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You guys you guys this is it!\\xa0 This is the big one! We are fifty episodes old and we are going BIG!\\xa0 We have gotten so many requests for this one - we read The Thorn Birds, you guys, and we\'re gonna watch the miniseries (check social media for upcoming details about watching it with us!) and we got a secret guest (spoiler: Courtney\'s secret brother Nate) all the way from Australia, and of course it was a whole ass thing.\\xa0 We lost Courtney for half of it!\\xa0 It was a beast, but we had a blast and we offer it up to you as our 50-episode birthday present to everyone.

The Thorn Birds is one of those big family sagas they used to love to make a miniseries about.\\xa0 There\'s a big house.\\xa0 There\'s a spite will.\\xa0 There\'s a million characters who mostly don\'t matter and a million things happen that also mostly don\'t matter.\\xa0 There\'s Meggie, only daughter of the most ridiculously sterotypical Irish family to every Irish its way to New Zealand and then Australia.\\xa0 There\'s Ralph (RALPH!), tormented priest and self-absorbed piece of crap.\\xa0 There\'s other people who are related to these people but admit it, you\'re really here for Meggie and Ralph.\\xa0\\xa0

You should\\xa0not read this book if you\'re sensitive to depictions of grooming (nothing sexual happens between Ralph and Meggie until she is an adult, but they meet when she is a child and he is clearly obsessed with her and behaves in a way that isn\'t sexualized but is deeply inappropriate), vividly described marital rape, stealthing (!) by a woman, priests breaking their vows... oh and for some reason these people castrate lambs with their teeth?\\xa0 I cannot WAIT for all the furious YouTube comments about how we don\'t understand that "people were different back then".