CatFish: The TV Series

Pretty sure it's fake. Still watch it though.

The movie was a documentary about him falling for a girl online who ended up being someone she was not. How is the show nothing like the movie?

[QUOTE=realityaddik;327476]The movie was a documentary about him falling for a girl online who ended up being someone she was not. How is the show nothing like the movie?[/QUOTE] This. The movie was even the definition of shallow.

How was it shallow that he thought he was talking to a girl his age, yet she ended up being an older woman who was painting creepy pictures of him?

The movie was awesome. The show is pretty good, even though the premise is going to get repetitive. Find guy on myspace Chat like an idiot (without webcam wtf) for 1-10 years Nev shows up Takes you to his house Not who you expected. Y'all become friends in the end.

[QUOTE]In 2010, New York-bred filmmaker [B]Nev Schulman[/B] met [B]Megan Faccio[/B], an attractive singer and dancer, through mutual friends on [B]Facebook[/B]. The two quickly cultivated a connection through flirty messages and lengthy phone calls and eventually decided to give it a real shot, even though they hadn’t yet seen each other in person. As their relationship proceeded, things just didn’t seem to add up in Nev’s eyes, though, and as his suspicions about Megan escalated, he decided to pay his Internet love a visit in rural Michigan, bringing along his brother and a friend to capture it all on film. Ultimately, Nev didn’t find the girl of his dreams. Instead, he came face-to-face with a “[URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1584016/"]Catfish[/URL].” In the film, Angela Wesselman-Pierce, an artist who Nev believed was Megan’s mom, confessed to completely making Megan up and, further, generating a number of complementary Facebook profiles to make her virtual puppet appear more plausible. Angela said each fake alter-ego represented a part of her life she wished she had. Understandably, Nev felt the need to get to the bottom of Angela’s motives to understand why she did what she did, and when he spoke to her husband, Vince, the man compared her to a catfish, which he said fishers once used to keep marketable cod active while in transit so they’d stay alive and keep from devolving into unsellable goo. Angela, he said, kept people active. [/QUOTE] via mtv

The main question I have....why were Trina and Scorpio still using Myspace? What is this, 7th grade?

"Scorpio" ? Bwahahaha !!! Give me a break...if a girl is so stupid that she falls for that BS, she's asking for it.

[QUOTE=Nostalgic;327488][B]Okay Negative Nancy.[/B] What? Not everyvbody likes Facebook or wants to see all there bull**** on line. There's nothing wrong with it. As an actor and singer I use it to share material or use it for Blogs. Facebook as sorry as it is hasn't that feature. It's just a bunch of nonsense statues and games hence why I also has the birth of Twitter.[/QUOTE] I'm sorry, but I find it rather humorous that someone gets online and chats with someone they've never met before and really don't know at all and "falls in love"...that's ridiculous. All of that "Scorpio" guy's fake/false/stolen half naked pictures he was sending her made it even more obvious this Trina chick was chatting with a poser. I mean, do you disagree with that ?

I've seen episodes 2 and 3, missed the first one. I have it set to record future episodes as well. It's a pretty interesting show so far. Is it disengenious? I'm still on the fence. But my wife and I enjoy watching shows about ghost hunting and those are all pretty much fake, so I can enjoy Catfish even if it's not quite believable. Once upon a time, waaaay back in the days of AOL chat rooms, I would regularly chat with other guys and gals who shared similar interests (this was pretty much before any awesome online forums such as Vevmo existed). I saw firsthand that some of these people were not who they claimed to be, and the motivations for pretending to be someone else have fascinated me since, as a study of the human psyche. It was pretty easy to fool someone back then, seeing as you were only communicating via text or an occasional phone call; however nowadays, I think it'd be much more difficult to fake a persona. Yet, it happens all the time. @Adrian!!!!!!, A person can get most anyone to believe something if you tell them what they want to hear first, or get them to believe it they came up with it. You think it's hard to believe that people fall for this stuff, yet incredulously this is exactly what sexual predators do to lure kids in. It's scary stuff!

