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Critic Reviews
Jul 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Over the course of each half-hour episode, directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato deftly toggle between Farrow’s podcast interviews and archival footage and photos, using just the right amount of stylistic touches to create a compelling atmosphere. Mostly, though, this is the story of voices. The voice of Ronan Farrow, whose mission is to get to the truth no matter how long it takes, and the voices of the brave souls who spoke out against an alleged monster.
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Jul 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Even though the repetitiveness of some of the stock footage — closeups of recorders, Farrow looking at papers behind a microphone but not talking into it — might get old, the story is structured in a way that brings viewers in immediately, giving them information on it that they may not have known if they didn’t read Farrow’s book or listened to his podcast.
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Jul 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This is, fundamentally, a story that’s eminently consumable, combining a great monster of recent history with setbacks and journalistic derring-do — even if it’s not consistently telegenic. ... Taken on its own terms as a way of examining Farrow’s part in the story, “Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes” is worth watching for anyone who wants to begin to understand this bit of very recent history.
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The GuardianNov 4, 2021
Season 1 Review:
As a primer for newcomers, or a recap for those who want one, Catch and Kill: The TV Series of the Podcast of the Book of the Article works fine. But there is a sense of missed opportunity – whether to show what has changed since, or how far we still have to go – that makes it slightly less than the sum of its reused parts.
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Jul 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The story that Farrow was reporting and the story of Farrow’s challenges reporting that story are so good and so essential that it’s possible, if not always easy, to ignore how thoroughly any sense of differentiation between the two has been lost through various recountings, and how Bailey and Barbato’s attempts to expand the podcast visually in the transition to television range from negligible to borderline laughable.
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Jul 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes” is exactly that — a filmed podcast. Veteran documentary directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato do what they can, but the fact is it’s not very interesting visually, and there are no new revelations here — nothing that wasn’t already in print.
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