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Who wants to marry a stupid bitch?
Does anyone else need this show this week to salve the seeping wound of 2020? I do. So let’s recap this bitch!
Jess is realizing that Larissa’s warning might be truth in reporting, as Debbie flounces around slamming doors, and Colt makes excuses for her by saying that she’s tired, drenched in boob sweat, and thousands of miles from where everything has been exactly the same for forty years. Jess and Colt go out to dinner, and Colt says he got a second hotel room, so they can have sex. Has he mentioned they’re having the sex? Jess tries to suss out why Debbie detonated shortly after hello, and Colt says that she’s over-protective, which is something Jess should know about, since she lost a parent, too. Instead Jess insists that she somehow was able to become an adult anyway, and then calls him a baby man, and he says that’s not fair; he prefers man-baby. Jess is nervous about introducing Colt to her family members, because they’re fun and he’s Colt, but at least there’s only one of him. Oh wait, Debbie. Jess ponders whether getting Debbie shit-faced will inspire a personality to emerge, and Colt just gives her his constipated kitten face, and says sex again.
In case you were wondering, Jess and Colt have sex. We revisit this topic when Colt wakes up and goes to fluff his mother. Debbie is eating breakfast, demanding to know why she was left alone in the room after demanding to be left alone in the room. Colt says that they were having sex, and Jess is kind of loud, but there’s no one to rescue her no matter her screams. He asks Debbie to make some effort to know Jess, since Debs reportedly went with him on this adventure in order to meet her. Debbie says that she was barely there an hour and Jess and Colt were already talking about their hypothetical children, and Debbie did not expect Colt to have a future. Colt is starting to think his mother is just there to sabotage he and Jess, and he says, “I understand you’re tired, but you don’t have to be an asshole.”
“YES I DO!” Debbie retorts. “I’m done! I’M DONE!”
Colt asks what Debbie thinks of Jess so far, and Debbie says, without irony: “I spent ten minutes with her…she seems to have a goal, or a plan.” Colt asks her to get to know her, and Debbie asks if that means leaving the hotel or enjoying herself, and Colt assures her she can just drain the beach of joy instead.
Jess knows Debbie is coming by how the temperature drops and the sun starts to darken. Debbie’s cautious, because in her view Larissa used Colt, and the part where Colt used Larissa right back totes didn’t happen. After a few antagonistic growling statements because Colt is in danger of having a life, Debbie says they need to get along, while doing nothing to be friendly. Debs thinks it’s strange that Colt went from one Brazilian to the next, and never considers for a second this is because Colt likes Brazilian women. Jess is now convinced that Larissa was telling her the truth about Debbie. She tries to find some joy in Debbie, and again asserts the importance of getting Debbie drunk. This will not end well. Nancy Reagan should have solicited Debbie’s services for her war on drugs, because no matter your level of intoxication, Debbie will kill your buzz.
Good news! Hot lawyer Adam is back, and an unbelievably healthy fiddle leaf fig guest stars from the hallway. Larissa is there to put in a job application, I guess. Larissa is pretty sure Adam’s wife wouldn’t like her as his assistant, due to what she would be assisting him with. She’s hoping to get her charges reduced to disorderly conduct, so she can get the third punch in her domestic violence card later. Adam hopes the camera folks are getting his good angle, which is all of his angles, and is pleased with the surge of business he’s enjoying from people who don’t seem to have any legal problems at all. His wife has questions, sure, but the answer is in that new boat, and sure he’ll do another season. He asks Larissa if she wants to put him on retainer or what, and she says her teeth are fine, so he invoices the producers directly.
Larissa and Eric are still pretending to date. The best part of this scene is the unplanned crotch flash that happens when Larissa elegantly crams her hand between her legs to yank the chair forward. Once seated, they hope to have the most boring conversation possible, and they succeed. The only interesting part of this scene is watching Larissa attempt to eat when she can’t feel her lips, which inspires food to dangle helplessly from her lower pucker before taking a dive.
Libby is ready to complain for the duration of their wedding venue hunt, and Andrei plans to dust off a fresh batch of insults for the occasion. She’s uneasy about putting Eleanor in car time-out with Father Andrei while they look at a place, especially since they forgot to crack the windows. Andrei calls her OCD, and says in Moldova people don’t suffocate like pussy Americans. Do you think these two know that they’re already married, and this is just extra for Andrei’s family? Will someone tell them?
The first venue is a casino strip mall, and Libby hates it before they even arrive. Libby considers the venue a cross between a bowling alley in 1973 and the Louisville airport (present day) — two places more appealing than the backseat of a car driven by these two, and yes, I’d book it. After Libby is done looking around with a disgusted expression, the poor woman showing them around invites them to look at delicious photos of food, which is too extreme of a diet for Libby. Andrei is stoked on the menu, while Libby expresses concern that there isn’t any picnic fare, and not a red SOLO cup in sight. Libby is nervous about her family having to acknowledge that they’re in a different country, so she lies and says Americans have cheeseburgers and fried chicken at weddings, because nothing classes up casino nuptials like greasy food dribbling down your titty-popping dress. Andrei helpfully points out that there’s a McDonald’s across the street, and Libby doesn’t say, “maybe you should pick up a job application,” but she should have. Instead she hunts for a fresh way to express displeasure without actually doing anything about it.
Libby declares the venue bullshit, and walks out so they can have an exit fight. She says her family has a lot of concerns…I’ll just leave it at that, since it covers every season of their story. Andrei accuses her of being hangry, and says they should stop and get food, but Libby hasn’t hated this venue enough yet. She pops off about not wanting to book any place where they can’t taste the food first (fair enough), and Andrei says she’s fucking annoying. Libby demands that he stop interrupting her when she’s being annoying, and this inspires him to interrupt her some more, and then again, until Libby walks away in disgust, which is a nice drumroll to her doing whatever this insecure, nutless, knuckle dragger wants in the next scene.
Libby says their disagreements are an every day thing, but yes, he’s acting different in Moldova. Why is she working for her dad when she could take this spin to a PR firm? All the same, this fight apparently evaporated into the air, because it’s not mentioned again when they check out venue #2, which looks exactly like the sort of venue Libby would choose. Libby = if Bed, Bath, and Beyond were a person. Andrei = if leather trench coats were a person. They bring out shot glasses of meat and other delicacies, which Libby declares good, and Andrei translates the cost as around $6,400. Andrei then says it doesn’t matter the cost, her dad is going to pay it. This man became entitled in record time, and I suppose this is what happens when your only financial planning is asking dad. Why does she want to marry him once, let alone twice? Was all his responsibility in his old haircut?
