Cheaters (2000– ) User Reviews (41)

Joey Greco scares me

[random_guy85 · 6/10 · 18 December 2006]

This is one of those fascinating shows that when you begin watching you think is the greatest thing in the world, but after about 4 episodes you get tired of it fast. It has a very noble concept but it execution is one that is sorely lacking. Something as private and as painful as a spouse being cheated shouldn't treated in the way that this show handles it which is to bust into people and have confrontations in public. Not to mention Joey Greco is scary as hell. I'm sure he's a nice guy in person, but on the show he comes off as a scary guy that you usually try to avoid when you see walking down the street.

The one thing about the show I don't get is why they feel the need to shove 1000 cameras and lights into people's faces when they bust the cheating ones. Won't it be easy if they filmed from a distance and let the person that has been cheated on confront the cheater face to face? It just seems like the subtle approach would be the appropriate thing for something so private instead of going all public with it and having everyone on the street or wherever the confrontation takes place hear your personal business. I guess it's all for ratings in the end and they feel that's what people would like to see so they give it to them.

The show's strange humor is a little inappropriate if you ask me considering the subject manner of the show. Every time they profile the person that is being cheated on they always feel the need to make some silly double entendre. Why is getting cheated on funny?

The most interesting aspect of the show is the confrontation which depending on the victim is either violent and laced with the F word, or tearful and remorseful. I remember in one episode the person that got busted was so mad that they ended up stabbing Joey Greco. Some people say that was staged, I don't know about that but it was compelling television

If you ever feel like watching a train wreck or need to feel better about your relationship with a loved one then this show is just for you.

TV For the Lowest Denominator

[verbusen · 5/10 · 18 October 2008]

This is a show that will grab your attention, it's salacious. The problem I have is that I have seen some of my younger co-workers (20'ish year olds) killing time watching this show, WHENEVER IT IS ON!

I think shows like this and reality shows in general should have warning labels saying that your weekly viewing habits should be limited to under 2 hours a week. Even that is high but these people are watching this and the MTV reality stuff and the Maury Povich and Jerry Springer type shows. So what happens when you are culturally absorbed in nothing but a Cheaters show and the like? You grow up to be a pretty dull rock-head. Then you breed with like minded people and before you know it, the whole country are those that watch this crap all day and those that don't and as a result are smarter and end up pulling the strings of the stupid. So this is a heads up, I've watched the show sparingly because the first episode I watched was very salacious involving a guy getting busted in a hotel room with a paid dominatrix and totally freaking out and jumping around half bound, now that was very entertaining! The other half dozen shows I have seen were much more boring involving some low class people and the eventual confrontation at the end with a pseudo violent cat fight, BORING!!!!

My recommendation, see it at the most once a month, any longer (along with your other reality crap) and your liable to lose a lot of grey matter from brain inactivity. 5 of 10, if you can catch an episode thats somewhat interesting but good luck waiting till that happens.

Guilty As Charged...

[fearfulofspiders · 6/10 · 28 September 2008]

This is, without a doubt, an absurd television show. Cheaters is the kind of show that you can only handle a few episodes at a time, mainly because most episodes are redundant, but all are always predictable. There was one episode where they showed segments of where people were not getting cheated on, but still got divorced/unengaged/broken-up-with, which is sad but still something new that hasn't been covered before -- and what makes viewers question as they see the guilty party get the snot slapped out of themselves.

The host(s) are okay, though the way the confrontations go down could REALLY seem less hostile, which would make things go a little smoother, rather than bad grammar and swear words go flying all over the place. It really is comedic in a way, because all the people that come on this show are ghetto-trash or white-trash, and to hear the idiotic things these morons say is hilarious and pitiful at the same time.

All in all, Cheaters has some serious flaws, however it is a guilty pleasure that I watch when nothing else is on. There's key episodes of Greco getting stabbed, arrested, etc. but those are so far and few between the ranting, that it comes off as lackluster.

