We just can't get enough of the true crime genre, especially when it comes to people duping each other. Perhaps why Netflix has tripled down on our obsession with The Tinder Swindler, Inventing Anna, and The Puppet Master. 

Before we deep dive, here's what else we’re watching (01:20)

• Mat: Landscapers (HBO Max), The Lost Daughter (Netflix) and Nightmare Alley (HBO Max)
• Jeff: Summer of Soul (Hulu), St. Vincent (Netflix), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Netflix)
• Shindy: Last Night in Soho (VOD), The Gilded Age (HBOMax) 

Back to our main feature: 

• The Tinder Swindler first impressions (08:07) 
• Docu-dramas vs. documentaries vs. ‘based on’ true stories (13:54) 
• Skilled direction and storytelling (20:27) “I love how much time they spent with the individuals. I thought it was both intimate and great journalism.” - Jeff
• Stream It or Leave It? (24:08)

 Spoiler Alert and Deep Dive (24:17)

• Naïveté, materialism, and complicity (24:45) 
• Social media ‘love rat’ strategies (26:03) 
• Sympathy or sociopathy? (33:04) 
• Juicy details not in TS (37:19) “That narcissistic need to have control stems from an insecurity where they make others feel bad or bring them down to lift themselves up.” - Shindy
• Should Simon be in jail? (41:24) “...The social media solution: Name and shame. And this has been unbelievably successful at that.” - Mat

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