TJG: Earle Meets World S1 Recap!

Two Judgey Girls

Mary and Courtney from Two Judgey Girls dive into their reactions to the Netflix reality series 'Earle Meets World,' sharing candid thoughts

Key takeaways

• The show feels overly staged and fake to the hosts, especially the opening scene with the Enterprise truck.
• Alex Earle is seen as a cash cow whose fame fuels her entire family's attention-seeking behavior.

Main topics

• Alex Earle's role as the central figure in a reality show
• Ashley Earle's controversial past and public image rehabilitation

Notable quotes

"This is fake. This is a lie. I'm sorry, roadway? Piece of cake? Come on!"

"She's friends with the mistress. Like Ashley is the mistress that broke up their marriage."

Conclusion

The hosts conclude that while 'Earle Meets World' is not a serious award-winning show, it's

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:15) Welcome back to Two Judgy Girls. This is Mary from the Bay. And Speaker 1 (0:20) it's Courtney from L.A. And this is Girl Meets World Recap. You have been obsessed with her, and yet I don't think that you loved the reality show. I Speaker 2 (0:29) didn't like it. I thought it was lame, and I thought it was fake. Speaker 1 (0:34) Explain why. Speaker 2 (0:36) Well, it really kicked off with her driving that Enterprise truck to Braxton's house. And I thought, This is fake. This is a lie. I'm sorry, roadway? Piece of cake? Come on! And then she opens up the truck and there were like three things in it. And I just thought, Alex, are you lying to me? And I felt betrayed. So I just did not like it, but I watched it all in one day as I did have COVID. So it was a healthy background for me the entire day in bed. And Speaker 1 (1:10) I recommend binging it. Do you think the movers just weren't shown and that they were in the house packing the stuff up and then they were going to load that Enterprise truck and then she was going to take it to somewhere else in Miami? I Speaker 2 (1:23) think she had already moved out. Okay. Speaker 1 (1:25) Okay. It's very Kardashian-esque to me. I wasn't taking it as an Emmy Award winning reality show. I liked it. I think she's actually more boring on TikTok and I think her family dynamics are crazy. And I think the way that everyone in her family basically uses her, maybe minus her mom and partially maybe Ashton. But the family revolves around Alex because she is the cash cow. They put so much time and energy on her. They put so much pressure on her. She's 25. And then also they all want the spotlight too. It's crazy how much I felt like Alex was being gaslit throughout the whole thing. But it also very much reminded me of the Kardashians when they first started out. Speaker 2 (2:05) TJ also has his own money. He comes from a wealthy background. He has a very successful business and it's growing and getting bigger. Speaker 1 (2:15) His construction business? Speaker 2 (2:16) I think he basically works on interstates. And I think it originally is in New Jersey. Now it's like Philadelphia. He is a solid businessman and obviously he became the dadager. I kept on looking at him and I was like, who does he look like? Who? does he look like? And if you listen to our Patreon, you know, I was like, Speaker 1 (2:38) what was that movie with the seal and Whoopi Speaker 2 (2:42) Goldberg? Yes, Karina Karina. And it was Ray Liotta, not of Goodfellas or anything like that, of the movie Karina Karina. And that's all I could see, Ray Liotta. But I was way more fascinated in Ashley and that situation than anything else. Speaker 1 (3:03) TJ, I don't think, is a good manager for the girls. I think he also favors Alex, obviously, but he's also Ashton's manager. I think he does a good job in the financial aspect, and I think that he should remain that way in the business. But I think those girls need to get new management. TJ also blurs the line between dadager, dad, and husband, and the way that he gaslights Alex because he wants to defend Ashley, who we will get. right into that. But I'm like, you think that Alex needs to apologize for Ashley's mistakes because she has a half Guatemalan niece. I was kind of feeling bad for Alex in certain aspects. Speaker 2 (3:40) When I found out for Christmas, he gave her an orange because he was going to pay for just one of her boobs. I was like, this kind of tells you a lot about who this dad is. What is that? I think he's. you know, wants his girls to be successful and will go through any means to make that happen. Also, he is the person that is living off a scandal as well. He is not shy from the limelight. Ashley Earle is not either. She was on a reality TV show in 2011 called Famous Foods with Heidi Montauk and their relationship getting started. I like deep dive this on TikTok. I saw her 2020 clips. Obviously, she was a high-end escort. She was famously with Eliot Spitzer, who was the governor of New York at the time. And it's funny, this happened in 2008. This was Kardashian era. I was drunk at the bars in PB and I was like, this guy does look familiar. And I vaguely, vaguely remember that reality TV show too. But it's like they've always been hungry. Daniel Staub was on that reality TV show as well and shows up. And TJ shows up at the end. And I'm just like, these people have been craving attention their entire lives. Speaker 1 (5:06) It's so funny that you're relating Ashley Dupree with famous food, the reality show, and not the big scandal of Eliot Spitzer. was the biggest thing in the world. It is crazy that she was only 23 years old when that happened. But like the fact that they're also trying to whitewash this a little bit about what her past was. Obviously, she has three kids now and just be like, I was young and I was told I could just go out on dates for money. And if you want to go into that famous food clip, she says she was a prostitute and that's not who she is anymore. But going on that reality show after this, I kept thinking too, and I know. escorts are different. But like, I kept thinking about Monica Lewinsky and how raked over the coal she was for being young. And she was seducing Bill Clinton as if like he wasn't in this power position being the president of the United States. And I just thought like, God, at 23, it is really crazy to think about how different her life was to where it is because she will, even though she doesn't want to be, will. always be somewhat of her claim to fame. Now I think they're trying to rehab her image and say, well, no, now she's just Ashley Earl, who was the mistress for Alyssa and TJ. And Alyssa is a saint. When Speaker 2 (6:18) TJ said we should get her on The Golden Bachelor, that whole double date for Valentine's Day was crazy to me. Speaker 1 (6:28) She's friends with the mistress. Like Ashley is the mistress that broke up their marriage. Now I'm sure that there were multiple women. I don't believe that it was only Ashley, but that he was caught with Ashley. And now she has to be friends and she's putting aside how much she hates her ex-husband for the love she has for her daughters in order to have this new modern blended family and how involved she is with those other kids too and how they will vacation together. They go out to dinner together. I have to assume. A lot of that was hopefully for the show because I don't know how somebody could do that over and over again. Like she has way more willpower than I do and way more strength than I do. But this is the woman who broke up your marriage and then is making a joke at dinner saying all men cheat. Speaker 2 (7:09) It's also crazy that they're still together, if you think about it. Speaker 1 (7:13) Well, I think because he cheats. Speaker 2 (7:16) Yeah. Ray Liotta. Speaker 1 (7:18) They probably have some sort of understanding. And I think that they have a really strong family life. And if she's okay with it and he's okay with it, then okay. But I just can't imagine because, you know, how you get them is how you lose them, they say. Speaker 2 (7:31) That is very, very true. She, Ashley, like fascinated me the most because I couldn't tell, are you jealous of Alex? Yes. Are you writing off her coattails? Yes. But then there's also... She really wants the girls to like her. That closet scene where they're trying on all her clothes and getting ready to go to Nashville. And they're talking about like, I used to put toothpaste in your shoes. And I saw a whip one time. And the Nair thing. And then they're like, but Ashley, Speaker 1 (8:07) actually, you can come to Nashville with us. Speaker 2 (8:10) And then they're realizing in that moment, too, they're the same age Ashley was when they were first introduced to her. And Speaker 1 (8:19) they're Speaker 2 (8:19) like, Speaker 1 (8:20) oh, Speaker 2 (8:20) my God, this is crazy. But Speaker 1 (8:23) Ashley puts a lot of pressure on those girls to forgive her for breaking up their family because it's like, well, OK, yeah, that happened. But like, look at the family we have now. And it's like, well, yeah, you have to make lemonade out of lemons. OK, sure. But like you broke up. the family. Like you were the other woman in the affair with our mom who is always going to be our mom and will be our number one. I know it's been 17 years at this point. It doesn't matter. You can forgive, I guess, but you're wanting these girls who, I'm sorry, Alex was what, five or something at the time when it happened? Like, hello? What do you expect to get from this? Because now, oh, it's okay because your dad has stayed with you? I think Ashley is so jealous of Alex. I think a lot of her family is jealous of Alex. Not because they're like, oh, I wish I was Alex. But like, they like the spotlight. They like what she's done. They don't want to live in her shadows because I think that a lot of them think that they could be a star in their own right. They just haven't found their quote unquote moment. And I think while Ashley cares for Alex, I think she also is like, well, I could do that. And she's... doing that through Isabel, the 13-year-old. I think she's trying to push Isabel into the Alex position so that she can be like, see, this is my daughter doing it too. Of course, Speaker 2 (9:37) of course. So they have Isabel, Penelope, and TJ. What did you think about them being involved in the show? Did you like that? Speaker 1 (9:45) I love Thomas. I think he's cute. I think Isabel's cute. I think Penelope is a handful, but it feels weird to judge an 11-year-old or however old she is. But they were kind of giving me a little bit of early Kylie and Kendall when they were on the Kardashians at that age, too. It's like, oh, a star is born. Right, right. What did you think of the kids? Speaker 2 (10:05) It's crazy, these kids being on TV, you know, and I thought it was really funny. Like, basically, their confessional was at their in-home nail salon. I think it added, like, comedic timing. I loved his dinosaur obsession. He was a doll. He's probably my favorite in some ways. Speaker 1 (10:22) He's the star behind Alex, then Ashton after him. Speaker 2 (10:27) You know what was hard? I think a lot of it was about Ashton. And I felt sorry for Ashton, but I didn't gravitate towards her. And I didn't really like her. Oh, Speaker 1 (10:39) I found a new appreciation for Ashton after this show. They're somewhat of the co-leads here because... Can't make these children like the big stars of it. You mentioned the nail salon, like Isabel got really into nails and she made her a set of nails for her skincare premiere. She's gotten really into nails. And as a girl who loves to do at-home nails, I connected with Isabel on that too. Totally. I just Speaker 2 (11:05) kept on singing the song, living in the shadow. Speaker 1 (11:10) Someone else's dreams. Ashton is Ashley Simpson, though. She's like the punk rock, the darker version, the edgier version. It's so true. And I think Ashton was also partially thrown into this, too, because they're like, oh, look at what your sister's doing. Look at what your sister's doing. You should do that. These are just these college girls. And TikTok is so funny because in COVID, it became so popular because people were using TikTok as their Instagram story. And it was this new app. And people were just like telling stories because there was nothing to do at the time. And then Alex gets famous. And then it's like, oh, well, of course, her sister should too, right? But I think her sister's like, well, I have other interests and I don't want to do the same things Alex is doing. She's the star. She really does live in our shadows. I felt bad for her. Speaker 2 (11:59) I guess it's just like I've seen this story before, so it wasn't that interesting to me. I think the COVID is giving you hater age because you Speaker 1 (12:08) seem pretty passionate talking about it right now. I give it a C. Okay, that's fine. It's a first season. When House of Stassi was released, it was like... Boom. You have to watch these shows all at once if you want to be a part of the conversation. These shows come out so fast. People are binging them. People are going all the way to the end. My friend was like, oh my God, what did you think about the last minute of the season? I'm