Andrei, his parents, and Libby are all cramming poor defenseless Eleanor into a stroller. She tries to escape, then realizes she should probably learn to walk first. Andrei shows her the neighborhood where he grew up, and the cameras race to see who can capture the most destitute part first. He said they used to break windows for fun, and Libby is confused, and Andrei says this was just a test to see if she was paying attention. What they really did was roll unguarded construction equipment into the road. They arrive at a park and take a photo by a tree. Apparently, the park is “on the older side” which in the PacNW is considered an asset, but not for Libby’s plastic coated life, and she’s a little bit concerned about germs. Seriously, is this her first kid exposure? My godson at one point licked a metal railing up and down with no pants on, while his sister sat on the ground trying to eat cedar chips. Sure, all the adults around them got sympathetic staph infections, but those two were just fine.
Mother Andrei asks if Libby has anything negative to contribute, and of course she does. Father Andrei says even though their “standards are lower compared to America,” they still love their country. Then Libby is asked to say something negative to further alienate Andrei’s family, so she says her family has no filter, because she doesn’t know that passive-aggression is a filter. Mother Andrei doesn’t believe that he planned the wedding last minute so her family couldn’t come, and Libby doesn’t understand why Mother Andrei isn’t on her team, after insulting her country and warning her about how horrible her family is.
“This is kind of starting to piss me off,” Low adds, and I concur, Low. I concur.
So in the next scene, Libby draws a hard line and HA HA HA good one. After another empty, sassy interview, Libby is ready to convert to the religion she can’t even name, and has zero curiosity about, but hey, let’s laugh at the guy carrying corn. The baptism requires her to dress in white along with a veil, and she asks if the men have to wear them too, because she’s going for superficially empowered “I’m not a feminist, but…” for this round. 1.) You know men don’t have to wear them, stop it. 2.) You don’t have to wear it either. The way you do this, is stop following this chode’s orders. But fuck that! Instead she does a little stand-turn-blow away the devil-turn-splash-Jesus! The priest puts a cross around her neck, and walks in a circle around the table, alongside Andrei’s sister-in-law Ina, who clearly hates Libby. Then the priest cuts off a lock of Libby’s hair, because Paul promised to pay top dollar for that shit.
“All of this seems very dated, and I want to be seen on the same level as men,” Libby states. “I don’t want to actually be on the same level, just perceived that way.”
Afterwards they all go out for dinner along with Libby’s negativity, so Andrei can offer more of his selective translation services about how men are from mars, women are from Venus. Libby doesn’t wear the cross she was just handed, and the family is concerned because it attaches a guardian angel…which she doesn’t know, because she doesn’t give a shit. Andrei says that goes to show he has to tell her everything. His brother is unimpressed with Andrei’s toxic masculinity, and seems to be noticing that Andrei is compensating for being a housewife by regurgitating man-meat stereotypes, and he should confine that shit to Reddit like a man.
Ina thinks gender expectations are fun, and Andrei lies and says he wants to earn money, but Libby convinced him otherwise. She then declares it was Libby’s responsibility to direct Andrei. “Women are the neck and men are the head,” she explains. “Where the neck turns, the head goes.” Andrei translates this as “the man is the brains, and the woman is the neck. The brain chokes the life out of neck, then tells it turn goddammit. Also, blow jobs and football. Monster trucks. Beef. How am I manning?”
“My family has always encouraged women to be very independent,” says that woman living off of her father’s money and doing everything her husband says. “I have no self-awareness, and I’ll have to put him in his place!” Libby lies, in sassy.
Angela is planning a wedding in a few weeks, and describes it as a job. Michael wakes her up and she starts getting out of bed, and says, “I’m trying to cover my cooter right now.” She is all business, while Michael is horny, probably because she triggered his junk with that super hot cooter line. Angela shows Michael that she got him not one but two suits for the wedding, and he’s shocked at the price of them, and the utter style of the purple suit. He does this weird ecstatic marriage dance on the bed, which is the second awkward dance of the season, so they have to be getting a bonus for these. Either way, it makes Angela laugh, but ha ha ha don’t get too comfortable.
Michael is taking her to meet the ex-pats. He’s been hearing about life in America from them, and he’s nervous. Michael explains that they have dual citizenship, which Angela insists on pronouncing “dool.” They warned him about segregation in certain places, and how black folks are routinely executed without trial by police. Angela fails to note that black folks might have a different perspective of American life than hers, and thinks Michael should just watch that July 4th parade on the VHS tape she sent him over and over, until his Murica tank is USA, and his Donald Trump underpants breed in his drawer. Then he says something about her staying in Nigeria instead, and come on dude, she’s got six grandkids she’s caring for a dying mother.
“That’s a no for me. Unless I can’t get another season of Happily Ever After, and need to make a play for The Other Way. Then maybe, if I get to spend most of the season deciding.” I see you, Angela.
Angela apparently didn’t watch the show last season, because she’s surprised to learn that his friends are women. The minute she sees them she goes from menthols to Lucky Strike, declares their relationship a wrap (again) and gets in the car for more incoherent screaming. Come the fuck on. This dude was dancing on the bed about marrying her fifteen minutes ago. Can’t she just enjoy her relationship already? This leaves all of Michael’s friends shocked, and all of us at home wondering if her storyline is ever going to get more complicated.
In their next scene Angela is still exploding, and Michael doesn’t say anything, because what’s the point.
“I’m not a stupid woman,” she lies. “Who wants to marry a stupid bitch?” Michael, apparently.
She gets a phone call from Skyla, who reports grandma is living in a fantasy world and doesn’t make much sense, which means she and Angela have a lot in common. Angela explains that this is dementia, and Skyla suspects it’s related to Mother Angela pulling out her oxygen the night before. Between the stress and her smoking habits, Angela is on the fast track to a heart attack, and Michael just wants her to calm down. After this phone conversation Angela tells Michael that this is the type of stress she’s been under, and she’s scared she might not see her mother again. This is sort of like apologizing, but not. She tells Michael she still wants to get married, and Michael is happy he’ll live to be verbally battered another day.
