| Showtime | Season Premiere Date: August 30, 2020 |
Summary:
The four-part documentary series from Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing follows the victims defrauded by conman Richard Scott Smith as they band together to seek justice by finding him before he steals another woman's money and disappears again.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E4. How Did You Guys See This Thing Ending?
Air Date: September 20, 2020
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S1:E4. How Did You Guys See This Thing Ending?
Air Date: September 20, 2020
RogerEbert.com
Jan 28, 2020
It is a perfectly constructed piece of documentary filmmaking, one that doesn’t just point a camera at a subject or chronologically recount an event, but literally puts the viewer in the backseat of a car that’s hunting a monster. Even though this bizarre story is inherently fascinating in terms of what unfolds, it’s the access and filmmaking acumen of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that elevate it into something truly special.
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Aug 17, 2020
Aug 26, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
Grady and Ewing jump along for the “let’s go get him” ride and keep going until the final jaw-dropping moments of this series unfold. You may question the decisions of many people, most especially Smith, while watching Love Fraud. But good luck trying to hop out of this vehicle in hot pursuit once you’ve buckled into its passenger seat.
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Aug 31, 2020
"Love Fraud" doesn't come across as expressly an advocacy project or as even all that justice driven. At best it's an odd confluence of true crime, documentary tropes, and visual artistry. The familiarity of this situation that makes "Love Fraud" watchable if not indispensable; it's basically an event series version of a "Dateline" mystery that crashes in to a "Cheaters" episode around hour three.
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Aug 31, 2020
Aug 27, 2020
[The filmmakers] have little effective storytelling footage at their disposal other than the many interviews they did with the many Mrs. Smiths. The work of collage artist Martin O’Neill and the animation by Andrew Griffin help to create an atmosphere of surrealistic fantasy around the hard facts of the case. For their part, Ms. Ewing and Ms. Grady create what is often a studied-bordering-on-languid pace and a running visual commentary on the down-market Midwest.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 30, 2020
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S1:E4. Episode 4
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E4. How Did You Guys See This Thing Ending?
Air Date: September 20, 2020
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S1:E4. How Did You Guys See This Thing Ending?
Air Date: September 20, 2020
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S1:E3. Episode 3
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E3. I'm Glad You Called
Air Date: September 13, 2020
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S1:E3. I'm Glad You Called
Air Date: September 13, 2020
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S1:E2. Episode 2
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E2. Wichita
Air Date: September 6, 2020
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S1:E2. Wichita
Air Date: September 6, 2020
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E1. You Just Gotta Trust Me
Air Date: August 30, 2020
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S1:E1. You Just Gotta Trust Me
Air Date: August 30, 2020
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Season 1 Overview