Better editing and the removal of its melodramatic narration (it is narrated by an actor playing a dead person) would greatly improve Talhotblond. However, even with its flaws it is a better look at online relationships, loneliness, and love than the dishonest and exploitative Catfish.

Did a 12 year-old edit this?

The dead guy is the narrator? How incredibly creepy and inappropriate and down-right stupid.

'Talhotblond' is one of those documentaries that has everything to do with timing. The film-making isn't at top quality, though they did their best to make text on a screen as exciting as possible. Something much better film-makers have tried and failed themselves. The clumsy film-making almost gets in the way of a story that is so unbelievable, had it not been true, would seem entirely bogus. The "first-person" narration by a murdered teen adds to the unbelievability, but the story saves it.