Manti Te'o Documentary

Anyone else watch the Netflix documentary?

So much to digest here from it. Te'o comes off completely likable and I wound up feeling really sorry for him. While it still seems unconscionable to me that this could happen, the documentary did leave me convinced he was truly duped.

The only part I didn't like is it felt like the producers let the person behind the hoax off way too easy. They seemed to allow her to justify her actions without pushing her on the extreme damage she caused.
Anyone else watch the Netflix documentary?

So much to digest here from it. Te'o comes off completely likable and I wound up feeling really sorry for him. While it still seems unconscionable to me that this could happen, the documentary did leave me convinced he was truly duped.

The only part I didn't like is it felt like the producers let the person behind the hoax off way too easy. They seemed to allow her to justify her actions without pushing her on the extreme damage she caused.
I agree that person really didnt have much remorse for ruining a persons life. It was all about her struggles.
 
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Watched it last night. I do feel bad for Te'o as it obviously impacted the beginning of his career in the NFL but not to the extent they maybe wanted you to believe. He sunk in the draft because he ran incredibly slow times and then he was injured a bunch to start his career.

Anyway, I feel bad for him because this was a guy who basically had the world in the palm of his hand, could probably pick his girlfriend at ND whenever he wanted and he seemingly was interested in this relationship for all the right reasons and got duped. Sure, he was naïve and maybe should have figured it out after years of the person avoiding actually meeting, but it's still just a really ****** thing to happen to him.
 
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Agree.. This person has obvious mental problems. Male, female, man, woman, whatever. It's a sick human being. Feel bad for the Teo family.

On some level I can appreciate how someone would start something like this when they were struggling with identity, sexuality, etc. But the ****** up part is continuing it despite have many, many chances to cut it off. I think the absolute sickest part was after she was "dead" bringing her back. That's just downright awful and cruel.