Love Fraud

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 30, 2020
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
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Critic Reviews

  1. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Sep 14, 2020
    50
    Love Fraud plays like the real-life equivalent of a Lifetime movie turned, for better and worse, into a salacious Showtime docuseries. Although there are plenty of juicy bits in this tale of a guy who wooed and fleeced women he met online, the filmmakers focus on the micro of the story at the expense of the bigger picture -- in a way that's entertaining, but shallow.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: John Anderson
    Aug 27, 2020
    50
    [The filmmakers] have little effective storytelling footage at their disposal other than the many interviews they did with the many Mrs. Smiths. The work of collage artist Martin O’Neill and the animation by Andrew Griffin help to create an atmosphere of surrealistic fantasy around the hard facts of the case. For their part, Ms. Ewing and Ms. Grady create what is often a studied-bordering-on-languid pace and a running visual commentary on the down-market Midwest.