In Deep with Ryan Lochte

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Season 1
  • Network: Peacock
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 15, 2020
Metascore
35

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jul 14, 2020
    50
    Lochte has married and fathered two children since Rio, which factors considerably in the footage for this one-hour documentary, making a fairly convincing case that every party boy eventually becomes a man. It seems there might have been hope to make a full docuseries here, following Lochte to the U.S. competitions and, perhaps, to Tokyo.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jul 15, 2020
    40
    A little too programmatic not to be annoying, but, still, good luck in 2021.
  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Laura Bradley
    Jul 21, 2020
    30
    In Deep strains to make the case that Lochte is a different person now than the goofy, party-hardy twentysomething we got to know so long ago. ... In the end, In Deep with Ryan Lochte only made me wonder why we are so desperate to relate to athletes and movie stars as Good People when basic logic tells us that their moral character can vary just as widely as any randomly selected person sitting a few feet away from you at a local restaurant.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Kelly Lawler
    Jul 15, 2020
    30
    Overwrought. ... Painfully relitigating Lochte's scandal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
  6. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Inkoo Kang
    Jul 14, 2020
    20
    A shallow and self-pitying vanity project. ... It doesn't help that Lochte is as inarticulate and unreflective as you remember him.