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He turned the movie intoCatfish, a series on MTV that aired its 100th episode this year.
Its not out of the question, considering that lately, theCatfishbrand isreallystarting to stink.
Even if you never had an especially high opinion of MTVsCatfish perfectly understandableandsensible!
Now they both just park it in Los Angeles and make everyone come to them.
But the biggest challengeCatfishfaces as a TV series is that its premise is unsustainable.
How naive was I?
I wrote that in2013.
The beloved is malicious and purposely set out to make the client look foolish.
(Slightly less rare.)
(At least 85 percent of the series run to date.)
If you guessed that would mean most of the clients hadalsoused fake photos: yeah, pretty much.
The premise wasCatfish-adjacent: someones keeping a secret, and a loved one wants to know what it is.
The problem with being in the Nev business, though and MTV has been since 2012 is Nev. (Laura leaned in, showing up to the VMAs later that year dressed likethis.)
News reports announcing the show slated it for a September 2017 premiere, but it has yet to air.
But weve come to a point where the hosts cant even be bothered to leave town for their sleuthing.
The chumps should know better by now, anyway.
