Hola Trashies! Can you believe they made this thing 2 hours long? I mean – what the heck?!! And with only two couples to follow – it was needless and full of fluff. Just like this show.
Two newest members of the Bad Idea Club!
I have a love/hate relationship with this show. I love it because I get a kick out of how serious everyone takes themselves and I hate it, because everyone takes this disaster show so seriously! Ugh. I stand by my description of this show: Imagine a blind date you can’t get out of for six weeks. Unless you’re Heather and you blow it all up cuz you’re a bad ass. Face it, Heather may be pretentious and kind of cold (I didn’t say it! Her BFF did!) but girlfriend will not settle for less. For that, I gotta respect her.
Anyway, this episode supposedly starts two days before “decision day.” This part also irks me because they keep saying it’s the most important decision of their lives. Which, um NO. Getting married is. Getting divorced is the sad conclusion to your horrible decision. Geez people.
Okay, anyway, so Sonia is still living apart from Nik. Again, I can’t blame her. But the show wants us to believe that she is somehow wrong for moving out of the house she shared with a practical stranger because he yelled at her on camera in a drunken rage about how he didn’t want to eff her with someone else’s dick. So yeah, I think her reaction was fair.
Nik passive aggressively shares that he thinks Sonia isn’t committed. Sonia interviews that she would love to come back, but she needs to trust him. And she finally put her ring back on.
The producers give our couples “vision board” assignments and OF COURSE Tom’s side of his vision board is full of buses with pegasus wings because of “Bus Lifestyle.” Which ohmygod if that is not a cop-out for being a responsible grown up who pays their bills, I just. Yeah. This guy. Lily’s vision board is full of pictures of babies and houses with white picket fences. She smartly interviews that she works hard so that she will have enough money not to have to worry about things in life (roof over her head that doesn’t need petrol), and that Tom is more committed to not worrying about money (i.e. a deadbeat). She’s questioning whether they are really compatible and also notes that he is pulling away lately.
Sonia and Nik’s vision board is lame, because they are lame. Actually, they seem to get along well and talk about what they want to do in the future and tepidly include each other in those plans. Sonia is grinning and seems to be warming up to Nik, but she also never stops smiling even when she’s nervous so who knows.
Then we have the obligatory Heather/Derek segment which OHMYGOD WHAT WASTE OF TIME! Derek goes out with friends to a bar in Miami Beach (I think he went to this same place with his former girlfriend). Anyway, his friends give him a hard time about meeting girls and what is this?! A table full of single women! Who helpfully notice he’s wearing his wedding ring! They encourage him to take off his ring and look at that. Derek has closure.
Me – watching this show.
Nik goes out with his friends, and his best friend Ritch shows up again – who needs his own show. Seriously fire all the experts and just hire this guy. Nik explains to his friends who are out of the loop about what he said “around Sonia, not to her,” and his friend’s girlfriend is aghast at Nik’s behavior and doesn’t blame her for leaving. She tries to give him advice, but Nik doesn’t hear it well. However, Ritch helpfully says that he spoke to Sonia a few weeks prior after this had happened, and while Nik is completely in the wrong (he literally tells Nik he’s lucky Sonia is still talking to him), that because of who Sonia is she will try to work it out and Nik still has a chance. Basically, Sonia is too nice for her own good.
In Sonia’s meeting with her gal pals, she basically says the same thing. That she has a reputation for being too nice and letting people take advantage of her. She also says that sometimes she can’t stand the sight of Nik’s face (ouch), but that sometimes he’s really cute. She says she doesn’t know how she feels about him right now.
The couples are instructed to exchange gifts with each other. Tom and Lily’s are appropriately corny – as their relationship is. Tom gives Lily a clock to represent their time together and Lily gives Tom a cut out of a heart with their initials on it (barf). Lily is terrified that Tom is going to ask for a divorce because he loves the bus more than her, and Tom knows that he’s the one holding all the cards here. He keeps giving talking head interviews about their “lifestyle” differences and how she values work too much. She meanwhile is practically catatonic with fear of getting abandoned by Tom.