I’m struggling to get into these people and I think we meet another new couple on this episode. I’d rather have more time with fewer couples. Perhaps we have so many now because a a few fizzle out quickly? Let’s hope so, as I try to get to know way too many people during this 90 Day Fiance Recap. I sort of slept through the first 30-45 minute “preview” of this episode, so it is not entirely new to me.
Natalie & Mike
So many of the couples this season remind me of that old TV show where Zsa Zsa Gabor moved to the farm to be with her farmer husband. These two fit the category. Natalie is in the middle of nowhere and Mike apparently doesn’t want to turn up the heat in the house. Also, he is going to be working all day. Doing what? there is a foot of snow outside and she just got there! He doesn’t seem to be interested in her at all. Mike does decide to make French toast for here on her first day there. Why the hell does he need six eggs for two servings of French toast? Natalie says the French toast isn’t healthy. She eats a carrot instead.
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Mike takes Natalie into town to get acclimated. On the way there he promises that will take her fishing at the creek when it gets warmer. She was expecting a city and what she got was a small town. She’s not impressed. She suggests the go to a waterfall she heard of nearby. He says it’s three hours away. Things are not going according to anything Natalie suspected. Girl, at least you don’t have to feed the hogs! He offers to take her in two weeks. This is not good enough. Didn’t she know she was moving into the boondocks? Natalie breaks down crying. Did she not bring a coat from the Ukraine? It’s cold there too. Why is she only wearing a sweater? She is REALLY pretty though.
Stephanie & Ryan
It’s time to meet to obligatory cougar of the season. As usual, she is batshit crazy. She’s practicing to hula hoop in a contest that goes on for 100 hours straight. Did she say she will be tap dancing at the same time? Crazy runs in the family as he had untreated bipolar while she was growing up. She’s a cat lady. So far I only see one. But I feel like there are probably dozens more somewhere. Stephane is 52 and Ryan is 27 and “the hottest guy she has ever seen.” She must not see many guys where she lives. When she doesn’t hear from Ryan for a few hours she calls his mommy who is five years younger than she is. He’s from Belize.
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Stephanie’s psychic friend comes over to give her a tarot card reading. She already sees the writing on the wall. Stephanie keeps buying Ryan watches. The psychic tells Stephanie that there is another woman and that he is after her money. Wow, that is some shocking news! Oh for fucksake. A year and a half ago she caught Ryan cheating. Then she somehow ended up sleeping with his cousin, Harris. I am not sure this couple is even real. It’s too crazy pants.
Julia & Brandon & Betty
Julia is already concerned that she is being taken to the middle of nowhere. The soundtrack of Deliverance would be playing in her head if she was older. She is at first excited to see the house and the horses. She’s is afraid of the chickens so of course Betty puts her on chicken and egg duty. Then they have her climb into the pig sty. These are not cute little pink pigs. These are giant hogs. She’s also in charge of feeding the hogs. She decides to give it a month.
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Later, they check out their separate bedrooms. Betty has put out dishes of candy and condoms on the bedside table. Her room is full of crap and paint buckets. In the kitchen there is an open can of crickets. Apparently, it is food for their chameleon. Because they don’t have enough to feed. Julia is overwhelmed with all the new cooking vocabulary. Julia doesn’t want to sleep alone in the farm. I don’t blame her. But her parents don’t care.
Rebecca & Zied
Rebecca is still waiting for the news on her K-1 visa but Tunisian government is pretty much shut down for COVID. She finally gets word that his visa was approved. We finally get footage in Tunisia. That is Libya’s next door neighbor and we traveled there when I was young. It’s a lot like Libya so I am excited to see it. Zied is only 27 and has never moved away from his family before. He’s nervous. His parents are really sad to see him go.