If you're a fan of Jerry Springer and COPS, I could recommend this. It is trash TV, but considering nothing else is really on during that specific time-slot, then watch it.

Just Like a Car Crash...

[tazzytess · 8 September 2002]

You can't help but watch it. You pass by it looking for something decent to watch, then you decide to turn back. You can't help yourself but become mesmerized by someone else's misery.

Just like the Jerry Springer show, you find yourself yelling back at the TV and saying how stupid some of these people are. You feel bad for some of them, and the others you just want to slap because they've taken their partner back.

Tommy Grand is funny character himself. Has he been cheated on before or has he cheated on someone himself? He seems to know how to look for clues...and not just by using the detectives alone. Could he be a religious man who wants to right the rights and burn the "Peter Funks"?

And since the show is on so late at night, I find it funny that the commercials that sponsor the show is just a strange pairing.

All in all, I love the show and I hope it stays around to become the next big thing since American Idol...And I hate American Idol.

What about Celebrity Cheaters? Now that would really be great TV.

Some if Faked is all of it faked?

[a-a-25 · 2/10 · 26 April 2007]

The show is at least partially Faked (So is not reality, just pretending to be reality), which makes me believe at least anyone without face blurred out is a Fake episode.

Proof in the episode where he pretends to be stabbed There is already camera crew on the boat, before he gets there, can been seen as his boat approaches.

The actors playing "ambulance officers" didn't remove his shirt or expose the wound in anyway so they work on it, which would never happen in reality.

They also parked the ambulance in the car park and did not drive up to the Emergency entrance (Which does not make any sense, unless its fake and they would not be allowed to go there)

Fake as ever

[haroldbaines · 2/10 · 10 January 2017]

I used to be a big fan of this show back in the 2000s. I'd come home at 1 in the morning and watch the hour episodes of this thing and laugh. I always thought it was a great premise. I had heard rumors it was fake but did not believe it.

Then I watched the "Joey gets stabbed" episode again one day and decided to see if I could find out what happened to the principals involved. All I found were articles that it was faked. In fact it was researched and nothing in that episode was real. There was no one admitted to the hospital with that injury around that time, no one was arrested by the Dallas police for that crime during that period and even the ambulance company used would not have been there for that type of incident. Then I found the interview of the girl who did admit it was all faked and she was paid.

So I still thought that maybe just the very occasional one was faked. Then I was watching one with "Megan Swenski" and the girl playing her was the worst actress ever (someone named Anna Elisabeth Taylor). Her pathetic attempts at "crying" were embarrassing. I looked it up after watching and sure enough, this lady is listed in the IMDb as an acting credit (Anna has zero business trying to be an actress, she is awful). Everyone involved was a terrible actor and this happens on a lot of episodes.

Upon further research the show offers finders fees to folks who can act in the episodes. There are a few real episodes but apparently a lot of these are shot and the people don't want it shown on TV.

And really, think about it. How many of these shows do you watch where the person is embarrassed beyond belief, yet still signed the release form? It's because it's not real. And this was apparently why the original host, Tommy Grand (forgot his real last name) left (the only host who was actually good at this). He didn't want to be apart of a show that was fake.

Then they got Grecco who was really awful at first, somewhat grew into the role but was never really great at it. Then for some reason they got rid of him and got Clark Gable's grandson who shouldn't host a kid's party let alone a TV show. This guy is the worst "host" I've ever seen on an actual TV show. I can't figure out why they hired this guy - it can't be for his name as 95% of the people watching this show have no idea who Clark Gable is.

And think about it. There are over 300 episodes of this show. You're telling me there are over 300 cheaters in the Dallas area willing to be on TV and broadcast for the world to see?

As it turns out, the producers of Cheaters themselves had stated there is no law that says a reality show has to be real. So think of that when you watch this idiocy.

