- Network: Sundance Now
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 22, 2024
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The show has found an intelligent way to straddle the line between nuanced sensitivity and juicy drama, all set against a gorgeous backdrop. It’s smart, endlessly watchable and the kind of series that would likely find a larger audience were it available on a more popular streamer.
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Overall it is an effective study of how deeply truth can be obscured by unpalatable parts of it, by deliberate and unconscious subterfuge, by ambition, deflection, denial, our willingness to believe only good things of likable people and only bad of the dislikable.
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As a gripping thriller, this drama ticks all the boxes – there’s mystery, there’s lies, there’s a really hateful villain (Turner is surprisingly brilliant at playing an evil narcissist). But where Fifteen-Love really exceeds is in its dissection of how a complaint of sexual assault is really handled by those who were supposed to protect the woman at the centre.