r/netflix • u/AnotherDarnDay • 2d ago

Discussion Unknown Number High-school Catfish Spoiler

What the hell did I just watch? And what the hell was this person thinking?

I'm in shock that someone would do such a thing to their own child. And that she doesn't seem to have any focus on what she actually did.

The daughter didn't seem to grasp what her mother did when they told her but the father acted on it right away.

Was she totally jealous of her own daughter?

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u/RogueKitteh 2d ago

So livid after watching this. Holy hell. Let me rant some thoughts/questions I have after watching.

How did the cops not immediately separate Kendra from her daughter/victim when they came to the house?? Instead they let her creepily hold/pet her? Wtf?

Why was the sexual component treated like an afterthought?? Why weren't there specific charges relating to that and why when they did briefly touch on that with Owen's mother did they try to sugarcoat it with older pictures of him instead of younger pictures of him when it actually started to drive home how creepy and fucked up it was?

Why did they give a platform to Kendra after sexually harassing children? Why did they try to humanize her and make us sympathetic with her to some degree? Would they do that with a grown man who sent equally sexually explicit messages to children?

Why didn't they focus more on how Kendra went after the new girl that Owen was talking to and her mother and what that means? I.e. that she did in fact have a fixation on him that went beyond her daughter

Why are they ALLOWING ANY contact between Lauryn and her mother after everything??

That woman belongs under the jail. For life.

Lauryn needs a world of therapy. It's almost like she needs deprogramming even

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u/heirophant-goddess 2d ago

This whole thing was definitely child abuse and I am shocked that she was charged as a sex offender!!! What the hell were they thinking???? She is a menace and her poor daughter and the other kids need so much help to begin to deal with this. Lauryn should never be allowed to have contact with her mother ever again.

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u/heirophant-goddess 2d ago

*I meant to say that she was NOT charged as a sex offender

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u/mafaldajunior 2d ago

She should 100% not be allowed around kids, I totally agree

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u/Rebalance8030 1d ago

Yeah. That doesn't make sense to me. The only difference between her and any other adult inappropriately texting a child is the anonymity of it... Any other adult who says things like that to a minor is immediately charged as a sex offender.