{"id":46488,"date":"2019-01-23T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46488"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:08:49","slug":"thoughts-on-90-day-fiance-season-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46488","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on 90 Day Fianc\u00e9 season 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I knew 2019 was off to a great start when we discovered that the TLC Go<\/em> app had opened their doors to our cable provider, thus allowing us to access to watch TLC programming, completely on demand.\u00a0 That being said, I don\u2019t often have to worry about not having something to watch at any given point with the vast majority of TLC\u2019s library now available to me with the push of a few buttons.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, shows like My 600 Lb. Life<\/em> are among the marquee shows that I favor the most, and classics like Extreme Cheapskates<\/em> and Extreme Couponing<\/em> inexplicably didn\u2019t get renewed for anything beyond two seasons.\u00a0 But if I had to pick one show that stood out above all others as my go-to for TLC programming, it is and has always been, 90 Day Fianc\u00e9<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not ashamed to say it, but I\u2019ve literally watched every season of 9DF.\u00a0 The irony is that I\u2019ve really liked a lot of shows in my time, but eventually everything falls to the wayside for whatever reason(s).\u00a0 Archer, The Walking Dead<\/em>, and American Horror Story<\/em> come to mind as shows that I\u2019ve at times gotten lukewarm with and allowed them to slide over to the back burner.\u00a0 But not 9DF.\u00a0 Nah dog, I\u2019ve literally seen every single episode (of at least the core series), and I\u2019m fairly certain I can name every single person who\u2019s been on the show if shown a picture.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I just recently finished season 6<\/strong>, and I was thinking that I was playing some major catchup; little did I realize that I basically caught up to season\u2019s actual air dates, and probably wrapped up the main episodes right as the season was winding down with its typical tell-all episodes at the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, there have been some real trainwrecks throughout the series, but I think season 6 really outdid themselves at finding some truly tv-worthy couples this time around.\u00a0 I mean, every previous season always had one kind of anchor couple, or layup couple, as in the one couple that anyone could tell was the stable one, vanilla one, bland one, or rather the couple that everyone knew was going to be fine, even after the cameras stopped rolling.\u00a0 Usually, they were the one where one or both of the couple were religious, and it was pulling teeth trying to get any sort of drama or entertainment value out of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But season 6?\u00a0 Even the Mormon couple had some fire to them, and I guess it didn\u2019t hurt that they were kind of racist Samoans \u2013 Kalani and Asuelu.\u00a0 I seriously felt like Asuelu had to have been dropped on his head a bunch, or was the one Samoan who tried to be a wrestler like all other Samoans, but learned that he couldn\u2019t capitalize on headbutts like all the rest of his people, but to cut to the chase, home boy was as dull as a 40 watt-bulb.\u00a0 Like, I legitimately felt that he was kind of special needs, based on his child-like intelligence, behavior and his slow speech.\u00a0 And then Kalani was surprisingly foul-mouthed and not really the most pious Mormon out there, but then again, TLC probably wouldn\u2019t have picked them if she had her shit too together.<\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, they were probably the closest thing to being the season\u2019s anchor couple, and the ones I found to be really otherwise boring and hard to care too much about.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the others, it\u2019s hard to really rank them.\u00a0 Or maybe not.\u00a0 Thinking about it, they seem to fall into place easier than I thought they would be, but they\u2019re all still trainwrecks that made future wifey and I bemoan at the screen over the stupidity that some of these idiots actually involved themselves in.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jon & Fernanda\u2019s<\/strong> big issue was the fact that Fernanda was just but 19 nubile years old, and their drama was pretty superficial and paper thin.\u00a0 The biggest obstacles they dealt with throughout the show was Fernanda finding a thong of a former tryst inside of a random dresser on her first night in America<\/em>, and Jon\u2019s mom being kind of a vapid c-word, because apparently she and Jon had a fallout of undisclosed reasoning in the past.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, there was an incident at a club in Jon\u2019s favorite place in the world, Myrtle Beach (lol), where some rando drunk chick started grinding up on Jon, only to be conveniently caught by Fernanda, which led to an over-the-top blowup in public, but frankly, the whole thing seemed very artificial, and I have no doubt that TLC producers kind of orchestrated the whole incident to be spicy tv.