Season 2 Discussion

[Mothra]

1 hour ago, LocalGovt said:

What if they tell you they need $$ for a specific purpose, and you believe that the money you give them is going to that purpose?

Makes no difference, except that now you know the recipient is a liar.  But if you give someone a gift, it's theirs, no longer yours.  If you *loan* someone money for a specific purpose and they use it for something else, that's different.  Then it's still your money, and you should ask for it back.  But a gift?  Nah--that's theirs.

[MeganTackett]

Hi guys, long-time reader first-time poster here. Wanted to share a video I put together with highlights from the season so far. 

As for the discussion about Ricky spending money on Ximena, I think she’s at least doing a good job of pretending to be interested in him (if she isn’t, I could see her being genuinely interested as well, hard to tell). I can see more of a connection between them, than say, Tarik & Hazel. 

[iwasish]

6 hours ago, Mothra said:

The fact is, though, that he's fallen in love with her (accepting his definition of "love") as she is.  Her aim is to get to the US and have a better life.  If he is willing to take her as she is, why would she want to complicate matters by adding a layer of pretense?  All she has to do is restrain herself around Mongo, and she'll be fine.  If she learns to love him, that's great, but even an arranged marriage wouldn't require pretending to love someone you've just met.  Even people who marry when they're madly in love/lust learn more about each other after they've been married a while, things that either deepen affection or lead to divorce.

Do you think he really loves her?  I don't.

I think he thinks he does. But he says he has doubts about her motives  and he doesn’t want to just be a meal ticket to the US for her.  

He isn’t all that annoyed with Dean, and he clearly stated that he didn’t know why Hazel would be upset about the questions about her ex, if it didn’t strike a nerve with her.

i don’t think  he will marry her  if she continues to refuse to sleep with him.

[Deafening Roar]

3 minutes ago, iwasish said:

i don’t think  he will marry her  if she continues to refuse to sleep with him.

100% agree. That's going to be the point of contention between them.

She clearly likes him enough to accept him and make a life with him.

To me, it's all very reminiscent of Alla and Matt, which I had no problem with just like I have no problem with Hazel's intentions.

[iwasish]

5 hours ago, SevenCostanza said:

No he doesn't love her. Like alot of the Americans on this show he wants to own her.   

He says he does in order to justify that he wants to bang her. But he wants to believe that she truly loves him, he certainly doesn’t want to be a means to an end ..... yet he is insecure enough that he wants that sense of obligation from her, in case “love”’ isn’t enough, the gratitude and obligation for him rescuing her will tie her to him.

[Deafening Roar]

To me the most unfortunate part of this whole shitshow is that Darcey didn't throw a pair of scissors at Jesse's head. That hair is a wreck.

[Marilee]

I seriously love catching up with the show on this forum, y’all got me hee-hawin’ louder than Angela over here! I’m loving the nicknames!

Sweet Baby Jesus, how many women is Ricky sending cash to? He needs to just shut the hell up, if he’s dumb enough to send money to random chicks online then why split hairs on how they’re spending it. If he’s so concerned about the misuse of his funds he needs to be worried about Melissa, I’m sure she’s one who’s spending his money on plastic surgery. Other Girl Who’s Name I Cant Spell had a pretty routine nasal surgery. Big flipping deal if her surgeon cleaned up her profile while he was at it. Melissa looks like a blow-up doll, is he stupid enough to think those boobies are real? Somebody paid for those things and I bet it wasn’t Melissa. On another note, if he proposes to #2 with a ring he bought for the woman whose name he accidentally called her, I will fly to the tell-all and personally help her kick his ass when she finds out.

Darcey and Jesse are ridiculous, spoiled babies. Why did he feel it necessary to keep mentioning that it was a Loubitan shoe he was “assaulted” with. Imagine how offended he’d have been if it’d  been a Payless BOGO special! Jackass.

Is it just me or is Angela’s hair getting green? And it’s so endearing to bray at your beloved about whether or not he’s “masterbatin’ to them  Instergram wimmin” in the town market square.

 I thought Jon’s proposal was really sweet. 

