FrancescaFiore

This is only the second lesbian couple they've ever had on - and the first wasn't really even a lesbian couple, it was the jar-farter and the Aussie who never even hooked up, much less got engaged or tried applying for a K1 visa. As far as gay couples, they're part of the general population, so why shouldn't they be on the show just as much as hetero/cis couples? The gay couples on this show represent maybe 10% of all the couples on the show - about the same as the percentage of gays/lesbians in the population. I don't agree that gay couples are being "blatantly put on," because TLC thinks it's "cool." I think they're casting whoever they think is going to get viewers to watch. This is in no way unique. Most cis, hetero men are into watching girl/girl stuff. That doesn't make you an LGBTQ+ ally, it just makes you a horny dude. Being an ally means being AS okay with the guy/guy stuff as you are with the girl/girl stuff. And it doesn't seem like you are okay with both, since you're referring to it as "an agenda" and inferring that gay couples are only being cast because being gay is somehow now trendy or cool. Don't get me wrong; I think TLC is an absolute garbage factory that goes out of its way to cast the worst imaginable people. They do that because it's what makes them money. Casting gay couples is part of the wide net TLC casts for viewers. That's the only "agenda" they have.

Not an experience I've had, but it definitely exists just as much as the 7 year itch.

What agenda? Showing same sex couples are just as boring as heterosexual couples? LOL. Anyway, "boring and forced" are staples of lesbian relationships. I say this from experience. 🤣

*SHOCK* Wot? The producers bugger with the storylines? 😆

Interesting development: Turns out Danielle is up to her eyeballs in debt. She filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy just last year. That $4000 rent she told Yohan about? Evidently, she hasn't been paying that for about 8 or 9 months, because she currently owes around $36,000 just in back rent. She also has a shit ton of other debt, including student debt & parking violations (which, if it's the same in NY as in CA, those fines keep increasing the longer you don't pay them). It would appear that Danielle's avid desire to no longer live in the US is heavily informed by her equally avid desire to not have to pay her debts. https://starcasm.net/other-way-daniele-gates-bankruptcy/

It's not even about sex as much as it is about emotions. It's not cool to allow a love interest to develop a deep emotional connection without giving them all the information first, so they can make an informed decision about whether or not they're comfortable being in a relationship with a trans person.

Not only that, but why wasn't there any issue with the fact that Gabe entered into a relationship with Isabel without telling her that he's trans? Wouldn't most people be livid upon discovering that such salient information was withheld? That seems like a pretty major omission - and finding out about it from Instagram seems like a particularly messed up way for her - and her teenage daughter - to find that out. Yet Isabel was like "*shrug* NBD."

Danielle is officially on my very last nerve. It seems like she didn't even bother to learn the basic norms of the country she was planning to live in before deciding to trap her husband there forever because she's tired of New York. Had she bothered to visit other local butcher shops or grocery stores, she might've learned that the way Yohan was displaying the meat is the way all the butchers in the DR do. Yes, there are flies. No, it's not the most hygienic or sanitary practice. However, before laying into Yohan talkin' 'bout how "That's not the way we do it in my country," maybe take a moment to acknowledge that she's not in her country and when in Rome, you do as the Romans do. Or at the very least, she needn't get all pissy or crap all over the way things are done in the country she's now living. Danielle's whole attitude is just shitty. And what of her children? Is she content to never (or only rarely) see them once she's permanently living in the DR? She is entirely too manipulative and selfish to have been a good parent and I wonder what her kids think of her choice to marry and move to another country with what was essentially some vacation D. I bet they've got some thoughts. I also couldn't help but notice that Danielle's (now adult) kid(s?) appear to have declined to be on the show. Jen's friends are the only sane thing about Jen. Something is very, very off there. Hopefully the Jen/Rishi story will get more interesting, because so far it's just another tale of vacation D being mistaken for a relationship. And honestly, what's the deal with older ladies named Jen or Jenny wanting to marry Indian men who are half their age? Does Jen not watch this show? Did she miss the misery that is Jenny & Sumit's relationship? And how that went over with his parents? Now here's another white, older, American Jen who's relationship with a younger Indian man is being concealed from his parents, who have been led to believe that she's just a friend. Hello... recipe for disaster, part deux. I noticed that a lot of people on Reddit are saying there's some kind of drug use issue going on with Kris. There's a theory that she uses meth to counteract her narcolepsy, but I don't see the telltale signs of meth use (she doesn't have holes in her teeth, or sores on her face and arms, etc.). I DO see that there's something going on with her, but it's impossible at this early stage of seeing her to tell what that something is. It may be the effects of her narcolepsy medication or a mental/neurological issue that hasn't been revealed yet. Nevertheless, her relationship with Jeymi seems very superficial so far. All we've seen them talk about is wanting to meet and be intimate. There's something off about Jeymi too - I just haven't put my finger on what it is, yet. Not sure why Nicole and Mahmoud are on this show. She's already married. She's already wanting a divorce. She fast-forwarded through "The Other Way," & "Happily Ever After?" and is already a whole Tell-All. This seemingly never-ending parade of pasty-white ladies who marry Middle Eastern men, but somehow think that there's going to be "wiggle room" for them on the strict Muslim rules for women is so tiring! If the woman is going to be living in her husband's home country, she's going to be expected to assimilate. What part of that don't these ladies get? So I guess the older, floppy hat lady & Ussama are this season's Ben and Mahogany. They'll be introduced halfway through the season and it'll be glaringly obvious that there's much more to the story than we're being told. So far, Isabel seems like a lovely, genuine person. I love her open-mindedness and her relationship with her 16 year old daughter. I still don't have enough info to endorse Gabe and Isabel wholeheartedly, but so far they're my favorite couple of the season.

