I Found the Worst Person on "90 Day Fiance"

As I have mentioned before on this site, I watch a good amount of trashy reality tv shows with my wife. I used to watch stuff like "The Real World" and "The Hills" when I still lived at my folks house, but after meeting my wife, that was when I got super involved with trashy reality tv. It is a nice way to turn my brain off and just sit back and, quite frankly, judge other people. I know that is not a good quality to have, but sometimes it is hard for me to control it when watching.

The one show that makes this happen most for me is "90 Day Fiance". That show aggravates me to no end and I will let the comments fly from time to time. I know there are many iterations of this show, but the most recent season, the original "90 Day", the American's have been downright unpleasant. The American's on this season feel like some of the worst of the worst. TLC must have decided they wanted to show how stupid we have become as a society, and they totally nailed it this time around. There's one dude that claims to have an allergy to perfume. I've never heard of such a thing in my life. There's another gentleman, who I believe is in his late 50's, who still goes out and parties with ladies in their 20's. One lady who lives in Alabama, has had to make concessions for her friends who claim immigrants need to be deported. Clearly they have decided to cast horrific people. And in some ways I think it is good for people to see how dumb our country has become. I am so distraught and disgusted by America right now, and "90 Day" makes me despise some people from America more than ever. But there's one person this season that takes the cake for the worst casting I've ever seen. I have been trying to be happier lately. I am trying to live my life being in a good mood as much as possible. I try not to come on this site and bash stuff like so many other modern bloggers do nowadays. But this person made me so angry and frustrated last night that I have to take some time and go off on them.

This person is named Catie, or maybe she spells it Cadie, I'm not sure, and she is, by a million miles, the most despicable person I have watched on this series. Catie is from Oregon and she marries a gentleman named Josh, who is from the UK. Right from the start things felt off about Catie. During one of her first interviews on the show, it may have been the very first one in fact, she claimed that she liked to drink and drinking tends to end with her making out with random people. That is all well and good. I have no problem with her doing this when she was single and living her life. But what she said next was what really frustrated me and started my anger towards her. She claimed that the excess drinking and making out is due to the fact that she has OCD.

Now, I'm a person who has living with OCD for as long as I can remember. The way my OCD manifests itself is by counting or doing the same thing multiple times until it "feels right" to me. This will come about by turning off a stove or lights in the house or making my kids lunches. It can be the simplest thing in the world, but it is also very frustrating. But, the one thing my OCD has never made me do is drink to excess or make out with random strangers. Now, I do notice that when she is interviewed that she can be twitchy from time to time. That happens to me too, but it is never due to OCD or the like. It is just a twitch or a tick. And after going to therapy for almost 25 years now, I have been able to really calm it all down. But, for this person to blame her alcoholism and infidelity on OCD, that's a bridge too far for me. The sheer fact of the matter is she is a child that doesn't take accountability. She is using OCD as a crutch and that is highly frustrating to me. OCD is a very real thing that very many people suffer from. But for Catie to use it to excuse her horrendous behavior, that is why people don't always believe others when they say they have OCD. People don't look at OCD as a serious thing because of people like this person on "90 Day".

Watching her this season it is clear that she has a drinking problem. She doesn't know when to stop. She over drinks and that's when the cheating starts. And yes, making out with strangers, right in front of her then fiance and now husband, is cheating to me. She has tried to explain away that she just wants to have fun and be young. The fact of the matter is that she is a cheater and she dragged this poor dude all the way from the UK just to marry him and then embarrass him on television.

Last night my wife and I watched part 1 of "Tell All", and Catie came off very, very bad. Even her close friends came on and tried to tell her that what she was doing was wrong. What was Catie's response you ask? She blamed her husband, laughed during uncomfortable moments and cried and cried until she stormed off stage. That, to me, is the sign of someone who knows what they did was wrong, but won't admit guilt. Her actions last night are not something that can be connected to OCD. OCD has nothing to do with her constantly cheating on her now husband. But, like a lot of people on shows like these, crying is the best way to walk off stage and hope that others will feel compassion for them.