Edited September 17, 2018 by Marilee

[noveltylibrary]

On 9/10/2018 at 11:35 PM, JasonH said:

 

I seriously cannot believe how stupid Darcey is.   Just had to get that out (for the 40th time). sorry Jason couldn't delete your quote

[TwirlyGirly]

Paul and Karine:

From what I know, in Latin, Central, and South American cultures, guests in your home are offered, and entitled to, your food. It is considered bad manners NOT to allow them anything they may want, even if that means they eat the last crumb you have. OTOH, they'd be expected to reciprocate when you are a guest in THEIR home. My ex is Puerto Rican, and I admit I had a hard time with this (especially when we first got together and had very little money). He had a nephew that knew exactly when we ate dinner, and he just "happened" to be in the neighborhood and stopped by every.single.night. - at dinner time! The way I was brought up, that was rude. The way my husband was raised, that was perfectly okay. I'd like to say I got over it, but it always bugged me. The best I could manage was to stop complaining about it.

Edited September 17, 2018 by TwirlyGirly

[Major Bigtime]

Why are we just now seeing Marta the exotic dancer, er, stripper?

Paul really looks like an out of place psycho.

[Ellie Godfrey]

4 minutes ago, TwirlyGirly said:

Paul and Karine:

From what I know, in Latin, Central, and South American cultures, guests in your home are offered, and entitled to, your food. It is considered bad manners NOT to allow them anything they may want, even if that means they eat the last crumb you have. OTOH, they'd be expected to reciprocate when you are a guest in THEIR home. My ex is Puerto Rican, and I admit I had a hard time with this (especially when we first got together and had very little money). He had a nephew that knew exactly when we ate dinner, and he just "happened" to be in the neighborhood and stopped by every.single.night. - at dinner time! The way I was brought up, that was rude. The way my husband was raised, that was perfectly okay. I'd like to say I got over it, but it always bugged me. The best I could manage was to stop complaining about it.

Very few of these Americans bother to learn about the cultures of their intendeds. Angela is a prime example. Paul is a selfish, insensitive SOB.

[Ellie Godfrey]

Jesse & Darcey need to get married, if for no other reason than to spare the rest of the world from having to date either one.

[Alonzo Mosely FBI]

We have Paul in a buckled neoprene vest and a good Catholic stripper with a devout Muslim ? And a BJ thrown in ? I am totally IN THIS WEEK !!!!!!

[Chalby]

Who the heck is dressing Tarik. Does he not realize how stupid he appears? Black fishnet over a wifebeater? Ewww!!!!

On 9/12/2018 at 1:18 PM, MrFluffy said:

Ximena also seems a class act who knows what she's doing. If they both fulfill each other's needs, why not? She's intelligent and would probably make a good stepmother and kind wife. And kudos to Ricky for his Spanish skills.

I like her as well, and I was insulted by Ricky questioning a nose job. It's okay for Melissa to have a fake butt and breast and hair, but a nose job...? God forbid!

[rideashire]

Ricky is an idiot. He made such a big deal about this confession when he could have just casually mentioned it after a couple drinks the very first night and she wouldn't have cared. He dug his own grave there.

Also, all these people throw around the word "love" and the phrase being "in love" way too freely.

[Ellie Godfrey]

Darcey's gonna go get a bottle of wine. WTF does she want a proposal from overgrown toddler Jesse?? She needs intense therapy.

[Ellie Godfrey]

Angela said she'd quit smoking SHE LIED!

[rideashire]

I feel bad for Micheal. He seems like a nice, calm dude that would make a decent husband. I'm surprised he lasted long as he has with angela. Hopefully the fact that she got physical with him is a clue he needs to cut her loose. He can find another ticket to america. Save yourself, man. 

In addition, that resort bar was spooky as hell. Not another soul in sight. Low budget horror movie set. 

Welp, she took the trump hat back. It's serious now.

[Deafening Roar]

Once again this week, these people have exhausted me! Whew!!

[Adeejay]

Rachel said that she doesn’t trust easily, and yet, she got pregnant on a one night stand and travelled all the way to England to be with a man she met online.  

Ximena was sure to find out about Melissa when the show aired, but Ricky had plenty of time to come up with a plausible explanation.  Why the rush?!

