Catfish

Incase you've been living in a bit of a hole and don't visit any kind of social media, 'catfishing' is the act of using a fake identity to woo someone online...

So, this whole catfish hype started when the presenter of the TV show, Nev, was catfished himself by some absolute psycho of a woman called Angela. Long story short, Nev, a photographer, started receiving these paintings from a little girl, Abi, who was a fan of his work. As time went on this little girl added him on facebook along with her mum, her brother, her uncle and her bloody pet chinchilla and eventually her half-sister Megan. So Megan and Nev start talking and fall for eachother *violin plays* but soon Nev starts seeing holes in her story i.e. the recordings of her singing she sent him turned out to be random girls on youtube, he keeps asking to meet her and she keeps being suspiciously busy la la la moving on at the very end of the documentary we find out that this woman, Angela, a 40 something woman who is Abi's mum was the real painter and the real owner of Megan's profile.

Sorry about this repulsively long summary but anyway this documentary lead this guy Nev and his 'film maker buddy Max' to make Catfish the TV show aka the funniest show on television.

It's hilarious in two ways: firstly, the stories are just unbelievable and secondly, the whole layout of the show is comically ludicrous. So basically these people call up Nev and Max like

'Man I just don't know what to do I've never met my fiance....like that sounds bad but we've been speaking for six years now and we were about to meet but didn't get round to it :( I've also only seen like 2 pics but...they must be legit come on.'

or of course my personal favourite

'Bow wow is ma boyfriend...we aint met yet but it's def him coz he sent me 10 thousand dollahs holla'

So of course to keep up their catfish gig, the catfishers refuse to meet for months and even years on end and then, suddenly, our hot spice Nev over here just gives them a ring and says 'Hey man i'm with your friend betsy and they really want to meet you!'

Then the catfish just goes 'Cool I'll see you asap!'

...........

is this a joke?

Why would you spend so much time on this facade if you're just gonna go you know what never mind let's meet up the second some random guy gives you a ring! LIES I TELL YOU, LIES.

Then they meet up with the psycho who has been catfishing them and low and behold, 9 times out of 10 it is some random person with some completely irrelevant excuse for their actions. And THEN Good old Nev and Max go back the next day and talk to this catfish and offer them advice...why? I have no idea. It usually goes something like this:

Catfish: 'I was bullied in high school so I started the fake profile and I connected with Jenna and this happened.'

Nev and Max: 'We understand you just gotta move forward'

How does this make any sense?? If you had been bullied why would it make you ruin someone else's life by convincing them to fall in love with a lie?

No idea. This show does not make sense.

Despite this i find myself watching every single episode because of the pure hilarity...and of course the eye candy that is Nev and Max. Yum.


Anyway, if you've made it to the end of this very long post I hope ya enjoyed it,

Nina