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Employing dramatic recreations within a documentary has the stink of cheap perfume about it. Engaging, meticulously reported treatments of most modern-day true crime cases are fine on their own and generally don t require professional actors to embellish the story.
Then again, cases like the college admissions bribery scandal known as Operation Varsity Blues are made for Lifetime if not exactly once in a lifetime. True to form, the women s cable channel churned out its fully dramatized version in October 2019 not long after the scandal broke open in the spring of that same year.
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By that timeline Netflix s Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal feature deserves credit for taking its time with handling the case even though the conclusions to which it arrives is virtually the same as the moral to the Lifetime story. Not only that, but you also already know what it is: elite universities are the brick and mortar holding our lopsided and une
Operation Varsity Blues: What time does it come out PT and ET time on Netflix?
Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 8:37pm ET
Operation Varsity Blues follows William “Rick” Singer’s college admission scheme. Pic credit: Netflix
The highly-anticipated documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal premieres on March 17 and it will stream directly to the Netflix platform. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming flick!
What is Operation Varsity Blues?
Operation Varsity Blues follows William “Rick” Singer’s college admission scheme where he disguised himself as a “life coach” in order to assist affluent parents as they weasel their children’s way into prestigious schools regardless of their qualifications.
Wed Mar 17, 2021 at 1:34pm ET
Matthew Modine as William ‘Rick’ Singer in Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal. Pic credit: Netflix
Netflix’s latest documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal takes a deep dive into the 2019 controversy that charged 33 wealthy families for bribing their child’s way into attending prestigious universities like Yale and Stanford.
At the center of all of this madness was self-proclaimed life coach William “Rick” Singer. He is thought to have helped over 750 students unethically gain college admissions to their “dream schools.”
Who is Rick Singer?
Rick Singer is the man behind the jaw-dropping scandal. As shared in the documentary, he typically presented himself as an athleisure-wearing academic coach. One interviewee shared, “He was always dressed like he just came from a basketball court.”