Asuelu says things are really tense, and no one wants to talk to him because he specifically asked everyone not to talk to him. Low wants to take him for a walk with the dog, so he can show him where he plans to bury his body. He asks Asuelu what’s going on, and Asuelu says that no one is interested in hearing his side. Low knows that Samoan culture is different, and is glad he has that personal experience so they have a better chance of understanding each other. Asuelu says that conversation was all a big misunderstanding, because he meant to call Kalani a bitch at least twice. He adds that sometimes he says things in English that don’t make sense, because he simply doesn’t know English well enough to correct any gaffs. Low says that’s not acceptable, and it ruined Oliver’s birthday party, and there are consequences for behaving that way. Asuelu asks, “Like time-out?” And Low says nope, it’s big-boy danger, like a good old-fashion Samoan ass-whooping, and he needs to apologize to Kalani. Low is getting fed up with the chances he’s given Asuelu, and he says he’s trying his best not to get violent, but he’s going to have to learn how to treat his wife.
For his part, Asuelu seems lighter after this conversation, since Low did listen to him before offering advice in a compassionate manner. So he wants to prove to Low that he meant what he said, and will go and apologize to Kalani, and will try to be a better father and husband…when Low is around. Otherwise he plans to pout on a swing set eating a snow cone or something.
Syngin calls his brother Dylan, since he just found out Dylan was in the ICU with a blood clot. The clot started after a knee injury, and the clot traveled up to his lungs, which is the last step before it reaches the heart and causes death. Dylan says he’s lucky to be alive, and fuck, this dude is only 25 years old. Syngin says he’s very close to his brother, and he was trapped in the states (alone) on the K-1 when his Gran died, and realizes he’d go crazy if he couldn’t be there for his brother. Dylan admits he’s craving some comforting, and Syngin says he’ll try to figure out a way to travel to South Africa. Dylan asks if he’ll bring Tania, and Syngin isn’t sure, because they’ve been having some problems, and he might be using this trip to disappear forever.
Syngin meets with Tania after physical therapy for her own knee injury, and she reveals that the doctor said she should be walking a lot better, so she should probably try to, you know, walk. Syngin confesses he really wants to go to South Africa to be with his brother, but he doesn’t know if their financial limits allow for it. In a shocking twist, Tania 100% understands his need to see his brother, and admits she would respond the same way with her own family, so she’s supportive of his travel plans. This apparently shocks Syngin, too, because instead of stating he’d rather go alone he asks if she’d like to come, and reminds her that she’s his family, too. It’s Tania’s turn to be surprised, since she was thinking what the rest of us at home were: he’s going to bounce. She’s a bit uneasy about joining him, since they’re still having problems, and isn’t flying with a leg injury something that increases the likelihood of a blood clot of her own? I’m not a doctor, but I do know traveling around South Africa with another person literally on your back is a great way to confuse the locals, and all of us at home.
NEXT WEEK: Libby’s dad and bro arrive to be verbally abused by ingrate Andrei while Libby makes faces, Paul continues to deliver on the slapstick by dropping an air conditioner out a window, Michael thinks Angela is going to cook and both of them run from a fly-covered goat head, and Debbie drains the marrow of everyone in Jess’ family.
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Who wants to marry a stupid bitch?
Does anyone else need this show this week to salve the seeping wound of 2020? I do. So let’s recap this bitch!
Jess is realizing that Larissa’s warning might be truth in reporting, as Debbie flounces around slamming doors, and Colt makes excuses for her by saying that she’s tired, drenched in boob sweat, and thousands of miles from where everything has been exactly the same for forty years. Jess and Colt go out to dinner, and Colt says he got a second hotel room, so they can have sex. Has he mentioned they’re having the sex? Jess tries to suss out why Debbie detonated shortly after hello, and Colt says that she’s over-protective, which is something Jess should know about, since she lost a parent, too. Instead Jess insists that she somehow was able to become an adult anyway, and then calls him a baby man, and he says that’s not fair; he prefers man-baby. Jess is nervous about introducing Colt to her family members, because they’re fun and he’s Colt, but at least there’s only one of him. Oh wait, Debbie. Jess ponders whether getting Debbie shit-faced will inspire a personality to emerge, and Colt just gives her his constipated kitten face, and says sex again.
In case you were wondering, Jess and Colt have sex. We revisit this topic when Colt wakes up and goes to fluff his mother. Debbie is eating breakfast, demanding to know why she was left alone in the room after demanding to be left alone in the room. Colt says that they were having sex, and Jess is kind of loud, but there’s no one to rescue her no matter her screams. He asks Debbie to make some effort to know Jess, since Debs reportedly went with him on this adventure in order to meet her. Debbie says that she was barely there an hour and Jess and Colt were already talking about their hypothetical children, and Debbie did not expect Colt to have a future. Colt is starting to think his mother is just there to sabotage he and Jess, and he says, “I understand you’re tired, but you don’t have to be an asshole.”
“YES I DO!” Debbie retorts. “I’m done! I’M DONE!”
Colt asks what Debbie thinks of Jess so far, and Debbie says, without irony: “I spent ten minutes with her…she seems to have a goal, or a plan.” Colt asks her to get to know her, and Debbie asks if that means leaving the hotel or enjoying herself, and Colt assures her she can just drain the beach of joy instead.
Jess knows Debbie is coming by how the temperature drops and the sun starts to darken. Debbie’s cautious, because in her view Larissa used Colt, and the part where Colt used Larissa right back totes didn’t happen. After a few antagonistic growling statements because Colt is in danger of having a life, Debbie says they need to get along, while doing nothing to be friendly. Debs thinks it’s strange that Colt went from one Brazilian to the next, and never considers for a second this is because Colt likes Brazilian women. Jess is now convinced that Larissa was telling her the truth about Debbie. She tries to find some joy in Debbie, and again asserts the importance of getting Debbie drunk. This will not end well. Nancy Reagan should have solicited Debbie’s services for her war on drugs, because no matter your level of intoxication, Debbie will kill your buzz.
Good news! Hot lawyer Adam is back, and an unbelievably healthy fiddle leaf fig guest stars from the hallway. Larissa is there to put in a job application, I guess. Larissa is pretty sure Adam’s wife wouldn’t like her as his assistant, due to what she would be assisting him with. She’s hoping to get her charges reduced to disorderly conduct, so she can get the third punch in her domestic violence card later. Adam hopes the camera folks are getting his good angle, which is all of his angles, and is pleased with the surge of business he’s enjoying from people who don’t seem to have any legal problems at all. His wife has questions, sure, but the answer is in that new boat, and sure he’ll do another season. He asks Larissa if she wants to put him on retainer or what, and she says her teeth are fine, so he invoices the producers directly.
