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/RogueKitteh 2d ago

So livid after watching this. Holy hell. Let me rant some thoughts/questions I have after watching.

How did the cops not immediately separate Kendra from her daughter/victim when they came to the house?? Instead they let her creepily hold/pet her? Wtf?

Why was the sexual component treated like an afterthought?? Why weren't there specific charges relating to that and why when they did briefly touch on that with Owen's mother did they try to sugarcoat it with older pictures of him instead of younger pictures of him when it actually started to drive home how creepy and fucked up it was?

Why did they give a platform to Kendra after sexually harassing children? Why did they try to humanize her and make us sympathetic with her to some degree? Would they do that with a grown man who sent equally sexually explicit messages to children?

Why didn't they focus more on how Kendra went after the new girl that Owen was talking to and her mother and what that means? I.e. that she did in fact have a fixation on him that went beyond her daughter

Why are they ALLOWING ANY contact between Lauryn and her mother after everything??

That woman belongs under the jail. For life.

Lauryn needs a world of therapy. It's almost like she needs deprogramming even

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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/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/Maxismydog1981 9h ago

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

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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.