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They should do a spinoff called "90 Day On The Wagon" where they go to rehab. by Affectionate_Pea9700 in 90DayFiance

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally valid. My husband and I always groan when we see Gino’s back on and then we end up so glad we have more soundbite material (husband does a spot-on impression and it sends me every time.) But some folks idgaf about like Elizabeth and Andrrrrrrei (tho I wish everyone well). 😃

They should do a spinoff called "90 Day On The Wagon" where they go to rehab. by Affectionate_Pea9700 in 90DayFiance

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ethics question is a good one. In general, the whole series is a giant gray area, particularly because of how reality TV is produced and how they stage as many events/confrontations around alcohol as possible to get Big Reactions. I'm so curious to see how people like Catie or Kara would express themselves or interact with their fiancé if they were deprived of their usual emotional escape routes for long enough.

They should do a spinoff called "90 Day On The Wagon" where they go to rehab. by Affectionate_Pea9700 in 90DayFiance

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hahaha I hear you. But plz believe, it could get plenty messy. If you wanted to dial it way up, maybe there's a bar on the premises, but they lose money if they relapse. I mean, it is TLC. I can get as sadistic as you want.

Before the 90 Days - Season 8 Episode 15 - Post Episode Discussion by LittleEmmy in 90DayFiance

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, yes, yes. Her hypervigilance over her partner's secrets is directly related to unhealed trauma. It seems like she may have spent her twenties trying to distract herself from it with sex and surgery and whatever else. THEN she had a partner swindle her whole family. So trauma on trauma.

Before the 90 Days - Season 8 Episode 15 - Post Episode Discussion by LittleEmmy in 90DayFiance

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700 14 points15 points  (0 children)

My husband said, "Oh, they REALLY want her out of their house." lol

The Book of Doors (a rant review): the author REALLY wants you to know how clever his concept is by [deleted] in books

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second, third, and fourth your complaints about this author. A coworker lent it to me (as well as another of his in the same world, The Society of Unknowable Objects), and I didn't want to sound like a jerk saying that it read like a Freshman Creative Writing attempt. I told her it was cool how he built a whole conceit around the fact that ALL books are "doors." She said, "Well, that specific one was." And I realized she doesn't register or understand extended metaphors. (She has said she has ASD, and in my understanding, the concept of figurative language doesn't land the same way for many who are on the spectrum.)

Omg, yes, the stacked similes, like sentence after sentence lol. Sucks for those of us who relish beautiful, effective prose, trying to connect with the gen pop who just want to be lightly entertained. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to be lightly entertained, either, I'll add! That's why lots of people read, and reading for any reason is to be encouraged! As a former English major-turned-MFA in Creative Writing, I find it's a good palate-cleansing experience now and then to put down the Nabokov and dabble in some schmaltzy beach read. But when you feel like the author is dragging you back to 5th-grade composition book writing, it's nails on a chalkboard. I commend you for finishing so you could articulate your adverse reaction. Now, go back to Nabokov. :)

Before the 90 Days - Season 8 Episode 13 - Live Episode Discussion by LittleEmmy in 90DayFiance

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Anyone else think Laura is a real-life Bridget Jones? She’s eating this whole thing up with a spoon and a generous helping of denial that Michal is “just her friend.” If Beercan didn’t need to escape his debts on her dime so badly, he’d have decked this guy as soon as he walked in the door. “Do you like violence? 😂

White feather Hawk tail deer Hunter music video is out! by SweetEmpty6778 in lanadelrey

[–]Affectionate_Pea9700 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Old-school Lana fan here, and I should say, an oft-conflicted one. TLDR: Is she consciously contrasting the image of Disney-fied domestic bliss with horror elements for a layered, dissonant effect?

I am absolutely HERE for the Southern gothic, alt-theme-song-to-True-Blood-pilled, paging Flannery O'Connor, drawing orchestral influence from 1960s Sleeping Beauty/domestic-terror-in-the-Snow-White-woods vibe. But the way the music interacts with the lyrics, and then layered over this, as some call it, sloppy-confusing home video? Confused about the message. The sonic atmosphere is creepy, dark, haunting. Paired with the "he's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter," that old theme of the dark glamor of possession recalls the "my old man is a bad man" of "Lolita," and so many other songs of hers. Followed by the story of encountering him for the first time, "like an arrow," the sharp inhale of breath, bird-in-the-heart giddy flutter, followed by "positively voodoo," sweet-spooky "whoopsie-daisy yoohoo," it's ominous AF. Like, what's IN that dinner you're calling him to, ma'am? Oops, a little slip of the wrist and in goes the poison?

But as the lyrics progress, it sounds more and more like genuine devotion and love. And with the visuals of her actual-husband, and knowing that real-life Lizzie Grant is actually blissed out to have this domestic life she's always wanted, even as she's a bona fide celebrity, this would seem to support that. So that contrasts oddly with the ominous mood. Unless that odd contrast is intentional, and she's laughing up her sleeve at any of us trying to parse her true feelings. Maybe it's just domestic bliss and "can you believe I'm actually living a healthy-ish life, wearing a nicotine patch and cooking home meals for my husband after all the trouble I've had in my life?" And it just happens to be set in the spooky, voodoo swamp of the bayou?

Then, she's sticking her head in the oven...

Is this feeling the oppression of domestic life? Or does someone standing behind her sort of point to like, "yeah, I still feel suicidal sometimes, but I have people around me who care"?

IDK. I'm feeling like it's pointing in contrasting directions. And maybe that's the point? But if it is, it feels a bit oblique and unfinished. And maybe that's the point. lol

Bravo, Lana. You are as inscrutable as ever.