Larissa and Eric are still pretending to date. The best part of this scene is the unplanned crotch flash that happens when Larissa elegantly crams her hand between her legs to yank the chair forward. Once seated, they hope to have the most boring conversation possible, and they succeed. The only interesting part of this scene is watching Larissa attempt to eat when she can’t feel her lips, which inspires food to dangle helplessly from her lower pucker before taking a dive.
Libby is ready to complain for the duration of their wedding venue hunt, and Andrei plans to dust off a fresh batch of insults for the occasion. She’s uneasy about putting Eleanor in car time-out with Father Andrei while they look at a place, especially since they forgot to crack the windows. Andrei calls her OCD, and says in Moldova people don’t suffocate like pussy Americans. Do you think these two know that they’re already married, and this is just extra for Andrei’s family? Will someone tell them?
The first venue is a casino strip mall, and Libby hates it before they even arrive. Libby considers the venue a cross between a bowling alley in 1973 and the Louisville airport (present day) — two places more appealing than the backseat of a car driven by these two, and yes, I’d book it. After Libby is done looking around with a disgusted expression, the poor woman showing them around invites them to look at delicious photos of food, which is too extreme of a diet for Libby. Andrei is stoked on the menu, while Libby expresses concern that there isn’t any picnic fare, and not a red SOLO cup in sight. Libby is nervous about her family having to acknowledge that they’re in a different country, so she lies and says Americans have cheeseburgers and fried chicken at weddings, because nothing classes up casino nuptials like greasy food dribbling down your titty-popping dress. Andrei helpfully points out that there’s a McDonald’s across the street, and Libby doesn’t say, “maybe you should pick up a job application,” but she should have. Instead she hunts for a fresh way to express displeasure without actually doing anything about it.
Libby declares the venue bullshit, and walks out so they can have an exit fight. She says her family has a lot of concerns…I’ll just leave it at that, since it covers every season of their story. Andrei accuses her of being hangry, and says they should stop and get food, but Libby hasn’t hated this venue enough yet. She pops off about not wanting to book any place where they can’t taste the food first (fair enough), and Andrei says she’s fucking annoying. Libby demands that he stop interrupting her when she’s being annoying, and this inspires him to interrupt her some more, and then again, until Libby walks away in disgust, which is a nice drumroll to her doing whatever this insecure, nutless, knuckle dragger wants in the next scene.
Libby says their disagreements are an every day thing, but yes, he’s acting different in Moldova. Why is she working for her dad when she could take this spin to a PR firm? All the same, this fight apparently evaporated into the air, because it’s not mentioned again when they check out venue #2, which looks exactly like the sort of venue Libby would choose. Libby = if Bed, Bath, and Beyond were a person. Andrei = if leather trench coats were a person. They bring out shot glasses of meat and other delicacies, which Libby declares good, and Andrei translates the cost as around $6,400. Andrei then says it doesn’t matter the cost, her dad is going to pay it. This man became entitled in record time, and I suppose this is what happens when your only financial planning is asking dad. Why does she want to marry him once, let alone twice? Was all his responsibility in his old haircut?
Andrei, his parents, and Libby are all cramming poor defenseless Eleanor into a stroller. She tries to escape, then realizes she should probably learn to walk first. Andrei shows her the neighborhood where he grew up, and the cameras race to see who can capture the most destitute part first. He said they used to break windows for fun, and Libby is confused, and Andrei says this was just a test to see if she was paying attention. What they really did was roll unguarded construction equipment into the road. They arrive at a park and take a photo by a tree. Apparently, the park is “on the older side” which in the PacNW is considered an asset, but not for Libby’s plastic coated life, and she’s a little bit concerned about germs. Seriously, is this her first kid exposure? My godson at one point licked a metal railing up and down with no pants on, while his sister sat on the ground trying to eat cedar chips. Sure, all the adults around them got sympathetic staph infections, but those two were just fine.
Mother Andrei asks if Libby has anything negative to contribute, and of course she does. Father Andrei says even though their “standards are lower compared to America,” they still love their country. Then Libby is asked to say something negative to further alienate Andrei’s family, so she says her family has no filter, because she doesn’t know that passive-aggression is a filter. Mother Andrei doesn’t believe that he planned the wedding last minute so her family couldn’t come, and Libby doesn’t understand why Mother Andrei isn’t on her team, after insulting her country and warning her about how horrible her family is.
“This is kind of starting to piss me off,” Low adds, and I concur, Low. I concur.
So in the next scene, Libby draws a hard line and HA HA HA good one. After another empty, sassy interview, Libby is ready to convert to the religion she can’t even name, and has zero curiosity about, but hey, let’s laugh at the guy carrying corn. The baptism requires her to dress in white along with a veil, and she asks if the men have to wear them too, because she’s going for superficially empowered “I’m not a feminist, but…” for this round. 1.) You know men don’t have to wear them, stop it. 2.) You don’t have to wear it either. The way you do this, is stop following this chode’s orders. But fuck that! Instead she does a little stand-turn-blow away the devil-turn-splash-Jesus! The priest puts a cross around her neck, and walks in a circle around the table, alongside Andrei’s sister-in-law Ina, who clearly hates Libby. Then the priest cuts off a lock of Libby’s hair, because Paul promised to pay top dollar for that shit.
“All of this seems very dated, and I want to be seen on the same level as men,” Libby states. “I don’t want to actually be on the same level, just perceived that way.”
Afterwards they all go out for dinner along with Libby’s negativity, so Andrei can offer more of his selective translation services about how men are from mars, women are from Venus. Libby doesn’t wear the cross she was just handed, and the family is concerned because it attaches a guardian angel…which she doesn’t know, because she doesn’t give a shit. Andrei says that goes to show he has to tell her everything. His brother is unimpressed with Andrei’s toxic masculinity, and seems to be noticing that Andrei is compensating for being a housewife by regurgitating man-meat stereotypes, and he should confine that shit to Reddit like a man.