After, and during the show, I kept telling my wife that Catie needs to get real, professional help. I even questioned if TLC should continue to film her. It felt gross and awkward that they kept her onscreen for as long as they did last night. And she is going to be back for parts two and three of "Tell All". I get that it makes for good tv, hell, I'm writing about it today. But this feels like a bridge too far. Catie continues to yell and scream at her husband. She continues to blame him for her misgivings. She refuses to listen to her friends. And all the while, she continues to use OCD as a crutch. For these, and many, many more reasons, are why I feel like Catie is the worst person that this series has ever put on screen, and I kind of wish they would stop filming her and convince her to get real help. She has way more than just OCD. But, as long as they will keep her on the payroll, I'm sure she'll continue to use excuses and make awful choices. 

Ty

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TLC Week: The Awesomeness of "90 Day Fiance" and the Fallout of the "Tell All"

This week I'm going to talk specifically about shows on the TLC network. I have no bones about the amount of shows I watch on this network. I have also talked about some shows they put on that look disgusting. I have pleaded to anyone that will listen to me how they definitely need to change the name of the channel because the only thing I have "learned" from the learning channel is that anyone, and I mean anyone, can be on a reality show.

That leads me to what I want to touch on today. I love the show, and all its iterations, "90 Day Fiance". TLC has also learned that this is their biggest cash cow, and they have started to show the show in 2 and 3 hour blocks, and they even have 2 different versions on Sunday and Monday. TLC knows that this is their "hit" show, and they are milking it, as they should.

Last night was the "Tell All" for the most recent season of "90 Day Fiance: Happily ever After?", love the question mark in the title by the way, and it was mesmerizing. I know that this is vapid and stupid and content for the sake of content, but I was very intrigued by what I watched with my wife last night. I need to say too, the last hour of the 2 hour show was the "Tell All". The first hour was dedicated to one of the worst, which means they were one of the most fun to watch, couples on this recent season.

The couple in question are Colt and Larissa. Colt is clearly in love, like for real, with his mom, and Larissa has been in the US for 7 months and has been arrested for domestic assault 3 times. It is a real train wreck, and I literally cannot look away. I loathe these 2 people, but they make for great reality television. All the stuff that went on, from the trail, to Colt's mom telling him how awful his ex wife is, to Larissa living with a new friend, getting a new boyfriend and being asked to stay home for the trial because of ICE, it was all tremendous TV. It is like a drug that I know the effects will wear off soon, but right now, I am hooked. The Colt and Larissa special was wonderful and disturbing and weird and everything I hoped for. My wife and I judged everyone, and isn't that what reality TV nowadays is all about? It was great.

Then the "Tell All" came on, and let me tell you, it was something else. The yelling and fighting and stupidity and lying and ignorance was at an all time high. Some of the couples, mainly Pao and Russ and Andrei and Elizabeth, fans of the show will know who I am talking about, didn't really have to be there. But, the stuff between Jay and Ashley was great. Jay is a 20 year old from Jamaica that has cheated on his wife Ashley 2 times that we know of. He is a scumbag, but she is an idiot. She took this dude back twice after he did this stuff, and I am supposed to feel sorry for her? Get the hell out of here. Colt was there by himself, because he will be alone forever, and he just berated and yelled at everyone. He is a sad, sad, sad man. Larissa didn't even want to be in the same room as him, so she didn't go to the "Tell All", opting to call in via Skype. Nicole was really unnecessary last night, but I feel like something big is going to happen between her and Azan next week.

