r/netflix • u/AnotherDarnDay • 2d ago

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What the hell did I just watch? And what the hell was this person thinking?

I'm in shock that someone would do such a thing to their own child. And that she doesn't seem to have any focus on what she actually did.

The daughter didn't seem to grasp what her mother did when they told her but the father acted on it right away.

Was she totally jealous of her own daughter?

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u/fitz666 2d ago

I too could not believe how vile Kendra is. She is clearly a lying and manipulative person who does not accept accountability for her actions. She has the audacity to act as if she was a victim herself.

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u/producedbyearth 2d ago

The lack of accountability was the cherry on top of the poop sundae. We heard her say every excuse under the sun and even the sorry was performative. I wish she would have told the truth behind why she did it. She enjoyed every second of the drama, the torment, and the comforting her daughter after.

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u/AnotherDarnDay 2d ago

Yes... like "they don't know my story" I don't need to know why your own ass was lit up when you were younger. I needed to know why you needed to shit on your daughter and why you don't take accountability for it while owning up to telling your daughter to off herself.

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u/Palsyanna 1d ago

What do you expect her to say? “At best, I have a pernicious Cluster B disorder and at worst I am a complete sociopath and a pedophile. I am motivated solely by self-interest, I only feel alive when I’m causing chaos and I’m deeply envious of my own daughter—about which I feel social, if not personal, shame, because I care about status. I’m emotionally stunted at early adolescence and fueled by a dark rage I don’t really understand, and I’m totally disregulated and pathological in my sexual urges. I still have a kind of mammalian bond with my child, but I started to hate her as she grew up and individuated, like most narcissistic mothers, because I don’t see her as a separate person from me who has feelings that matter, but also I want her to love me because it makes me feel less empty and debased. I don’t really understand how normal people function but I live among them and I want their admiration, pity and, especially, attention”? What is it you expect this venal, stunted, bonkers woman to say that will satisfy you?

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u/AnotherDarnDay 1d ago

No I just wanted to know why she went down that route. I didn't want any story from her to be honest. Anything but the why is a waste of space.

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u/producedbyearth 1d ago

This is exactly what I would have loved for her to say.

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u/mafaldajunior 2d ago

Exactly. There's zero excuse for what she did.

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u/hervararsaga 1d ago

I don´t think psychos are capable of self-reflection or truth telling. They´re in their own world and even if they sometimes do good things and tell the truth, they´re only doing it if it benefits them in some way.

I don´t agree with those who think Kendra was given too much of a platform because I think it´s obvious that everything that came out of her mouth showed her to be completely deranged and without excuse. It was very scary and interesting to watch and very informative. Everything she did, like the love-bombing manipulation from prison, is so typical and it goes into explaining why Lauryn forgave her. It´s so hard to face the fact that someone who has been telling you they love you every day for years was capable of hurting you so badly, it doesn´t make sense but most people are willing to believe that this will never happen again and that the love-bombing is the real person. But Kendra is definitely very dangerous and she will in all likelihood do something terrible to Lauryn again.

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u/Mission-Mammoth-8388 2d ago

Text book DARVO

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u/Horror-Yam6598 1d ago

Yes. I found it actually a bit traumatic to watch if you have ever experienced narcissistic abuse because of how blatantly she was using the DARVO technique

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u/clem82 1d ago

What is sad is the value system here, is likely going to be passed to the daughter

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u/Foreign_Frosting9219 1d ago

The way she tried to justify her actions was disturbing. They also completely brushed over the fact that the majority of the messages were sexual in nature and something deeper was going on there.