It started out quite interesting and seemingly legit, but it was quick to become predictable and very, **very** cleary staged.

The formula is pretty much set in stone: Person has been in a relationship online with the catfish _(who 9 out of 10 times is a either a model or rapper)_ for the past 3 months and has the **deepest** connection ever.
They want to meet up, but the catfish always has an excuse not to (it's a running joke on the show, the big C's most commonly used: cancer, car accidents, coma), and the person is completely blind to all the red flags.
They only have seen pictures, sometimes just 1 or 2, never videochatted or sometimes **EVEN TALKED ON THE PHONE!**
The hosts do a reverse picture search, and in 2 seconds find the real person's social media. The person being helped is in complete disbelief, even though it would make no sense this super hot rich model/rapper is dating a random ass person from the middle of nowhere.
They end up just straight up contacting the catfish to force a meet-up, they refuse, then a day later agree. They meet, it's hella awkward and dramatic, and everyone goes their own way. Sometimes they do an update 2 months later, is always the same thing, they cut contact because the person couldn't get over the catfish being ugly/fat and the connection was **spoiler alert** not that deep after all.

Sometimes they change the plot, and the catfish is actually the person in the pics, but then it makes it seem like whole thing was planned to get free plane tickets. They do try to make these episodes seem very wholesome, but it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Long story short I would never recommend this show to anyone, unless you're like me and enjoy having it on as background noise.