- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 21, 2022
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Despite our reservations on the style choices by Dimmock, the story of Captive Audience is compelling, and the twist that involves Cary is what has us most intrigued.
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An aesthetically assured and inescapably chilling look at a hopeless tangle of fact and fantasy, and the horrors, and unanswerable questions, it begat. ... Easy answers aren’t Captive Audience’s main concern, though; instead, director Dimmock introduces a host of thorny ideas without attempting to devise a pat conclusion that will neatly tie everything together.
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Ms. Dimmock, in collaboration with first-rate editor Ian Olds—and the very evident awareness that she's telling a story too—has created a memorable, thought-provoking and thoughtful piece that crisscrosses with considerable cool the often-imperceptible line between reality and realistic storytelling; between narratives and the way they're perceived; and between the awful truth and news that's stranger than fiction.
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It’s strange to see these actors revisiting the characters they once portrayed—now reading the actual words of the subjects of the material. That misgiving aside, “Captive Audience” is a well-crafted, three-part documentary series.