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Catfish: The TV Show

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Catfish: The TV Show

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Catfish: The TV Show

Series Details & Credits

MTV | MTV - Music Television | Release Date: November 12, 2012

Summary: Based on the popular documentary of the same name, the reality show hosted by Nev Schulman and Max Joseph help people meet face-to-face with the online person they have intense feeling for.

Genre(s): Drama, Reality, Documentary

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Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Nov 12, 2012

Season 1 Review: Despite the occasional artificial reality flourish, Catfish: The TV Show is a timely, engaging, and often poignant addition to MTV's lineup. Read full review

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Variety

Brian Lowry

Nov 9, 2012

Season 1 Review: The producers do a shrewd job of not just building toward the reveal, but then following its aftermath, with the emotions of the previously unseen party brought into the equation. Read full review

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Gail Pennington

Nov 12, 2012

Season 1 Review: Catfish: The TV Show is riveting entertainment, but it's also potentially the most important series MTV has aired. Read full review

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The New York Times

Mike Hale

Nov 12, 2012

Season 1 Review: "Catfish" was a clever riff on a found-footage thriller, Catfish: The TV Show is a standard reality series mixing elements of the dating and rehab-therapy genres. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal

John Anderson

Nov 12, 2012

Season 1 Review: The veracity of this series is, in the end, less important than what it says about a culture in which people blithely create online worlds on a collision course with the truth. Schadenfreude may be the lifeblood of reality television, but in "Catfish," it's fairly guilt free. Read full review

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New York Daily News

David Hinckley

Nov 12, 2012

Season 1 Review: Catfish has value as a cautionary tale, and documentation of one way the Internet has affected lives. That makes it sociology, not entertainment. Read full review

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Slate

Troy Patterson

Nov 12, 2012

Season 1 Review: A document of cruel self-delusions, an index of unusual realities, virtually a postscript to the body of Western literature about romantic love, and an extraordinarily fine opportunity to exult in the suffering of your fellow human beings, Catfish is a TV show. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 9

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  Air Date: August 5, 2020
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  Air Date: January 8, 2020
Season 7

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  Air Date: January 3, 2018
Season 6

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  Air Date: March 1, 2017
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  Air Date: February 24, 2016
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  Air Date: February 25, 2015
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  Air Date: May 7, 2014
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  Air Date: June 25, 2013
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  Air Date: November 12, 2012