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/Danz-Macabre 2d ago

Right there with you. The whole thing made me sick. My own mother is a piece of work..so watching this really set my teeth on edge. Her sitting there so smug comparing what she did to someone drunk driving?! Okie that is not good either..terrible in fact..but to try and act like cyber bullying her daughter for what..2 years, wasn't so bad. Then the love bombing from prison. And the guilt and manipulation. I was furious because I recognised it. That poor girl needs to run far away from that woman.

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u/Cultural-Chart3023 2d ago

Yea the way she made it sound like she didn't do anything wrong everyone does something I was just caught... no.. wtf?! She clearly hasn't learned from it and has no genuine remorse she should not be free in society let alone still contact with her daughter wtaf

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

omg when she said “everyone has done something illegal” it’s like no bish EVERYONE has not.

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u/MamaOwlInGlasses 1d ago

Well and focusing on the “they just don’t get caught” part as what separates what she did from whatever infraction “everyone else” does. Really said to me that she doesn’t view WHAT she did (stalking, emotionally and psychologically abusing two children, plus sending them graphic sexually inappropriate content NONSTOP for literally two years) was wrong or any worse than any other thing someone might do, the only thing that really matters to her is that people found out it was her so she had to pay the social and legal consequences. Just really disturbing.

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

absolutely. Beyond disturbing and so bone chilling! I also really wondered about the husband and daughter’s reaction to finding out. Yes, everyone handles shock in different ways, but the husband was just obsessed with the fact that she wasn’t working/lying and not like WTF why were you sexually physically and emotionally harassing our daughter for this long?! and the daughters share silence of it all - I just don’t understand those reactions. Maybe they did know after all!

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u/MamaOwlInGlasses 1d ago

So, my interpretation of the dad reacting to the work thing was a little different: throughout the doc, they said that she took care of all finances and exerted a lot of control, and that they were having financial trouble. Turned out she wasn’t paying bills so they got evicted several times AND lost everything in their storage units of value (functional, monetary, and sentimental by the sound of it). It also sounded like there may have even been some insurance fraud (according to the cousin lady) to cover up her lack of income, but obviously that’s not something she was charged with so that is conjecture. They also were saying that she was like fully faking having a job, so I think that revelation was about him realizing how big her deception was to their whole family, in ways that emotionally and financially impacted all of them. So that was my take on his reaction about the jobs.

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u/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

The husband does not impress me as the sharpest tool in the shed. lol

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

Ah okay, good way to put it. And then maybe given that they knew something was up - like why are they getting evicted, etc.. maybe they were in denial or enabling her and so maybe they weren't really that surprised at the end of the day. :(

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u/Excellent-Cable-1366 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes she started with everyone does something illegal and only a few gets caught? WTF! She wants to generalise what she did and also assumes everyone does things like this? Also said she didn’t start it she just continued it then who started it? She’s a liar. 

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u/_chicksareforfags 2d ago

I actually had to skip through endra talking cause it was nauseating. I do think including her speaking while overlaying the text messages though kind of shows how manipulative she is... so like totally agree she doesn't deserve a platform, but also i think they were showing how easily she started spouting those crocodile tears and saying all "the right things". it was fucking disgusting to realize it was her, my money was on the principal the whole time and I was pissed I was wrong for the sake of Lauryn. Like jesus how do you get over that.

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u/mafaldajunior 2d ago

I was convinced that someone had hacked Lauryn's or Owen's phone, had access to their mic and phone content, and were aware of conversations because they were listening in that way. No way in hell did I suspect any of the parents.

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u/Lcky22 2d ago

I got spoiled and knew it was a parent so I was trying to guess which one and was still totally shocked. I was thinking it was Adrianna (? the cousin)’s mom trying to frame the dark haired girl (Chloe?) for being mean to her daughter or something. I was so so shocked!

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u/JETPAKZAK 1d ago

Juat finished this as well. Im disgusted! Telling your daughter to inflict harm on herself, all the sexual things she said. This should be prison time. Absolute monster! Just needed to rant for a second. So much more to say but ugggh

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u/RocketXsockzXisJoneZ 1d ago

Honestly the sexual nature alone from her to her own child should carry its own charge

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u/Lcky22 1d ago

It’s crazy cause the fact that she was torturing her own child overshadows what she was doing to the others which was so awful as well. Absolutely unbelievable I feel so bad for her family.

