Catfish: The TV Show
MTV | MTV - Music Television | Release Date: November 12, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertNov 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
80
VarietyBrian LowryNov 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
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonNov 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
58
Entertainment WeeklyRay RahmanFeb 20, 2015
Season 4 Review: There's still some actual catfishing, but you have to get past all the Nev first. [27 Feb 2015, p.65]
50
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonNov 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
50
The New York TimesMike HaleNov 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
40
SlateTroy PattersonNov 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
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayNov 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Schulman seems desperate to extract meaning from the situation, but this isn't "Undercover Boss": The only prize available for the deceived is the attention for which they may already have proven a little too hungry. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyNov 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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