[TV] Catfish S01E06

I have to admit this was my first time watching this show, and i mostly did it because of the many mentions on Twitter about how  Kya and Alyx, the two main subjects of this episode, had met in a website called VampireFreaks, of which I have been a member for several years, and i wanted to see how this fact was going to be portrayed on the show.

I was glad to see that, besides the snickers and scoffs when the words "vampire freaks" were uttered, they didn't fixate on that, and rather focused on the online relationship these two people had developed. It starts as your typical "two people who have fake online profiles start dating" type of thing, and I was already expecting to see some serious scripting and fake acting, but was surprised to notice that, as far as i could tell, everyone's reaction to the whole situation felt very genuine, specially when they find out that Alyx was not only who he said he was on pictures: he wasn't even a guy, at least not legally yet.



The disappointment in Kya's face when she learned this truth seemed very real, and the whole process of her getting over the fact that the boyfriend she had been in an online relationship with for the past 8 months was actually a transgendered girl, and learning to still love her in spite of that, i found it to be very remarkable.

This whole episode was a huge slap in the face for many of its viewers, I'm guessing, because not only they showed two people who don't conform to the beauty standards of typical reality TV stars (who are pretty much all fit and beautiful), they also showed that it IS possible that two people can truly love each other regardless of their gender or physical appearance, and to me, if nothing else, that was the main accolade this show got going on in their favor, at least this time around.

If you watched this show, how did you feel about it? Please leave me a comment in the section below. Thanks.

Tags: (TV) Reality