| Lifetime | Season Premiere Date: October 12, 2019 |
Summary:
Caroline (Penelope Ann Miller) and Bethany (Mia Kirshner) are two wealthy mothers who buy their children's way into prestigious universities with the help of Rick Singer (Michael Shanks) in this TV movie inspired by Operation Varsity Blues, that caught Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin for college bribery.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Oct 10, 2019
The crimes described here seem heinous because they subvert the founding myths of meritocracy, and this Lifetime movie—with its strokes of low-brow expressionism, its inadvertently funny production values, its clever lead performances—converts the news story into an exhilarating nightmare. You hate these parents and you feel for them, and each feeling intensifies the other.
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Oct 11, 2019
The dialogue is clunky and cliched. ... What saves The College Admission Scandal from total camp is Miller, who really rings true as a mom who loves her son and is deeply ashamed about what she’s done. Kirshner goes big as the woman who, instead, doesn’t understand the consequences. She’s right out of a primetime soap, but Kirshner keeps her grounded.
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Oct 11, 2019
Oct 11, 2019
To its credit, The College Admissions Scandal doesn’t wrap things up in anything even remotely resembling a happy ending. Families are torn apart, and prison is looming. It plays like an after-school special of a cautionary tale (for the .001% who have six figures to toss around on fake test scores), but it’s still hard to muster up sympathy for even these destroyed characters at the end.
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Oct 10, 2019
Oct 10, 2019
The Daily Beast
Oct 10, 2019
It’s essentially a regurgitation of the scandal’s basic talking points, letting the outlandishness play at face value. It’s not trashy or seedy, or even that campy in any way. ... It’s about as good as you might expect a film to be when it premieres seven months to the day after the events it is based on took place.
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Air Date: October 12, 2019
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