Yara & Jovi
Yara is just a terrible person. What is with these women from the Ukraine? Jovi got a really nice apartment for her and all she can do is complain. She wants new plates of all things. She tells him everything in his apartment ugly. She wants to change everything. Jovi says they are shopping for a new mirror (of course) and a rug. She wants a new sofa and a new bed, and a new table. Even the sales lady says they live in the best part of town. Jovi refuses to get the sparkly rug she wants. Yara thinks Jovi is the rude one. She storms out without getting anything.
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Back at the apartment, Yara becomes slightly more human. She does have a point that Jovi got the nice apartment for them. He told her got an apartment for her. And as soon as she wants to make some changes, it’s suddenly his apartment. Jovi is being a jackass now too. They are both acting like children. Jovi eventually gives her everything she wants.
Amira & Andrew
Amira is leaving France to fly to Mexico in the pandemic. She only has six weeks left on the K-1 visa so they have to quarantine at a resort in Mexico for two weeks before crossing the border. She is really scared. On top of leaving it all behind for Andrew, traveling in the pandemic is really scary. There is no one in the airport. Andrew finally arrives in Mexico to meet her. He is in Puerto Vallarta. She flew in to Mexico City and was detained by customs there. This is not good news. And they are leaving us hanging.
We didn’t get anything from Tarik and Hazel this week. 🙁 I could do without Stephanie and Ryan. They don’t seem like a real thing at all.
Brandon’s parent’s farm is not nearly as rural as they are making it seem. Dinwiddie is roughly 30 minutes south of Richmond, the capital of Virginia. The Richmond metropolitan area has a population of approximately 1.3 million people. Rural, yes, but not exactly the middle of nowhere. With the condition of the room they are putting Julia in and the way they are expecting her to work on the farm, I am surprised they are not making her sleep in the barn.
I am over Natalie and her whining. I don’t want that one to work out.
Amira seemed truly terrified to get on the plane to Mexico. Andrew should not have pressured her to do that. Not a good start to the relationship.
There was nothing in the previews about Amira. I could have done without Stephanie and even Yara and Jovi to FIND OUT WHERE THE FUCK AMIRA IS!
Agreed. I m worried about poor Amira. I couldn’t care less about Stephanie and Ryan, Yara and Jovi, or Rebecca and Zied. Those are all realtionships that are not going to work long-term.
I know, I think I was 100 times more terrified for Amira than her fiance was and I don’t even know her. Andrew seemed irked but mainly blase about the news. I would have been vomiting and shaking if I found out something like that. And I don’t like him, Amira is beautiful and seems really nice, what does she want anything to do with Coltee 2.0
There’s something off about that guy. Definitely sensing some darkness from him.
Amira seems lovely and I’m worried for her. Tash
Did you notice that they had blue plastic tarps covering up lots of areas on the “farm” that they did not want us to see. Also, when they pulled in from their never ending weekend there must have been half a dozen cars parked at the farm. I wonder who those belong to. I still cannot believe that these people are real, especially the mother. I thought she was taking Julia to the gynecologist the next day but instead she has a job to go to. Who did all the work on the farm before Julia showed up??
OMG, my husband and I were yelling the same thing. – why is so much tarped off outside like they don’t want it filmed and they even had sheets up in the house covering some things, if you look carefully. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? My husband said maybe they are breeding exotic animals? I wouldn’t find that far fetched. I was perplexed about all the vehicles and the trailer, too, until it dawned on me it was likely all for the production crew. I have some friends who work in entertainment production (not for this show) and I’ve even been to movie filmings, there are always tons of vehicles and trailers because they have so many moving parts to achieving filming, sound, locations, etc. I still can’t fathom how they feel Julia is a “guest in our home,” so she can’t stay in the room with Brandon, but somehow they want her mucking out pig pens and tending chickens less than 24 hours after arriving for free. Either she’s family, and should stay with Brandon and might be expected to pitch in, or she’s a guest who stays in the mudroom away from their sacred, golden son, in which case, she shouldn’t be expected to do anything but make her bed. Right?
