Some of you started sending me information about this show before the season began and were asking e to recap it. I set it to record, but frankly there is so much on right now to recap, I certainly wasn’t planning on it, and I really don’t have the time. Plus it seemed like a stupid show.
I recently watched the first episode and was a bit more interested than I expected. Here is the information about the six, SIX! couples who agree to do this show from the WeTV website. I’ll purple pen my thought as I try to get through the next two episodes before dashing out for a bit.
JOHNNA & GARRETT, Tampa, FL.
A wine-fueled evening of looking for love online led Johnna to Garrett, who was serving a seven-year sentence for burglary, grand theft, and several other counts. While Johnna believes Garrett is committed to her, she’s having trouble convincing her father to meet him…let alone accept him. Johnna knows exactly what she wants…including a ring and wedding soon after Garrett is released. Is Garrett on the same page or will he be easily tempted by his new freedom?
Johnna’s Mama made a terrible mistake ingraining into her daughter, “One carat solitaire stone!” It seems she skipped over the whole “don’t go looking for husbands on prison websites.” Johnna is the new warden in Garrett’s life. She tells him what to do and how and when to do it. I think Garrett is probably missing the freedom of jail. She drags him to meet her dad who has no interest in meeting her felon fiance.
Garrett buys a car to get to work and it pisses off Johnna. Because, “One Carat Solitaire Stone!”
ANDREA & LAMAR, Lehi, UT
Coming from very different backgrounds; Andrea is a Mormon and single mother of 3 kids, while Lamar is a former up-and-coming rapper who is finishing up an 18 year stint in the big house. Andrea has not shared Lamar’s past with her Mormon community for fear of being scrutinized. Will she be able to introduce Lamar into her strict religious community, while Lamar attempts to pick up his rap career where he left off 18 years ago?
Not only did Andrea show for a husband in prison, she bought him a car for when he got out that she used to pick him up in? One hour into the trip, she is talking about how she will hurt a chick in the name of Jesus for flirting with him. Soon, they stop so he can get the car she bought him washed. The young lady simply red the list of carwash options and Andrea calls the girl a slut who is trying to get her convict?Andrea then tells him he is not getting any from her that night he can come back to the car wash girl. This bitch is crazy. And not the cute kind like us. She’s the stab a bitch for no damn reason kind of crazy.
Andrea is forbidden by the Mormon church from having sex without being married. That didn’t stop Andrea from bragging about her sexual abilities in letters to Lamar. It didn’t stop some other people either. When they get to the hotel room, Lamar is fascinated by the technology advancements and the nice hotel room. Andrea is jealous of the technology too.
Later, Lamar’s family comes to see him as they are stuck in LA for 30 days. On the way to meet the fam, Andrea, the strict Mormon, says, “Is your family mostly Crips or Bloods?” “They both he replies.” Andrea seems to think that Lamar will be Mormon when they get back to Utah and she’s pissed that the felon is drinking at the family reunion. Lamar’s teen aged daughter he has never seen calls to say she is on her way. When Andrea finds out her mother is coming, she also storms out and begins to question the entire relationship. How the hell did she think a teenager was going to come meet her dad for essentially the first time alone? She’s stab you in the front crazy. It’s a good thing she left because as it turns out, the baby mama is white. That would have totally set her off.
MARY & DOMINIC, Toronto
The couple very briefly knew each other before he was incarcerated. Shortly after meeting, Dominic got into a fight at a night club and is now serving six years for aggravated assault. Mary has patiently remained by his side, waiting to pick up where they left off. However, prison has changed the former “bad boy” in ways Mary never imagined…Was Dominic worth the wait?
Mary at least met Dominic once in a bar and they dated once or twice. She’s talking about a conjugal visit. Doesn’t she have to marry him for that? Apparently, they don’t have to be married in Canada. So off she goes for her visit. She got turned away because there was drug residue on her jacket supposedly from the clubs or something.
Mary and her parents go to pick up Dom from prison a few days later.Her parents seem to be down with the whole thing. This one may have a chance since they knew each other briefly on the outside. He still has to do six months in the halfway house. She’s posted the about photo on social media, but it is in the clothes they were wearing when he was released. So no real information there. He mother starts questioning him about the wedding on the drive to the halfway house.
