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So am I correct that 90 day fiancé is basically a show about sex trafficking
The soft kind.
a “fun” show about sex trafficking, financially coerced sex, poverty exploitation and class warfare.
Hard pass.
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Do I need to have watched the previous installments to enjoy/understand this? And is it worth it to do so anyway?
Bet you’re fun at parties
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Yeah, this mail-order-bride show just sounds hella problematic. Hard pass from me.
Not at all
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I can understand that take without having watched it, but it’s really not like that at all. These are completely consensual relationships, and if anything, it’s usually the Americans who are being played for fools. They also have a surprisingly high success rate of these couples staying together. Lots have kids now, etc.
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Clovis is great at parties! He has the charisma of Buzz Killington.
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For some unknown reason my wife is bigly into this show and its assorted spin-offs.
Some of the non-USers are obviously in it only for the green cards, and some USers are looking for a mail-order bride, but meh. How is that different than an ugly US-born wealthy guy marrying a US-born trophy wife from a poor background? Then there is the added wrinkle that all of the Americans, at least, are trying to parlay it into 15 minutes of fame and their own show (at least one has succeeded).
My biggest problem with 90DF is that, like almost all reality TV, it’s 90% fake. Reality TV producers have learned the Bunim-Murray method of creating characters and editing to it. The angry black guy, the fun-loving frat bro, the innocent babe in the woods… A 30-second search will reveal several “contestants” trying to skirt their NDAs to hint that some conversations have been edited mid-sentence to portray them in a one-dimensional way while the context is very different.
One of the couples had actually been married for several years and living in the US while they pretended to be going through the Visa process and fighting over his reluctance to commit, etc…
My wife will have the show on while I’m reading or whatever and she’ll say “they’ve actually been married for three years,” or “these two never even met before taping began…” and I’m like “then why are you watching the show???1!/?”
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For those who want to check out the Picard premiere without pulling the trigger on CBS All Access.
Plus PlutoTV has a ton of other great free stuff to stream 
More than happy to poop on this “party”.
Hoooollllllly shit this true crime documentary on Netflix about a guy who committed the world record for wine fraud.
For fans of Tickled. You aren’t prepared for the scope of this thing.
Binged the rest of BoJack Horseman.
It does leave a couple of questions unanswered but I think it does the show justice. The next to last episode is at worst top 5 in the entire series IMO. The last one was pretty simple and just was a contrived way to tie up loose ends.
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I’ve heard it’s a great show, but I struggled with the animation style. Amazing that they maintained such high quality that you’d call a final episode top 5.
Well, the next-to-last one.
It was really the style that it was done. Seems that there’s always one avant garde episode per season.
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This scene GODDAMN I say goddamn. Nothing else needed to fire you up for Picard.
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Anyone seen Dril’s show yet on Adult Swim? Weirdest thing I’ve seen on there so far and I’ve seen everything Eric Andre has produced
Maybe it’s been said already, but Sex Education on Netflix is excellent. Gf and I are halfway through the first of two seasons and having a hard time choosing a favorite character–they’re all amazing, including some absurdly extreme caricatures of high schoolers. It’s funny and occasionally touching.