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Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: February 10, 2021 |
Summary:
The four-part documentary series from director Joe Berlinger looks into the 1993 disappearance of Elisa Lam from Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
Recent Episodes
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S1:E4. Episode 04
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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S1:E3. Episode 03
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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S1:E2. Episode 02
Air Date: February 10, 2021
Positive:
3
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
Feb 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Sophisticated, gripping, and full of perspectives usually absent in the genre, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is an expertly-paced mystery and a thought-provoking discussion on classism, mental health, and the ethics of true crime. It’s also remarkably cinematic in terms of aesthetics, thriving with atmospheric visuals and clever pacing that create a murky, engrossing atmosphere. You’ll finish it in one sitting.
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Feb 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The scripted visuals here fill things in quite well because Berlinger keeps them weird and odd, like the hotel itself. ... Considering the complexities of the Lam case, plus the Cecil Hotel’s history, no one can claim that Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel is padded out. We’re actually wondering how they’ll cover everything in 4 episodes.
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RogerEbert.com
Feb 10, 2021
Feb 9, 2021
Season 1 Review:
What Crime Scene needs is much more of Doug Mungin, a Skid Row urban scholar, and much less of almost everything else. ... There's just a way to do a commentary on the corrosive effect of true-crime voyeurism without being so pervasively voyeuristic, and I wish Crime Scene had walked that tightrope more deftly.
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The Telegraph
Feb 10, 2021
The Guardian
Feb 10, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The basic facts of Lam’s death are so upsetting, that Crime Scene’s various attempts to lighten the mood with historical detours and commentary from cutesy eccentrics such as the general manager with the Veronica Lake wave, feel, at best, in very poor taste. It is not spooky, it is just sad; desperately sad that a family have lost their beloved daughter and sad, too, that in Los Angeles, as in many other places around the world, the result of human beings in a mental health crisis is avoidable tragedy.
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Dec 3, 2021
Season 1 Review:
We’re served an uncomfortable, crude murder mystery. There are some redeeming qualities, though you have to pay rather close attention to notice them. Contributors are wide-ranging and forthcoming, especially the hotel manager Amy Price, who comes across as bewildered, defensive and excited to be on Netflix all at the same time.
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Feb 14, 2021
This documentary is so intriguing that only makes us want to know more and more. The details and story telling are impressive.
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Mar 5, 2021
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Feb 19, 2021
It's a documentary miniseries of morbidity and reaction, not of investigation. Boring and and completely devoid of an attractive spark, beyond the mystery that it feeds on.
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Apr 9, 2021
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Feb 28, 2021
They Just Wanted To Close The Case Quickly, Because They Cannot Handle The Heat Of The Media, And We Will Never Know What Really Happened To Her.
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Feb 12, 2021
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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S1:E4. Episode 04
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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S1:E3. Episode 03
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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S1:E2. Episode 02
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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S1:E1. Episode 01
Air Date: February 10, 2021
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Season 1 Overview