The college admissions scandal was a huge eye-opener for the entire nation. But to enjoy this documentary, you need to be able to accept the good with the bad, sometimes the very bad.
The show's accuracy and reenactments are top notch. The actors generally look like their real life counterparts. But more importantly, all of the script spoken by the actors are the actual words of the perpetrators. Numerous conversations were captured over a period of time by the FBI via wire tapped phone calls and body wires, so much of the conversations happen while people are on the phone. This really contributed to my confidence that I wasn't being fed a false narrative. Unfortunately, that confidence slowly dissolved the more I watched.
The weak side of this documentary is that, and there's no other way to say this, Netflix is a class hustling poverty pimp. Oh, And the background music is kind of silly. The music makes you think you're watching the slasher movie, even though it's really just about people making and taking bribes. Anyway, what did I mean about the "poverty pimp" comment? Practically all the narrative, not counting the real life phone conversations, constantly beats the drum against evil wealthy people. I get it, to a point. People have class envy and that's what made this story popular to begin with. But when you take phone calls and constantly, frequently, joyously interject that WEALTH people are doing wrong, that's kind of sick. Would middle class people have done this if they could? Of course. Would poor people have gotten involved with this if they could? No doubt. There are bad people everywhere. But that's not good enough for Netflix. They shamelessly bash the wealthy, the successful. Are they just leftists? I don't know, but I do know they are class hustling poverty pimps that entender hatred unnecessarily. It's frustrating and kind of embarrassing.
The foreboding music and class hatred in the show would make you believe that these families were involved in murder. They weren't. They were involved in bribes that were wrong, and they received sentences commensurate with her behavior. Good news! The guilty were tried and punished despite their wealth! But somehow Netflix seem to of missed that fact. I wonder why.
The show's accuracy and reenactments are top notch. The actors generally look like their real life counterparts. But more importantly, all of the script spoken by the actors are the actual words of the perpetrators. Numerous conversations were captured over a period of time by the FBI via wire tapped phone calls and body wires, so much of the conversations happen while people are on the phone. This really contributed to my confidence that I wasn't being fed a false narrative. Unfortunately, that confidence slowly dissolved the more I watched.
The weak side of this documentary is that, and there's no other way to say this, Netflix is a class hustling poverty pimp. Oh, And the background music is kind of silly. The music makes you think you're watching the slasher movie, even though it's really just about people making and taking bribes. Anyway, what did I mean about the "poverty pimp" comment? Practically all the narrative, not counting the real life phone conversations, constantly beats the drum against evil wealthy people. I get it, to a point. People have class envy and that's what made this story popular to begin with. But when you take phone calls and constantly, frequently, joyously interject that WEALTH people are doing wrong, that's kind of sick. Would middle class people have done this if they could? Of course. Would poor people have gotten involved with this if they could? No doubt. There are bad people everywhere. But that's not good enough for Netflix. They shamelessly bash the wealthy, the successful. Are they just leftists? I don't know, but I do know they are class hustling poverty pimps that entender hatred unnecessarily. It's frustrating and kind of embarrassing.
The foreboding music and class hatred in the show would make you believe that these families were involved in murder. They weren't. They were involved in bribes that were wrong, and they received sentences commensurate with her behavior. Good news! The guilty were tried and punished despite their wealth! But somehow Netflix seem to of missed that fact. I wonder why.