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/Independent-Toe9656 2d ago

Did anyone catch what Chloe’s parent’s said in their final interview? They said something along the lines of how Sean & Lauryn would pretend to be victims. And Owen said he’s mad at Lauryn. I’m so confused by this. Did I miss something?? It seems like they are somehow blaming her for what her mom did. Is the thought that she knew what her mom was doing?

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u/haawls 2d ago edited 2d ago

i think they are all extremely young and do not understand the complexity of abuse happening here, not the way adults do. the teenagers being interviewed are unreliable narrators in a sense because they have teenage brains and are thinking with more emotion than they are with logic. it makes sense to me that he’d be upset with lauryn because he’s what? 16? at that age you are still figuring out what it means to have an identity that is separate from parental figures hence why he associates the actions of her mother with her

i think khloe’s parents are just honestly vindictive and weird and holding a grudge because their own daughter was accused of bullying by lauryn’s cousin which seemed pretty convincing tbh. their emotionally immature response is to somehow victimize themselves in all of this and then accuse lauryn and her dad of being in on it. they don’t want to face the reality that their daughter and her friends probably did bully that girl. apple doesn’t fall from the tree there lol

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u/Bubbly-Animator6560 2d ago

I think so.. did you see Lauren smiling when she said “my mom told me to kill myself”? Such a strange moment. I think a mom could only say that if the daughter was in on it

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u/That_Bid_7788 1d ago

Smiling during stress is a trauma response