Based on the goodbye between Jesse and Darcey, I knew our nightmare would continue.

Angela is either going through serious nicotine withdrawal or losing it. 

[CoachWristletJen]

17 minutes ago, Godfrey said:

Angela said she'd quit smoking SHE LIED!

She absolutely lied. I think she just enjoys pushing Michael around. Not to mention giving him a good wallop when the mood hits her. She feels completely justified in doing so, which is extremely unsettling.

[Deafening Roar]

Michael & Angela: Angela, go home. Take whatever you want, the MAGA hat, your pride, Michael's balls on a silver platter, whatever, but just GO HOME.

Pol & Kreeny: I'm not making fun of him because he may have been born with some kind of issue, but when he runs, his legs don't bend??

Ricky & Ximena: I think once she weighs the options, she will stay with him. Coming to America is the whole point for these dumbass foreigners.

Darcey & Jesse: if only he truly was coming back to dump her but we all know their old song and dance, same shit, different day.

Marta & Dia: since they are so new, I'm just not invested enough to make any observations. They are culturally very different so we will all be onboard this trainwreck as usual.

Rachel & Jon: wahhhhhh Rachel is so whiny and she has a long road ahead with his record. I'm just glad we get to see baby Lucy, she's the highlight of the show ❤️

Tarik & Hazel: she doesn't love you Tarik, it appears she barely even likes you. Either take it or leave it, bud, that's about the best you're gonna get out of her.

[lgprimes]

So I kinda watch this show intermittently ( missed tonight’s second half) but am surprised to hear people ragging on Paul so much. I mean, I get that he’s an utter weirdo, but any time I’ve seen he and Karine lately she’s been the one acting like a lazy entitled melodramatic teenager.

Seems like he doesn’t deserve to get so much of the blame for that dysfunction.

 if I’m way off base please tell me what I’ve missed so I can understand!

[CoachWristletJen]

58 minutes ago, Alonzo Mosely FBI said:

We have Paul in a buckled neoprene vest and a good Catholic stripper with a devout Muslim ? And a BJ thrown in ? I am totally IN THIS WEEK !!!!!!

I'm now convinced that vest is also there to comfort him during storms. 

The only way to know for sure is to watch the show and wait for a good loud clap of thunder, and then see if he runs rapidly indoors and attempts to hide underneath the couch or other bulky piece of furniture.

If he can't run indoors, he will zig-zag or go in a serpentine pattern.

Edited September 17, 2018 by CoachWristletJen

[VegasDenise]

I hate to admit but Rachel and Jon had me crying like a baby. I want these two to be happy. 

[Kangatush]

My new go to to pick a fight is to follow someone while bleating, "fala".  

I don't think feeding guests is a cultural thing, it's a good manners thing, at least to me.  But I also understand bitching to your wife afterwards since neither of you are currently earning any money.  She's way too immature to be a wife and/or mother, and he's a weird, hairy, stress ball.  Just a bad match.

9 minutes ago, CoachWristletJen said:

I'm now convinced that vest is also there to comfort him during storms. 

Thank you so very much for this.

[Scarlett45]

When this season first started I didn’t expect Angela and Michael to make it, but I didn’t expect her to get violent! Oh my goodness what was that about?!! Why did she 1. Expect fidelity from someone she’d never met? 2. Get all nutso that she wasn’t on his phone?

[Deafening Roar]

Yes it's a cultural thing. I was married to a latino and every time we went to his family's I told him they always force food and drink on me. Of course they didn't but that's what it felt like to me. They bring the drinks out to you right after you get there and then I would be sitting there holding an unopened drink the entire time because I wasn't thirsty.

On the other hand they probably thought I was a bitch because I didn't offer anything when they came to our house but we don't typically do that in the US.

[Rt66vintage]

28 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:

When this season first started I didn’t expect Angela and Michael to make it, but I didn’t expect her to get violent! Oh my goodness what was that about?!! Why did she 1. Expect fidelity from someone she’d never met? 2. Get all nutso that she wasn’t on his phone?

