Started this today, already fascinated with every aspect of it. It’s channel 4’s attempt at 90 Day Fiancé I guess. It follows various brits who have been involved in long term, long distance relationships without ever having met the other person in real life as they prepare to meet them for the first time.
There’s a shy 17 year old guy who’s been in a relation with a 26 year old woman from Kerala, India for a few years. He lied about his age to begin with and she fell in love with how he wrote his Game of Thrones roleplays.
Also featured is a 38 year old woman involved with a 27 year old Philippino guy. She feels like her time to become a mum is rapidly running out and is pinning all her hopes on this relationship working out.
More couples are to be introduced as the series goes on, but I’m hooked already.
Yeah we were wondering if that was because he’s got the camera and production crew with him so it’s like an extra layer of safeguarding
So uncomfortable watching them basically try to have a ceremony the second he walked through the door and when V encouraged him to say “bye, BIL!”
With Sarah, I reckon she just likes the fantasy of being in love but doesn’t actually want to risk being in a relationship, hence the LDR worked for her even though he was clearly a horny lil creep throughout
Yeah, she seemed very unhappy in general and then the culture shock and him being greasy didn’t help at all. Fair play to her being bold enough to look for a hotel.
I would normally avoid a programme like this at all costs but caught it the other night and found it quite compelling. I do think that the Dubai relationship is inauthentic/staged and isn’t forming a relationship with a 15 year old when you’re in your 20s technically grooming?
Dubai relationship is the least interesting as they both seem a bit shit. Her focus on how rich he is and him clearly just mugging her off all the time, dunno, just what’s the point. Neither of them seem very nice or interesting characters.
Wild how this would be received if the genders were switched.
Bit disappointed but not surprised that all three relationships featured in the first two episodes are problematic AF, and the fourth we’re introduced to seems to be the same.
There’s someone in another forum claiming to be a mate of Sarah’s and that all her bits are “fake and scripted” which seems like a stretch but I would like to believe