So when you watch this show and you know most of them are fake, you recognize bad attempts at acting and crying. Notice you NEVER see anyone actually punch anyone? You're telling me in 300 episodes there isn't one guy who can actually fight? Every "fight" is two guys kind of grappling each other but no one ever connects with a punch. There's one episode where a guy "punches" his girlfriend. You never see the actual punch. You hear it, see her on the ground with blood. Look up the guy, there is no arrest record of him for hitting his girlfriend. There is a YouTube video of him working out (not sure why).

Too bad. Great premise for a show wiped out because of phoniness. Love to see someone else do a similar show, nationwide, that is real. That would be a great late night show to view.

Vigorously depressing and sleazy

[abandonedbywolves · 5/10 · 12 August 2007]

When I say that "Cheaters" is "Reality TV" at its absolute worst, I'm not even considering that that much of the content is probably faked, or that much of the content that is not faked is probably manipulated by the show's writers and producers to have the worst possible outcomes. I'm not even counting the fact that anyone who would come to a show like "Cheaters" and ask to have their dirty laundry aired in public is the most obvious kind of attention whore. (Anyone who really wants their relationship to survive an affair needs to go to counseling with their significant other, not pull an ambush with a TV crew.)

To me, "Cheaters" is the worst kind of TV trash because the show pretends to condemn the behavior that it exposes, but yet by covering and airing instances of that behavior in dozens of episodes,(and always with the same format), it tacitly condones that behavior and trivializes it (After all, "everybody's doing it"). Only the names and faces change; the roles and the emotions never do. And it's obvious that the presence of the cameras makes people act in ways that they would not in "real life"; at least half of everything said and done in the confrontations is obviously for the benefit of the cameras. How often can the audience watch the same infidelities and the same trailer-trash drama until it decides that such behavior is the "norm" and if they don't get some of it, then they are missing out?

The narrator is an obvious sleaze ball. He lacks even Jerry Springer's sparkle and bemused air, treating each case as though it were the second coming of "Who's Afraid Of Virgina Woolf?" rather than just another entry in the divorce court record. He pretends to be on the victim's side, and to be an agent of justice, but what he really is just a poor man's Barbara Walters, mercilessly trying to get the victim to cry for the cameras. Now, I don't blame the guy for wanting to make a living. I don't even blame him for the show. But his unctuous smarm is the final ingredient in making this a sleaze cocktail.

I'm not condemning anyone for watching "Cheaters"; it has the "train wreck" quality that makes it impossible to look away. But 3 episodes were all I could take. (I gave it that long to see if my first impressions were valid, or if the first episode I saw was unusually awful). But I'd caution anyone that ongoing exposure to this kind of hypocritical sleaze might do some unnoticed damage to your ability to live like a mature human being.

Vile, cruel exploitative show

[critic-2 · 1/10 · 11 July 2011]

I tuned into this show last night thinking it would be one of those "so bad it's good" guilty pleasures we all love to watch. It is nothing of the kind. This may be the cruelest television series I have ever come across. The producers think nothing of taking a likable young woman, confronting her with evidence that her boyfriend / hubby has been cheating on her with another woman, and then showing that poor girlfriend / wife reduced to a helpless, sobbing mass of humiliated grief as she discovers what her significant other has really been up to. (There are no re-enactments here; we get to see the real thing.)

"Cheaters" isn't even one of those reality shows in which you feel a sense of satisfaction at seeing the cheater get it stuck to them in the end. It is just pure exploitation, without a shred of compassion for the people who have just had their personal lives shattered by what they discovered. There is no buildup of suspense as one would find in a filming of a "sting" operation, just pure, unadulterated, "peephole"-style viewing of other people's anguish.

Casual TV to pass the time

[msheckleberg · 10/10 · 26 November 2021]

Watched this since it was new. I am not sure of the story but the original host Tommy Grand aka Tommy Habib was replaced by Joey Greco fairly early in the series. I hear there was some possible backstabbing involved.

Tommy was, in my opinion, by far the best host. It was hilarious listening to him trying to act sympathetic while egging things on.

