Keeping Up With the Kardashians was ending after 14 years and 20 seasons. Meanwhile, a 90 Day Fiancé spin-off series—The Other Way, which follows Americans moving to a foreign country in the name of love—was that week.
Unlike Keeping Up With the Kardashians, 90 Day Fiancé (and its many iterations) is a beacon of the anti-aspirational. There are no glamorous vacations or diamond earrings lost here—the stars of this TLC series are average Americans, often with financial woes, fighting to make a long-distance relationship with someone from another country work.
Compared to Keeping Up, it : Fueled by our pursuit for something real—the cigarette-pack-in-a-bra, fighting-with-your-mother-in-law kind of real—we’ve created a behemoth.
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