7 Shows Like ‘90 Day Fiancé’

This long-running Lifetime reality series premiered in 2014, the same year as 90 Day Fiancé, and similarly has made a splash ever since with its wild premise. In Married at First Sight, specialists use scientific matchmaking and their own expertise to set up several couples who will be legally wed on camera, when it is both the first time they are meeting each other in person as well as the first time they are communicating at all. The show then follows these pairs to see if these total strangers can make it past Decision Day by choosing to stay married, or if they will part ways in divorce.

Where to Watch Married at First Sight 

Marrying Millions has plenty in common with 90 Day Fiancé: at their core, both are reality series in which couples from different backgrounds must persist in the face of scrutiny and doubts to see if they can overcome their differences in order to ultimately get married. Where this more recent Lifetime series swerves from the 90 Day premise, however, is that all of the couples have one person who is incredibly wealthy, while the other is at the opposite end of the income scale. Marrying Millions seeks to test is couples can have a happily ever after in the face of potential issues stemming from vast financial and economic differences.

Where to Watch Marrying Millions

In some cases of 90 Day Fiancé, the couples have met in person beforehand and have been trying to make things work long-distance before taking the plunge to marriage. In other cases, though, the couple has been communicating online and meet for the first time while on the show. The latter is similar to the premise of Love Is Blind, a Netflix Original dating experiment to test whether love really is blind by having singles date around via pods where they can only form a connection by speaking to one another, and cannot see each other until getting engaged sight unseen. After their engagement, the couples meet and get to form a physical connection that will help them decide whether or not they will ultimately walk down the aisle for an on-camera wedding ceremony. It’s kind of insane, but that’s what’s so great about it.

Where to Watch Love Is Blind

Speaking of insane premises, Love After Lockup follows couples who meet in person for the first time upon one half of the pair’s release from prison. Each pair consists of an inmate and non-inmate who have been communicating solely via pen and paper, phone calls, and video calls before the inmate’s release, allowing them to date with the added aspects of a physical connection, meeting the family, and other outside forces that may pose problems or create drama in their unique and tenuous relationship.

Where to Watch Love After Lockup

Marry Me Now is a more recent reality series out of OWN, which, like 90 Day Fiancé, takes pre-established couples and pushes them towards the end-goal of marriage, but with a twist. In Marry Me Now, relationship coach Rebecca Lynn Pope guides women who are ready to take the reigns in their relationship, helping the ladies take control of these futures by guiding them towards doing the proposing to their significant others and then planning the subsequent marriage (if the partner agrees, that it) in order to leave the show a wedded woman.

Where to Watch Marry Me Now

The Ultimatum is a Netflix Original series that grew extremely popular upon its release this past April. Hosted by Nick and Vanessa Lachey, this reality series takes six couples on the verge of marriage and pushes their relationship to the brink by splitting them up and pairing each person with someone from a different couple for eight weeks, giving them a chance to experience something different. At the end of those eight weeks, the original couple reunites to address the ultimatum of whether or not they will stay together after everything they’ve learned and gone through on the show. Like 90 Day Fiancé, The Ultimatum takes couples who believe they are ready for marriage and challenges them to the point where some won’t make it out intact.

Where to Watch The Ultimatum

Lastly, we’ve got Couples Therapy, a practice that most of the pairs on 90 Day Fiancé could really benefit from. Couples Therapy is a Showtime Original docuseries that gives viewers an exclusive behind the curtain look at regular couples as they work through their differences with psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik, who seeks to help the couples find success and common ground through empathy, expert tactics, and tough love. Both reality series feature relationships between real people who may not be able to see eye-to-eye, although thanks to Dr. Guralnik, those on Couples Therapy are likely navigating those issues in a healthier way. Either way, it’s all fascinating relationship-based television worth bingeing!

Where to Watch Couples Therapy