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90 Day Fiance Season 8 Premiere: Lies, Familiar Faces, and No Protection

December 07, 2020

90 Day Fiance may have spawned over a dozen spinoffs, but there's nothing quite like the original show.

And the series that launched it all just premiered Season 8.

This season introduces us to multiple new couples and welcomes back some very familiar faces.

On the premiere, things were pretty simple, as we're still getting to know the new stars.

Brandon has a number of unwelcome surprises for Julia, but he's not telling her until she arrives in the US.

Rebecca is ready to bring Zied to the US, but they still have things to work on and her daughter has her doubts.

Jovi and Yara are reunited, but even they seem to question how much they have in common.

And Mike is nervous about Natalie's arrival, just two months after he left her behind in Ukraine after ages of fighting.

1. Meet Brandon Gibbs and Julia Trubkina

Brandon introduced on 90 day fiance season 8
Brandon is a 27-year-old who grew up on his parents' farm. He describes his parents pretty thoroughly -- his mom, Betty, can be a bit controlling. His dad, Ron, he describes as being like his best friend. They are very relevant to this story, and not just because he's living with them. (No, we cannot explain his mom's Murder She Wrote hairstyle)

2. They were pushing him to date

Brandon and parents ron and betty
Apparently they (read: Betty) went so far as to create a Farmer's Only profile for him to date, but that is not where Brandon met Julia (My relatives who grew up on farms have always offered the same advice: never date a farmer, and it looks like Brandon reached the same conclusion). Brandon met Julia through video chat.

3. "You look like my future wife"

Brandon and julia kiss in a hotel
Just a short while after chatting, he sent her that gushing message. He eventually flew out to Russia to ask her in-person to be his girlfriend. Julia is a go-go dancer and bodybuilder who works in clubs, though more recently it seems that Brandon has been supporting her. She tried to visit him in the US, but when she disclosed that she wanted to visit Brandon, her boyfriend, the consulate told her that she would need a K-1 visa and denied her. That's ... not a great system.

4. Brandon didn't want to lose her

Brandon proposes and julia says yes
So he flew out to Iceland where the two met up, and that was where he proposed to her. Julia said "yes." Now, they're working out the logistics before she shows up in the US to live with him in rural Virginia.

5. Julia is having a hard time packing

Julia brandon its not fun you buy me all what i not take
It's hard to know what to bring with you for any move, especially when you have finite cargo space and are moving across continents. Brandon promises Julia that he will buy her whatever she leaves behind. (At the moment, it's unclear if this lovestruck farmboy really understands how expensive her clothing might be ... a jacket that she leaves behind might have more zeroes on the pricetag than he can imagine)

6. Julia is uneasy about living with his parents

Julia good morning mother good morning brandon
Though she doesn't know the half of it yet, she very comically jokes about her desire to get a new place to avoid waking up and greeting Brandon and his mother at the same time. Again, she doesn't know the half of it.
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