I REALLY can’t stand Betty and I also think we saw a glimmer of some deep seated anger issues with Brandon’s dad last night, too. Did anyone else notice Brandon trying to be jovial and joke about maybe he could persuade the parents about the shared bedroom, and his dad snarled, “Don’t make a joke about this!” I swear his eyes practically glowed red. It was freaky. Sure, Brandon’s dad, why would anyone think it was ok to jest about this ridiculousness after you and the missus keep cracking sex jokes about your nearly 30-year-old son and placing a bowl of condoms on his bedside table as a prank at his expense? I do not buy the “we’re conservative” B.S. from them. They offer to pay for a single hotel room for Brandon and Julia to share, then claim 16th century puritanicalism 4 days later? Give me a break. This is all about control and humiliation. They knew they couldn’t bribe-force Brandon into having them horn in on his romantic reunion weekend without offering to pay for the shared shmancy suite. Now they have him back home under the thumb and can get off on controlling this new aspect. And why does Brandon think it’s ok he’s in a freshpainted room with big new furniture, a double bed, a gaming system, a widescreen tv and Julia is stuck in the storage closet on a kiddie bed with paint cans and cardboard boxes for decor? Not to mention, Julia is not considered family enough to bunk up with her FIANCEE but she’s family enough to now do manual labor for free and on demand. Get the f**k out of here with that shit.
I was stunned that Amira and Andrew have anything in common. It is encouraging, though, that they seem to have some kind of emotional connection and it seems natural and easy, she said. I think for her to leave France, a first world country with decent social security nets, it must really be love. But knowing what Sacramento is like (went to school near there), I think she’s in for a rude awakening. Sacramento, despite being the capital of CA, is not a sophisticated town, and it is SUPER hot much of the year. And he works for his mom as a daycare provider. He is punching above his weight, as they say.
Sacramento has become a communter city for the techies in San Francisco, so it’s matured from what it once was. Hopefully Amira looked it up before agreeing to go.
Sacramento is a commuter city for SF techies? REALLY? I find that extremely hard to fathom, as it’s a hell of a commute distance and there are many closer cities to SF that are as “cheap” to live in. And I agree with Something Clever that it is not a sophisticated town. Lots of rednecks in Sacramento.
It’s all about the cost of housing. Cities closer to SF are pricey.
Snoqualmie Falls is a 2.5 hr drive from Sequim, longer perhaps if they take a ferry rather than driving around through Bremerton, Tacoma, then up. And now did she know about Snoqualmie and nothing about Sequim? Also, the sun goes down at 4:30 pm and rises at 7am. The days are very short here, so a day trip really isn’t desirable.
Natalie complains about it being cold in the house, yet Mike’s wearing a t-shirt and she’s not wearing a coat. He’s clearly not into the relationship, and she…I don’t know. Maybe it’s cuz she’s not getting any younger and saw Mike as her last shot? I just don’t get why they’re together at all.
Incidentally, I watched last week’s episode with my glasses on and realized, all the outdoor shots were at Pike Place Market, including the park on the lower level. From the view, I’d say they got an Air BnB at a condo building about a block away on 1st. It even looked like Mike parked his truck by the last remaining strip club on 1st, and the restaurant was likely on Western. Just guesses, since some clues were blurred out.
As for Amira, I suspect she told the immigration authorities she was there to use Mexico as a back door entry to the US and got detained for that reason. I can’t imagine what she’s going through, but her dad must be freaking out.
Surely SHE WOULDN’T SAY THAT! I really hope she didn’t say that. All she had to say was she was meeting her fiance for vacation. Although, you never really know what the customs officials are going to do. Maybe she brought over fruit or some food item she should not have?
She had to have something that made her suspect. Getting put into detention is huge. Hopefully we’ll hear more of the details on the next episode, but she may not have known it was a big deal, since Andrew didn’t express to her that it was.
I was thinking maybe it’s because she didn’t have a return flight to France?
