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Critic Reviews
IndieWireFeb 1, 2021
RogerEbert.comJan 29, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Zackary Drucker (a producer on “Transparent” and “This Is Me”) and Nick Cammilleri, have packaged a complex and contradiction-laden tale adroitly and with remarkable legibility. The assurance with which they tell it matches the boldness with which Carmichael printed counterfeit money or created a company to make and market the Dale.
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Jan 27, 2021
Season 1 Review:
HBO’s The Lady and the Dale, directors Nick Cammilleri and Zackary Drucker (a consultant and cast member on Transparent) do right by their subject’s multitudes, presenting a rollicking and twist-filled bio-doc in four parts that doesn’t shy from Carmichael’s many flaws while supplying ample context for the transgender experience a half-century ago. TV’s longform documentaries are seldom so illuminating, or entertaining.
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Jan 29, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The filmmakers were likely looking for some way to break up the interview and archival news footage, and create re-enactments without actors. But their use of cutouts ultimately becomes tiresome. What they do have that elevates their series are interviews with jurors from the Carmichael trial and with reporters who covered it.
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The Daily BeastJan 26, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The Lady and the Dale thrives when it remains focused on Liz’s audacious scam, bolstered by first-hand accounts from relatives and colleagues who describe her as both a wily crook and loving wife and mother. For the majority of its first three episodes, it proves an entertainingly gonzo portrait of rebellious self-definition, as Liz strives to buck legal and social norms to make something of herself. Unfortunately, though, by the time its final installment rolls around, Cammilleri and Drucker’s series leans a bit too heavily into eliciting sympathy for its subject.
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