The cream of the crop that was this train wreck was Pedro and Chantel. It has been widely shown that the 2 families do not get along. They despise each other so much, TLC is doing a spinoff show about that which premieres tonight. Don't worry, my review will be up tomorrow. But the way these 2 interact with one another is toxic. It is really, really bad. Pedro always "jokes" about leaving Chantel, and Chantel is so god damn condescending. It is wild. When Chantel's parents came on, that was when it went from a 10 to an 11. Pedro kept leaving the stage, and then coming back to yell at her mom and dad. The mom and dad are as condescending as Chantel is towards Pedro. It was crazy lit, the way they yelled over one another and fought last night. My wife and I both watched, first in laughter, then in horror and then in sadness for how messed up they all are.

This 2 hour block was a total homerun last night. I say again, I know I shouldn't watch this stuff, but I am hooked, and I don't feel that bad about it. Reality TV is supposed to be like this, and TLC has really found a groove with the whole "90 Day" stuff. My dad hat is off to them.

Ty

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Ty Watches "90 Day Fiance" Season Premier

A show that I’m pretty certain I’ve talked about on the site before came back this past Sunday night, and boy oh boy did they up the ante.

I have said many times that my wife has gotten into the whole reality TV craze, and one of our favorites, “90 Day Fiancé What Now?”, is back. This show is great because it’s so bad. It’s so poorly acted, and yes, these people are trying to be actors. I know it’s “reality” TV, but we all know now that it’s all scripted. “90 Day Fiancé What Now?” is “The Room” of reality TV. It started out as a look inside the K-1 Visa process, but now it’s blossomed into an insane portrait of couples that should not be together.

When the show first came out, it wasn’t as wild as it is now, and this newest season, they got some of the craziest and unstable people that they’ve ever had on the show. They took the worst of the bunch, making it the most gripping, I use that term very, very lightly, and engaging season so far. I mean, the couple that live in Vegas with the man’s mom, they’re nuts, in all the best reality TV ways. Since we last saw them, the wife may get deported, she flushed her wedding ring down the toilet, they got a new cat, the guy is even creepier than before and the mom is even more stressed out. We have the couple where the guy got a Tinder account only days after he was married to his girlfriend, who broke off 2 previous engagements because of infidelity. When these 2 are on screen, it’s so cringeworthy. It’s all fighting, the young guy trying to justify his scumbag decision, and the wife leaving him to walk home on the side of the road. We get the couple with the husband that legit looks like The Penguin, and is subjecting his wife to living in a storage unit, with no stove. Every time they interview her, I swear she wants to scream out, “help!, I’m a prisoner”. She looks so unhappy and uncomfortable. She’s also so bored, she’s taking an ESL class taught by her husband. The most “normal” couple is the one that lives in North Carolina, but we find out very soon that they aren’t together anymore, and then they flash back to 3 months prior. The husband is terrified to move, and the wife wants to become an actress and thinks Chicago is the best place to achieve this goal. She is also 20 and very much acts that way. The husband also gives off a real peaked in high school vibe.

But the best, at least so far, is the couple that lives in Atlanta. They’re a real mess. The wife’s family wants to hire a PI to investigate the husband. The husband started a huge fight with the wife’s family that he won’t own up to. They constantly bicker and fight. They can’t seem to agree on anything. The wife’s family is super duper crazy. The husband seems like he could be running a scam. It makes for great reality TV.

After the episode was over, we got a coming up on thing, and they’re going to bring back some classics for viewers of this ridiculous dumb, but addicting show. I cannot wait. Also, the premiere episode was 2 hours long, followed by a “where are they now” hour long show. That’s great. TLC knows what they have in this show, and they’re capitalizing on its popularity right now.

I literally cannot wait to see the next episode, and the whole season for that matter. I know it’s bad she dumb and pointless and predictable, but damn do I love “90 Day Fiancé What Now”. Check it out if you just want a hilarious escape for a few hours every week. It’s a delight.

Ty

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TLC has Gone too Far with "Dr. Pimple Popper"

No, no, no

My wife and I watch a good amount of reality shows together. I never used to watch many, save for "The Real World", prior to meeting her. She has turned me onto these shows. They are trashy and goofy and ridiculous and I simply cannot find myself looking away. Hell, I even go as so far to pass judgement on the people that are on the shows. I have many opinions on other MTV reality shows like "Teen Mom" and "Teen Mom 2". I have let it be known how I feel about "16 and Pregnant". I enjoy a good cooking competition show. I also like stuff like "Trading Spaces". I truly think it is a very unique show.

