TV review: Lifetime's 'The College Admissions Scandal'
It was the schadenfreude heard round the world. Last March, a bombinating mass of netizens took to social media to revel in the out-of-nowhere announcement of Operation Varsity Blues: the FBI's investigation into a criminal conspiracy orchestrated by affluent parents bribing their children's way into elite undergraduate institutions.
What felt most delicious about the scandal wasn't just learning of the sheer audacity of scams like using Photoshop to get a kid recruited for a sport they didn't actually play , but that it confirmed something you knew in your gut all along. If you're at all plugged into college admissions culture — or, if you at least skim the annual trend piece about it — you've always gotten a whiff of something rotten in the state of Denmark.
Miller plays Caroline, the hedging and then, later, remorseful mommy who would do anything to get her tousle-haired guitar-boy son into her alma mater, Stanford. "You’re going to end up homeless and in the streets!" she bellows histrionically when he fails to meet her standards. She's an interior designer to the stars, her husband a lawyer, and they've got the cash to pour into tutors, learning specialists and college counselors.
Miller plays Caroline with such delicate and delusional sincerity that you itch, impatiently, for her degradation. Mia Kirshner, on the other hand, is having so much fun as an over-the-top witch that you kind of wish this film was
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