90 Day Fiancé is nauseating to watch, but its spinoffs showing Americans as foreigners make for "prime-grade trash television"

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"The 90 Day Fiancé empire tends to take the side of its American 'characters,'" says Inkoo Kang, "but like many successful reality shows, it’s adept at accommodating multiple perspectives. Some viewers might regard all the foreigners with suspicion, and Before the 90 Days and The Other Way certainly aren’t exempt from fostering xenophobic distrust. But we’re also more likely to meet the foreigners’ friends and relatives in these versions, which go a long way toward humanizing them."