Maybe. Or any sort of departure flight at all. I know when you go to Costa Rica you have to have a return flight. Not sure what other companies require that. If that is the case they will probably just send her back to France. But would she have the money for a ticket?
Maybe is there’s a French embassy there, they can provide her a return ticket.
I looked up the place Mike and Natalie stayed cause I thought it looked so cool! It was the Beechers loft at the Inn at the Market
Now that makes sense. Thanks!
I HATE Natalie, she was a bitch to him in the last season and broke off the engagement, yet she still decides that Mike is her ticket to the US so now they are both miserable. I hope he sends her packing!
And I cant even begin to explain the rage I have for Brandon’s parents and their puppy mill!!
And keeping the dogs in cages. I just…yeah, it’s not cool.
I agree about the animal thing. I think Brandon’s mom is obsessed with raising and feeding things. She’s got Brandon’s dad damn near hypnotized on how to live racha me every second. The woman has some issues. Like maybe she was adopted or something? I want to k ow what is behind those tarps! Hopefully not anymore animals. And those poor dogs in those small cages! OMG.
I found the contrasts between Mike & Natalie, and Brandon & Julia, and Yara & Jovi interesting. Natalie is worried about being bored, but Julia will have too much to do. And then Jovi is done with Yara when she gets upset, but Mike is trying to get Natalie to talk through the issues. It’s funny that Mike seems uninterested in having Natalie there, but he’s trying to work with her. Yara and Natalie are both in that buyer’s regret phase of finding fault with everything and being fearful that they’ve made a mistake. Julia probably made the biggest mistake and will have the hardest time working things out with the whole family being part of it, but kudos to her for continuing to have a smile on her face and a great attitude.
I didn’t watch the earlier season of Mike and Natalie, but solely judging this season..there is a reason men have to look overseas for girlfriends/wives who are desperate for entry into the United States. Not many women are going to jump at the chance to live in a trailer in the middle of no where and sit at home all day, especially ones who look like Natalie.
Same with the farmer and his Mom. Also it looked like they have a puppy mill with the German Shepherds hidden behind tarps in small kennels. Sickening. It’s time to cut the cord and run.
I find the 90 Day Fiancé shows kind of the competition shows, at first there are way too many people to remember until you find a favorite or two.
Natalie ain’t no spring chicken. Whatever opportunities she had in the past clearly didn’t pan out, so Mike is it. Plus, I think Sequim is charming and would jump at the chance to one day build my own home on all that land Mike has.
I’m sure Mike would like to hear from you.
Go back and watch last season. This isn’t a situation where he went looking for a Ukranian bride. They met because a friend of hers is married to a friend of his (they are living in Washington) and Mike and Natalie are the godparents to their baby, if I remember correctly. They bonded because they were both going through divorces.
At the end of last season she got mad because he is athiest and didn’t want her to get pregnant immediately (before they were married or even living in the same country) and went nuts and threw her engagement ring at him. Now her visa has been approved (just a couple of months after the big blow-up, apparently) and she wants to pretend the whole thing never happened.
She’s batshit crazy. Or at least edited that way.
Thank you! Natalie is nuts!
Like I said I don’t know their backstory at all, but he still brought her over here with the intent to get married, 90 Day Fiancé. And I still stand by what I said..women aren’t exactly lining up to live in a trailer in the middle of no where or some abusive farm with an overbearing mother.
Wait. So Natalie has a friend in Washington? I haven’t heard this before. I watched the ring throwing atheist season were they on before that? And how is she so shocked about “the forest” if her friend lives in the state and could have told her all about it?
This is what I found online. Maybe it was a virtual baby shower?
Mike, 34, met Natalie, 35, after their mutual friends asked them to be godparents to their child. Mike and Natalie bonded over being divorcees and they started dating online. They met in person when he traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine for their first meeting. During their second meeting in Paris, Mike proposed.
You would think the friend would have prepared her for it, wouldn’t you? Maybe she did and this is a storyline for her.
