On paper, MTV’s latest pseudo-investigative reality television program about human interactions, Ghosted: Love Gone Missing, is basically a mundane version of Catfish. In reality, it’s not just a copy. The two-episode premiere on Tuesday wasn’t as eventful as the show made famous by Nev Schulman and Max Joseph (which became a national pastime), but it is similarly captivating.
). The pair explain in the intro that they’ve bonded over past ghosting experiences and now aspire to help others navigate their own situations—Lindsay admits to not knowing that her ex had a child, though so maybe coming out of the gate with naive “experts” isn’t the best idea? But it ends up working. The hosts meet up with
their subjects, nicknamed “The Haunted,” a melodramatic term for someone who has been ghosted, and ask questions, in earnest: “Can you tell us about the date of the ghosting?” and “Are you ready for us to track down your ghost?” Lindsay and Mills then peel off from the Haunted after the initial meeting and brainstorm at least three theories for why the ghosting took place. From there, they migrate to a nearby cafe, break out computers, and do an extraordinarily brief social media scan. In the first two episodes, that entails nothing more than visiting the Facebook page of “The Ghost” and contacting people who have recently liked or commented on their posts.
For the bulk of the episode, Lindsay and Mills call and meet up with various figures in both parties’ lives. I tried to multi-task while this went down but found it impossible, which doesn’t bode well for the success of the show: How are people supposed to follow along while playing on their phone? If you miss a second, you miss a lot—the number of inconsequential leads that would crop up felt like trying to follow along with a story told by a drunk stranger at a bar.
and they drop a juicy bit of new information during the chat. Do you have goosebumps yet? It is lowest common denominator television, a magic trick reveal, but delicious nonetheless.
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