It’s time for yet another season of Catfish. I can’t wait to focus way more on the staging of the houses than the ridiculous made up stories this season. I am also thrilled that the names of the couple this season are so ridiculously spelled. That always portends a whole lot of extra stupid.
I can’t believe Max is still doing this but I am glad he is. Plus Nev has a baby now. Cleo is adorable!
We start with a 17-year-old writing in on behalf of his mother. He is worried that his mom Sheklia is being catfished by a guy named Talli. Sheklia and her son La’Vonte live in Saint Louis.
This season as has been advertised as each episode having two shocking reveals. Before the boys get too fare into their investigaton, Sheklia asks to speak to Nev alone. She lets him know that she met Talli when she was using a fake profile to spy on her ex. La’ Vonte doesn’t know that she has been using a fake photo. This is why she didn’t press him to video chat.
She comes clean to La’vone about catfishing Talli herself. She then tells the guys that if he is not the person in the photo, she’d not interested in an unattractive man.
The boys head off to a coffee shop to do their incredibly simple Internet search. They find out that Talli is short for Dartallius. Talli has been in and out of prison lately. He also has multiple pages but it looks like they all have the same photo. He has apparently been in prison. He is fine with meeting her. They are going to meet up in San Antonio, Texas. That was one of the easiest calls ever. I’m guessing this was the ex that she was snooping on.
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It looks like Sheklia is going on her first plane ride. When the guys pull back up to their hotel, Talli is there! He’s not in Texas, he is in St. Louis. The girl who the boys called to find out about Talli let him know that Catfish was in town checking up on him. So he just happened to show up outside the hotel, right when the guys were showing up in a plain t-shirt like they are supposed to wear on the show. It literally still has the creases in it since production clearly just handed it to him. He has never heard of “Kerry” or whatever fake name Sheklia is using to talk to the guy in Texas. The plot thickens.
They dated ten or eleven years ago. Nev says, “this is destiny!” Sheklia says that when they dated he had four kids on her. I wish I had photo of the ensemble that Sheklia wore to meet her man. I don’t feel like I can adequately describe it Sheklia said she wanted to marry him and he treated her really bad and had females at their house. The catfish says Sheklia cheated on him too. They dated for almost five years. Her son is 17 or so. How would she not have mentioned her son La’Vonte to him. He has to have known him.
Finally for the important part! What kind of furniture did the catfish get? He got the double leather couches and it looks like a new rug. There are two little vases of flowers on the counter but no ficus tree or any of those words carved out of wood this season. Just blank walls that are sand colored. I think this whole house is a rental and no one really lives there. They just staged it for filming. Anyway these two aren’t as angry today and decide to be friends and see where it goes.
At the two month check up, we find out they still talk. Terrance is coming to see her in December. It looks like this might work out? Maybe Terrance and Sheklia will turn up to let us know how it all worked out and where they are now!
I think you are missing the middle of your summary….it skips a part. I love this show, but this one was just waaayyyyy too staged/planned. The guy just showed up at the hotel? They dated before? Please stop. Just stop now.
I was only half watching this episode and was totally confused. Too many coincidences and bad acting on fake Talli’s part.
Sheklia pants looked painful.
Yeah, I just could not find anything to say about it. Sorry. Totally fake. Whatshername wanted a free trip to see her ex.
Those pants made her legs look like an exploded can of buscuits.
My autocorrect can’t spell….
Good one! XD
My husband watched the show for the first time tonight. I told him about the furniture, painting, etc. he wondered if they have a few trucks of furniture they travel with? I never looked closely at the furniture, but it did get me thinking….I really want a job on that show. I think they could use my help making these bullshit stories seem at least remotely possible.
I want to know more about this staging/furniture everyone always talks about?
I want it to be real so badly.
Who is Terrence?
I was wondering that too. Kept re-reading looking for that name. Maybe he was the guy who brought the furniture
Terrance was the real name of the guy who was pretending to be Talli. I think. It was very hard to understand the name.
This show is so staged, I can’t stand it. Too much same formula, same old crap!
Boring to watch. Sorry I ever tuned in.
I was cracking up when they pulled up to the guys house and the camera man came running out the backyard lol, a bunch of smoke and mirrors.
Too true… camera people there before they pull up in the car for the “unexpected” true Catfish….. WHy are people watching this.
Do they really stage the homes? They make it look like they just show up, but everyone’s house is always really tidy, even the kind of run-down ones. Freshly vacuumed, nothing laying around. I have wondered about that. For the longest time, when I was younger and much more energetic, I had the kind of house you could just turn up to. Always pretty and organized. Now? There are days I’d be really embarrassed to have unexpected company – not dirty but definitely a little cluttered and untidy. Sometimes, it just takes more effort than I possess at that moment to put things back where they belong. It gets done when, and if, I have a spurt of energy. Maybe I should catfish someone and they’d come in and make everything look perfect again. I can pretend to be a 20-ish blonde bombshell and avoid contact for a few years. They’d probably read my obituary before they realized what was going on.
Yes, the go in and clean the house and remove anything with a copyright or a logo involved. Not works of art can be on the walls unless they were painted by someone there that signed the rights away. They remove all brand named items from the kitchen counters and such. You will never see a can of co-cola or a can of Coors unless they paid for you to see it. They also seem to repaint or CGI the walls a solid color and provide new couches for the catfish. Lately they all seem to have the same brand new brown leather ones. Each season there is usually a new thing, like a ficus tree or the words carved out of wood, or something that tends to repeat a lot. The walls are often the same color. It’s fun to look at the staging while the utter dipshittery is going on.
If I submit my AOL chat room love story can I get a new couch?
Only if I can be the catfisher in your story. I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY need a new couch.
I just need to find one that I like at a place that hauls off the old one! So many places don’t remove the old one anymore. And then I need to clear a walking path to the couch for the delivery guys.
Maybe they buy 15 identical couches for a discount at the beginning of the season? Or maybe my husband is right and the Catfish truck drives from house to house with the furniture…..taking it back as soon as they film. They store their shitty furniture while they film then give it back, collect the good stuff, and drive on to the next fucked up situation….beep beep!!
Nev and Max couldn’t even surmount the obvious staging in this one. The guy just happening to appear outside their hotel was a bridge too far.
agreed.
Why are the tall pronouncing Sheklia as Shekila? And how many sets of eyelashes was she wearing?
At first I thought maybe they were making an effort to look less staged by not redecorating because the interiors looked so crappy but then I saw the same couch twice, and of course the absence of clutter + logos. I hate those puffy Michelin Man shaped couches, so gross!
Not looking forward to the space-filling commentary by Nev’s wife either. But I’ll keep watching so I can read your posts & the comments afterwards, best part! 😀