Yes, this! The way she curls her lip & thrusts her "1-2-3 lies" fingers at him, snarling like an animal, over what!? Admit it, Ang, you really can't stand it that you're way too old for him, he prefers black women and you're far too insecure. No need to get nasty mean about it.

Edited September 17, 2018 by Rt66vintage
you're not your

[Frozendiva]

I was hoping that Melissa and Ximena were roommates are were doing a nice job on Ricky. No, she did not have to know about Melissa but at some point it would come up. Especially if she meets Ricky's kids and they ask about 'Melissa'. No, no one wants to be #2 on the list. And it was wrong of Ricky to do so. What he should have done was gone home and *then* chatted her up on the Colombia Cupid site. She also took money from him to probably pay for her plastic surgery. What she did with that cash was her business, but if push comes to shove, he can sue her for it to be returned.

It was wrong of Paul to treat Karine's family like thieves. However, her family knows that Paul is not wealthy, Karine has no income, and the expenses add up. A simple sandwich and cookies or whatever would have been fine. Karine has known what Paul has been like all along and still chose to marry him. Suck it up sweetheart. He's the price of life in America.

Angela, you were quite vulgar with Michael. You may have also gotten yourself arrested in Nigeria and you'd have more worms in your can than you do. There is no true love with you two. You are abusive and abrasive and rude. Michael may seem more mild-mannered, but his goal is on the prize to get to the US.

Don't know enough about Marta and her Algerian dude - however, when he starts to tell you what to do, the red flags do come up. Watch where ya goes.  Stay in the US, take care of your kids, ease yourself out of the exotic dance job, go to school and get some skills and then find a better dude. Funny that none of the love interests will meet someone halfway.

Rachel, you are in a two week fantasy with Jon. You really don't know him at all. And he has not been sick, or angry, or anything. Just on his best behavior. Listen to his friends. And it's hardly unfair that you have to go home.  Both you and Jon have a lot of hurdles to get past before there is any happy ending - at least for now. True love has nothing to do with need. Both you and Jon need to deal with immigration lawyers and various consulates and embassies if you have any plans to get together.  Both of you are not in a really good place right now to bring anything to a relationship. Once you get bored of Jon and vice versa, it will end.

Jesse, stay in Amsterdam and move on and let Darcey also move on. Both of you will not have a happy ending with each other.

[Deafening Roar]

Frozendiva, you just brought up a good point, these people are so quick to hop, skip and jump on a plane and fly all over the world to meet their "true love" but that is so scary to me! At least here in the US you are on your own home turf, if you act a fool, yeah, there's consequences, but you are on your own soil, so to speak. On the other hand, going to say Lagos Nigeria and acting a fool the way Angela did is very reckless and dangerous. Jails and/or prisons abroad are different than here!

You can't just go to another part of the world and act all entitled like here at home. SMH these people are just plum crazy!

[Rt66vintage]

27 minutes ago, Deafening Roar said:

Yes it's a cultural thing. I was married to a latino and every time we went to his family's I told him they always force food and drink on me. Of course they didn't but that's what it felt like to me. They bring the drinks out to you right after you get there and then I would be sitting there holding an unopened drink the entire time because I wasn't thirsty.

On the other hand they probably thought I was a bitch because I didn't offer anything when they came to our house but we don't typically do that in the US.

To be fair, since Pole said Karine's whole family was against the marriage, is it possible this eating a week's worth of groceries by the brother et al, was simply done to piss Pole off? They don't sound like lovely relatives. I'm on Paul's side this week. He's gone out of his way to try & make Karine comfortable, spending his money, which appears to be quite dear to him. She locks herself in her filthy bedroom & is treating him so poorly. I suppose next week she'll break the big news to him. Poor Paul.

[PeaceLily2]

11 hours ago, Deafening Roar said:

Michael & Angela: Angela, go home. Take whatever you want, the MAGA hat, your pride, Michael's balls on a silver platter, whatever, but just GO HOME.

Pol & Kreeny: I'm not making fun of him because he may have been born with some kind of issue, but when he runs, his legs don't bend??

Ricky & Ximena: I think once she weighs the options, she will stay with him. Coming to America is the whole point for these dumbass foreigners.