Recently my wife has really gotten me into the plethora of reality shows that TLC has to offer. Now, TLC used to be good for teaching a lesson, or teaching me something new that I never knew before. But, much like MTV, TLC has totally changed their lineup. They are now focused on stuff like people getting married to people they met overseas on a show like "90 Day Fiance". I, no bull shit, enjoy the hell out of that show. It is insane and hilarious and wacky. The people are wild. The stuff they say is absurd, and I love every minute. I also enjoy all the off shoots they now have of "90 Day Fiance". Stuff like "Before the 90 Days", and "Happily Every After?" are just as much fun. I also find myself fascinated by shows like "Seeking Sister Wife". That show has me totally flabbergasted the whole hour, and I have so, so many questions when it is all over. I feel like that is their goal, and they nail it. Also, after reading books about the LDS church, and seeing a play like "Book of Mormon", I find that whole "religion" hilarious. So, to see these wackos talk about being in a plural marriage as "God's plan" makes me crack up every time.

Lately TLC is really staring to push the limit for what I can see before I get physically ill. One day I saw my wife watching a show on TLC called "Sex Sent me to the ER". While I thought it would be a laugh riot, it was more terrifying than I could have imagined. People getting stuff stuck in other stuff, or being attacked, or passing out or any manner of craziness that could happen, happened, and it was so scary.

Then, one night while eating dinner, I had to ask my wife to turn off a show on TLC called "My 600 Pound Life". This show is about people that weigh close to, or over 600 pounds, all due to their food cravings. I like food as much as the next person, but the way they showed these people get this heavy was upsetting. To see all the food they ate was outrageous. And to see them eat it all, that made me sick. I could not eat my dinner when she watched it. I told her that I thought I was going to get sick. She thought I was joking. I was not. This show made me ill. It was just so upsetting and gross, I couldn't handle it. I still cringe when she turns it on during the weekend.

But the other night I think she finally found the GROSSEST thing on basic cable. She had Monday off of work, and she couldn't fall asleep on Sunday night. So, she turned on TLC and a show called "Dr Pimple Popper" was on. Now, I had seen this lady on "Tosh.0" when I still watched that, and her little segment on that made me sick. But, what I saw, for maybe 5 minutes, made me really, really think I was going to throw up all the food I had eaten that day. This doctor has a gift of removing pus filled pockets that people have on their bodies. But, the way they show it getting done on the show is nuts. The poor people on this show too, I felt so bad for them. They have lived with these random pimples and pocks and just, again, pus filled sacks, usually on their faces. I saw Dr Pimple Popper pop some stuff on a lady, she had a bunch of bumps on her eyes, and it made me sick. I mean, just typing it is making me sick. So, after I saw that I told my wife I couldn't watch anymore. I rolled over in bed and just listened. And then the worst thing I could have imagined happened. Apparently a guy had a big boil on his forehead, and when Dr Pimple Popper popped it, she said, and I quote, "it looks like mashed potatoes that had too much water added to them". Oof magoof. That is DISGUSTING. Even my wife, who legit enjoys that stuff, said it was one of the most disgusting things she had ever seen. I feel like I have a pretty high tolerance for gross stuff. I have no problem with gore and horror stuff. I don't mind it. But "Dr. Pimple Popper" is a whole other level of nastiness. I honestly do not know who this show is for. I don't know who sits around and waits to watch this on Sunday nights. It is the grossest thing I have ever seen on TV, and I hope to never watch it again. I have no problem with what this doctor does, in fact, I applaud her for helping people. But, I do not ever want to see it on my television ever again. It is crazy.

I do not recommend “Dr Pimple Popper”, unless you want to be completely grossed out. It is nasty.

Ty

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