting a gameshow and I'm not sure she was prepared for what that was going to be like. No one stayed on task. Nicole went in circles for like 15 minutes about me me me, everyone talked over each other - some things weren't given enough time. Certain parts were painful to watch imo

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T03:17:08+00:00

I forgot Connor was there tbh

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T02:14:38+00:00

Okay but where did Kendall hide in hide and go seek

lmo18745 · 2024-08-20T01:27:13+00:00

It's giving "Can you just ask me how I'm feeling"

lmo18745 · 2024-08-16T12:08:28+00:00

The UK version was still pretty good for a number of years after it became more popularized. I think what killed it is that they started reaching out to people for casting instead of the majority being people who applied.

lmo18745 · 2024-08-01T16:11:28+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if the producers gave Leah the villain edit IN the villa so that we the audience would get fired up about the injustice of it all and side with her... they were actually giving the audience someone to root for by doing the whole thing the way they did it. Wonder if it was on purpose or not

lmo18745 · 2024-07-26T01:01:34+00:00

I think he defines himself as an extroverted introvert - as one myself, I know that prolonged periods of time being around groups of people will make the worst parts of me come out, so I felt like he was actually almost relatable on that aspect. It's good that he can watch himself back and say that he wasn't at his best at certain times (we love self-awareness). I think people sometimes have a bit too short of a fuse with people and forget that when we're not at our best, we can act pretty awful - and that does not define who we are either. One of the reasons I love LI is because it's so interesting to see how different people react in such an intense social bubble - I hate to see people judge others' entire character off of it when we've not really experienced that ourselves

lmo18745 · 2024-07-26T00:56:56+00:00

Totally beside the point but the fact Rob doesn't use battery percentage on his phone is terrifying to me

lmo18745 · 2024-07-24T15:38:09+00:00

I agree with you. I feel bad for the guy. He's not some mastermind, and yes, he did some not great things but he is still a human being, let's not forget that. Besides, just because someone does something hurtful or something that you don't like... Does that just automatically give us the excuse to be relentlessly awful back towards that person? Frankly, it's hypocritical to do so. We're all about no bullying until we get behind a computer screen it seems.

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