Joey was kind of dull and stiff. He would occasionally try to act like a tough guy but couldn't pull off the intimidating role. He did way more episodes than any of the other hosts and did managed to get stabbed in one. He didn't ruin the show but it lost something when they got rid of Tommy.

Clark Gable, grandson of the legendary actor and has a strong resemblance, was the next host. He was actually pretty good. Much better than Joey not as good as Tommy but he was entertaining.

I can't say about Peter Gunz as I haven't seen one of his episodes yet.

The premise is simple, and insecure significant other contacts cheaters who tails and investigates their spouse/bf/gf.

They show some damning surveillance footage and usually an excerpt from a phone call between the suspicious partner and their cheating significant other. This usually shows them lying about where they are or what they are doing. The footage shows dates, romps in parking lots, visits to hotel rooms, and sometimes there will be a camera hidden inside the house of the couple and you may get to see pixelated nudity. Seriously, if it doesn't say uncensored, there will be large squares or fuzzy ovals covering up all the naughty bits.

They show all this to the suspicious partner and then take them to confront the S. O. and the person they are cheating with. Sometimes its yelling, fighting, crying, or even a calm talking but usually it is a mix of 2 or more of those things. At they end of the show they will tell you if the couple ultimately stayed together or not.

As far as it being scripted, there are some that definitely seem to be staged. I think most are real but sometime after Joey took over there was one season that there were just too many weird ones happening. Like Jerry Springer weird, and you would wonder why everyone wasn't arrested. I believe the show was facing cancellation and they just went for it. I think it backfired and straightened out. I don't recall the season number but the scenarios were getting far fetched and I quit watching for a few years. This wasn't an issue in the old ones and the ones I am talking about were mixed in with what seemed to be authentic cases.

I work very closely with body language and human behavior and most of the interactions come across as genuine. There are some reactions you can't fake and people acting tend to have conflicting body language making it easy to spot.

Its a fun show to watch. Good for a laugh and something that isn't going to require you to follow a complex plot. Introduction, evidence, confrontation over and over. If you want something more for sound or just to occasionally glance at, this is pretty good.

A very deep show for the very troubled relationships

[Dream_seeker · 7/10 · 18 January 2008]

IN this day in age where it can be easy to cheat and just as easier to lie and be around the bush about it, this show hits on that topic with tenacity and pushes the boundaries that many are afraid to confront the person on. Typically a real person calls in or goes online talks about their relationship and discusses on if and why the person is cheating (you know the warning signs, behaviors, etc). the investigators do their job and investigate the scenario to discover if the person is cheating or not; and the end results....well it can be explosive at most...but the end result is real, honest, and most people will feel and agree on how the person would react cause i'm sure many (including myself) would feel the same way if our loved one cheated on us.

Sometimes the person is stupid enough to go back into the relationship and some are just as smart to move on from it; Either way the result is a tough, hard hitting show that should get credit for hitting on a topic that is tough to hit on when it comes to relationships...this show does change lives and set examples for those that are watching, "You think you can get away with the crime of cheating but sometimes....karma is a B**ch when you get caught!".

Now, most people would say, well that's in invasion of privacy and that this show jeopardize relationships that not fully true; the fact is that 70% percent of men and woman cheat everyday...and at least 99% of men and woman would hardly tell the person that they are, most would rather lie just to get away with it; Cheaters fights back on those types of BS and hits hard and helps the person who is being cheated on to find closer or to work it out...in the end when the person is caught its all about choice for the cheater and the cheated. The end result is a good and real show that people should watch with seriousness and relate to that part of you that has been cheated on once but never knew or known and realized that now there's a way to find out.

