Review of Catfish: The TV Show

Plain and simple, it's entertaining. I think a lot of the advice Neve gives to these people is actually good, valid guidance; but a lot of the time, I feel like they should be harder on the people who are particularly nasty and cruel. I honestly find it hard to believe people are as stupid as they are portrayed on this show. How could anyone with half a brain, text with someone for for up to ten years, never meet them, never video chat, and sometimes never even hear their voice, and really believe all the excuses, and accept them as real? These people are beyond idiotic. That aside, it's interesting to see the lengths people go to, creating false personas to lie to other people, and seeing this show, should make people learn to be smarter about who and what they believe. I like Nev and Max, but some of their remarks, along with their T-shirt political propaganda is inappropriate, Everyone is unequivocally entitled to their personal politics, and opinions; but using a TV show as a platform to express those personal views is unacceptable and disrespectful. EDIT: Wow. I just watched a Season 7 episode I hadn't seen before, and it was the weirdest most embarrassing thing I have ever seen. The girl who was supposedly being catfished was either on drugs or has some sort of mental disorder. It was awkward and painful to watch her slumped over mumbling with her hair covering her face, repeatedly leaving in the middle of a conversation to run outside or hide in the bathroom. Turns out SHE blew the catfish off when he tried to meet her before because she was pregnant and went into labor. Uhhh...okay, lied about that and the fact that she has a kid. Then when she meets the catfish, who is real, she's squatting on the ground, walking away mumbling, again with the hair over her face, tells the guy she has a kid (which he didn't know, because he supposedly doesn't like kids) and immediately asks him if he wants to be her godfather! Yikes. Then she takes off to go for a run. I actually found a blog of a person who talked to this girl's sister, and the sister said the whole thing was a fake story anyway, and they misrepresented a lot of the actual facts. Wow, just wow. I'm disgusted by the whole thing. Makes me wonder if ANY of these stories are real.