The story of former Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o is a tough one to learn about. The Netflix documentary “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist” does a terrific job of telling his story.

The documentary starts with telling who Te’o is as a person and who he is as a football player. Netflix allows us to understand the elite level of a football player Te’o was in his high school years.

However, the main plot of this documentary is, of course, the story of the catfishing incident that took as this is a review and not a summary, the rundown of the situation is simple.

Te’o received a friend request on facebook before his senior year at Notre Dame began. This friend request was from a male posing as a female. This led to a whole mess of manipulation, faking death, all putting Manti Te’o in a hole that got deeper and deeper.

Netflix goes the extra mile humanizing Te’o and lets the viewers understand what he truly went through. If you are a sports fan and have not seen this documentary, it is a must watch.