Extremely Ugly, Vile Television

[jlthornb51 · 1/10 · 16 June 2015]

If this show was truly based in reality, it would be about as sick as any form of "entertainment" good be since Emperor Claudius gave thumbs down to the gladiators. Since it is faked and scripted, it just qualifies as stomach turning, ugly, and astonishingly unpleasant. Suitable viewing for people with an IQ's lower than 50 and those so culturally illiterate they believe professional wrestling is legitimate as well as spellbinding. Anyone with any sophistication, intelligence, or even some fundamental literacy will most likely find the participants in this vile fiesta just stupidly tragic and utterly repulsive. Usually on cable at 2 a.m., this is sure to give anyone unable to sleep severe waking nightmares and violent nausea. Regretfully, the notorious stabbing of the host while taping was as fake as the other episodes in this sad sadomasochistic catastrophe.

Degrading and Pathetic, but Transcendent Art

[zedbates · 10/10 · 1 March 2019]

There's something about this show which is much greater than the sum of its parts, and it's hard for me to express it - but I know art when I see it, even if the producers themselves aren't aware of what they've created here.

Cheaters reminds me of 'Dateline's To Catch a Predator'. In my mind, the core of that show was when the host would casually stride in and read the predator the riot act. Watching the sheer terror on the perp's face - real animal fear as they sat glued in their seat, changing to hope when they were let free, only to be then physically assaulted by the police and hauled away. It was like distilled emotional abuse - and it operated on so many levels. First the salacious chat, then the use of the young girl as bait, then the chance to watch a person in power inflict first psychological, and then physical, torture on someone. It was degradation as an art form, and it let the viewer experience a deep sense of pathos.

Cheaters is like that - it creates a transcendent artistry out of sorrow, hate, and fear. It doesn't matter if it's fake or real, the structure of each 'case' always reaches a satisfying climax:

First there's the deadpan introduction from the dominant man, shot through with ten dollar words.

Then there's the lament of the victim, which is even more pathetic for being typically poor and uneducated.

Then comes the wry commentary on the 'suspect', combined with military surveillance imagery ('zoom and enhance'). The 'suspect' is thoroughly demonized, as well as the 'lover'. This is crucial - it serves the same purpose as the chat room quotes in 'Predator' or the Two Minutes' Hate from 1984. The viewer needs to revel in the punishment when it comes.

This is enhanced by the 'phone call' the 'suspect' answers from the victim, overlaid with video of them canoodling, to let us see them in the act of lying.

Once the 'investigation' is 'closed', the host assumes a solicitous air with the victim...'this may be difficult to watch...are you ready'? The pleasure here is to enjoy the hypocrisy of the host as the victim is tortured with sorrow and disillusionment while the camera close-ups on their face.

On to the angry 'confrontation', and dozens of Cheaters personnel join the entourage to create as much spectacle, light, and chaos as possible. The host, on the pretext of supporting the victim, goads the suspect and lover to provoke unpredictable outbursts, while the victim (and by proxy, the viewer) are free to inflict physical violence. What a relief! What a climax!

To get a sense of how far the show will go for pathos, there's an episode where the 'suspect', a young mother, is confronted by the male victim in their own home, with the entire Cheaters gang invading. The baby starts to cry from the back room, and the girl goes down the hallway to quiet it. This must already be torture - the husband attacking her purity in their own home, filled with hostile strangers, and her baby in the midst of it. But Cheaters takes a step into pure indecency when the host insists on following her down the hall and right into the baby's room, attacking her verbally as she goes. I got chills hearing the timbre of her voice lift into unconcealed animal fear and rage.

Now where else on network television can you see something like this? Powerful stuff - but better keep the kids away from it.

Beyond horrible...

[LiquidPoetry1921 · 1/10 · 2 June 2017]

Did it ever dawn on any of the viewers that EVERY episode of 'Cheaters' takes place in Texas? Unless there has been an abnormal amount cheating going on in that state alone, in the 17 years this show has been on the air, that's proof enough that this 'reality' show is completely staged.