Very much so. There's a spa in California called Sulfur Springs. Fartiest smelling place on Earth. Really nice spa though. If you can get past the smell.

Gabe & his friend both had absolute artist surgeons, because neither of them present as anything other than born, biological males. Truly, bravo. Gabe and his friend also discussed something that isn't often discussed outside of the trans community that I thought was interesting. The fact that m2f trans women are often easily identifiable by sight, whereas f2m trans men are not necessarily. And this must factor into which sector of the trans Community is most often targeted in hate crimes.

I liked Danielle so much in her previous season, but now she seems to be manipulative, controlling and really just rude to Yohan. Saying in English right in front of him that she has no intention of going back to New York, knowing that he can't understand her and then laughing about it was just plain evil. She looks up at him all lovingly and laughs in his face that she's just said something she knows he can't understand. Rude. Somebody needs to sage smudge her whole attitude. I want to root for Gabriel. But the last time I stuck my neck out to root for somebody it was Alina and then she did a whole black face thing online so I don't want to endorse anybody out right again. But he seems sweet & I hope he doesn't turn out to be a creep. Jeyme & Kris are doomed. 0% chance. Kris is batty & Jeyme is clingy & over dramatic. (When your long distance love interest doesn't call for a couple of weeks, they haven't "gone missing," they're just being inconsiderate of you; they didn't "disappear.") I don't know her name yet because we haven't been introduced to her, but in the scenes from next week the older lady in the floppy hat. There's got to be some story there. I can't wait.

Ed is as disgusting as Liz is in need of psychiatric treatment. The whole argument seems fake and manufactured, too. It is just nonsensical. Watching them makes me feel dirty. Angela doesn't grasp that there's a whole spectrum of options between "sugar coating" her feelings and wilding out. Kim thinking she'll be seen as a good person for trying to buy Usman's mom off with a cow is PEAK 90DF. Glad she got called out. Wait, Sumit got his naval displaced and it was cured by prayer? What the actual fuck? Mylah is cute as a button.

Bilal tried making the fertility doctor be his psychotherapist, but he's calling Shaeeda "over emotional." Gaslighter, thy name is Bilal. I'm pretty sure Liz is bipolar & Ed feeds into that disorder. It seems pretty clear that every time they have a fight he tells her to pack her shit and leave. She actually should, and never ever come back. I also think that part of the reason she was freaking out at that party is that after she got drunk, she realized she really doesn't want to marry Ed, she just likes being on TV. And again, why is it that we are seeing two Americans who don't need K1 Visa on 90 day Fiancé? Angela is so beyond full of shit. "Ever since we said I do, it's gone downhill." Does she even watch this show?? It was never going uphill. It was always going downhill. Does she not remember smashing cake into his face? And what did she expect was going to happen when she showed up at his house in the middle of the night screaming like a banshee and destroying his property? That he was gonna come out and embrace her with love? I honestly can't with that bullshit anymore. It's got to be staged. And if they're going to stage shit, they should at least make it more entertaining and less cringe. More manufactured drama in the Libby Andre story. All I know about that whole situation is that Charlie can suck a bag of dirty dicks. Kim is still delusional; Usman is still 100% selfishly motivated and 0% interested in Kim or her feelings.

I couldn't get through Natalie's whole come-hither pizza making video. It was just too much posing and insane rambling. What wacky toppings did she put on her nasty-ass whipped cream sauce pizza?