[QUOTE=Aereas;327514]I've seen episodes 2 and 3, missed the first one. I have it set to record future episodes as well. It's a pretty interesting show so far. Is it disengenious? I'm still on the fence. But my wife and I enjoy watching shows about ghost hunting and those are all pretty much fake, so I can enjoy Catfish even if it's not quite believable. Once upon a time, waaaay back in the days of AOL chat rooms, I would regularly chat with other guys and gals who shared similar interests (this was pretty much before any awesome online forums such as Vevmo existed). I saw firsthand that some of these people were not who they claimed to be, and the motivations for pretending to be someone else have fascinated me since, as a study of the human psyche. It was pretty easy to fool someone back then, seeing as you were only communicating via text or an occasional phone call; however nowadays, I think it'd be much more difficult to fake a persona. Yet, it happens all the time. @Adrian!!!!!!, A person can get most anyone to believe something if you tell them what they want to hear first, or get them to believe it they came up with it. [B]You think it's[/B] [B]hard to believe that people fall for this stuff[/B], yet incredulously this is exactly what sexual predators do to lure kids in. [B]It's scary stuff![/B][/QUOTE] I just think the people getting duped by these posers should be smarter about these things but yes, you are right..it's pretty creepy that people like "Scorpio" will lie and deceive people for that long (I think it said a year). Just knowing that it was a year this girl was chatting with this clown for without ever meeting him in person makes it hard for to feel sorry for her or any adult that goes through the same thing though...it just seems like they're enablers. I've only watched this one episode but from the sound of things it seems like a pretty good show..I guess I'll watch a couple more upcoming episodes. On a side note....Is anyone else just waiting for someone on this show to be completely made a fool of by some little 15 or 16 year old or an adult that plays games all day ? I can see when a woman he's been lying to for about a year comes to his house to confront him with the hosts of the show only to have his mom answer the door and see this nerd playing Modern Warfare or something and drinking sodas... If that happened, I'm sorry, but I'd have to laugh about that.

Pretty sure it airs at 11/10 central, cause it comes on at 11 here on the East Coast... at least the first episode did if i recall correctly. I havent seen the last 2 yet.

I swear if there's a reality show that ever going to end it's this! I know a lot of people that will be getting online to actually find there "soulmate", but in the end they get crushed cause the wo/man always end up being fake or just turns out to be nothing like the "picture".

btw guys, this show was filmed 2 years ago!

Ohhhhh, so that's how the show got it's title. I was like "why is this called Catfish? WTF?"

[QUOTE=Nostalgic;327858]Which is shallow because nobody looks like their picture ALL the time or at all hence why Joi I think it was from portland real world prefers the left side of her face. as well as many others.[/QUOTE] That is true, but what I ment to say is that some people on dating sites or apps will be using pictures from years or decades ago. I find it quite intriguing how this show exposes those people and gives them knowledge to be aware of whom you fall in love in the cyberworld.

[QUOTE=Nostalgic;327552]You're aware tat Scorpio was real right? He even showed up at the end. And yeah she was wrong for falling for that guy though but they are still friends to this day just not interested in each other relationship wise.[/QUOTE] I think you may be right on that...I thought "Scorpio" was the poser's profile name or whatever but I think I was wrong. I'm still confused but I think you're right...LOL

Loved the film, but once is enough, especially when its not even real.

The worst was the last episode where the girl was head over heals until she saw how overweight the guy was...

[QUOTE=realityaddik;328376]The worst was the last episode where the girl was head over heals until she saw how overweight the guy was...[/QUOTE] Lol!!!! It happens.

I'm going to start with a disclaimer and say that I don't watch the show, so if faces are blurred, I apologize. I've seen the previews during Battle of the Seasons 2. How can this show feature the character the other person meets if they didn't give consent to be on the show in the first place? Do both online parties contact each other and agree to do the show together (which is stupid if they aren't who they say they are to begin with), or do they locate the guy/girl by whatever creepy methods necessary and then hope they give them approval to put them on television? If it's the last one I wonder how many episodes have they had to scrap? It's hard to consider this a reality show, but I guess I don't understand the legal terms of being on television.

It does beget some interesting questions of that nature Skylar. I'm inclined to think it's at least somewhat fake, but as long as I don't dwell too much on that, I find I can still enjoy the show for entertainment and the ick factor it causes me to feel. Kinda like WWE I guess, I know it's fake but I could still occasionally enjoy it anyway (at least I could before it went PG).

The film was fake and that was way more realistic than this tv show.

This episode is hilarious.