Ina thinks gender expectations are fun, and Andrei lies and says he wants to earn money, but Libby convinced him otherwise. She then declares it was Libby’s responsibility to direct Andrei. “Women are the neck and men are the head,” she explains. “Where the neck turns, the head goes.” Andrei translates this as “the man is the brains, and the woman is the neck. The brain chokes the life out of neck, then tells it turn goddammit. Also, blow jobs and football. Monster trucks. Beef. How am I manning?”
“My family has always encouraged women to be very independent,” says that woman living off of her father’s money and doing everything her husband says. “I have no self-awareness, and I’ll have to put him in his place!” Libby lies, in sassy.
Angela is planning a wedding in a few weeks, and describes it as a job. Michael wakes her up and she starts getting out of bed, and says, “I’m trying to cover my cooter right now.” She is all business, while Michael is horny, probably because she triggered his junk with that super hot cooter line. Angela shows Michael that she got him not one but two suits for the wedding, and he’s shocked at the price of them, and the utter style of the purple suit. He does this weird ecstatic marriage dance on the bed, which is the second awkward dance of the season, so they have to be getting a bonus for these. Either way, it makes Angela laugh, but ha ha ha don’t get too comfortable.
Michael is taking her to meet the ex-pats. He’s been hearing about life in America from them, and he’s nervous. Michael explains that they have dual citizenship, which Angela insists on pronouncing “dool.” They warned him about segregation in certain places, and how black folks are routinely executed without trial by police. Angela fails to note that black folks might have a different perspective of American life than hers, and thinks Michael should just watch that July 4th parade on the VHS tape she sent him over and over, until his Murica tank is USA, and his Donald Trump underpants breed in his drawer. Then he says something about her staying in Nigeria instead, and come on dude, she’s got six grandkids she’s caring for a dying mother.
“That’s a no for me. Unless I can’t get another season of Happily Ever After, and need to make a play for The Other Way. Then maybe, if I get to spend most of the season deciding.” I see you, Angela.
Angela apparently didn’t watch the show last season, because she’s surprised to learn that his friends are women. The minute she sees them she goes from menthols to Lucky Strike, declares their relationship a wrap (again) and gets in the car for more incoherent screaming. Come the fuck on. This dude was dancing on the bed about marrying her fifteen minutes ago. Can’t she just enjoy her relationship already? This leaves all of Michael’s friends shocked, and all of us at home wondering if her storyline is ever going to get more complicated.
In their next scene Angela is still exploding, and Michael doesn’t say anything, because what’s the point.
“I’m not a stupid woman,” she lies. “Who wants to marry a stupid bitch?” Michael, apparently.
She gets a phone call from Skyla, who reports grandma is living in a fantasy world and doesn’t make much sense, which means she and Angela have a lot in common. Angela explains that this is dementia, and Skyla suspects it’s related to Mother Angela pulling out her oxygen the night before. Between the stress and her smoking habits, Angela is on the fast track to a heart attack, and Michael just wants her to calm down. After this phone conversation Angela tells Michael that this is the type of stress she’s been under, and she’s scared she might not see her mother again. This is sort of like apologizing, but not. She tells Michael she still wants to get married, and Michael is happy he’ll live to be verbally battered another day.
Asuelu says things are really tense, and no one wants to talk to him because he specifically asked everyone not to talk to him. Low wants to take him for a walk with the dog, so he can show him where he plans to bury his body. He asks Asuelu what’s going on, and Asuelu says that no one is interested in hearing his side. Low knows that Samoan culture is different, and is glad he has that personal experience so they have a better chance of understanding each other. Asuelu says that conversation was all a big misunderstanding, because he meant to call Kalani a bitch at least twice. He adds that sometimes he says things in English that don’t make sense, because he simply doesn’t know English well enough to correct any gaffs. Low says that’s not acceptable, and it ruined Oliver’s birthday party, and there are consequences for behaving that way. Asuelu asks, “Like time-out?” And Low says nope, it’s big-boy danger, like a good old-fashion Samoan ass-whooping, and he needs to apologize to Kalani. Low is getting fed up with the chances he’s given Asuelu, and he says he’s trying his best not to get violent, but he’s going to have to learn how to treat his wife.
For his part, Asuelu seems lighter after this conversation, since Low did listen to him before offering advice in a compassionate manner. So he wants to prove to Low that he meant what he said, and will go and apologize to Kalani, and will try to be a better father and husband…when Low is around. Otherwise he plans to pout on a swing set eating a snow cone or something.
Syngin calls his brother Dylan, since he just found out Dylan was in the ICU with a blood clot. The clot started after a knee injury, and the clot traveled up to his lungs, which is the last step before it reaches the heart and causes death. Dylan says he’s lucky to be alive, and fuck, this dude is only 25 years old. Syngin says he’s very close to his brother, and he was trapped in the states (alone) on the K-1 when his Gran died, and realizes he’d go crazy if he couldn’t be there for his brother. Dylan admits he’s craving some comforting, and Syngin says he’ll try to figure out a way to travel to South Africa. Dylan asks if he’ll bring Tania, and Syngin isn’t sure, because they’ve been having some problems, and he might be using this trip to disappear forever.
Syngin meets with Tania after physical therapy for her own knee injury, and she reveals that the doctor said she should be walking a lot better, so she should probably try to, you know, walk. Syngin confesses he really wants to go to South Africa to be with his brother, but he doesn’t know if their financial limits allow for it. In a shocking twist, Tania 100% understands his need to see his brother, and admits she would respond the same way with her own family, so she’s supportive of his travel plans. This apparently shocks Syngin, too, because instead of stating he’d rather go alone he asks if she’d like to come, and reminds her that she’s his family, too. It’s Tania’s turn to be surprised, since she was thinking what the rest of us at home were: he’s going to bounce. She’s a bit uneasy about joining him, since they’re still having problems, and isn’t flying with a leg injury something that increases the likelihood of a blood clot of her own? I’m not a doctor, but I do know traveling around South Africa with another person literally on your back is a great way to confuse the locals, and all of us at home.
NEXT WEEK: Libby’s dad and bro arrive to be verbally abused by ingrate Andrei while Libby makes faces, Paul continues to deliver on the slapstick by dropping an air conditioner out a window, Michael thinks Angela is going to cook and both of them run from a fly-covered goat head, and Debbie drains the marrow of everyone in Jess’ family.
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90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After Season 6 Episode 6 “Ultimatums and Ugly Truths”
Colt (Age 34, Las Vegas NV) and Jess (Age 26, from Brazil, living in Chicago)

