Mommy Dead and Dearest
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: May 15, 2017
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

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  1. Colokat5
    Jun 28, 2017
    9
    How on earth those 2 were able to get away with "The Scam" that they did for years! Amazing! But for me, it goes to show that the Scamming in America has become it's own Art Form and it's the systems that America has in place that makes it that way! Get Rid of all the "help" systems and actually put people Back to Work in America instead of fostering situations like this!!!

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Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    May 15, 2017
    70
    The strangeness of this killing speaks for itself, and the director, Erin Lee Carr, largely just lets it do so.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    May 15, 2017
    70
    With its sickly sweet flashbacks to home movies and public-event footage showing the mother-daughter duo as best friends, this slickly packaged documentary combines true-crime material with a certain tonal element of cruel domestic black comedy.
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  3. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    May 15, 2017
    75
    The story of Dee Dee Blanchard and Gypsy Rose Blanchard is compelling enough that just telling it is half the battle, but it’s the expert construction of Mommy Dead and Dearest that really makes it work.
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