Last season was the first one they were on. They told their background in probably the first episode they were in. I remember it because it was so different than the backstory of that other guy that was trying to meet up with Lana from Ukraine – you know, the one we all thought didn’t really exist, then we found out she did and she was just scamming him by only talking to him on the website where he had to pay by the minute. Both Lana and Natalie are from Ukraine, but I thought Natalie and Mike might actually make it since they had met through people they actually knew and all. It didn’t seem as much like a mail order bride type situation.
Exactly! It was never clear what city Mike’s buddy and Natalie’s friend live in, but it’s definitely Washington State. The guy didn’t exactly look well off either. Natalie absolutely should have had some idea about where Mike lived and how he lived, particularly with their video chats. It’s very odd that she’s acting so shocked. He also made it clear to Natalie that they still needed to work on their relationship, so marriage wasn’t a sure thing.
Omg! Mike and Natalie don’t seem to be compatible at all. He had no interest in making sure that she was comfortable. Even watching them eat breakfast with awkward silence was uncomfortable…. How bad did she want to get out of the Ukraine????? Cripes!
ANYONE who keeps animals in cages like those dogs should be reported to the humane society. They need to be reported. Hopefully someone is watching who will do something. Jovi is an asshole. I don’t mind Mike, he’s treading carefully around Fatal Attraction Natalie who I would never fall asleep around… Poor Julia in that bedroom. They are treating her like the hired help. Brandon’s father gives me the creeps, like Al Pacino in Devil’s Advocate. Something is way off with that family. Andrew is another asshole and I am more concerned for Amira stuck in ICE in Mexico? OMG, can you imagine what that place is like? And why? Were they quarantining her there? He doesn’t deserve her. THese Ukraine women just want entry, they don’t care about these guys..
I’m beginning to wonder how scripted and produced this show is becoming. Did anyone else notice in the scenes with Mike and Natalie there were some big continuity errors? Like in the truck the day they went to town sometimes a mirror on the truck was broken and sometimes it wasn’t? And the scene where supposedly they have a fight and she walks off her shoes are different when Mike is hugging her?
I hope a lot of the outrageous stuff we’re seeing (Betty setting up the gyn appointment, yara telling Jovi to throw all the furniture out including his bike, Stephanie training for her hula marathon) isn’t fake shit getting put in. Regular people going through the 90 day process is interesting enough on it’s own. They don’t have phony up a bunch of fake drama. Once that happens I’m done. If you can’t trust most of what you see as true, what’s the point?
Wow – you have a good eye! I didn’t pick up on any of that, but I’m going to go watch it right now to see. And I agree with you – not interesting to watch if it is fake.
Brandon’s parents present as hoarders?? What’s up with the insane amount of animals and clutter? If i was Julia I would want to get out of there asap..
I will not watch anymore! I have a problem with dog breeders aka Brandon’s parents. Are those dogs caged up all day? They have sex and are thrown back in their pens? The females just keep having litters of puppies? I was so disgusted by this!
I wondered about the dog cages and the fact they were covered. It seemed odd to me. I would have never thought about breeding. Do we know what kind of dogs they are? They looked big. And I know that one guy who lives in Brazil with the other crazy girl had dogs kept outside in big cages.
Banjo is in his crate pretty much all day. The door is always open. He just likes it in the for the most part. Sometimes he flops around here and there. And of course he goes out whenever he wants. But the crate is his house. lol.
Lmao. I literally said what breed of dogs they were in my comment. Tarps covering kennels is a tell tale sign on a puppy mill…they don’t want them to bark. It’s abuse.
I appreciate your confidence in my memory. Currently, it if happened more than ten minutes ago, I have no memory. The most exercise I get lately is getting up off the couch 15 times until I finally retrieve the proper item. Did I get up for wine? cigarettes? To make food? To feed the dog? To give the dog water? To take out the trash? To pee? To grab a snack?
