I have fallen behind on my Catfish recaps lately but last night I noticed that Catfish was trending on Twitter and that is always a sign of a popular episode, so I’m going to take a break from dealing with all the technical stuff and recap this episode before last week’s.
Okay, this is odd. While Nev and Max were on a lunch break while shooting a different episode, some random girl named Caitlyn interrupts to ask Nev if he knows her catfish, Kenton. He lives in Kentucky and claims that he is Nev’s personal trainer. He has a photo of himself with Nev. Caitlyn is a moron who has been talking with the guy online for two months and already wants to move to Kentucky with her small child to be with him. I see already why this was trending. She loves him after two months of texting.
Right away, Nev seems to know that she has a bitter ex with a restraining order. This paired with the fact that the entire production team was filming them having lunch is already suspect.
This story just keeps getting weirder. Caitlyn claims that she lived in the house they are in until she was eight. Then her parents won a lot of money in the casino and they all moved to Florida. Then when she was fourteen, she was raped so they all moved back to Massachusetts. Because……there are fewer rapists in MA? I don’t get it. They didn’t sell the house when they moved to Florida? This is crazytown already. Kenton is also a rape victim. He also has a daughter that he pays child support to, but he can’t see her. Why not? What is so horrible about him that he can’t see his own daughter? He sounds like a real asshole.
The new couch is suede. I don’t know about keeping a suede couch clean. The wall color this episode is tan. No ficus tree.
The Ridiculously Simple Investigation
The google the guy’s name and all of his social media accounts and dating profiles pop right up. I find it impossible to believe that Caitlyn has never even bothered to Google the name of the random guy she met online to see if he is an ax murderer.
The guys reach out to the last twelve girls that liked his last photo on Facebook. Caitlyn supposedly met this dude on Facebook, why wouldn’t she ask who all the other girls are that are talking to him on Facebook? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that Kenton is using Facebook to have multiple online relationships. He seems to have a lot of time on his hands. I’m going with some sort of illness or something that has him disabled.
Another girl calls and tells them that she dated Kenton for about a month and they broke up because he was emailing his ex trying to get back with her and his daughter. So it’s the real name and the real photo and a real kid.
On the way to break the news to Caitlyn, Kenton calls Nev and Max. Apparently one or more of the girls told him that they were trying to reach him. In yet another shocking twist, Kenton drove straight to the airport and took a plane to Massachusetts. He is there already and can meet up with them later. What? If he can do that, why didn’t he come visit her before? He seems very concerned about clearing his name.
Caitlyn has a breakdown over the news. The guys decide to go meet up with Kenton without her at first to find out what he is going to say. Basically he has an explanation for everything. They all agree to meet up the next day.
When they did meet up, it seems that Kenton is mad at Caitlyn for not texting him enough throughout the day. She has to keep her phone in a locker all day at work and then she picks up her daughter and spends time with her and will contact him after she goes to bed. That’s simply not good enough for Kenton. He’s dated other single moms who gave him a lot more time. It’s like he is breaking up with her for ignoring him. None of this makes sense.
Max takes Caitlyn to the car so she can cry. Max is pissed and says that Kenton is a bitch and acting like a pussy crybaby. Meanwhile, Nev tries to talk some sense into Kenton. He keeps calling Caitlyn a liar. She hasn’t lied about anything. I think he is projecting.
In the follow-up, the two never spoke again and have both moved on. That was a weird one!
Still trying to process this one. Alot of answered question
Kenton is an ignorant asshole
Or maybe he actually had feelings for someone, immense feelings. Kenton cared a lot obviously and wanted things to be perffect.
Kenton is a classic abuser. Power and control. He posted an ad online for a female roommate saying they couldn’t have men over, but he’d do what he wanted. The ex girlfriend said he wasn’t a nice guy. He doesn’t get to see his daughter.
Yeah this is a weird one and we were not told everything.
Kenton was clearly playing the field and dating a lot of girls simultaneously online. But instead of turning up and admitting he’d lied about a lot of stuff and done the girl wrong, or beg for her forgiveness, he did that thing that liars pretty much always do and turned it into an attack on the victim, to hide his own sins. He began to accuse HER of being the liar, to deflect the attention or blame away from his own myriad of lies and deceptions. He also did the other thing liars are infamous for: he accused Caitlyn of the very thing he was doing wrong. He was a liar, so he called her a liar instead, when there was no real evidence she’d lied about anything. From the moment he turned up, he was being a control freak, and digging for info about what Nev and Max knew and which Facebook girls they’d talked to. This was clearly so Kenton could get his own stories/lies on track and deflect their criticisms with fresh lies of his own, and undermine the claims of the girls who’d talked to Nev. He had entitlement issues, too, demanding that Caitlyn pay him all of her attention instead of paying attention to her own career and baby daughter. He didn’t think she should prioritise those things, or herself and her own needs, over him. He claimed he’d dated other single mothers before and they’d all managed to make him their priority ahead of their kids and jobs (which makes me wonder, just how many of them he’d dated, and why they had apparently ALL broken up with him, or had been broken up with…does this guy go through single mothers like a caffeine freak goes through coffees?) He was like a shark circling a gentle manatee, and he sensed she was easy to make a victim out of, since she admitted it had happened before (with her rapist) so he did–he made her a victim again, using and manipulating her, which is about as low as you can go, treating someone vulnerable in that way. He seemed awful, to the point where he thought she should put him ahead of her own baby’s welfare (what sort of a man does that?!) and I hope people see him for what he clearly is–an entitled selfish brat and abuser, with an ugly bum that hangs way too low and close to the ground (did no one else notice that in the episode, his short legs and dumpy bottom?). He demanded perfection in his partner, but didn’t feel any need to try so hard himself to be a good guy. Quid pro quo, Kenton! Love is a two way street, not a case of all roads lead to Kenton! I’m sorry to sound so harsh, but seriously, the world needs to learn a lesson not to date selfish men like him, but to run a mile away instead. He probably would have been crap in bed anyway. Selfish men usually are. I almost wish he’d date Lily Allen, just so she’d write a rude but funny song about him…
He should be allowed to go to other women if she can’t even pick up a phone to give a how are you text at best!! It’s nice to feel you are thought of throughout the day, especially in a new relationship!! And no, it’s a lousy excuse that she can’t talk or text during break!! You usually get 30 minutes at minimal for most breaks and 15 minute ones too!! It’s doesn’t take that long to text and see how he is doing!! I would have at Bare minimal have done thay!! If she couldn’t make it work, let the guy go and get with a woman who would love him and want to talk!! It It honestly sounds like she really didn’t care at all about him!! She just wanted her fame!! But, whatever!! Hopefully now he can find a woman who knows about loving and being a real woman and not just an excuse creayor and liar!! Because i seruouser dont buy those BS excuses & Nev and Max are sometimes way too nice to the females!! People could say he is flirting at times and he is married, oh my what would his wife think? ??
