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Totally didn’t see this coming.  Nope, not at all

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I actually can’t believe I missed out on this, seeing as how this news broke back almost an entire month ago.  I can’t bring myself to actually put in a Google alert for “Danielle and Mohamed Jbali,” because that’s really gross.  But in the shocker of the century, 90 Day Fiance’s most polarizing couple of all time (paraphrased), Danielle and Mohamed, have split up.

This is an absolute surprise.  Nobody, and I mean nobody, could have guessed that this was going to happen.  Absolutely blindsiding.

I don’t even know where to begin with this.  The fact that the quotes insinuate it was a decision based solely on the notion that social media criticism had pushed them into it only affirms the obvious, which is that Danielle is a pathetic weak-minded sponge that can’t handle any sort of criticism, much less meaningless words from anonymous internet trolls.

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It’s not that simple

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TL;DR – Time columnist implores Game of Thrones fans to stop comparing the books to the television series

Easier said than done.

The one thing about this article that stands out the most to me is the hypothesis that despite how gracious the book snobs have been throughout the gradual progression of the show, there’s probably no way in hell that the show snobs will be as considerate when season 6 of GoT airs, especially in the age of social media and hashtagging everything.

Basically, the fate of Jon Snow, albeit fairly predictable, will be likely absolutely unavoidable to find out once the show begins airing.

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Master of None, except television

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Recently, I just finished watching Master of None, the Aziz Ansari co-created show, exclusively available on Netflix.

It’s not that I don’t have a hundred thoughts about the show, and am not capable of vomiting out a thousand words about the show, but honestly, I don’t want to spoil anything, and I highly recommend the show and think that everyone with a Netflix account should go watch it.  And to those who don’t have a Netflix account, should sign up for one, and then watch Master of None.

It’s a fantastic show, and probably the best thing I’ve watched in all of 2015.  Granted, I know such an assessment doesn’t hold that much weight, considering my television habits are like TLC shows like My 600 Lb. Life, 90 Day Fiance, Extreme Cheapskates, and survival shows like Naked & Afraid and Dual Survival.  But I do watch stuff that everyone else likes too, like The Walking Dead!

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I guess I don’t think when watching television

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Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of articles about how American Horror Story: Hotel is like the worst thing ever aired. All sorts of flippity-floo about how Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have gone too far in their push-the-envelope style of depictions of sex and gore, use of taboo concepts like homosexuality and transgendered people, how Lady Gaga is more or less portraying what people think Lady Gaga is, which is a weirdo who likes to do things for shock value, and how the franchise is undeniably dead with the fact that Jessica Lange (supposedly) has left.

Perhaps I don’t analyze things so much when I’m watching them, or more likely the fact that I’m just not really thinking too hard, but I haven’t had any problems with AHS:Hotel so far, and I’ve found them to be entertaining.  For baseline sake, I found Freak Show to be entertaining, in spite of the popular belief that it was the weakest of the four prior seasons.

In some regard, I think I’m a little desensitized when it comes to shock, gore and sex depicted on television, and I’m more apt to ponder on whether or not someone, be it show creators, or someone at FX is going to get in trouble for pushing the envelope as hard as they’ve been pushing it, but when I’m watching people getting their throats slit and/or sexually assaulted, I might cringe and go “Ohhhh” but it’s nothing that’s going to mentally scar me for eternity, as the rhetoric spouted by Parent Television Council sheep would have you believe it should.  If anything at all, just seeing “Murphy/Falchuk” combined with the fact that it’s on FX, by now, anyone should know that they’re going to see some pretty intense stuff.

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90 Day Fiance season 3 odds

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Nope, no chance that she’s not in love with a guy thrice her age

So, with the saga of Danielle and Mohamed on the shelf for another indeterminate amount of time, it’s time to move on to the third season of TLC’s 90 Day Fiance. I’ll admit a large part of the amusement of watching the show is trying to play the game of identifying which couple(s) ultimately fails, leading to an unhappy ending for one of the Americans on the show, and injecting a whole lot of hypothetical narrative to which people from another country are putting up with this farce in pursuit of a green card.

Last season, I declared that it was a season designed to have sure-fire failures, but much like the first season, every single couple, including Danielle and Mohamed ended up tying the knot.

I’m not going to make that same mistake again, because as long as the cameras are rolling, and they’re part of this show, every single one of these couples is undoubtedly going to successfully get married, regardless of what occurs six, eight, or ten months after the cameras are gone.  Nobody wants to be the person who gets dumped on cable television, and even TLC producers aren’t as heartless as to let such occur if it can be helped.

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Time to talk about 90 Day Fiance – again

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A picture is worth a thousand words

It’s that time of year again, when the greatest network in the history of television, TLC decides to trot out the biggest train wreck of a television show again for another season, 90 Day Fiance.  Long story short, pathetic American singles get engaged to people from other countries, and via the K-1 Visa, bring them to America, where they then have 90 days to either get married, or the mail order spouses have to go back to their respective countries.

Anyway, before I eventually start posting about season 3, I wanted to touch base with the recently aired where are they now special they released in regards to the couples of season 2.  Most notably, like most fans of the show, they wanted to know what happened between Danielle and Mohamed, easily the most polarizing couple in the show’s brief existence.

It should also be worth mentioning that in this follow-up special, two couples declined participation this time; combined with the follow-up from season 1, in both seasons, the dudes who married Filipino women have declined participation in the follow-ups, as both Louis/Aya and now Brett/Daya have dodged the prying eyes of inquiring viewers, leading to the probably conclusion that they were shams and that they didn’t work out.  Shocking.

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Naked and Afraid XL subjective power rankings*

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I just finished watching Naked and Afraid XL recently, which is basically the Naked and Afraid formula, but super-sized in all ways. Multiple teams, lots of past challengers, and nearly twice the duration, going for 40 days instead of 21. I found the special season to be very entertaining, and it did a good job of making me buy in emotionally to particular people, and I was actively rooting for the successes of some challengers, while wishing hell and failure onto others. After all, putting two people together is vastly different than putting a larger number together; predictably, the show devolves into a lot of personal drama between challengers, and conflicting ideologies and survival strategies, and we as the viewers end up taking sides, because that’s what we do whether we want to admit it or not.

That being said, upon the final episode of the challenge (the reunion show has yet to air at the time I’m writing this, although it too will undoubtedly be a train wreck of a guilty pleasure), I felt compelled to write something of a power ranking of the challengers of the XL challenge. Some of them were no-brainers, but ultimately, it’s really a reason for me to blast the people on the show that I liked the least, as if they’re going ever read this.

From best to worst:

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