Oh yeah, I was looking for my reading glasses.
This is Groundhog Day Every DAMN DAY here. Clearly, my memory and my liver are both shot.
I hear ya on that. Yesterday I got my phone out to stare at the grocery delivery order page. Couldn’t decide on anything, then got distracted, set my phone down and walked to do other chores. Four hours later I thought, why hasn’t the grocery delivery arrived? That’s when I realized I NEVER made the order. It’s like I go more mush-brained every day of this.
I saw German Shepherd’s but they may well also have other breeds. They are known breeders in the area, I read a post on FB by someone who lived near to them. Apparently its mum and dad that applied for the show, not Brandon. They’ve footed all the k1 Bill’s so far, including all the flights etc.
Which is why they feel entitled to control the lives of their nearly 30 year old son and his fiance.
I kinda figured they paid for everything, but wasn’t sure. Thanks for the info. Explains a lot about mom’s behavior.
Brandon’s mom has an Instagram account promoting the “farm” and she had a bunch of pics of dogs and puppies and litters on there first time I saw it (and not just German Shepherds) then suddenly most of the pics on the account weren’t up anymore. Also, Brandon and Julia had public IG accounts with tons of photos of each other alone and together, then both the accounts went private this week. Not sure if they still are. If Betty is the one who applied to be on the show, maybe she thought it would be great publicity for the business and it’s backfiring. Just a theory. All conjecture and my random, rambling opinion.
Why does it not surprise me that Betty is the one who applied? This will not end well for her.
Also, if we stopped watching because some of the people are awful, we wouldn’t watch any reality shows…
Hey! There’s a thought! lol.
I just keep wondering what happens to Porsha’s (RHOA) dogs? Every so often, she’ll have a dog or 2, then the next season she doesn’t. Also, do you know what kind of bugs were up on the ceiling at the lake house? And is Barddy from Dallas pregnant?
He said his parents were dog breeders on the show. The conditions looked horrid. Inside the house – and out. They are ruining my favorite show!!!
I read that they are being investigated by several orginizations for running a puppy mill.
All this puppy mill talk reminds me that D’Andrea and Mama D both got designer dogs from some “farm” for Christmas.
I just turned on this episode and had to turn it off 3 minute# in. I just can’t watcg Natalie. She’s such an ungreatful bitch. All she does is bitch. And the way she talks drives me fucking crazy. She doesn’t open her mouth. I think she does it on purpose. I just can’t stand her. She fucking crazy ungreatful bitch. Mike can do so much better.
That chick Jovi has is no better. Just horrible people. I would love to see the housing she moved from. These bitches act like they are queens and they are far from it . I thought both were cute, not pretty before. Now their attitudes make them flat out ugly. Inside and out. Entitled little bitches have a rude awaking coming. I hope it’s sooner than later.
I have some reservations about Amira. When she talked to her father she made it sound like Andrew was forcing her to travel. But when she talked to producers it sounded like she wanted to use her visa before it expired. Sbe’s a grown woman. If she can’t make a decision for herself don’t blame someone else for making you do something. If she didn’t want to travel I’m sure she could go back to the government later and say I couldn’t use the visa because of covid can you please issue another one? They would understand since the government put the travel ban in place. But if she wanted to go and was willing to take the risk, don’t throw Andrew under the bus. (Not that I think he’s any great catch.)
So there’s something about her that I’m not sure about.
Oh, and I meant to say being detained doesn’t necessarily mean being put into a detention center. Being detained could be waiting in a room at Customs and Immigration at the airport.
I think it’s good point about the return flight. She doesn’t have a visa for Mexico. But it seems reasonable to say I’m not sure what my return travel plans are so I’m waiting to book the ticket. But this was Andrew’s plan so he should have known EVERYTHING about Mexican requirements for entry and travel for a French national so nothing would be a problem. She doesn’t seem like a very confident traveler so the plan should have been air tight for getting into Mexico and then the U.S.