From the outlandish costumes the cheaters get caught in (clown suits, S&M attire), to the same exact compromising situations that repeat themselves episode after episode, to the 'testimonials' the cheating parties give at the end of the show (which have been obviously scripted by the writers), there is NOTHING real about this 'reality' show. It has even been reported that Joey Greco's supposed stabbing by an upset participant was scripted for the cameras. The show 'Inside Edition' discovered that Greco used fake blood to simulate that he was really impaled by a knife, and the ambulance on the scene was rented.

Quite frankly, I don't know what's worse ~ the show lying at the beginning of each episode that the 'stories are real', or that some people actually believe this garbage is legitimate.

Absolutely horrible.

The only ones who get cheated here are the extremely gullible viewers.

[fedor8 · 30 December 2007]

I'm not bothered by the sleazy hosts, nor am I bothered by the cynical, self-righteous stance the makers of this crap take.

What I AM bothered about is that the vast majority of the episodes are fake. I wouldn't even be surprised if ALL of the episodes were staged. Hence this isn't a reality show but something far worse even than Oprah: garbage television with zero comma zero appeal. Like daily TV soap opera but with more action and fighting and less plot.

The premise would have turned out great - if only it had been executed without cheating the viewer. If only this idea were free of all the legal complications/trappings that would most certainly ensue due to what would happen with real people, and what is eventually aired. Hence the only way to create this """reality show""" was to get some rather desperate actors and make them improvise (and what pitiful and unconvincing improvisation it is most of the time!). Shouldn't this be obvious to anyone who finished grade school? Most reviews I read here don't even mention that any of this is fake, let alone that all of it might be. Wishful thinking or just boundless naivety?

The actors hired in this pathetic show are the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel unemployed actors who are miserably waiting on tables, waiting eagerly for a call from a talk show (or this crap), which is when they finally get a chance to make several hundred bucks. I even recognized one actress (in the role of "cheater") that I saw years earlier in "The Jerry Springer Show". And I only saw 6-7 episodes of "Cheaters". How many more of these loser actors are there that appeared in Springer and "Cheaters" that I don't even know about?

However, to compare "Cheaters" with Springer isn't fair to the latter. The Springer show is not all fake; a bulk of the episodes are unstaged - hence often highly entertaining. There is no value to be found in "Cheaters", unless you're a struggling actor and want to get tips on how NOT to act in front of the camera.

The producers use various (very cheap, transparent) tricks to create the illusion of realness, to give their footage that elusive documentary feel. But it's all in vein. In the end, the more intelligent train-wreck-seeking viewer is left with absolutely squat. "Professional wrestling" has more credibility than this.

New Host ?????

[ibiscanes-44432 · 2/10 · 22 November 2020]

Tried watching your new season the new host Peter panky I believe is his name not feeling it the whole cigar and drink in hand thing and tough guy just doesn't work, probably have seen every season and probably will not be finishing this one ,don't like it just thought I'd let you know from a real fan. Thanks

WORSE HOST EVER!

[evy-mero · 1/10 · 9 January 2022]

Peter Gunn is the absolute worse host that they could have chosen to be on this show. What a joke! I'm no longer going to watch it if he is on here. Anyone would have been a better choice than him.

propaganda

[aaronbarlow72 · 1/10 · 20 April 2008]

There is a growing trend in the media to vilify and ridicule men. One sees it in television adverts and program plots. Cheaters is a prime example, they could find plenty of female cheaters yet the vast majority shown are men, why? The prime threat to any government's power resides in the male population, they're less likely to abide by authority and are more of a physical combat threat. A way to reduce the threat is to emasculate men in society via the media. Other examples of psychological propaganda are crime dramas full of self righteous cops including big-jawed aggressive women accusing everyone they question trampling their rights and making those men feel like scum. In Australia many top male sports stars have been arrested recently for dubious assaults and drinking charges, another example of the government controlling the male populous by arresting their heroes and asserting dominance. Cheaters, aside from the political machinations is an invasion of privacy and a violation of rights, furthermore most of these women assault the men! If it were round the other way the men would be in jail!! If it were an honest show they would be finding women cheaters, because they don't normally get caught due to the fact that their male lovers are quite happy to get in no strings attached and get out without rocking the boat. Men's mistresses want the men to themselves and want to own and control the men and thus get the men caught anyway.

