If you’re a fan of the Duggar clan, you know that Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo got married in front of a few hundred of their closest friends back in November.
Naturally, Jinger and Jeremy’s wedding was televised, but one got the feeling watching the rather slapdash TV special that the entire story wasn’t being told.
Now, TLC is taking viewers back in time in an effort to connect the dots and get still more mileage out of a single wedding.
Yes, producers are throwing a middle finger at narrative conventions and structuring Counting On Season 3 like the first family-friendly Tarantino movie.
According to the latest preview for the third season of the Duggar kids’ spin-off series, the show will go back in time to fill us in on the run-up to Jinger’s wedding.
We get to see Jinger’s first-kiss jitters, as she receives advice from her sisters.
(“Either her initiates, or you initiate it,” Jill Duggar offers, somewhat un-helpfully.)
“It’s like, this is happening,” Seewald says in the preview footage of Jinger’s wedding. “Jeremy’s stealing her. What are we gonna do with ourselves?”
Some fans will no doubt be entertained by all of this.
After all, wedding planning is always stressful, and the Duggars throw massive receptions on just a few months’ notice.
Add to that the weirdness of the fact that newlywed Duggars experience their first kiss in front of basically their entire town and a couple million TV viewers and the whole thing is like some adolescent nightmare taking place in real life.
Of course, none of this changes the fact that the show has already squeezed an entire season of television out of JInger’s nuptials, and many fans are no doubt eager to move on to a new storyline.
Producers teased the wedding for several weeks, even going so far as to pull a bait-and-switch – offering viewers a hastily-edited clip show when they believed they were tuning into the wedding special.
At this point, we know just about everything about Jinger and Jeremy’s relationship, from where they honeymooned to why Jinger’s wedding dress train was so long.
Do we really need to go full Pulp Fiction just to hear Jill offer the most half-hearted make-out advice in history?
Maybe if in this version we get to see Jinger and Jeremy winning the Jack-Rabbit Slim’s twist contest, it will all be worth while.
But hopefully, they’re evening will end more peacefully than Mia and Vincent’s.
Watch Counting On online to get caught up in time for the Jinger wedding special.