• Colt and Jess go out to diner without Deb. Jess is still pissed they are all sharing a room, and is starting to believe the things Larissa told her. Colt plays the ‘dead dad’ card and explains that is why he does so much for Deb, but Jess has also lost a parent (her mother) so she doesn’t buy it.
  
• Colt and Jess got their own room. He goes in to check on Debbie the next morning. Deb approves of his decision to get a separate room, and acknowledges she had a metldown the day before (but she doesn’t like hearing Colt say she was rude).
  
• Jess and Deb are having some one on one time at the beach. Deb apologizes for her behavior the day before. Deb drills into the tough stuff right away (why are they talking about kids? what’s her immigration plan?) and Jess can tell this isn’t going to go well no matter what she says. She officially believes Larissa.
  

Andrei (Age 33, from Moldova) and Elizabeth (Age 29, from Florida)

• They are wedding venue hunting with Andrei’s father. The first spot is a “strip mall / casino by night” and Liz says it looks tacky and outdated. Liz isn’t down with the food either (rabbit is a delicacy apparently) and Andrei says just get them McDonalds. After they leave Liz definitively says NO to this place. Andrei is being a dick and keeps interrupting her when she tries to share her thoughts in the talking head segment.
  
• Andrei is still being annoying while trying to make Liz think she’s the one acting crazy (yay gaslighting). They get to the next venue and Liz has a better first impression. They are able to taste the food here instead of just looking at pictures and it turns out she likes it. Now they are happy and brush the earlier fight to the side.
  
• Today they spend some time with his parents at a park. They mostly talk about how things in Moldova are older but the people are nice, and also Liz’s family has no filter and might be rude. She makes him translate something about rushing the wedding plans but it comes off as insincere to Liz.
  
• Today is Liz’s baptism/conversion. Liz is doing it for Andrei’s sake more than something she wants to do. She doesn’t even understand what exactly is going on, and the priest doesn’t speak English (and Andrei can’t translate well). She’s just glad they are doing this before her family gets here. All in all it was kind of interesting visually, at least, even if it’s devoid of tangible meaning (plus Andrei got his way so he’s placated). They go out for dinner with his brother and sister in law afterwards. They scold her for not wearing her new cross. Next they dis Andrei for not working and being a real man.
  

Larissa (Age 33, from Brazil) and ??

• Larissa has a meeting with her attorney Adam, AKA the DUI Doctor. Larissa wishes she could get a job as Adam’s assistant. Basically she needs to stay out of trouble and her pending charges will get lowered or possibly dropped.
  
• She’s on a date with Eric. He says they spent way too much time together and she says he was cheap, but she still hasn’t found anyone else that loves her for her. Larissa’s friend Carmen still has issues with Eric and won’t approve of them rekindling. Eric pays for the meal at the end and she’s happy.
  
• Larissa is telling Carmen that she’s back on with Eric. Carmen disapproves but knows she can’t really do much about it. Carmen knows Eric means drama though and tells Larissa she needs to move out this weekend, so she doesn’t get in the middle of it again. Larissa goes outside and sits on the curb and starts crying. That’s the end of the ep.
  

Angela (Age 53, from Georgia) and Mykhul (Age 31, from Lagos Nigeria)

• Angela is rested and they can start talking plans now. Michael takes Ang to meet his ex-pat friends who were featured on a previous season (they all told him to be careful coming to America). Angela is mad because she wants to be Michael’s authority on American culture, not some randos she doesn’t know. They get there, sit down, and Angela immediately dismisses them because they are women and storms off, talking about canceling the whole wedding.
  
