Lone Wolf March 9, 2016 Share March 9, 2016 (edited) I'm calling shenanigans on the jailbird couple in "I'm Married to a Stranger". I always question anything that supposedly happens off camera during these "reality" shows, and both the major plot points (probation sweep and missing drug tests) weren't shown, just talked about after the fact. Plus, the alleged reason for him missing his drug tests was that he "didn't have the money or transportation" to go take them, said reason narrated over a shot of his girlfriend driving him and her to the park. So there goes the transportation excuse. And how much money does it cost to take a drug test - maybe it's different if you're a probie, but I've never paid to have one done as part of a job hire. I know that these two aren't the brightest bulbs to begin with, but I've got to think that if the alternative is going back to jail, they would have kind of been able to get him to where he needed to be. Edited March 10, 2016 by Lone Wolf 1 Link to comment
qtpye March 10, 2016 Share March 10, 2016 I used to really love the documentary style of this show. Now, it really is a piece of crap. I feel like they exploit their subjects and we no longer get in depth peeks into people's lives. It is like a very crappy reality show. I have deleted my season pass. 1 Link to comment
luvly March 11, 2016 Share March 11, 2016 (edited) Yeah, the prison couple was fishy. I tend to base a story's level of believability on how many friends and family are shown during their segments (it's hard to get a lot of people to lie about the same thing while also keeping their stories and their faces straight) and that couple was strangely isolated. None of her loved ones are skeptical about this relationship? Her only friend is the one she lives with? The brother she met Christian through has nothing to say about this? Christian didn't have any family members who wanted to see him after he got out? All very sketchy. It varies from state to state, I think, but I've always heard that people on probation have to pay for their own drug tests. Edited March 11, 2016 by luvly 1 Link to comment
Pepper Mostly March 11, 2016 Share March 11, 2016 Never mind them, how about the precious pixies that met playing World of Warcraft? They've been married for 10 years in WOW, so now they are getting married for real! The guy just seemed clueless but the girl? was AWFUL. She was appallingly rude to every vendor, the nice man at the wedding venue, and to poor whatever his name was (Shane? Tom? Dick? Harry?). She was so loud and awkward and ungainly, kind of like a cross between a newborn giraffe and a gorilla. One of those girls who mixes up being polite with being inauthentic. I won't even start on her hair. My god. Run Shane or whatever your name is. Run. Jailbird couple were just pathetic. Girl is stupid and boy is also stupid with a healthy dollop of mean. 1 Link to comment
aulait March 12, 2016 Share March 12, 2016 Never mind them, how about the precious pixies that met playing World of Warcraft? They've been married for 10 years in WOW, so now they are getting married for real! The guy just seemed clueless but the girl? was AWFUL. She was appallingly rude to every vendor, the nice man at the wedding venue, and to poor whatever his name was (Shane? Tom? Dick? Harry?). She was so loud and awkward and ungainly, kind of like a cross between a newborn giraffe and a gorilla. One of those girls who mixes up being polite with being inauthentic. I won't even start on her hair. My god. Run Shane or whatever your name is. Run. Jailbird couple were just pathetic. Girl is stupid and boy is also stupid with a healthy dollop of mean. Both relationships were sad. They could have done so much better. The WOW girl was totally wack. I don't diss online relationships. I met my husband almost 19 years ago through Yahoo Personals back when it was free and SUPER weird to meet people online. What I don't get is jumping to these major life decisions with someone you've only spent a day with in person. I don't care how much Skyping you do, it never replicates the in person experience. People jumping into marriages without in person experiences makes me twitchy. It also makes me twitchy when people say there is no one else for them and this is the person they are meant to be with. No! Don't believe that Disney fairytale nonsense. People can and do have many people who can be a good fit. 1 Link to comment
StayingAfterSunday April 28, 2016 Share April 28, 2016 (edited) I thought the jail "wife" was very much in love with love; she appears to have watched too many of those young-love types of shows as evidenced by her plan to "jump into his arms" when inmate "husband" was released from jail which, incidentally, is exactly what she did. So contrived and childish. Also, how terribly juvenile to jump onto the guy's back as he's turning himself in for violating his parole. You can see he was annoyed, as I imagine he would be, considering he already has an obvious "monkey on his back." He clearly doesn't need another one. Based on the fact that he somehow couldn't find himself a ride to get drug tested and ended up with back-to-back jail sentences as a result, I don't think this boy-teen-man has any intentions of getting off substances (my opinion) or getting a job, or being a real husband, any time soon. My take on the whole thing: She is a girl who wants/needs to be "in love." With anyone. He is an overgrown teenager incapable of putting together a coherent sentence who went along with the girl's ridiculous marriage plan so that he has a place to crash in between arrests, and so that he has a piece of a - - and a cooked meal waiting for him when he gets there. Edited April 29, 2016 by StayingAfterSunday Link to comment
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