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September 21, 2023

The Docket 09.21.23 Gone Catfishin'

The attraction (as it were) of a love-fraud story

the true crime that's worth your time

Catfish: it’s still on! It…hasn’t really changed! Does it still have anything to tell us? Because we have questions about making research televisually compelling; whether unmasking queer people as catfish is safe and ethical; how much the show needed Max Joseph; the show’s ability to get real about fattism; a possible pivot into sheer villainy; and who is the Frank Abagnale of fugazi romance. We’ll just be over here reverse-image-searching each other…have a listen!

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  • the Best Evidence RSS feed

  • missing that lunatic Catfish-pod theme music? EEHG is here for you

  • 81 episodes, you guys

  • Reddit on the William and Carmella-sode

  • that time Piper Weiss and I talked about a future Unsolved Nev-steries

  • the Nigerian love-fraud longread EB recommended

  • per EB, “the BEST Aussie love fraud podcast”

  • SDB’s review of Love Fraud

  • “Dirty John” at the L.A. Times

  • Terra Newell’s social-media journey at Rolling Stone

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