I knew straight away the Selita ride along was going to piss me off. Every other cutaway was of her, we barely got to see Bianca in the first meeting because they kept showing us Selita's reaction. Then in every car montage scene Selita was constantly on her phone. Bianca was clearly not into Selita being there, her body language was pretty obvious about that.
Then we get probably one of the worst interrogations this show has ever had, Tia is clearly remorseful, and I mean she is being pretty forthcoming about her situation, and that's when Nev and Max would normally start being more understanding and gently coercing more out of her, but in comes Selita making it into a massive competition where because of where Bianca lives and because of her race, she's had a worse time than Tia, which maybe so, but has nothing to do with why Tia did what she did. Then here it comes, "I need you to dig deep and give us more", one of the most exploitative things this show has ever done; the producers clearly knew about the abuse, and instead of letting her off with the insecure about her weight reason, they crowbar 'rape' out of her. Then obviously Tia starts crying, to which Selita completely changes her tune; and what's the last thing a girl who is insure about her looks needs, a supermodel sort of hugging her and pretending she understands or cares a single iota about her.
This episode was a dud, Bianca wasn't a good choice for TV, I think the producers heard black lesbian alternative girl who lives on the bible belt and they started salivating. It was obvious straight away that Bianca had no attraction to the real Tia, which she has every right to feel, but she could have handled it a bit better. Let's be honest, this was probably one of the most mellow lies in the show's history, it was a girl in Iowa who was the right age, was interested in the same things (just without the tats and piercings), and had been talking to her for a year. Okay you're not attracted to the real girl, but you can still forgive and pretend to move on as friends for the sake of politeness.
C'mon Catfish, next season let's stick to ones that might work out, and ones with totally insane people, no more boring fat people ones. AND DEFINITELY NO RIDE ALONGS OR SORT OF FAMOUS ACTRESSES.
