It’s been an emotional roller-coaster thus far on MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show,” each episode exploring a different relationship as online daters endeavor — with the help of “Catfish” masterminds Nev Schulman and Max Joseph — to find out if their long-distance partner is really who they’ve claimed to be, a premise that has got viewers, well, hooked.

Lucky for fans of the show, it looks like we will be seeing a lot more of these “Catfish” matchmakers in action because the series will be returning for season two.

” ‘Catfish: The TV Show’ has truly captured the zeitgeist of the digital dating age,” said Dave Sirulnick, the show’s executive producer. “The show has profoundly resonated with our audience by portraying the real-life journeys of individuals trying to navigate the highs and lows of online dating — an experience our viewers can relate to. We are thrilled to bring the show back for a second season and look forward to the fascinating stories that only Nev and Max can uncover.”

Each week, “Catfish” has viewers on the edge of their seats as they, along with Max and Nev, whose own digital relationship sparked the original “Catfish” film, attempt to make online relationships a reality. In most cases, things aren’t always what they seem.

So far, we’ve met a variety of different people in online relationships, including an exotic dancer looking for love but coming face-to-face with someone else, and this week, we saw the first “Catfish” happy ending, which turned out to be not only an extremely emotional episode, but inspirational as well.

Since its debut, “Catfish: The TV Show” has become the highest rated start to an MTV series since 2007, and each week dominates the social scene. MTV News recently caught up with Max and Nev and they couldn’t be more thrilled with the show’s overwhelming success.

“It’s super exciting,” Schulman told MTV News of the success. “Max and I spent all summer on the road making this show. We knew how much these people had been affected and how amazing these stories were, and we saw the change in people’s lives. It was super exciting for us to be part of that. But, of course, you never really know how an audience is going to react. So it’s been really fun. It’s so exciting to see people really engaging and enjoying the show and getting it.”

An all-new episode of “Catfish: The TV Show” airs Monday, January 7 at 11 p.m. ET/PT.

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“Catfish” airs every Monday at 11 p.m. ET on MTV. For more, check out MTV’s Remote Control blog.

We finally got our first “Catfish” happy ending! And, in true “Catfish” fashion, we were surprised at every turn.

(Spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen the latest episode!)

“Catfish” masterminds Nev Schulman and Max Joseph learned early on in Monday’s episode that Alyx hadn’t been upfront with Kya when they met on VampireFreaks.com. What they couldn’t have expected, however, is that Alyx was actually Dani, who was born a woman but identifies as a man.

The show clearly wanted to treat the revelation with as much sensitivity as possible, so Schulman and Joseph eschewed the typical formula of surprising Kya with the news at her meeting with Dani, and instead told her upfront exactly what they had learned.

“When we first sort of discovered that Alyx was Dani and that Dani was transgender, we brought it up with Kya,” Schulman recalled, “at which point she said, right away, without any hesitation, ‘That’s OK. I’ve been attracted to women before. … It doesn’t matter. I love this person, and that’s all that I care about.’

“And when we heard that, that took a big weight off of our shoulders,” he continued. “Because obviously, if she’d been furious and really upset, it would have made their meeting uncomfortable. But for her to know going into it and for her to be so open-minded and incredible about it made that a really exciting, wonderful moment.”

Nev and Max take us behind last week’s episode, featuring hard-working single dad Jarrod. Did everything turn out like he thought?

After five episodes of deception, embarrassment and disappointment, Kya and Dani embraced one another and basically never let go when they were brought together for the first time — which made it all the more heartbreaking when Kya had to return to Missouri and leave Dani and California behind.

“Unlike the end of any other episode, the end of this episode was really hard and difficult, because they were together. They’d finally overcome geography and lies and everything to be in the same place, and they were only in the same place for 48 hours,” Joseph said. “And they didn’t want to leave each other. Kya didn’t want to get on a plane and go back to Missouri. And it was really sad. They were crying, and they just didn’t want to let go of each other, and that was the first time we had seen that on the show. It was hard. We kind of wanted to let Kya stay as long as she wanted there. But there were actual obstacles to their being together aside from lying and social networking. I mean, there’s just distance. And now that’s just another thing they have to overcome.”

“Catfish” airs every Monday at 11 p.m. ET on MTV. For more, check out MTV’s Remote Control blog.