Cheaters show is full of scum and needs to be have a different program on the CW and Fox

[infowarrior19832006 · 1/10 · 21 September 2006]

I think cheaters needs to be off the air and end the reality show once and for all i don't care what anyone says you can attack me or agree with me but its times like this that the show is just spewing out propaganda and the host of Cheaters Joey Greco is a little bastard who wants to think that showing people on camera is effective and unawares no it just will show disgusting he is also the wiretapping and following of people by "cheaters spy's" is illegal and a federal offense we are living in a police state like the Soviet union and Nazi Germany rolled into one i am happy that there is poor reviews on this trash this needs to end soon or we are going to lose our liberties as a nation no wonder our country is going to hell its because of this and other filth shows i liked the older shows better from the 1950s-1980s i hope you all agree with me on that thank you infowarrior

So Great the host got stabbed!!! Hard hitting reality show

[MovieCriticMarvelfan · 10/10 · 21 August 2003]

This tv reality show has become one of the most watched over the last few years. Sure when it started out in 2000, the show looked like it wouldnt last, but the complaints the critics have complained about have been fixed and the show has an edge and cutting humor amist the debacle of catching a cheating partner on tv that is second to none.

"Confrontation" is worth watching alone on cheaters, it is wild, wild stuff and has me rolling on the floor laughing.

Not so funny are both the guys and girls who cheat on them, using every lie you can think and yes folks the people on are real!!! No actors like on Jerry Springer or Judge Judy show.

Several of these cheating b***ards and sluts have lost their jobs because of the show and I LOVE IT!!! Love IT!!! They are getting exactly what they deserve. IN fact I liked the show so much I myself have added the "Cheaters list" to my webpage.

The cheaters themselves are lower than scum, in fact one of the cheaters a white trash punk stabbed the current host Joey Gregco in one of the most disgusting acts Ive seen.

The show is on hiatus obviously over this matter, but "Cheaters" has caught the eye and attention of many , and watch out you could be next.

Horrible programme

[chrislambert582 · 1/10 · 3 December 2013]

Over the last couple of years I have been subjected to this programme on the freeview channel "Really", and finally feel compelled to comment. First, the presenter. Joey Greco moralises non-stop throughout the show, using such words as "depraved" to describe the behaviour of the person allegedly caught cheating on their partner. He is advocating himself as the guardian of the world's morals, completely missing the irony of the immoral (and at times, illegal) behaviour of himself and his "gumshoes", following people, secretly filming and recording phone conversations. Of course, since the "stories" featured in the show are as fake as Greco I don't suppose this really matters. I don't understand how anybody can possibly believe anything on this show is real. Typically, a couple "engaged in nefarious deeds" meet up, go for a meal (usually sitting either outdoors or in front of a window so they can be easily filmed) then go back to the cheaters house for sex (so they can be recorded by the hidden cameras). They make no attempt to keep things secret and are never watching to see if they are being followed! The whole show is just low-budget garbage that only deluded people can believe is "reality", so in a way it's just like any other reality show.

Good show

[Catherine_Grace_Zeh · 9/10 · 19 August 2008]

I've been a fan of this show ever since it made its debut. First off, I must say that it's a good show. Also, I haven't seen every episode. However, if you ask me, it's still a good show. It's fun to see unfaithful people get busted. In addition, I really enjoy watching people confront their unfaithful lover or whoever. I hope it stays on the air for years to come. If that happens, I will be really happy. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever, even though I haven't seen every episode. Now, in conclusion, if some network ever brings it back after it finishes its run, I hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good.

Clark Gable ruins it for everyone!

