If you didn’t know, there’s this reality TV show on the MTV network airing called “Catfish.” It’s about online relationships and the hosts of the show basically have the couple meet to see if the other person is who they say they are. A recent episode titled “Michael and Caroline” aired and I just needed to share my thoughts on it.



“Caroline,” who is actually a larger girl named Heather, is on some dating website, posing with her friend as a girl named “Claire.” She has good intentions (she’s trying to find out if someone’s husband is cheating on them.“ Michael "calls her out” on this. Heather decides to tell Michael who she really is and what’s doing and he basically rejects her, without giving her a chance. Obviously hurt, Heather makes the profile “Caroline” (taking pictures from a real Caroline), using pictures of a conventionally attractive (read: thin) girl to entice Michael. Heather then genuinely falls in love with Michael. When Michael finds out it’s Heather, he rejects her all over again.



The real kicker is that at the end of the episodes, the hosts of this sick TV show introduce Michael to the real Caroline and he obviously takes a liking to the conventionally attractive (read: thin) girl. My heart hurt for Heather, knowing that right after Michael rejected her, he’s on camera flirting with this other girl.