"It’s not trashy or seedy, or even that campy in any way," says Kevin Fallon of the film based on the college cheating scandal that embroiled Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. "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 be turning the saga into a movie? Or, given the real-world gravity of what happened, is this what we really craved: a straightforward distillation of one of the more outrageous stories of wealth, privilege, and celebrity that has played out in recent years? If that’s true, The College Admissions Scandal seems as pointless as it is, I suppose, satisfying. 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. So, congrats to Lifetime on its speed?"
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TOPICS: The College Admissions Scandal, Lifetime, Gretchen Carlson, Mia Kirshner, Penelope Ann Miller, College Cheating Scandal