• They are driving back to the apartment and Ang is livid, screaming and cussing up a storm. Ang’s stress is boiling over because of stuff with her mom too, and she asks him to pull over so she can have a smoke. She’s calmed down a bit now that she’s actually talking.
  

Syngin (Age 30, from South Africa) and Tania (Age 30, from Connecticut)

• Syngin’s brother is in the hospital with a blood clot and he calls home to check in. We find out Syngin couldn’t go home when his grandma died because of k-1 complications, and he has a regret about that. He meets Tania for lunch after her physical therapy appointment. He pitches the idea of flying home to visit his fam and invites Tania to come with (but how will they afford it?). Tania is worried that Sygin has made so many comments about having second thoughts and feels insecure.

Kalani (Age 31, from Utah) and Asuelu (Age 24, from Samoa)

• They are back from Cali and things are still tense. Father Kalani and Asuelu take the dog for a walk so they can talk. Asuelu explains what went down in the car where he said women have it easy raising the kids and cleaning the house, and Kalani’s dad sort of understands it is just because of his culture. Asuelu at least admits he fucked up by sulking after the fight instead of focusing on Oliver. Dad tells him he needs to do better or next time he won’t be so cool.

Paul (Age 35, Kentucky) and Karine (Age 23, Brazil)

• absent

The 4 activists who accused Hayeli media outlet of publishing a pro-Azerbaijan article before throwing eggs at the office walls, have been told to stay in the country. There is a felony investigation.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171132
Court denied another Manvel "Tushonka" Grigoryan petition to be freed. He claims to be sick.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990945.html
The court has ruled that Kocharyan administration's "handler" and March 1st suspect Armen Gevorgyan cannot leave the country. Yesterday he petitioned to go to Austria for medical and business trips.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171133
Kocharyan was transported to a hospital several times in recent weeks. He'll undergo some kind of a surgery in Izmirylan hospital.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990849.html
Kim Kardashian:
I used to be OK with the public knowing everything I do. The idea of private life wasn't something I comprehended until I had kids. That's when I begun to balance my life. I continue to be open, it's my brand. I don't sweat over the number of likes on social media. (press doubt).
I came up with an idea of creating a perfume product that'll have the smell of Armenian flowers.
I'm happy that my sis Courtney also came. It's her first visit to ARmenia. We baptized the kids and took photos. The WCIT2019 was a "good excuse" to come to Armenia. I'm excited.
I'm currently in talks with several Armenian businesses. We're exploring ideas of producing underwear (lingerie) in Armenia.

An attendee: KIM I LOVE YOU!
Kim: Thank you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_H8tK1qqndw
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171118
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171153
Photo and video https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990850.html
Full video of Day-3 at WCIT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r6oMkZn6aAE
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ձենով Ohanian had some nice things to say about the WCIT and Armenia. He wants to improve his Armenian language skills after his book was translated to Armenian. He likes the tech and chess atmosphere in Armenia.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyJxL0zlAqE
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990872.html
SOAD Serj Tankian and Alexis Ohanian gave a press conference.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=g9M-2sx7cFg
Ohanian and Tankian are working on a new digital platform for Armenians around the world. It'll be called Highconnect.
http://panarmenian.net/m/arm/news/273804
Alexis Ohanian presentation
https://youtu.be/xxRLB0_oD6U
GIPHY founder about the company...
https://youtu.be/FIK6DlxMwBE?t=10
Serj Tankian presented his "kavat" (գավաթ) coffee brand which was launched last year in US. It's grandma-style, will be sold everywhere.
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/171177
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990981.html
Kardashian about business in Armenia and her genocide recognition effort:
https://youtu.be/b3FLoSpOIzE?t=4
Kim Kardashian went to Tsitsernakaberd genocide memorial
Video https://youtu.be/aPDeUY__Mac?t=11
Photo https://factor.am/190281.html
Kim Kardashian went to meet president Sarkissian at 26 Baghramyan, Yerevan.
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/171179
Selfies: Alexis Ohanyan, 1st lady Anahit and Belize 1st lady Kim.
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/171175
Pics from WCIT utush-khmush
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/171193
Pashinyan met Russian tech giant Yandex boss Arkadiy Volozh. The latter spoke about ongoing driver-less car tests they do in Moscow and Tatarstan province, and the future of taxi services. This year the company will raise the autonomy level and remove the human from the car. Humans are currently needed to stop the vehicle in case the AI does something stupid.
They spoke about widening tech investments in Armenia.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171114
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171136
Pashinyan held a meeting with the big boss of Russian railway systems, discussed future cooperation, investments in Armenia. They discussed trade routes connecting Armenia to Russia through Black Sea.
(Armenia-based subsidiary of this railway giant was last year accused of evading $60mln taxes and investing less than required per-agreement. The company recently said they're thinking about ending the contract in Armenia because their docs are confiscated since last year.)
http://arka.am/en/news/business/pashinyan_and_russian_railways_executives_discuss_future_cooperation/
International tech institute IEEE will open a computer department branch office in Armenia.
"The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity." It has 450k members and holds 1600 conferences annually.
"Armenia has many talented techies. We hope to cooperate", said IEEE computers branch president Cecilia Metra.
Minister of High Tech Arshakyan referred to the new office as the biggest event for Armenian tech industry.
http://panarmenian.net/m/arm/news/273805
Synopsys-Armenia president Yervand Zoryan interview transcript:
https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/171174
1st deputy PM Avinyan noted that Armenia is becoming associated with silicon valley in the eye of the international community. Tech sector has been growing 28% YoY in the past several years. A startup culture has been established and it's developing.
Full https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171103
Prosecutors have a felony case against employees of Cadastre land assessment committee for allegedly falsifying records in 2017 to give away a piece of land to a company for 58mln less than the market value.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171123
Prosecutors have a felony case against Spitak city officials and garbage handling firm admins for embezzling 6.9mln between 2018-2019.
https://factor.am/190146.html
Police sting operation busted a police officer with buying drugs.
https://youtu.be/J9f74wXMvaM
Valeriy Osipyan didn't last as Pashinyan adviser. He was earlier fired from the police chief's position for unsatisfactory performance, then appointed as Pashinyan adviser. He is no longer an adviser.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171107
Holy city of Ejmiatsin marked its 2,704th anniversary. Festivities were held, PM visited.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171121

