It seems like they are cutting as much symbolism as they can out of the shots they decide to keep in the show but every other episode feels like " We’re a family with 9 kids and everyone is homeschooled. Oh yeah and we just happen to be active in our church too."

Like, no shit you’re active in the church… Normal people do not have a quiver full of isolated kids like that. It’s not normal or healthy.

    • thelastknowngod@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      62·
      11 months ago

      Obviously I’m not continuing to watch. Like my original post said, I was more concerned about Netflix normalizing these people.

      • CoffeeGrounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        11 months ago

        Normalizing what? People being religious? I hate to break it to you, but people being religious is pretty damn normal regardless of what Netflix is doing. You act like there aren’t large families out there that aren’t religious and that somehow families with shit tons of kids is something exclusive to religious people, it’s not