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- SHOWTIME
- Aug 30, 2020
- SHOWTIME
- Aug 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.
- SHOWTIME
- Aug 30, 2020
- SHOWTIME
- Aug 30, 2020
Love Fraud
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 30, 2020
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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.
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Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
77
86% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
14% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
While full of increasingly outrageous reveals, it doles them out in a riveting slow burn.
An astonishing four-part true-crime docuseries. [31 Aug - 13 Sep 2020, p.7]
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.
Love Fraud gets off to an interesting start, and only promises to get weirder and more interesting from there.
If it’s going to pick at the scars of traumas so bluntly, it needs to be for a damn good reason. Love Fraud has some damn good reasons, and some damn bad ones, too. It’s the most watchable series I’ve ever watched that I’m not sure I can recommend watching.
[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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