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, that would be something that I had suspicions with over the season, like TLC intervened occasionally to drum up drama and try to steer some of the couples.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like with the case of Ashley & Jay<\/strong>, whom they were basically a younger re-run of Melanie & Devar from season 4, all the way down to it being a white blond girl from bumfuck, Pennsylvania, getting hitched with a younger black guy from Jamaica.\u00a0 Despite Ashley\u2019s full capabilities to ruin relationships completely on her own stupidity, when things looked like they were headed for a fairly uneventful 90 days into a wedding, there was an incident where supposedly their wedding website was getting bombarded by \u201chundreds of hateful messages\u201d including racism and threats of harm.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, if TLC didn\u2019t make this shit happen, then it\u2019s a whole other story of needing to get the law involved and trying to find some perpetrators for threats.\u00a0 Otherwise, their arc didn\u2019t really get that interesting until after they got married, to which again, if it weren\u2019t in the plan for TLC, why would they be filming after the marriage in the first place?\u00a0 But Jay, being the 20 year old shithead he is, was naturally caught in the act of using Tinder to try and meet other women, and then their story comes to an end, presumably so that TLC can have content for the spin-off series, Happily Ever After?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Steven & Olga<\/strong> was the seemingly designated reverse couple of the season, with Steven being the one to go abroad, to Russia, to reunite with Olga, whom he had knocked up while she had been vacationing in of all places, Ocean City.\u00a0 Naturally, he shows up just in time for Olga to give birth to their bastard kid, and turn into a monumental shithead douchebag he\u2019s advertised to be on the cover of the book, and then it\u2019s a season of Steven being a dick, the viewers thinking Olga is way too good for him (not to mention she snapped back like a god damn rubberband), and then more of Steven being a dick, because he\u2019s 20 and stupid.\u00a0 But it\u2019s like TLC brass told him to reel it back in, lest he be forever branded as a dick, and then he managed to salvage some dignity by the end of the series.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric & Leida<\/strong> was the formulaic white guy getting a mail order bride from Asia, but the twist on this trope was that Leida wasn\u2019t some poor girl from the Philippines or Thailand.\u00a0 Instead, she\u2019s the daughter of a very well-off and wealthy Indonesian surgeon, and basically lives in luxury there.\u00a0 But presumably because she\u2019s vapid and wants to be on television, she gets involved with Eric, a loser who actually uses the phrase \u201cformer Marine\u201d to describe his background, from Baraboo, Wisconsin, and their season is basically him letting Leida down over and over again, because he\u2019s poor and she\u2019s used to rich, her threatening to go back to Indonesia 50 times a day, and then him selling his soul just a little bit more each time in order to get her to stay.<\/span><\/p>\n

They\u2019re the classic example of a couple that is completely doomed once the cameras stop rolling, but since TLC really likes to dip back into the wells, that might not exactly happen too immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of which, it brings us to the, in my opinion, \u201ctop\u201d couple of the season, Colt(y) & Larissa<\/strong>.\u00a0 As much of trainwrecks as everyone else seemed to be this season, I found myself looking most forward to their arc, as the 30-something mamas boy who lives with his mom in Las Vegas in Colt(y), and then the self-proclaimed crazy bitch Larissa from Brazil.\u00a0 Larissa has big boobs, and apparently so does Colt(y).\u00a0 Their 90 days are spent with Colt(y) being cheap and disappointing Larissa over and over again, while Larissa has to deal with Colt(y)\u2019s in-house mom, racist cousin, and internally debating on whether or not life in America is actually better than Brazil.<\/span><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t spoil anything but they\u2019re definitely the all-stars of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless, I felt that TLC tinkered too much this season, and the episodes were way too fucking long, at like nearly 90 minutes a pop.\u00a0 I\u2019m exhausted from it, but the reality is that I only need a little bit of time to pass before I\u2019ll start back-filling my need for more trash tv with watching the tell-all episodes, or the spin-offs.<\/span><\/p>\n

90 Day Fianc\u00e9 is the very definition of a guilty pleasure, and frankly I can\u2019t wait for more episodes in the future.\u00a0 Lord knows the world is full of dumb and\/or vapid couples willing to participate, and TLC will find them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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