This show was definitely on before, for about 3 episodes before they pulled it. I think this family creeped people out so much they pulled it and tried to makeover the family. The women seemed to have better hair this time, lol. They have not managed to make that dad look any less strange and controlling, though. This family lives in the same area as my vacation home, which is the only reason we watch it in our house, it is interesting to see familiar places being filmed.
The hospital where Blair's husband works is just about an hour from the family home. If it was such a big deal about her being away from the family, why not choose an apartment half way in between both places? The dad has put so much pressure on her to stay home you can tell she's afraid of him. But she is also so codependent she doesn't even want to try and function on her own like a normal person. The hospital scene pissed me off, the family's behavior in the waiting room and ignoring rules and sneaking all those kids back to see Blair was awful. I am a post partum nurse and there is nothing worse than a zoo in someone's recovery room. She needed rest and skin to skin time with her new baby, not a bunch of people in her business.
The whole grocery shopping thing (which I think was shown in the first version of this show, not the current one?) was a joke, they never take the whole family shopping or the clerk would have recognized them and known who they were. You would never do all that shopping at that store in town either, it is over priced due to it being a vacation destination, the family would have shopped at Walmart 30 minutes away for their big shopping trips. And no mom in her right mind would take all those kids to the laundry mat when they could leave them home, no need for those kids to be running amuck.
I bet that Blair's husband has rethought his taking on her last name and being involved with that cult more than a few times since their marriage.
It was really weird how they started this show earlier in the year and then dropped it and you could not even google information about it. How does that happen? TLC should have dropped it the first time for real. I mean, the only thing you could find if you looked it up were comments on discussion boards, nothing from TLC at all. BIzarre!