u are a fool and a flying monkey helping a narcissist and abuser, grown ups do not need to text each and every day roflmao, there is a good reason he is not allowed to see his daughter-STOP being a enabler
Because women can be complete bitches for no reason and statistically more likely to gain custody for simply having a vagina.
If you are looking for a relationship as a single parent, you need to get your shit together first. If you can’t put forth REAL effort in communication then you’re not ready yet.
I like how kenton immediately started acting like a little bitch complaining she wasn’t texting him enough so that caitlyn had no time to confront him about all the girls he was talking to. That was slick. Also not sure how he considers himself a man when he acts like a 5 year old. What grown man doesn’t make eye contact and try to talk things out instead of throwing a hissy fit? Also beyond immature that he couldn’t even say bye to her. She could do waaay better.
No one NEVER comes between a mother and her children and NEVER choose between your children and man/woman. He clearly blamed Caitlyn for everything instead of manning up. He would have made her choose between him and her daughter. He said he dated other single women before gee I wonder why it didn’t work ya douche nozzle
Okay buddy, you need to take a chill pill!! He wasn’t trying to come between her and her kid!! He was saying he wanted more attention!! She has all day too and who works 7 days a week non stop!! Probably not her!! And if she truly is that busy, she doesn’t need a man and can just focus on her child and job!! That’s very selfish too!! She is the one who is sounding like a control bitch!! He is a typical male!! We all kkkn you men are pretty much that way if you don’t get your needs met, you will go someplace else!! It’s how we all are, even women are that way!! If we don’t get our needs met mainly emotionally we go someplace else!! I think men get into more phyisical affairs and women get into more emotional affairs!! But, really this wasn’t a true catfish!! He actually wanted to meet up with her!! She was the one who put off because she couldn’t make time for him but she could make time to go stalk out Nev and Max and approach them off the streets!! Ya, she is really so innocent!! Not!! This whole epidsode really didn’t do much for me and usually I am on the woman’s side but she really had little real emotion!! I honestly see her as a fame hog & hopefully other guys know not to even try for her unless they don’t care to have any time with their woman!! That’s just really fucked up that so many people see her as a victim!! Ever hear of a covert narcissist? They may not be as easy to spot but she is definitely narcissistic to think only her way goes!! ?
First of all, she just happens to waltz into some cafe on their lunch break?
She asks them “are u nev and max” ?.
Are u kidding me?
This was like a role reversal – “kenton” (the name alone seems fictitious) is a VERRRRRRRY needy person. Claims he’s dated single mothers who find plenty of time for him. She’s a humble, broken, extremely sensitive and naive young mother. She falls for this asshole, jerk off -who completely looks the part of a violent woman beater (obviously don’t know the man, hope I’m wrong )
I don’t feel bad for this girl, she’s so naive and cries the blues when he confronts her about her not having any time to text him.
Weird and creepy episode.
It’s wrong for someone to string someone along like that so yes, she is a lying bitch! Lady, you cannot sit and say that you have absolutely no time for him when you have lunch breaks at work! Long distance relationships aren’t easy but if you want someone you make time for him! If you don’t, always remember, someone else will!! And, another thing my husband pointed out, she has time to watch the TV shows, watch Snapchat enough to stalk out and know where Nev and Max would be and have someone watch her kid but she can’t take time to go meet her man? Either she is really dumb and ignorant especially not to know about Google even or how to write those females and check up on him herself or she is doing it for her 15 minutes of Fame!! And, nice fake tears lady but I think you need better acting classes!! And, ya, your family is dumb!! You don’t even sell your house and why move back because you were raped? News Flash: there are rapists everywhere!! I have been raped as a toddler and in my older years and sexually harassed more times than I can count!! Moving to another place won’t change the fact that it happened and rapists aren’t discriminatory on location!! Moral of this story though: If you can’t make it work, move on! Don’t waste time, think this has only happened to you or that this is a catfish just because you don’t want to make an effort to see the person you are supposedly with!! But, ya, it’s obvious this was staged and that’s probably why it’s so odd!! And since when does Nev and Max take stragglers that walk in off the street? Are they that hard up for content these days? Just sad, so sad!!! ??