ANGELA & TONY, Grenada, MS
Falling in love through letter writing, Angela and Tony have been in contact for a year. Since the tragic death of her ex, Angela began dating men in federal prison, so Tony is not her first… but claims he will be her last! The hunky convict, 13 years her junior, is currently serving three years for possession of a firearm. Much to her sons dismay, who is around the same age as the convict, these two lovebirds are engaged and looking forward to Tony’s release so they can begin their new life together.
After paying Tony $200 a month for a year, Tony is MIA on the day he is supposed to be released to the halfway house and she hasn’t heard from him for three weeks.
ALLA & JAMES, Chicago, IL
Striking up a relationship via a prison penpal service while she was serving five years for selling heroin the former model’s fresh face, sense of humor and vivacious personality immediately captured James’ attention. However, James is keeping his relationship a secret as he fears his overbearing family may not approve. Is Alla prepared to resist temptation, stay out of trouble and do what it takes to win over James’ judgmental family upon her release?
What is wrong with James? He seems like a nice committed guy. Why is he scouring the prisons for a date? Ironically, he comes from a family of cops? Alla doesn’t go to a go see that James set up for her so she could work in Chicago where he lives.
SCOTT & LIZZIE, Oxnard, CA
Scott and Lizzie met and fell in love through a prison pen pal website called meetaninmate. Lizzie is serving eight years for several DUI charges, and although she has admitted to using romantically inclined men to help support her in the past, insists that Scott is her true love. Scott has sent her about $20,000 over the course of their relationship and friends and family have expressed concern that she may be using him for financial support. Is Scott another one of Lizzie’s tricks or is this love for real?
Gee. I wonder. I feel sorry for Scott but his son and his female best friend have all expressed concerns. Scott drives five hours to pick her up and she is not scheduled for release that day. He pulls over on the side of the road to puke. There is visitation the next day. Will he be able to stay? Apparently, he heads home without trying to visit and she cons him right back into thinking things are fine.
This is my new favorite show! I’ve only seen the first episode but I know a good trainwreck when I see one.
Not sure if this is worth mentioning but I’m from the same area as Alla and we are about the same age. Several statements that she/her family/etc. made on camera aren’t really adding up but it could be the editing.
What do you mean on the last couple lines? Curious.
She’s back in prison for probation violation according to something I read. James is married already. Smells like fame whores to me.
How stupid is that old guy giving money to Lizzie ?
This is 90 day Fiance with the foreign country being Prison.
^ Yes, what Mackie said. I know several people who know her family.
Also, the reporting that the local paper (I forget which one, maybe Port Washington, WI or Cedarburg, WI) did when the crime(s) occurred doesn’t match her narrative on the show.
Think we will see six disasters.
It’s so funny how Garrett felt more freedom in prison. But he’s got a nice car.
Johnna would be great for 60days in. She’d be pod boss in no time.
Check her out on CCAPS (WI Circuit Court Access). She has more of a record than just possession of heroin. She has burglary, theft, and forgery charges, which were all prior to her conviction that sent her to jail. I believe she ended up in Taycheedah because she violated her terms of probation on the original charges. And yes, she was sent back for 60 days in Oct17 for possession and theft.
Oh yeah, pure fun entertainment. Just love the mess of it all. Just what I like, a reality show before they know what they are doing. So you get all the crazy, lol.
I’m finding it fascinating how much lying is involved with both sides.
Made for each other? Lol.
I may be watching this out in the garage, under a blanket by the light of the moon. But by God I will be watching every moment!
Beguiling is the best way to describe this show.
Please recap this sh*t show for us! Only that could make it better than it is already.
I shouldn’t be so mean about Scott but how is he still looking from behind a smokescreen. BTW, what does one do with $20k behind bars? Does Luzzie have a bank account? Pretty sure it’s not allowed under the mattress. If he was paying a lawyer or paying fines I would understand.
I don’t really understand how the scams work. I have heard about how much money and how easy it is to get.
All I know is that saying you got a discipline slip, it held up getting out. (And keep having that happen) Guess it’s like any con, the victim can’t believe they fell for it. It’s like a Dr.Phil dating catfish.
Love this show, it’s a real eye opener!!
I love this show!
