4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters

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March 20, 2013 2:07pm
4 Life Lessons from Episode Two of Preachers’ Daughters
Post by SARAH MORICE-BRUBAKER

Last night, Lifetime’s Preachers’ Daughters gave us another opportunity to watch the Perry, Coleman, and Koloff TV families wrestle with the requirements of being on the one hand, a Christian clergy family, and on the other, a family in which there is at least one young unmarried daughter who isn’t altogether indifferent to sex.

(I say “TV families” because this is reality television. One must assume that behind every shocking confession or bizarre behavior there may be a producer or story editor coaching cast members and setting up scenarios. We, as viewers, don’t have unmediated access to the families we’re watching, and we don’t know what any of these people would be doing if they weren’t on television. In a way, this makes Preachers’ Daughters a delightfully recursive representation of the main challenge of being a clergy family: feeling you have to contort your lives into a picture of whatever it is the people watching you want. But I digress.)

Here are four life lessons I took away from Episode Two, which you can watch here.

1. Responding to an intrusive question with another question can be a great way to deflect the intrusive questioner.

One of the droller parts of last night’s episode is hearing the Koloff family talk about “boundaries.” By “boundaries,” they mean “things you won’t do sexually.”

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