90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Tell All Keeps Us Guessing Until the Very End

With a panel of alums calling people out at every turn and all manner of mystery guests, there was no way to know how the latest 90 Day Fiancé Tell All would end. It took over four hours just for Daniele to finally pull out the receipts she claimed prove Yohan cheated on her. And Night 3 of the Other Way reunion promised gaping jaws, threats, and maybe, just maybe, a bit of closure.

But one of the most surprising things about the finale, maybe even the whole Tell All, was seeing everyone put what they’ve learned from watching the show to good use (or maybe TLC is just issuing media training along with mics). Aside from a lone escape attempt (Holly running away when Wayne expressed doubt about their marriage) and Andrei trying to intimidate Shekinah after she and Sarper called him “the most toxic man in history” — thereby squandering the goodwill he’d earned in the two previous installments — the cast members stay focused on the task at hand. They continue to ask each other probing questions, and are mostly able to stay calm when confronted (Yohan, not so much). Tim even has the decency to apologize to Daniele for “talking all that sh*t” about her.

That’s not to say the night is free of conflict. Host Shaun Robinson conferences in Dan, a goober of a Frenchman who went on a few dates with Shekinah, who contradicts her characterization of their relationship. Shekinah may have thought her time in the hot seat was over, but she’s soon beset with questions about Sarper’s controlling nature. Where Tim and Andrei’s comments are tinged with snark, Kalani’s concern for Shekinah comes from a much more vulnerable place. Like Shekinah, Kalani grew up in a strict religious household, which she says "makes you make poor choices in men."

Daniele points out that Shekinah hasn’t paused to reflect on her actions or Sarper’s; she’s just been on the attack the whole time, needling other couples about their relationships. It’s one of the most insightful remarks in a Tell All full of them. Kalani’s concerns are valid, but Shekinah isn’t totally off-base when she suggests that Kalani may be projecting. Sure, Shekinah should take some of the bronzer out of her ears and listen to the one person who’s kept an open mind about her, but Kalani recently made the decision to end her own marriage on The Last Resort. Her pain is still fresh; she tears up when evidence of Yohan’s cheating is presented, admitting that it’s all triggering for her. You really just want to give her a hug, but also, it couldn’t hurt for her to step back from all the televised drama.

Besides, Kalani’s sympathy is wasted on Shekinah, who storms out at the end of the night without speaking to anyone. She’s not the first cast member to leave a Tell All without having learned much, but Shekinah also revealed very little. She talked plenty about everyone else, but when the conversation came back around to the power differential in her relationship with Sarper, she effectively Bartleby’ed her way out of any self-reflection. The revelation that Sarper keeps a composition book full of Xs that represent all his sexual partners (these are just the ones from the ’90s and early 2000s) throws her off her game for a moment, but it’s clear that Shekinah came to this Tell All intent on not being made to look the fool. If only someone had told Sarper that.

This is all very watchable, but there’s no denying that it feels like the prelude to the main event: Daniele detailing Yohan’s infidelities. Throughout the Tell All, he kept his cool even as he denied cheating on her. Shaun had directed the focus elsewhere so often that he may have thought he was off the hook. But in the final moments of Night 3, Shaun asks him point-blank if he’s still keeping up the ruse that he was faithful just before telling everyone in the studio that one of the women he’d contacted was going to join them via video call.

The woman is named Memori, which leads Shaun to deliver this delightfully ridiculous line: “Do you remember talking to Memori?” Daniele is calm throughout, almost serene. She brought all of this to light with her own sleuthing, so she isn’t at all caught off-guard by any of this. At one point, Holly suggests that Daniele had to gather all of this evidence, including an email from a woman Yohan pursued while at one of the retreats she hosted, to convince herself because Yohan had gaslit her for so long. And he does DARVO it up on camera, quickly turning from denial to calling Daniele a “manipulator” (really, the word of the day in this Tell All) to then saying he wishes he had cheated on her.  

"My marriage was very much real for me but I don't think it was real for him," Daniele says in her exit interview. "I don't think there's a real him." It’s always tempting to declare a winner and a loser in a breakup. By the end of the Tell All, everyone is fully on Daniele’s side (Shekinah isn’t seen raising her hand, but even she had to answer yes when Shaun polled them about whether Yohan cheated). Tim takes back his comments about her being controlling, Armando gives up on hearing Yohan’s side, and Daniele does seem to be in a better place already.

But the fallout has just begun; this divorce already looks like it’ll be the definition of “acrimonious.” And 1. we hope Daniele breaks her own rules and really cuts him off and 2. how long before she's on The Single Life? (We’re just saying, Chantel’s already on her way, after wrapping The Family Chantel for good.)

The future looks equally hazy for the other couples — aside from Shekinah and Sarper, who are going to keep doing what they do because they don’t yet see it as toxic. Shaun mostly took it easy on Mary and Brandan; it was his mother Angela who brought their issues to light. We got hints of Brandan’s potentially abusive behavior in the promos, and things don’t look much better after he admits he calls her a “bitch” to get her to “stand up for herself.” The older, more experienced cast members cut Mary and Brandan some slack because of their age, but everyone’s on the same page about the two of them needing therapy. At the end of the night, Brandan tells a producer that Mary’s insecurities and “overthinking” are still their greatest source of tension.

Julio says he’d already gotten closure, so we guess he was just there to play some not-so-damning audio. Though Holly and Wayne assure each other via WhatsApp that they want to work on their marriage, they both express doubts in their solo talking heads. Then, just as it seems the night is going to end with Kenny talking about becoming a dad again with Armando, Kimberly says going back to India at this moment would make her “very sad.” At this point, she doesn’t know if she “can count TJ in my plans for the future … I'd like him to be there theoretically, but realistically, I don't know where to put him.” The only thing she seems certain of is that Jenny can catch her outside.

90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way Season 5 and the Tell All are streaming on Discovery+ and Max. Join the discussion about the show in our forums.

Danette Chavez is the Editor-in-Chief of Primetimer and its biggest fan of puns.