Love Con Revenge

I'm all for going after these scumbag fraudsters and I admire these women for doing so while also being supportive of the victims. Unfortunately the show felt very awkward and scripted with weird editing. For me it was really off putting and was hard to even finish the first episode. This show doesn't come close to the feeling that The Tinder Swindler or Catfished gave viewers.

While I fully support the actions of confronting scammers, and romance scammers, this just kinda felt fake. It's over-produced and just has a disingenuous / over-acted energy. There are YouTubers who do a much better job at this stuff. However, getting creeps off the street is a positive thing. I'll never understand why you'd give money. But okay. Not gonna victim blame.

The stories are good and all the things they do to catch the con artists are good. However, it feels as if it's almost forced acting, which is odd coming from a docuseries. You could compare the show to MTV's Catfish, but Catfish actually has a natural feel and normal conversations. In Love Con Revenge the partnership between the two hosts feels forced and at times it just feels as if they're just doing a voiceover of a conversation between scenes. Not sure if it's poor production or if the hosts are just really bad at TV and acting. Probably won't finish watching.

I've just finished 'Love Con Revenge' on Netflix and, honestly, I'm a bit disappointed. The stories themselves are powerful, important even - real people, real heartbreak, real consequences. Romance fraud is such a massive issue, and these cases absolutely deserve to be seen and heard.

But here's where it stumbles: Cecilie. Her presence feels forced and, dare I say, grating. Rather than letting the victims and their experiences take centre stage, she inserts herself into every single story, desperate to remain relevant. Instead of supporting, she overshadows - and it adds nothing of value to the documentary.

The series leans heavily into sensationalism, with over-dramatised sequences and staged tension that don't quite land. Instead of trusting the raw impact of the victims' stories, it feels like Netflix have wrapped them in glossy theatrics - which only dilutes the authenticity.

That said, I did appreciate that the series doesn't tie everything up neatly. There are no tidy resolutions, because real justice is such a rare commodity. Life rarely gives us clean closure, and the show is at its strongest when it acknowledges that uncomfortable truth.

Love Con Revenge had all the ingredients for a gripping follow-up to 'The Tinder Swindler'. Sadly, what we've ended up with is a show that puts style over substance - and one very determined personality over the voices that truly mattered.

The stories they are reporting on are so interesting and crazy to watch! I would love to watch more episodes, I hope they end up doing a second season. I really like the two main investigators, but my one complaint about this show is that some of their lines are very scripted and it's obvious. Instead of having them "talk on the phone" to each other, they should have someone just narrating. If they changed that, this show would take off!