Every Week I say I am going to set the DVR to record more time, and I never remember to do it. When I record the second show the times are off by a couple of minutes so I am going to miss the follow-up to this again and will have to Google what happened. Le sigh.
They keep saying that every episode of this season has a double reveal, but that has not been the case. The good news is the boys are in a hotel room so we are finally out of L.A.
Quentin writes in from Detroit about his mom who he thinks is being catfished. Ah! It is a double catfish this week. His mom is using a fake profile with her sister’s photo to talk to Jose. They have been talking for two years, but he stood her up when she was supposed to meet him. Yadda yadda yadda we know the situation.
At Mandy’s house the walls have either been freshly painted LA Gray or digitally edited to this season’s dreary shade. I miss the pumpkin colored walls season. That was festive. The weird thing is they had to digitally edit a painting in the room. Why didn’t they just take it out during staging? The new couch is sort of a weird red suede. Somehow, there are living fish in the filthy fish tank.
Mandy looks a lot like her sister so it is odd that she would use her photo. They are asking about her ex a lot for no reason, so he is the likeliest catfish at this point. They broke up because he was sleeping with her sister. That would do it. That is also why she made the fake account. She was pretending to be her sister to catch them cheating. She would talk to him as if she were the sister.
She doesn’t have a phone number for him because they only talk on Facebook Messenger. I now think it is the sister.
Now we have come to the point in the story where we waste time talking to Laura, who is apparently from Michigan. Sigh.
They guys go to meet one of Jose’s Facebook friends, Rachel. She is not at her house where she said she would be. So the guys go to a coffee shop to meet with Mandy again. Then Rachel calls and says she will come to the coffee house. Rachel actually looks like her profile photo! Rachel says that she is friends with Jose and that is his real photo, and he has mentioned Mandy to her before. So what is the problem? Oh…. now she is saying that he has moved to Tennessee and that she should just move on from him. Ah, so she is a liar who is lying out of her lie hole. She gives them Jose’s phone number. The lying girl leaves and they call the number. It goes to a girl’s voice mail. Then they get a text back asking who is calling and claiming they at work and can’t pick up the phone. So they text back they are here with Mandy. The person texts back that he is in Tennessee and is not coming back. Please tell Mandy I’m sorry and I should have told her.
Nev uses Grabify to get the IP of the person texting and it shows up a nearby Michigan city, not Tennessee.
The next day they have a text to meet “Jose” at the same house where Rachel was supposed to live. So back they go to the same house. “Jose” doesn’t want them to bring Mandy. So they go without her. It a girl named Chasity. She was on a previous episode that apparently I didn’t recap and don’t remember. She was Catfishing a guy. This is the stupidest reveal ever. It doesn’t even make sense. She always says it is something about keeping track of her babies fathers and she at first thought the profile was the sisters. Apparently the sister was sleeping with one of her sperm donors. Or something. This is the most ridiculous episode ever.
The walls are baby blue at Chasity’s house. That’s a change. She has the same couch that Mandy got only in brown. There is an M & K wall hanging that makes no sense because Chasity’s name doesn’t start with M or K.
Chasity says that there is a family rift and Mandy’s side of the family is sort of cut off from the rest of the family. So they take Chasity to see Mandy.
Wait whose house is this? This is not the house that we saw Mandy and Quentin in earlier. This one has a bunch of black leather couches that look out of place with the rest of the room. This room seems to accentuate the numerous poor tattoo choices that Mandy has made. All over her hands. there is one that is sort of on her neck and sort of on her chest that has big red lips and a blurred out name.. It’s all very wrong.
Chasity and Mandy talk alone and Mandy realizes along with the rest of us that Chasity is a sociopath. Mandy doesn’t buy Chasity’s apology and she wants nothing to do with her. And that is where the DVD shuts off. We are literally recasting former catfishes now. This is what it has come to.
I know, right? So confusing and stupid! And what the hell is “internet dating”? Are you supposed to be faithful to your virtual boyfriend? Don’t get it.
The 3mo reveal was with Chastity only. She said that her and Mandy have met up a couple of times and have even gone to the gym together.
There was a blurb about Mandy at the end but I forgot what it said.I had tuned out by then.
The blurb basically summarized what Chastity had said during her reveal; they are still trying to make their friendship work but Mandy is not yet ready to trust her. She is still open to having a man in her life though… the right man.
I think it may be time to move on from the Catfish experience. It was fun while it lasted but there is so much other good TV to watch. Plus my DVR insists that every one of the 50 Catfish episodes a week is first-run and I have to manually clear them out. Avoir Catfish.
Used to love this show, but it’s gone downhill so badly that I barely bother to watch it. I understand Nev and Max wanting to concentrate things in L.A. since they have families now, but the show has lost its spark. This episode didn’t make a bit of sense to me, although I admit I wasn’t watching it very closely. It didn’t interest me at all.
They left us hanging with the whole Rachael situation. Who was she and why did she lie?
This episode was shot on and around January 12, 2018. You can clearly see the date on the grabify shot. Soooo… the three month update is total B.S.!! January 12 was only a month and a half ago. Sloppy work, MTV!!!
REfuse to watch anymore. Nev and Max get another gig!
The second house that Mandy & Quentin were in was a family members house. She told Nev that when he called. Guess you missed that part.
I heard her say she was at her cousin’s but that was WAY WAY WAY before they actually met up.
It was a You get a cheap couch and YOU get a cheap couch and You get a cheap couch, now humiliate your entire family on TV moment.
It’s only humiliating if people are specifically looking at people’s furniture to judge them. I have three homes but to be honest the last thing I noticed was the furniture on catfish. The only thing I noticed about the houses was how empty they were as if the people don’t have any belongings. It seemed unusually but why would it be humiliating?
This episode was actually quite good in my opinion because this is the kind of psycho stunt that extended family pull especially when they’re jealous of other family members. It’s sad that people only want to be titaliated by a sexual drama when the psychological abuse of a family member pretending to be a man and seducing her cousin for her own amusement is actually more interesting on an intellectual level. I mean it’s not as if anyone watches catfish to be entertained by other people’s embarrassment and misery or is it?
Candice, production comes in and either paints the walls or does it digitally in post production. All photos and paintings and most personal items are removed. That is why the houses are always so bare and clean.
In the past 12 episodes or so about half of them have been recasting Catfish from other episodes. It’s friggin ludicrous.
I found this one fascinating actually, although I may be biased because I am from this area too. The cousin has such a flat affect, I wonder wtf her true deal is. And in all of this, I can’t help but think Mandy’s sister is quite the trouble-maker herself, sleeping with her sister’s boyfriend, sleeping with her cousin’s baby daddy…mess mess mess in this family.