Tash Tush on the streets
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk0gKcC-UHk

Ejmiatsin has a new smart bus stop with WiFi, charging station, electronic maps and info on how to get to places, bus arrival time, coffee and sweets vending machines, security cameras, etc.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990882.html
Meghri city will have a gas network by the end of 2019. Pashinyan and a Parliamentarian group tasked with economic affairs held a discussion earlier. Measurement works have begun to lay out the groundwork for installation.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990887.html
The former regime members rigged land auctions and appropriated lands near Meghri upon finding out that it would become a free trade zone. Felony case was launched after the revolution. Meghri mayor says the case is in the court. Auction riggers are charged with felony.
Ministry of Territorial Management and Meghri city are taking 32 hectare land back. Additional nearby 70 hectare will be given to the free trade zone to operate.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990889.html
Another group of US Congress members visited Artsakh. They came to Armenia yesterday at the invitation of Speaker Mirzoyan.
US delegates met Bako Sahakyan and Armenian MPs, spoke about Artsakh conflict, US humanitarian missions, Genocide recognition.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171154
Continuation: BHK boss Gagik Tsarukyan's business empire, casinos, media outlets, etc.
https://hetq.am/hy/article/108244
Tax-daddy says you have successfully convinced businesses to print 85.5 million more sales receipts, which allows IRS to detect if businesses evade taxes. The numbers are for Jan-Aug of 2019vs2018. Fiscal revenue rose 21%.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171163
To attract more direct foreign investments, Armenia needs to present itself in various international "indexing" institutes to allow the investors understand what's going on in Armenia. Armenia has long been a member of "Doing business" index, but it doesn't give a full picture about the investment atmosphere and the laws.
Armenia has just been presented in the OECD index, which tells the potential investor about the laws in Armenia and how they can affect foreign businesses. Two dozen large countries are in this index. Armenia managed to be in top-10. Armenia is ahead of Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan. (no mentioning of Moldova)
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990957.html
Yerevan municipality has approved a resolution to name a central park, located between Mashtotc and Saryan Streets, after the first female foreign consul Diana Abgar. Today is her 160th birthday. The park will honor female political figures and intellectuals.
Diana was the council to Japan. The 1909 massacres of Armenians in Adana inspired her to become politically active. She helped to prove the massacres were organized by the Turkish government.
After the 1915 genocide she helped 1,500 Armenians escape to United States by paying for their travel and stay. (De jure Armenian Christopher Columbus). She used her ties with foreign govts to help the Armenian refugees.
The city will place her statue in the park.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171113
Yerevan TV tower lighting system was in poor shape. The city gave it to a private firm with an agreement that it'll keep the system renovated.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171140
Yerevan municipality has hired 150 sanitation workers and will hire 206 cleaners soon. Extra workers are needed until the city purchases vacuum cleaner trucks. It plans to sweep the streets with machines. Its sanitation department will have 853 employees.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171129
Mayor Marutyan:
We stand behind the decision to terminate the Sanitek contract. Examinations were carried out to make sure it's legal. If Sanitek takes us to an international court, we'll be ready.
Some of Sanitek's broken garbage bins are still on the streets. They became trash, but the city isn't throwing them in a landfill. These bins are moved to a special guarded area. Sanitek can go and collect them whenever they wish.
We don't know yet if we'll hire a private firm to replace Sanitek. The main goal is to keep the city clean at the lowest cost. The city is spending the same 5.2bln that it was paying to Sanitek.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171149
Yerevan municipality has purchased 9,000 garbage bins. 4000 have already been replaced. 34 garbage trucks operate. It'll become 54 soon. "This is just the beginning", said mayor Marutyan. "We already see significant results. Thank you for your patience."
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/171157
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qY-phgeXMmE
Yerevan municipality is negotiating with the private transport firms that run mini-marshutkas. 400 units will soon reach 15 years of age and become legally unusable. If the owners don't update the fleet, the city will ask the govt to help the city with alternatives.
800 bus stops have been audited to understand what kind of work needs to be done.
City is negotiating with govt to make 4bln investments in Metro. Two extra wagons will be attached to solve overcrowding issues.
https://hetq.am/hy/article/108386
Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces Artak Davtyan:
We have new anti-air equipment that reaches further and higher. We can shoot down smaller objects now (drones?). Some existing weapons were modernized.
Anti-tank systems can penetrate twice further now. Works were carried out to improve the safety of anti-tank personnel on the battlefield.
Reservists were trained to deliver aid to combat fighters on the battlefield.
Pashinyan and the military admins will soon examine the results of last week's military exercises.

About violence in the army:
Non-combat deaths in the military are down by 39% YoY. Non-combat deaths of mandatory conscript soldiers are down 2x. Physical assaults remained the same.
NGOs routinely monitor the military for transparency to make sure they don't hide army deaths. Davtyan says when the military is accused of not disclosing a soldiers' deaths, it is a situation when the soldier dies in a hospital from a non-combat natural illness such as cancer, and the military isn't "sure" whether to publicize such death as a military loss or not.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990908.html
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990909.html
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/990911.html
https://youtu.be/5tqUaTTjxPo?t=8
https://razm.info/138326
Disclaimer: All the accused are innocent until proven guilty by the court of law, even if they may sound as being guilty. Currency in Armenian Drams unless specified otherwise. Older posts can be found at: PART 1 ; PART 2 ; PART 3 ; PART 4 , credits to Idontknowmuch.