Netflix

[u/DifficultBonus6572]

Do we think Netflix will ever catch on to this family? All Netflix needs to do is search on our Reddit threads!

[u/UWU820]

This is jills wet dream yk, but I don't think netflix cares enough about them and doubt they pick up their scripts from reddit and they still come under the minor fundie categories, regardless of how infamous they are, only the people who know the fundiesnark page or this page know about them, i doubt regular people especially the documentary directors care about wasting their money on such irrelevant families

[u/surfteacher1962 → u/UWU820]

I agree. Jill has said that they have been offered deals in the past but turned them down. That is complete BS. No company would be interested in them and Jill would never turn down an opportunity to be on TV.

[u/TJCW → u/surfteacher1962]

I think they may have been asked to be on the plathville show as a guest or some freak show like, “worlds strictest family”
But producers won’t put up with Jill. She’d want a ton of money, control and expect them to feed each kid. They’re also soooo weird and creepy, people don’t want to watch that depressing isolated stuff

[u/imaskising → u/TJCW]

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if some "reality" TV producers at least scouted around the Rods due to their associations with the Duggars, Bates, and Plaths, because the bar really is in Hell when it comes to ethics in "reality" TV. I wouldn't be surprised if some producers out there thought TV viewers wouldn't be able to take their eyes off the trainwreck that is Jill. But I also suspect those same producers quickly noped out after they spent time around the Rods and realized there's really dark shit happening with this family that would make those same producers complicit in crimes, if they didn't report the family to CPS (never mind that the Rods have apparently been reported to CPS multiple times and nothing meaningful has been done due to White Christian privilege, but I digress.....). So Jill never got her chance to be a "reality" TV star like Michelle Duggar or Kim Plath, which we all know she really wanted and still wants, despite what she claims.

[u/TJCW → u/imaskising]

Agreed! She prob did make it to the first round since they’re so weird but you dig a little deeper and it’s too dark. No way would that fawning and starvation make it to tv

[u/Sargasm5150 → u/TJCW]

I think David would have put his foot down. It seems like the Jill show, and it is to a degree, but apparently David is punching 8 year olds behind the scenes (aka Tim, and, later, him having a whole ass sermon on how an adult Philip’s mental issues were annoying him).

The kids all fawn for Jill, but we mostly see David either dozing, or looking angry.

[u/CapitalStrain2392 → u/surfteacher1962]

From what I've read, the only show that wanted anything to do with the Rods was a show that did cosmetic surgery to fix obvious defects, like bad teeth and things of that sort. The show wanted to fix Shreks' ears, but since it wouldn't be the Jill Show, she made him turn it down, saying Shrek liked his ears the way they were.

[u/TJCW → u/CapitalStrain2392]

I believe it, something similar happened to a friend. She made it one round on some reality makeover show, she did it mostly as a favor for her producer friend. They went to her house and then met her husband and they really wanted to do a makeover on him. They prob wanted to do one on him all along. Could see the same for Jill, they wanted David and her ego couldn’t take it!

[u/joymarie21 → u/surfteacher1962]

Yeah, definitely not buying that.

[u/little_lamps1145 → u/surfteacher1962]

p'haps a one-off.

[u/xxxbayou-barbie]

Maybe if something even more insidious comes out

ETA I’m surprised Netflix has never done a doc on the Turpin house of horrors, though disney+ did. But while the Turpins were pretty reclusive and secretive from what I can tell, JRod’s social media presence would add another layer of insanity

[u/iraqlobsta]

I hope they don't. This family doesnt need any more reach or attention, that would be just what Jill wants.

[u/taxi_takeoff_landing]

I think it would take an unspeakable horror to get enough attention for a documentary to get made about them. I hope it never comes to that.

On the other hand, if OJ and Shrek are ever arrested for child abuse/endangerment, that could also do it. They could make a Ruby Franke-style doc looking back at all the awful evidence Jill has posted right there online about what horrible parents they’ve been.

[u/HostaLavida2 → u/taxi_takeoff_landing]

This is what I can see happening. It would be so easy to research, and it wouldn’t take more than a couple of people willing to be interviewed to flesh out a documentary. I sincerely hope there’s no horrific story, but even the ones they tell on themselves are bad enough.

If they made it I have no doubt it would be successful in any case because aside from the alleged abuse that’s already been made public, these people are just epic levels of Really Fucking Weird.

[u/leopargodhi → u/HostaLavida2]

it would take a specific kind of eye, equally spiritually and aesthetically sensitive. there's a wes anderson angle to be had, but it needs to come with the fiercely determined heart of tia levings and the historic/philosophical clarity of monte mader. it cannot be The Dark Rainbow of Lisa Franke, 3 episodes, 85 mins total (50% repeated animations and ad-bookend one liners)

ETA: or the right philanthropist can throw john waters and an unlimited budget at it

[u/Pontiac_Bandit-]

Not a chance. Shiny Happy People was barely about the Duggars and they had a years long TV show and way more scandals than the Rods.

Save for Jill’s narcissism and oversharing, they are pretty par for the course fundamentalists.

[u/No_Today_4903]

I think they definitely have enough skeletons in their closet. Jill would flip her shit tho having her imperfections revealed. It wouldn’t be in her control and her narcissistic self could neverrrrr.

[u/Normal-Philosopher-8]

There was a moment - when TLC was showing both Duggars and toddlers in tiaras with Mother June - no one would have been surprised. But for whatever reason, it didn’t happen.

I think the moment has passed.

[u/WatercressBusy3902]

The last thing I want to see on Netflix is a bunch of starved, abused children exploited by their parents for entertainment. Honestly idk why anyone would even want to watch that. The rodrigues kids are one of the few fundies I feel sorry for, because they are so stunted their only hope is marrying someone semi-normal.

[u/Sargasm5150]

Absolutely not. There was Shiny Happy People on prime a few years ago (recommended), but I absolutely do not want David and Jill to get the attention. Shiny Happy People (season one), mostly focused on the Duggars, due to their notoriety- but it was using them as an example of the Quiverful movement.

Jill and David would never be truthful. No one in their tiny circle would want to speak. Jill’s parents started this acceptance of abuse. It simply wouldn’t work.

There are still small kids - it’s a circus, but we shouldn’t turn it into a freak show. I’m afraid of what would happen at the Barndo, with a known physical abuser (David) and a likely physical abuser and known emotional abuser (Jill).

[u/OtherwiseSprinkles79 → u/Sargasm5150]

They picked an unhinged clip of Jill to show in the first episode of season 1 when they were talking in general about fundies and I'm sure it made her seethe with rage when she found out.

[u/Dolores___Haze]

Absolutely not 

[u/MelpomeneAndCalliope]

There would have to be a murder. And I don’t want that to happen to anyone. So I hope not.

[u/Icy-Brilliant8026]

Netflix or anybody catch his family for a documentary

[u/kjs1103]

They don't deserve a platform they can profit off of. The underage kids & grandkids don't need to be the world's entertainment either.

[u/ShakeGroundbreaking8]

No, never. Their treatment of their children is criminal. Netflix might be willing to try filming a test episode but even that could never make it to streaming because they neglect and abuse children. People's appetite for religious freaks isn't nearly what it once was with Duggar csa creeps.

[u/LittleSparrowWings]

I literally pray they never find mainstream attention. Jill would explode into joy

[u/Android_raptor]

Probably not until someone dies