Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 10, 2021
User Score
4.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 6 out of 13

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  1. Randall0
    Feb 14, 2021
    1
    An interesting story ruined by conspiracy nutters. Needed to stay with the investigators and not “web sleuths” virtue signalling their dribble.
  2. geewah
    Feb 17, 2021
    3
    What a poor doco-series this is.
    Adds nothing new on the subject and could of been an 1 hour production at best.
    The only takeaway from this is what a bunch of losers amateur/web sleuths are.
  3. chadimus
    Feb 14, 2021
    2
    Four long hours of backstory and long pointless detours just to tell you that an adult woman didn't take her meds caused her own death. First two episodes keep you guessing and engaged, but then they pad out the series with a full episode devoted to conspiracy theories posited by internet death groupies. Finally to deliver the conclusion that nothing sinister happened to her at all.Four long hours of backstory and long pointless detours just to tell you that an adult woman didn't take her meds caused her own death. First two episodes keep you guessing and engaged, but then they pad out the series with a full episode devoted to conspiracy theories posited by internet death groupies. Finally to deliver the conclusion that nothing sinister happened to her at all. Tragic story, but when they get to the conclusion I realized what a waste of hours it had been. Even the title is a lie: there is NO CRIME involved here. Accidental death.… Expand

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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. i
    Reviewed by: Emily Baker
    Dec 3, 2021
    40
    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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  2. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Feb 10, 2021
    70
    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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  3. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Ellen E Jones
    Feb 10, 2021
    40
    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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