After a season action-Plathed-packed with slow-moving divorces, a marriage and a literal brotherly brawl, it’s finally time for the Welcome to Plathville finale!

This week’s episode picks up with newlyweds Lydia and Zac preparing to head off on their honeymoon. En route to the airport, the happy couple rave over how perfect and “peaceful” their big day was, still blissfully unaware that Isaac and Micah turned the afterparty into a two-man fight club.  

With no comments to contribute to the brother-beating breakdown, Zac and Lydia are grilled about their wedding night, specifically if they did more than front-hug each other and kiss on the mouth. Although the visibly uncomfortable duo chooses not to divulge if Lydia was (wedding) heels up to Jesus that night, she assures viewers their night was “pure and beautiful.” 

Over in a far less “pure and beautiful” environment, the partial-Plath family meeting is still going on and the odds of Veronica returning for another season of this show are looking a lot like Micah’s mangled mug– bad. Micah tells viewers that it’s time for him and Veronica to “spill everything out on the table” and work through it, or “spill everything out on the table” and call it quits. Either way, it’s getting messy. 

As the Plaths slam Veronica for claiming (last episode) that she wanted to be like Ethan’s wife– and current Plath family enemy– Olivia, the Plaths demand that Veronica fall in line, with which Micah agrees, telling Veronica he also wants her to stop “trying to find dirt” on his family and “smearing mud” about them. 

When Veronica attempts to defend herself, Micah begins listing her crimes, including her lying about Ethan’s girlfriend Teegan being on OnlyFans. Veronica responds, telling the group that she and Micah have been in therapy due to Micah cheating on her and admitting that she was afraid he’d be tempted by Teegan and her alleged spicy side-hustle. While Ethan finds this excuse ridiculous, Teegan tells viewers she just feels sorry for Veronica.

Meanwhile, Veronica admits to producers that she might be wrong about Teegan being on OnlyFans and she might have been wrong about Micah as well. 

“It’s also possible I’m wrong about being a blonde,” she adds. “It’s also possible I’m wrong that I’m not the mayor.” 

Micah says it’d be nice to get an apology from Veronica for the “name-calling and belittling,” however, Isaac is determined to keep the conversation focused on the anger he was feeling towards Veronica when he decided to rearrange Micah’s face. 

When Ethan, Isaac and Micah confirm to Veronica that they believe she inadvertently caused the brother brawl, Kim adds that she also believes Veronica is “at the root” of the issue. Veronica responds, suggesting that the physical altercation might have actually been the byproduct of the hot mess Plath family dynamics, though Kim insists that everyone in the family gets along (UM?!?) and that Veronica is the “common denominator.” 

Veronica is then called out by Ethan for only attending Lydia and Zac’s wedding to spend time with the cows. While hanging out with farm animals sounds infinitely better than partying with the Plaths, Micah notes that Veronica’s actions have put in him a place where he has to choose her over his family or stop seeing her all together. After mulling the decision over for approximately 2 seconds, Micah tells Veronica they need to book it back to Boca Raton and officially break up.

Oh, and Isaac– the very person who put Micah in the hospital less than 12 hours ago– volunteers to come along to help Micah pack up his stuff. 

When Veronica fails to give a reaction to this news, Micah and Ethan suggest that she wanted Micah to break up with her, which Veronica tells producers may be true. Ethan claims that Veronica “missed out on a good family” and once the group disperses, Veronica and Kim share a few words and surprisingly, Veronica musters up an apology for talking about Kim behind her back. 

Just when we think Veronica has turned a new leaf, she basically confesses to producers that she’s been creating chaos within Micah’s family for fun. Viewers then see

a clip of Veronica gleefully admitting four months earlier that her actions were likely to make things “explode any second,” as well as clips of her talking down to Micah, talking to Olivia behind everyone’s back and accusing Micah in couple’s therapy of looking up naked photos of his brother’s girlfriend.  

Veronica blames her strange social experiment on the fact that she was in a toxic relationship, but claims Micah’s family only made things worse. While getting emotional, she goes on to take (a small amount of) accountability for her actions.  

Micah ultimately decides that being trapped in a car with his scheming ex-girlfriend for seven hours isn’t the best idea, so he leaves her with producers so that they can “safely escort” her home– which they do, after hopping on a plane the following day. Meanwhile, Micah, Ethan and Isaac take Micah’s truck to Florida so that Micah can collect his belongings. (And what’s left of his dignity.)