Darcey & Jesse: if only he truly was coming back to dump her but we all know their old song and dance, same shit, different day.

Marta & Dia: since they are so new, I'm just not invested enough to make any observations. They are culturally very different so we will all be onboard this trainwreck as usual.

Rachel & Jon: wahhhhhh Rachel is so whiny and she has a long road ahead with his record. I'm just glad we get to see baby Lucy, she's the highlight of the show ❤️

Tarik & Hazel: she doesn't love you Tarik, it appears she barely even likes you. Either take it or leave it, bud, that's about the best you're gonna get out of her.

LMAO at “his legs don’t bend”.

eta:  if Pole has a medical reason for not being able to bend his legs, it isn’t funny...... but the way Deafening said it did make me laugh. 

Edited September 17, 2018 by PeaceLily2

[Stacee]

On 9/12/2018 at 2:16 PM, sainte-chapelle said:

I agree the Nigerian dresses are so beautiful. I love them as well as the lovely a Japanese kimonos. That said I would feel that by wearing them, though I admire them, maybe offensive to some and considered cultural appropriation...it is a fine line. I doubt Angela has this foresight but just a thought.....

Good point. However with Angela, I think it would be perfectly okay if she dressed in the local garb since she's in that country. When in Rome...

Edited September 17, 2018 by Stacee
Posted in wrong episode

[Frozendiva]

7 minutes ago, Deafening Roar said:

Frozendiva, you just brought up a good point, these people are so quick to hop, skip and jump on a plane and fly all over the world to meet their "true love" but that is so scary to me! At least here in the US you are on your own home turf, if you act a fool, yeah, there's consequences, but you are on your own soil, so to speak. On the other hand, going to say Lagos Nigeria and acting a fool the way Angela did is very reckless and dangerous. Jails and/or prisons abroad are different than here!

You can't just go to another part of the world and act all entitled like here at home. SMH these people are just plum crazy!

I would hope that the various embassies/consulates would enclose a contact information sheet along with any visas you get to visit X country - where the nearest US Embassy is, how to get help if you find yourself needing any help. Or it is in your best interest to get some information. Most of the folks who are part of this show are not world travelers. Seems like a lot of them spend their life savings to meet a 'true love'. True love is rare and you have to work at it.  For a lot of them, this is their first time abroad. They are not savvy and most seem pretty clueless. Michael could easily bring Angela up on assault charges. Granted she is behaving in a stupid, selfish, and entitled manner, so he probably wouldn't. And he may have secrets that he wouldn't want coming out at this time. She would not want to have to deal with the Nigerian police and also various diplomatic issues.

Few of these folks' stories seem to be about true love. More like power over another.  You hold the visa cards. However, you are also signing away 10 years of your life looking after this person, so you must choose to do so wisely.

Rachel is lucky that Jon is British and there aren't as many hurdles to overcome culturally. He has to deal with his criminal record and she has to see if she can move to the UK. Jobs are hard to find, and she doesn't seem highly skilled. She also shares custody of another child with her ex-husband. It's too bad that the universe is keeping them apart. The universe knows what it is doing. Maybe it is sending her warning signals to slow down. Jon kept his open relationships with other women from her. What else is he keeping?

Paul and Karine are semi-doomed unless they both learn a language in which to communicate. The translator app will not keep this alive. Karine is young and immature. Paul is immature. Surprised that he was allowed to travel to Brazil with his criminal record. Ah well.

[Kangatush]

I'm team Jon on this one.  As long as it was before I was in an actual relationship with you, I don't have any communicable diseases, and I either don't have, or you know about any, kids, my past sex life is absolutely none of your business.  

The one half exception is if I have been married, you have the right to know why that marriage ended, including if I cheated.

[Scarlett45]

1 minute ago, Kangatush said:

I'm team Jon on this one.  As long as it was before I was in an actual relationship with you, I don't have any communicable diseases, and I either don't have, or you know about any, kids, my past sex life is absolutely none of your business.  

The one half exception is if I have been married, you have the right to know why that marriage ended, including if I cheated.

Yes basically. I’d also add if anyone had accused me of sexual assault (full exception).

