Manuel traveled all the way to america, to move, with one backpack!? What is this? Kept expecting them to go to baggage or for the bag to be in the background. Nope one single backpack for supposedly the rest of his life. TLC fakery? What’s he really here for and for how long?! 🤥🤔

    • mixedchillness@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I hope he doesn’t! How dare he talk bad about animals and say that he’s gonna make the dog sleep outside?! Bitch you can sleep in your own bed back at your own house dafuq Animals> humans. All day

      • kelp244@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        It’s so weird to me, but I’ve met a lot of traditional type of guys who just outlaw animals in the bedroom/ house. They feel like there should be an actual divide between species. And there’s absolutely no way around it. My dad was like this a lot, but there’s no way I’d make my dog sleep outside. She’s family too.

  • MalinaNox@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Hasn’t he not told his family yet? Maybe he didn’t raise suspicion with a large amount of suitcases?

      • BabsRS@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I’m getting a Luis vibe from him in that I think he has friends/relatives/girlfriend in the wings and he just needed to get over here in preparation to leave Ashley for greener pastures. I don’t see any love in his eyes or actions.

  • saranara100@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    We didn’t know a lot about his backstory other than he’s a construction worker and told his mom he went to a job. I wondered if he lives with his mom and just packed “as normal” so she wouldn’t question why he was packing more than usual. It’s likely he also doesn’t have a lot of material things other than clothes and toiletries (like a lot of guys will be) and figured he can get that stuff after he came to the states.

    • Fuzzy-Specialist6391@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Secrets out thanks to her family & friends all over Rochester. Its staged. He and Ashley came to a financial agreement. He leaves family behind, they get paid on the show, split it and after she becomes a realty tv star he can bring his family over in a couple of years.

      • EfficientPension1737@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I think you nailed it. I can’t see why Ashley would want to be with this loser. Other than she likes to sex. He’s got nothing going for it looks like a staged act for the reality show world.

    • FunUse244@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I think maybe in the first episode, he had been working out of town or traveling to jobs, so he probably is used to packing lightly.

  • Successful-Steak-950@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    In the preview when she said, ”Do the teenagers (his kids) know I’m about to become a step mother? ”.

    That statement seemed off, like it’s all about her. She should have said “I’m about to be their stepmother. Not sure why it bugs me but I felt it was distant,removed and strange.

  • Fluffy_Iron6692@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I mean, all his things likely fit into a single bag. Doesn’t necessarily mean he had ulterior motives lol he gives the vibe of like “simple man with simple pleasures.”

  • Iheartmalbec@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There was a piece on the 90DF phenomenon in the New York Times awhile ago. IIRC, the infamous scene with Tania and the rose petals was filmed a few times in order to get the best take. It’s more than possible it happened here. I think if you go back and watch there are more than a few people walking out of the airport with no luggage or luggage that doesn’t look like they’re actually moving.

  • Filibust@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The baggage claim area was in the background so I assumed that he didn’t get all of his belongings yet. Could be wrong though

  • Just_Minute9316@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Same with Shekinah’s sister, only her purse/bag. Not walking from the airport to meet Sarper, not into the apartment complex and not after she got the hell out of dodge so she could avoid the hand-cooked meat.

    I was highly distracted thus episode with luggage and meat.

  • HamsGamsandYams@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    He could have just wanted to buy new things when he arrived or shipped some stuff ahead. I noticed but didn’t think much of it.

  • Oksana51@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Okay Ashley…Manuel comes with his kit bag and not a pot to piss in, doesn’t get your witchdom, dog needs to be outside, doesn’t like cats and telling you that you have no voice because he’s the man, I don’t care how long you have known him, use a crystal to stave off his negativity and kick him to the curb…not a great catch girl…

      • StarryBun@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I can’t even stand listening to her speak, I am naturally infuriated by her, but she absolutely 100% deserves better than a man who comes into her home for the first time and tells her he hates her cat and that her dog can’t be in bed with them. Fuck that.

        • ClerkPleasant9520@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          Its the anxiety attacks for me, like girl, PULL THE F OVER, who continues to drive down the road and as a witch you would think she would be a little more in touch with her chakras