As soon as Kendra’s cousin (?) said what she did about how much attention she demanded I started to understand

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u/RocketXsockzXisJoneZ 1d ago

That did it for me too.. I didn’t see that (they didn’t want us to I guess) but she described her perfectly as an attention seeking performer which made all of it so much more disturbing. Idk if it’s just me but those 45 min were the longest 45 min I’ve ever watched, I went to work and was pulling up clips for a coworker & completely forgot it wasn’t a series with multiple episodes but just one 45 min documentary

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u/Lcky22 1d ago

Wow yes it did seem way longer!

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u/gummi_behr 1d ago

I believe the full documentary is 1hr30 mins

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u/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

If it was that dad instead of the mom, he would never have gotten out.

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u/KVil32 1d ago

Same here. I thought it was a parent too and definitely thought Adrianna’s mom had a motive for framing Khloe

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u/Ok_Course_2788 1d ago

I knew it had to be a parent and a older woman but I never suspected it to her mom 🤯

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u/PAngel111 1d ago

I was thinking from the start it was his parent to try get her away from her son or for for some reason, I never guessed it was her parent it was shocking

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u/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

Why did you think it was an older woman?

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u/_chicksareforfags 1d ago

I thought that too, like a microphone app or something even. When they said that the only person who was around was Lauryn when the texts would bring something up from that day. I was like well it’s not her so it must be her phone

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u/Longjumping_Elk2580 19h ago

My gut said one of the parents .. I donno why

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u/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

I thought it was going to be someone nobody suspected. A mother of a student who rarely interacted with Lauryn and Owen, a male teacher no one would expect, or a neighbor who the families were barely aware exists.

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u/Longjumping_Elk2580 5m ago

I donno.. right off the bat i went girls parents... probably dint want her to be in relationship with Owen.. from a protective instinct.. but wen they said that parents Interacted and were friends .. and were actively giving interviews ... it thew me off a bit..

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u/hoosiergirl1962 1d ago

Not long into the show I said to myself, "I'll bet it was a teacher, and a female one who was fixated on Owen". I didn't know anything about the case beforehand and was truly shocked to find out it was the mother.

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u/MostlyHarmless88 1d ago

I didn’t even make it through the whole thing because I was so disgusted with the entire situation. The mother is a sociopath and the daughter needs therapy. She knows deep down what her mother did was wrong, but she can’t accept it right now. She’s going to get angry about it at some point when she’s older and has more life experience, count on it.

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u/Professional-Dirt-87 2d ago

Drunk Driving is bad but is a mistake. I don't think anyone wakes up and intends to drive drunk that day. 

She deliberately chose to do what she did for 18 fucking months, it's beyond mental. 

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u/anon8232 2d ago

I believe it was 22 months.

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u/Cultural-Chart3023 2d ago

A mistake? Wtf it's definitely a choice!

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u/Troth70 1d ago

I ask this sincerely: Aren’t most mistakes a choice? 

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u/PollutionFar5423 2d ago

Take it from a recovered alcoholic: MOST alcoholics wake up (er, come to) and know full well that they're gonna drive drunk later that day/night. How else will they get their booze? (No, they're not gonna waste precious booze $ on cab fare.)

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u/dmbeeez 1d ago

Did you happen to catch the amount of alcohol on the dining room table?

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u/pudgiedee 1d ago

yes WTF was that about

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u/PollutionFar5423 14h ago

Sure did! LOL! (Actually made me do a double-take, there was so much of it! And these people were supposed to be broke? Hmm...)

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u/rtrice10 2d ago

🤣🤣

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u/Traditional-Emu-6167 1d ago

She watched her daughter cry over this and broke up with her boyfriend, she kept going to school to try to solve it and watched everyone involved losing their mind, people being blamed, so much more, and yet the mother carried on. There is something really wrong with her.

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u/whatsausername17 16h ago

Yeah f that woman. That was horrible.

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u/ffflyin 2d ago

YES the love bombing… it’s just so wild

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u/EveryMoose9523 1d ago

Another member of the Shitty Mom Commitee here. Before I started watching it I told my boyfriend “I wonder if it’s one of the parents” and uh….🤡 just kind of have an eye for this shit unfortunately

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u/carlandmidge 13h ago

Oh my god, same. I just went no contact with my mother last year at 42 - I’m still in trauma therapy and unlearning the abusive patterns that were normalized for me in childhood.

Reading the lovebombing texts sent by Kendra when she was in jail, I was SHOOK by how they could have been written by own mother during her attempts at manipulation and guilt-tripping. The evasion, avoiding accountability, redirection, and obvious lying during her interviews made me physically ill and were way too familiar.

I hope Lauryn gets so much therapy with a trauma specialist and is able to go no contact ASAP - those were the only things that helped me start to heal.