Seems that Jon was single and liked to sleep around (sometimes with people who were married) but HE was free. Rachel has no room to talk as she has a baby by a one night stand. A BABY, so she had unprotected sex with a stranger......

[BradandJanet]

Angela usually wears trashy stuff, but she got quality in that spandex tank top. A shelf bra is not designed to support more than a C cup at most. Trooper tank top exceeded its design tolerances when she and her appendages were running in it and it didn't explode from the stress. Just wow. 

[sconstant]

I thought Paul's flowers were pretty.  Everything else in that whole mess isn't.

[islandgal140]

This episode became gold with the preview and knowing that next week I will be blessed to see Paul's slew-footed frog legs run up some stairs. 

Michael obviously can't handle Ang's Big Dick Energy! He needs to move onto greener pastures. There has got to be another Narkiya out there somewhere. 

Welp, I now know the Brazilian Portuguese word for talk is "Falar" since Paul said it about a million times. So I can now claim that this mess is educational and TLC has minimally fulfilled its task as being the Learning Channel. 

Color me surprised, marriage didn't change everything and make it all better like Karine thought. Who would've thunk it? 

I think it is telling that all Jon's friends and family are concerned but what makes me think their concern is so genuine is the way they seem so worried for Rachel and her daughter. Typically, and unfortunately, too many times in these kind of long distance relationships followed by days together and insta-engagement, the prospective grooms side try to almost demonize the woman. They  aren't doing that here. His own mama, his sister, and all his own friends just truly think that Jon ain't shit when it comes to being husband and father material. They all seemed worried about the aftermath of what he will leave behind when he eventually (they think) mucks it all up. 

And Rachel please, the gov't isn't keeping you apart, Jon's criminal past is. 

Tariq still begging Hazel for kisses in the preview? I know that simp is gonna marry her even though she has visibly recoiled from his touch on multiple occasions. Can we just FF to 5 years from now when Tariq is getting begrudging biannual sex from his 'loving' wife with half her family stuffed into is townhouse?

I outright cackled when Jesse said that one of the things he loved in CT was the food. Did he even get a chance to taste any? They got into fights and stormed off before eating every damn meal!!!!

[Frozendiva]

Jesse was probably amazed at the size of the supermarkets/grocery stores. And the food selection available. Plus the large fridge sizes here in North America.

[Scarlett45]

6 minutes ago, islandgal140 said:

And Rachel please, the gov't isn't keeping you apart, Jon's criminal past is. 

Yes. His criminal past isn’t even a non violent crime (like drug possession or tax evasion), he hurt another person. Imo crimes against people are another level compared to a property crime. 

[hookedontv]

1 hour ago, Deafening Roar said:

Pol & Kreeny: I'm not making fun of him because he may have been born with some kind of issue, but when he runs, his legs don't bend??

I was going to say that when he runs, it looks like he’s wearing cement shoes. He doesn’t pick his feet up at all. 

[LilaFowler]

1 hour ago, Kangatush said:

My new go to to pick a fight is to follow someone while bleating, "fala".  

I don't think feeding guests is a cultural thing, it's a good manners thing, at least to me.  But I also understand bitching to your wife afterwards since neither of you are currently earning any money.  She's way too immature to be a wife and/or mother, and he's a weird, hairy, stress ball.  Just a bad match.

Thank you so very much for this.

"FALEEEEEEEE"

[PityFree]

7 minutes ago, LilaFowler said:

"FALEEEEEEEE"

Look! A goat!

Edited September 17, 2018 by PityFree

[sconstant]

3 minutes ago, Frozendiva said:

Jesse was probably amazed at the size of the supermarkets/grocery stores. And the food selection available. Plus the large fridge sizes here in North America.

And the jumbo-sized whine-fests.  Free refils on those.

Anyone else hear that Darcey wants him to get a work visa, not a K1 - because that would be less, um, details?

So, to recap: (a) they meet; (b) she visits; (c) he visits; (d) at some point he figures out that she can't sponsor him with a K1; (e) COMPLETELY UNRELATEDLY he's an asshole and won' t propose though she thought he might.    

