90 Day Fiance - Before The 90 Days
So this is an odd show. It's idiots people who have/are in a long distance (international) relationship, and are on the cusp of starting the 90-day period for a visa (for one of the parties) to come to America.
The current season has I think six couples.
One, from CT is just a... she's annoying, typical reality TV wanna be. Bad botox, fillers, fake boobs, wondering "why can't I find love?" but every exchange is a profanity-laced egomaniacal explosion. I fast-forward these parts.
One is a sweet older woman who fell for a man named "Williams" who is as buff as the Rock. They've been "together" for several months, she's sent him money, but all of a sudden - poof! - his Instagram account gets shut down and hell breaks loose. Her daughter finds out his number is Nigerian, and even more hijinks ensue. Now she got an email from an unknown email address threatening to release "personal intimate" photos, and she's - get this - confused, because she only sent these to "Williams". I find this arc to be sad.
One is a 55-ish woman from Pennsylvania who is borderline annoying typical reality TV wanna-be, dating a 20-something Nigerian man who wants to come to American to be a rap star, "Sojaboy". He's no prize, but he's still WAY out of her league, and yet she's a typical American bred on reality TV, lot of swearing, not a lot of self-awareness, etc. I only watch this because it's funny watching him try to maneuver around his family/country traditions while still trying to further his music career.
Then it gets interesting, and, to me, fascinating.
There's the 40 year old ex-con (with some of the worst tattoos I've ever seen) trying to "find love" with a 30 year old Russian woman. He wants love, not just someone who wants to use him to get to America, and yet... she says all the right things but her actions tend to betray her. He has a friend in America - woman - who is gorgeous and in one call (while he is in Russia) basically offers herself to him (not physically, emotionally) and he's oblivious. Sad meter: 5/10.
There's the 50-ish man - he's 4'11", easily 200+ pounds and zero neck - who has, he believes, found true love with "Rose", a Filipino woman with a son who "loves" him, and will - if she has to - move her and her son to America... but she will not address her past (the show hints that she may have been a sex worker) and when he visits, he finds she lives in a shack with barely running water, but no indoor plumbing or anything like that. Sad meter: 6/10.
There's the 60 year old man who has had a 7-year relationship with a Russian woman "Lana", who - according to her pictures - is gorgeous. Even though he's been to Ukraine three times already, they've never met, they've never spoken on the phone, and only converse over this "dating" website with a translator. But she tells him she loves him and wants to marry him. He's got a friend in Ukraine - a woman he met on the same website around the time he met Lana - who has since found her own love and she's told him repeatedly that this is a scam, but he still drove to her hometown to try to find her. I feel so bad for this guy, because he's so wrapped up in this - he's spent over $100,000 on that website - he cannot see reality. She blew him off again on his fourth trip to Ukraine, and he keeps saying "this is make or break!" but she does the bare minimum to keep him stringing along. Sad meter: 9/10.
I dislike reality TV for a lot of reasons, but most of them are related to the super-inflated sense of place that most of the people have on these shows. They're delusional and not in a good way (that, and the ridiculous idea that the cameras do not effect the "reality" we're watching). But these three men are so... pathetic, but so earnest at the same time, that it's like watching a toddler ride a bike, and you KNOW they are going to fall and crash, but you have to sort of let them find their own legs.
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