I never really know what people are looking for when they tune into these cable made-for-TV movies on channels like Lifetime, based on recent, salacious media stories and scandals. But that audience does seem to have an appetite for something very specific when it comes to these things, which was certainly evident by the salivating all over social media for a movie like The College Admissions Scandal nearly immediately after the Operation Varsity Blues news broke. Does it deliver? Well it delivers something. You could charitably rule it a SparkNotes, Reader's Digest summary that captures the spirit of the events. Enough facts are changed to presumably avoid litigation, but also, then, true representation of what happened. But then again, there's nothing particularly spirited about this telling of the story at all. 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. There's no dialed-up intensity of the kind we might see in a topical episode of Law & Order: SVU , for example. Are any of those things what people wanted when they turned giddy over the news that Lifetime would… Read full this story
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