A current sobering doc (streaming on Hulu) on the twin sister group from the Great White North who got a shuddering reality from fandom. Knowing of the band when they first came out (I have a few of their CD's) & having watched their excellent 2022 Freevee series based on their formative high school years named appropriately High School, I was shocked & dismayed about this revelation documented here. A fan of the pair got an e-mail purporting to be Tegan which after the initial shock & skepticism the sender provided a lot of details only Tegan would know allaying the fan's fears which began a long relationship until the fan finally forwarded their exchanges to the band's manager at the time who quickly denied Teagan had any involvement w/this correspondence. The fan quickly retorted then you have a much bigger problem since she revealed there were more fans like her out there who have been duped by this person. Tegan hearing about this mobilized what or who she could to find out who the scammer was & hopefully bring them to justice but after a few years of digging (which this doc details) the best they could come up w/was a dwindling list of possibles w/the last moments an audio conversation between Tegan, the filmmaker Erin Lee Carr & the accused w/no real frustrating closure to be had. If you have seen the show & the original doc Catfishing, any person who hasn't had this happen to them gets an awful pit in their stomach realizing how low a person would stoop to upend a stranger's life for no apparent reason then you can't help but empathize w/Tegan's plight which by film's end still has not been resolved.