Two days later, the Plath brothers are back at the farm, where Micah plans to stay for a week before returning to Florida to continue his “fencing.” Micah reveals that he and Veronica had an emotional goodbye down in Boca and then he and his brothers assure viewers that they didn’t “abandon” Veronica somewhere on the side of the road, as Barry says Veronica is claiming on the internet “the virtual realm.” 

Ethan insists that Veronica is also lying about the Plaths being a bunch of incestuous animal abusers. 

Later on, a controlled burn is going down at the Plath family farm, which Micah explains is being done to prevent “a more devastating fire” occurring in the future. Micah compares this process to his disastrous relationship with Veronica, before admitting that he did cheat on her while they were together. 

The following day, Kim and Ethan light up cigars like their some sort of Fundie “Godfathers” and revel in the fact that they finally “took care” of Micah’s pesky girlfriend. During their chat, Ethan says he wishes he had pulled the eject button on his marriage to Olivia as early as Micah did in his relationship with Veronica, while reminding viewers that he’s still legally married (due to a “paperwork error” on his part), as are his parents.  

Ethan proceeds to apologize to Kim for “going along with Olivia” all those years, claiming he now realizes you can’t cut off your family for your spouse’s sake…even if your family is, well, pretty awful. Kim accepts the apology, telling viewers that she knows from experience that trying to make a marriage work can be hard. 

Even harder? Witnessing Kim and Ethan’s FaceTime with Lydia and Zac (who are in Paris on their honeymoon), during which, Ethan asks Zac how “the deed” went on his and Lydia’s wedding night and tells his brother-in-law to make sure those “croissants are filled with cream.”

WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE WE WATCHING!? SERIOUSLY?!

In between Ethan’s cringey and creepy comments, he and Kim also mention Micah and Isaac’s fight, as well as Micah and Veronica’s breakup. 

A month later, we pick up in Georgia, where Olivia is visiting for the weekend to photograph a wedding. While in town, she agrees to meet up with Ethan– at Ethan’s request– to talk. Before Ethan arrives, Olivia tells viewers she’s currently living in Washington, D.C., with her boyfriend Brendan, and though she remains legally married to Ethan, she feels “spiritually divorced.”  

Olivia also reveals that after a year-and-a-half, Ethan finally unblocked her on social media and then almost immediately reached out about finalizing their divorce in a rather urgent manner, which she assumes had something to do with him hard-launching his relationship with Teegan. 

(Olivia mentioned all of this on social media in April, by the way.) 

When Ethan finally arrives to meet Olivia– nearly two hours late, natch– he gets right to the point, telling her that once she contacts his attorney, they can have their divorce finalized within a couple of weeks. Ethan tells viewers that he’s been trying to end his marriage for a while, but claims Olivia’s paperwork error– not his own– prolonged their union. Olivia attempts to explain what actually happened, but in true Plath fashion, Ethan isn’t hearing it. 

Instead, Ethan goes on to ask that Olivia stop “slandering” him and his family publicly, to which Olivia argues she isn’t slandering them, she’s just talking about her life experiences– most of which happened to be horrible during the time she was involved with Ethan and his family. 

Ethan persists, telling viewers the things Olivia has claimed about his family aren’t nearly as bad as she’s made them sound and says if they were that bad, it’s because Olivia “created” them.

UM!?!?

In response, Olivia tells Ethan she can’t just omit the decade she spent with him and his family from her memory, noting that those experiences, however hard they were, made her the person she is today. 

After failing to get the response he wants, Ethan dramatically gets up from the table, pushes in his chair, tells Olivia to do “what you want” and walks away, like the main character he is (in his own mind). 

A few blocks away from Ethan and Olivia’s post-split face-to-face, Kim and Barry are at a wine bar celebrating the fact that they’re now officially divorced from one another. 

The once-happy couple sip their drinks, discuss post-marriage plans and mutually agree that any and all wrongdoings committed by their sons– Ethan in particular– were caused by the awful women they were married to/dating and had absolutely nothing to do with the people who raised them.

That’s all for this episode season! 

Click here to read last week’s ‘Welcome to Plathville’ recap. 

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