Oh Cesar, noo. The light colored suit. The crooked bowtie. The top hat that doesn't match anything else. The cringe-o-meter was off the charts. And just when I thought it couldn't get any cringier, the whole scene in the limo. All those guys talking about what they do for a living and there's Cesar looking like the sad Monopoly man just dropped his monocle. Kim is still delusional. Usman is still a con. Shut up Libby. Shut up Libby's family. I'm sure all of your DUIs will be a fun topic for discussion at Charlie's intervention. And hey - maybe Libs & her sisters can combine their creative outlets: Libby can warble nursery rhymes while her sisters spread their ass cheeks on Only Fans! Natalie is a genuinely mentally ill person who shouldn't be entertainment for people. Debbie: ew ew ew ew ew.

I am admittedly way late. But there's no way a high school would allow this theater production to do that I need a hero number.

And nothing says "I super-don't love you back more than "I barely noticed!"

What a shitshow. Mohammed: mister tiny voice part-time devout Muslim who demands a bidet and pressures Yve to convert is also out there sexting not just other women, but other married women. When he said he "was going to get better," he clearly just meant "I need to get better at hiding my hypocrisy and infidelity." He's a fraud. Total POS. Ari is the cruelest, most sinister woman ever to be on this show. She took Bini's son away from him for months AGAIN, only this time, she takes Avi to civil war-torn Ethiopia and gives Bini no means to check in on him. What a twisted asshole she is. It's so painfully obvious that the only love there is Bini's love for Avi and his desperation not to lose another son to a cruel, vengeful American woman. He doesn't love Ari because she's unlovable. She's not even likeable. What happened to her worries about money to pay her parents back for the apartment? Where'd she suddenly get money to go stay in Ethiopia for 3 months? Her daddy, of course. Ari's whole family sucks. Bini has zero leverage or say in his own life anymore. No wonder he wants to beat the shit out of people for a living. I would too. I don't know how Jibri had time to be on the Tell-All, what with all the fucking off he needs to do. I wish John had snapped him in half. Emily's dad is the King of folding like a cheap suit. Remember how he "firmly put his foot down" and made only two requirements of her in orderto come back and live in his house: don't get pregnant again and get a job because (he) can't keep supporting her & her husband and child?" And then she got pregnant again and still lives with Mommy & Daddy, on their dime. And Emily's dad was all, *shrug*. 🙄 The only people who came out unscathed were Kobe & Guillermo.

No doubt. John's already anesthetized by booze and feeling no pain. Meanwhile, the only thing Jibri is on is his bullshit again.

I loathe John, but him harping on calling Jibri "Spahkles" was cracking me up. Jibri is WAY out of line, talkin' bout "You ain't gonna make it, you ain't gonna make it," as if his marriage isn't also precarious AF. I'm glad John's obnoxiousness is being aimed at Jibri. I can't wait for the big fisticuffs next week. No winners, just both loud, obnoxious dicks getting knuckles to the face. I'd rather watch that fight than any fight Biniyam books. Speaking of Bini, is his plan to not have a paying job until he makes it as an MMA fighter? That's... not a good plan. Unless Ari's dad enjoys supporting them in perpetuity.

Jibri up there actin' like he some kind relationship expert. Shut up, Jibri. Patrick calling out Bilal using textbook sales tactics has been the truest thing ever said on any Tell-All. Kara's mulletty ex is several kinds of cringe. And now I'm imagining being confronted with MY worst, cringiest, most mortifying ex on national TV. Shudder. It's worse than you think, guys. It's David Rainey, better known as Puck from The Real World & several prison stints. We were 12 & had been set up by my best friend at the time. I know. I told you it was bad. Many mixed feelings watching Ari get absolutely READ because it was Jibberjabber doing the reading and let's be honest... he's the broken clock that's only right twice a day, and even then, only by accident. I really like Kobe. He could do much better, though. I'm pleasantly surprised that Miona has been as quiet as she has been. Kara's extensions are cute. Her excuses for condescending to Guillermo were, however, weak. Ugh... oh noooo! The loathsome squad arriveth! Worse yet, Jahhn.

I was remiss in not mentioning how freakin' adorable Bilal's kids are. Their interactions (and her singing the prayer Shae walked down the aisle to) were just too cute.

Papa Nostrils! Dead over here.

It was thoughtful of Thais' dad to wear the same gray/black camo t-shirt he's worn literally every time we've seen him, to his daughter's wedding. It must be his Zoom shirt.