Andrea is balls to the wall off her nut! And as for the ‘no sex before marriage, I’m Mormon’, she’s apparently been in a relationship with Lamar (in prison for 18 years) for the past 6 years and she has a 5 year old child… now my math is pretty shit but even I know that doesn’t add up haha.
Angela’s Photoshop skills are awesome.
Johnna is nuts but Garrett is too young to be in a relationship…. he’s spent his oats sowing days in prison, no way is he ready to settle down.
I’ve been waiting for someone to bring that up! That math definitely doesn’t add up. And if she thinks Lamar is going to become Mormon she’s even crazier than we all think she is.
Agree with you wholeheartedly. Does anyone know if all of Andrew’s children are by the same father? They seem to be pretty well grounded. I don’t understand her math either.
This show is fantastic. Can’t stop watching this train wreck.
Please recap it more. We love it!
I loved this show. However it seems as though the talent or WE TV twisted the stories to make it seem as though most of them met while the other was is jail. Thats not true for Johnna and Garret they met while in middle school and knew each other prior to him going to jail. They lost contact and years later she went looking for him on Facebook and learned through friends that he was in jail and thats when she wrote him and started dating.
Kinda obsessed with this show. It’s a train wreck you can’t turn away from, plus you come away feeling so much better about your own relationship.
I like this crazy ass show!
I agree. The funniest thing is how Andrea bragged about how “talented” she was in the bedroom. Guess she’s going to be the con in their situation.
She’s so bitchy, he probably will lose interest before she performs her calisthenics, lol.
He needs to RUN away from her. He’s been inside for 18 years and newly released. It’s gonna take a good minute for him to adjust and I fear her stupid, jealous and possessive ass will end his ass back inside. The man has to have time to adjust and she is constantly provoking. Lord have mercy, pray for him.
My favorite train wreck of the week!
I’ve watched every second of every episode. It’s fascinating. Plus, my ex, was in and out of prison during the 7 years I was with him. I was not a inmate pen pal when I met him. We were in a relationship, then he went in and out. I’ve got an insight and I know exactly what both sides are going through.
Same here, Dainty. It’s interesting from our perspective. I can’t imagine actually searching out a relationship with an inmate. It leaves me baffled.
I think it’s fun because you only get 2 or 3 extreme morons, 1 really good one per season on 90 day but they are all straight up loons on Love After Lockup.
This show is a hot mess and I love it. Alla is gorgeous, I love her already because she is so dramatic. If the above about her and James is true, I could see that it wasn’t going to last. She went from dating a drug dealer to a cops’ son, I think she wanted to try the “good” guy but Alla looks like the type to quickly get bored and James is a snoozefest. Andrea is batshit crazy. I don’t like her and I hope she watches the show and changes her demeanour and behaviour. There is nothing cute about a 40+ year old mother of 3 talking about cutting bitches in the name of Jesus. Such an insane and brilliant show.
Wow. A lot of folks read my mind. Was tempted to email you this morning to beg for recaps of this show, but it seemed like an extreme step to take.
Delighted that other TT readers have put this on your radar — Love After Lockup is trash with big-time seasoning! Please; we need your voice on this one, or at least the voice of one of your talented minions. Granted I am biased, but couldn’t you make space by, like, dropping Catfish, or that moribund Walking Dead thing?
Oh, no. Not The Walking Dead. I’m breathlessly awaiting the new season and need the recaps.
On behalf of Lady C, the brilliant recapped or the extremely tedious scripted recaps, I thank you, Dainty Feets. Scripted show recaps are EXTREMELY difficult.
And someone did write me begging to recap Love After Lockup this morning. And last week. And the week before that…
LC’s Walking Dead recaps are required reading for me! I don’t always comment but, I always read!
Oh and Catfish gets more views than housewives over time. There are marathons every night bringing new people to the site. And I love catfish.
Um if they all look like the guy in the first pic, I’ll date an inmate!!! ?
Thanks for this recap. I’ve been hooked from the first episode & even got my mother into it. Would be awesome if you can recap TT (love your purple pen).
I’m (slightly) ashamed to say I’m absolutely hooked.
