- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 13, 2023
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Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings
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Aug 29, 2023
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In traditional media, Pespas’s history of addiction would be a credibility killer. Here it’s a sign of his authenticity. .... The wobbly final episode only glancingly acknowledges the ways that telemarketing tactics have evolved since C.D.G.’s day, now that A.I. has rendered flesh-and-blood employees largely obsolete and call scripts capitalize on political strife by framing donations as protests against police reform. But, when it becomes clear that there’s no real conclusion to this story, the lack of closure feels right.
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But whether purely by accident or as a byproduct of Lipman-Stern and Pespas growing into their role, "Telemarketers" successfully shows us the structural and psychological reasons enabling this wide-reaching industry to thrive, and it in the main it all circles back to our societies tangled relationship with the cops.
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Telemarketers is gripping whenever it's focusing on the party-hard, Wolf of Wall Street culture of the call center or tracing the swindles of shady fundraising operations outward to powerful police unions and politicians with hands tied. It's much less interesting once it becomes more invested in the filmmakers' Michael Moorian quests to land interviews; they keep interrupting their exposé for scenes of them planning an exposé.