Welcome to Plathville, originally on TLC but recently streamed to Hulu, is a six-season long reality series about the Plaths: "A strikingly blonde, blue-eyed Quiverfull family with 9 children in Southeastern Georgia, who are very passionate about traditional roles, their courtship rituals, music, God, and domestic life."
Brr. Sounds too scary. They must be wildly homophobic, but I imagine that they agreed to appear only if there were no "homosexuals" in the crew, so maybe they won't mention them at all. Episodes appear to be soap-opera like, with marital problems, career troubles, treks into secular civilization, and lots of clickbait "dark secrets" and "startling revelations."
The elder Plaths belong to the No Greater Joy Ministries, an out-of-the-box fundamentalist cult that, other than hating homos, teaches that women must always be subservient to men -- working outside the home is a major sin, and will turn her into an evil lesbian. Plus you must beat your children to ensure their subservience -- if you don't, they'll start to talk back and turn gay.
I'm definitely too squeamish to watch, but I'll check the Plaths for fundamentalist beefcake.
The parents, Barry and Kim, have broken up and gotten a divorce. In my childhood church, that would have gotten them kicked out.
Their oldest child, Ethan,left, married the outsider Olivia, who works as a photographer. A woman working outside the home! Shocking!
Ethan and a buddy at the gym.
Daughter Hosanna refused to appear on the show. She has left the family, moved to Ohio, and married an outsider. Shocking revelation!
Daughter Moriah visited San Francisco and had sex with her boyfriend Max Kallschmidt. A dark secret revealed!
The younger children are Lydia, Isaac, Amber, Cassidy, and Mercy.
Micah works as a model, which means he has to work with gay people. Uh-oh, he's doomed.
More after the break.