[PupCal]

So I know she doesn't speak English well but can we get Mama Karine a forums account? Because I love her.

[Lynnlynnlynn586]

1 hour ago, Rt66vintage said:

Yes, this! The way she curls her lip & thrusts her "1-2-3 lies" fingers at him, snarling like an animal, over what!? Admit it, Ang, you really can't stand it that you're way too old for him, he prefers black women and you're far too insecure. No need to get nasty mean about it.

Agree

[Owwwww ma leg]

1 hour ago, Deafening Roar said:

Frozendiva, you just brought up a good point, these people are so quick to hop, skip and jump on a plane and fly all over the world to meet their "true love" but that is so scary to me! At least here in the US you are on your own home turf, if you act a fool, yeah, there's consequences, but you are on your own soil, so to speak. On the other hand, going to say Lagos Nigeria and acting a fool the way Angela did is very reckless and dangerous. Jails and/or prisons abroad are different than here!

You can't just go to another part of the world and act all entitled like here at home. SMH these people are just plum crazy!

Ever watched Locked up abroad? Fascinating and frightening.

[TrininisaScorp]

Besides doing a pretty good Chantel/Pedro ("Chu deal wid jour family, bay-bee") and Anfisa/Jorge ("GET. MY. RED. BAG.") arguing comedy routine, my adorable husband and I have added screaming "FALA" to each other and following each other around the house and surprising the other one with FALA.  We laugh until it hurts.  Man, I love this show. 

Yeah, Karine may be acting like a petulant child, but Paul has a temper and he clearly lost it at the food thing.  I'm Indo-Caribbean (Trinidadian with South Asian ethnicity), and if someone comes to your home (even the cable guy), you MUST offer them food and drink.  It is your obligation as a host even if you have little to nothing.  Period.  Thus, I was really confused by Paul being pissed.  I did love Paul taking out his choice to move to Brazil and leaving his family and my fav, his dog of 10 years (WHAT?!), on Karine and her family.  

Ricky is just a tacky dick.  Gonna propose with the ring for Option Chica #1 to Option Chica #2?  SMH.  Why you been married 2 or 3 times, bro?  Oh.  'Cause you dumb as hell.  And, you don't "follow your heart", you follow your dick...these are different things.  I think Ximena forgives him, as it is in her best interest. She can play the hurt victim for a while to get him to do what she wants.  

Rachel and Jon - I think they are a hot mess and are just causing themselves nothing but heartache, but I actually see a connection between these two.  And baby Lucy makes my ovaries sing, she's so GD cute!  I luf her!

Angela/Michael - Mannnn.  That escalated quickly.  Angela needs to watch how she behaves with her temper in a foreign country b/c she might need her precious president to get her out of a Nigerian jail.  Michael is straight up scamming, but Angela knows this, SHE KNOWS, and is punishing him for it, but moves forward with him anyway.  His explanation to her about BJ-gate is incredibly gross, as is his view on women:  I didn't tell her how I cheated b/c I know what kind of mouthy bitch she is.  Ew.  They deserve each other. 

Marta/Algerian dude - That's gonna get messy fast.  Her talking head about her experience with commitment-phobe American men had me wondering where she was looking.  If it is at her job, I think I might see the problem.  Only on this show are we getting a 3rd gen stripper, but I'm not gonna judge her job bc she gotta pay bills and feed those kids; I just wish she saw it as a temp measure, stop gap to something sustainable.   Her kids are super cute, though, and I wish she wouldn't go to Algeria.  Something about this dude weirds me out, and let's be real, the Middle Eastern/North African men on this show DO NOT have the best track record. 

Darcy/Jesse - Can this rinse, lather, repeat nightmare BE OVER?!  It's so boring at this point.  And whomever posted earlier in the season that those two clearly get off on fighting then make-up sex was 100% dead on correct.  Also, I was once (many, many moons ago) a 13 year old girl, and I think the older of Darcy's weird ass named kids has a little crush on step daddy.  Her body language on the hug and the lewks her little sister gave her told me the whole story, IMO.  I love that one of the things Jesse loves about America is the "free refills".  GTFO, Hitler Youth.

Edited September 17, 2018 by TrininisaScorp