Ah, it's that time of the month where I talk shit about something that's critically acclaimed but utter shit. Or something that's not critically acclaimed, but just happened to be on. This time, we looked at Catfish, because it was referenced in the episode of Community with the war criminal that I happened to be rewatching. Well, time to talk about that.
I thought this would be a look into some creepy ass fuck who likes to manipulate other people out of sadism or some shit, but it wasn't. Instead, it was a depressing, pathetic individual. Not pathetic like your common Royal Ghost, who is both pathetic and easy as shit to hate, but like so genuinely pathetic I couldn't hate her as much as I should of. She lied to a guy, tore up his heart by luring him into a relationship with a girl who never existed and toyed with endless guys apparently. But her life was just such an utter mess. She was an aspiring painter and dancer who never took off there, straddled with two disabled kids, a husband who just didn't give a fuck, a daughter who she never saw and then a normal kid who was just there. These relationships weren't things she toyed and played with, it was her desperate attempt at a normal life in the middle of a complete and utter shit show. It was just awful. I genuinely couldn't build myself up to hate her despite what she did, which given that I'm Steve, should be very surprising.
Plus, the kids were a whole new level of fucked up. They were unlovable versions of Sloth. I don't know how any good person, especially a parent, just wouldn't take them out back and blow their brains out, seems like the moral thing to do. You have to have sympathy for someone who deals with that, and who chose to deal with that on a continuous basis. Plus, this is a good reminder for the necessity of my pro-Euthanasia, Abortion and Suicide policy.
Anyhow, it's an interesting look at a truly broken individual and their attempts to make connections through an idealized version of their life they created online. It's genuinely fascinating, disturbing and educating on the human psyche, and I'd genuinely recommend all of you watch it. It's worth noting there's some question as to how fooled the documentary makers were, but that doesn't matter. Real or fake, their reactions are jack shit. The real interesting factor is Angela, whose story is real, who did those things and was just that much of a... I don't know, I can't think of a word that describes her. Something in German, probably.
There's a half hour of "Ooh, burdening romantic relationship", half an hour of investigation as the lies unravel and forty minutes of disturbing, depressing information about the most pathetic individual I have ever seen, and I remind you, I frequent this site and talk to its endless degenerates. Sure, it wasn't the exposing of a villain like Tickled that I very much enjoyed, although I'd also recommend you all watch Tickled, but holy fuck that is a journey is you watch it without knowing what it's about beforehand. Seriously, do that as well. Fuck it, watch both documentaries, and then talk to Steve about them, that shit's interesting as hell.
And anyhow, Catfish will remind you that no one on this site is what they say they are, they're all liars.