I was confused as to why the cops son was trying to push his girl back into modeling, a profession known to be riddled with cocaine use back into the industry. She is a self proclaimed addict. She told him it would be uncomfortable in her attempt at sobriety. Was he excited by the idea of a model girlfriend. He could have just as easily searched for her a job somewhere else. There are places that will hire a non violent offender. Furthermore she didn’t seem all that interested in working period. A sign maybe?
I think he was excited by the idea. But, also the thing is that the way she’s been describing her six figure “modeling contact” in NY is not accurate. Legitimate agencies don’t give you hundreds of thousands of their own money. They will advance you money for test shoots, sometimes put you up in an apartment with a bunch of other girls etc. Then you go on castings/go sees for which you are not paid. Then when you book the job you pay back anything advanced to you before you operate at a profit. And to do that you have to keep booking over a zillion other girls trying for the same job. I don’t think he gets how it works. It also would never be considered full time work by a parole officer for anyone other than a supermodel who had major deals in place. Like Calvin Klein, Olay, etc. I think she backed herself into a corner and his pushing contributed to her getting “sick”.
I can’t get enough of this show.
Thanks for the recap, please keep them coming!
To the person that wrote TT to watch this show, I thank you.
Lizzie is currently serving a sentence in a Wisconsin prison for OWI’s. I believe it is her 5th or 6th. Alla is also currently being held in a secure facility in Milwaukee, WI. I hate to admit it, but I love this show!
Love this trainwreck!!
Angela is a reality TV show fame whore. She was on a show called Stage Moms of LA. Their website is still up. She was on there with her daughter. Apparently, they attended an Abby Lee Miller Boot Camp or something. She was probably trying to get on that show too. I wish I could say this is so foreign to me, but I can’t. My very close friend got involved with an inmate. She went with another friend to visit her brother. This guy was his cell mate. Before I knew it, she was doing favors for him outside, sending him money, put of a retainer to get a private lawyer (with the ol’ I’ll pay you back when I get out), and even convinced her mother to put up her house as collateral for bail. Yes…you heard me. UGH!!! I begged her not to and told her she was being scammed. I told her that she wouldn’t see him after he got out, and her mom would lose the house. Then she told me he was coming to live with them. DOUBLE UGH!! I was wrong. She saw him for a week before he took off. Thankfully, her mom pulled the bail and the bounty hunters got him. Thank God she only lost a couple of thousand dollars. It could have been worse. She could have gotten pregnant and been homeless if her mom lost the house. She is a very smart lady, so I was shocked at how she got sucked into that scam. She is happily married to a great guy, so the story has a happy ending.
Like everyone else, this is the must see train wreck, and I’m just as hooked as everyone else.
I think the difference may be that now, with social media, it’s almost safer than being catfished (in the sense you can find out actual facts) lol.
At least you can go visit them.
Seems it isn’t so off as it used to be to go the inmate route.
Of course that was all the way back in 1991.
Of course I’m watching, if there is a train wreck, I’m there!
I need my Canookian friends with friends in the pokey above the border if inmates can get sexy time at will without being married.
When my insomnia kicks up.. maybe watch. Tired of Catfish and other fake shows.
Not trying to be smarter than most.. but really.. who dates a men in jail?
This entire post IS hilarious. I fell out…”hurt a chick in the name of Jesus for flirting, she’s the stab a bitch for no damn reason, stab you in the front crazy.”
Must catch all this cray – cray next time.
Purple Pen A+
Thanks for the lol moments.
Did Sheree and Tyrone make their appearance yet? I love this show, it’s hilarious and sad all at the same time.
Omgosh, how funny. If there’s a season two, wifey may try to get her and Tyrone on. Lol.
Before this recap, I have never seen or heard about Love After Lock Up. I would like the view upcoming episodes, may I ask what time and night it’s on? Then I’ll check to see if it comes on it Canada.
Thank you!
Scott’s is such a “Tool” he’s got to know that he is being taken for a ride by that skank Lizzie ! I think the lawyer is in on it it’s probably the lawyers girlfriend. Scott could find more love on Craigslist than he can with Lizzy.
And Alla is obviously shady as hell , & she obviously isn’t ready too get smothered by dude..
As for the overweight lover in the house , Mormon wanna be , she is just a Desperado looking too call the shots , but dude that did those 18 joints is going too milk her dry.i don’t blame him.