[missarissa · 1/10 · 22 August 2015]

The show was at least semi a entertaining when the other guy was hosting it. The older, gray haired guy. He was actually a very good host and knew how to act in front of a camera. Clark gable however is HORRIBLE!!! That crap he does with his hands, waving them around in circles in the air, while he is talking, is horrendous! Where the heck did he learn that?!?! Well he needs to stop this and get into a different line of work because he has ruined the show. As for the rest of the taping, it is a mildly entertaining script with a sometimes exciting plot line. If your thing is peeping into the lives of sad sorry gulable people that choose to go out with people that use and abuse them, then this is the show for you.

America has reached a new low!!!

[EasyAttack · 2 July 2004]

Seriously, this has to be one of the most atrocious and worthless shows that I have ever seen in my life. Basically, The host of this show takes girls or guys (mostly girls) who suspect their significant others of cheating to confront them in scenarios where they are cheating with them on dates with their "side item". One episode that I find repulsive is where the host, of this show gets stabbed by one of the guys that gets busted by his girlfriend. Basically this guy is on a boat trip with the girl he is banging behind his girlfriends back, the girlfriend and the host of the show intrude on this mans yacht and tell him that he is "busted" and the dumb-ass host of the show gets in this man's face and calls him "selfish" and this and that; basically telling him he is a dog for cheating on his girlfriend. The cheater tells him nicely to get the hell out of his face, but the host of the show just kept pushing the issue and then the hosts he gets stabbed by the cheater.

Call me sick, but I did not feel sorry for this moron at all when he got stabbed. I mean, granted the guy should not have been cheating on his girlfriend still, he does have a right to be on a boat trip without some idiot, trash hungry, media hound, TV host trespassing on this man's boat and trying to give this man a lecture on morals, like this guy that is hosting this garbage really has any morals. The fact that they actually aired this footage on TV just shows that nobody associated on that show actually cares about these poor young women who are dating these dogs that are cheating on them. I was not even surprised that the host of the show got stabbed. I am surprised at 2 things however. The first thing I am surprised at is that the the camera man just kept shooting this after the host got stabbed. I am also surprised that it took 3 years before someone actually stabbed the host. I mean, It was bound to happen sooner or later. The sad thing is I heard this idiot is hosting the show again, so apparently he is going have to come closer to death before he learns his lesson. Getting stabbed is only gonna add to his popularity so I am sure he did not mind getting stabbed all that much.

This show seriously makes me ashamed to be an American sometime. I mean, I love the First Amendment and all, but I draw the line at this debauchery. Thank God for the remote control!!!

No. 1 Reason why this is all fake.

[jleon25 · 1/10 · 20 October 2017]

OK, so if I walked into my house/bedroom and saw my wife/girlfriend having sex with anyone else. Why would I attack the person having sex with my partner and never lay a hand on my partner? After all, who is actually doing the cheating on me? My partner or her companion?

Has anyone seen one lousy episode where the actual person, If it's a woman get attacked? I haven't seen all of them so I can not make that claim. The only time the suspect, as they call them on the show, gets physical abuse is if the suspect is male, then they get slapped and pushed by their partners and maybe their companions get some pushing around.

But if the cheater/suspect is a woman, the boyfriend never get's physical on his wife/girlfriend even if the companion has no clue the cheater was in a relationship. Why would you attack the other person when the person cheating on the victim has kept the relationship a secret from the companion. It makes no sense. You would think, at least, on one occasion, the guy would at least confront her first. She is the one cheating on him.

Why am I watching this?

[jmworacle-99025 · 5/10 · 8 November 2020]

Looking onto others misfortunes is an embarassing delima. You think to yourself why am I watching this only to keep on. You tend to feel sorry for some of people. You also get to hear some of the most "creative" excuses provided. My favorite was the woman who suspected her boyfriend was stepping out on her. When her suspicions were confirmed the "other woman" claims she only did it in order to keep the guy from leaving her.

Maybe HBO, Cinemax or Showtime can pick it up.