Bad Bad Thing: The Blackstone Sisters

Not many podcasts grab your attention the way this first season does. You get an inside look at a lady and her life unraveling like fishing line in the water. A MUST LISTEN

Season 1 is fantastic. Will leave a season 2 review when done. Edit: I got halfway through episode two of season two and they completely lost my interest.

I love true crime podcasts and was interested in this story but found this podcast nearly unlistenable. The therapist who was interviewed about this case was appalling. She repeatedly blamed the husband and even the mistress for “causing” the wife’s extreme, harassing, and criminal behavior. Obviously infidelity is wrong, and the husband should have been honest about ending the marriage, but none of that explains or justifies the wife’s extreme and relentless stalking, harassment, and murder. Her hot takes were so offensive that I had to fast forward any time she spoke. This podcast appears to be heavily slanted in favor of blaming then husband and justifying his wife’s extreme, violent, and murderous conduct.

I’m listening to this for a second time. It’s compelling and disturbing in the extreme. I actually felt a great deal of empathy and sympathy for Mark, the husband. Jennaire is controlling, difficult, paranoid, and unlikeable. For two years, I was involved with a man who had borderline personality disorder. We and I separately went through therapy. I could feel what Mark dealt with with Jennaire. It’s a horrible existence. Jennaire fits borderline personality disorder to a T. Mark put up with her for more than 20 years. Most people who are faced with an unfaithful spouse and the demise of their marriage go through feelings of anger, rage, depression, and anxiety. But most people end up moving on. Not people with borderline personality disorder. They have to mentally and physically hurt others over real but mainly perceived slights. .