Caroline Flack Documentary Search For The Truth Reviews: What Are Critics Saying?

Caroline Flack at Glamour's Woman Of The Year awards in 2016A new documentary about the last months of Caroline Flack’s live has now arrived on Disney+.Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth was made in collaboration with the late Love Island host’s mum, Christine, and explores various various threads leading up to the presenter’s suicide in February 2020.An official synopsis released by Disney explains: “This [documentary] follows Caroline’s mother, Christine, as she investigates the truth about her daughter’s final months – uncovering new shocking details, asking difficult questions, and exposing the misrepresentations, pressures, and failures from institutions and decision makers that shaped Caroline’s final days.“With access to powerful testimony from Caroline’s inner circle and those who were there, the series tells the story she never got to share and reveals an unprecedented look at what really happened to Caroline Flack.”What are the reviews saying about Disney’s documentary Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth?Many early reactions to the two-part series have been positive, with The Guardian praising it in a five-star review.“You may well wonder about the duty of care the programme-makers have towards Christine, and, in fact, to the whole Flack family,” the review points out.“Gladly, Search for the Truth is neither exploitative nor cheap. “It’s clear that Christine wasn’t merely parachuted in to front the series: rather, the episodes offer a window into the work she has been doing since her daughter’s death.”Good Housekeeping described the show as “the docuseries everyone should see”, while a piece in British Vogue agreed: “I’ll admit that before watching the two-part series [...] I wondered whether we really needed a retelling of Flack’s tragic demise. I was wrong.“What had been missing all along, I now realise, was her voice. For all the archival footage out there, in the final days of her life, she was entirely absent from the narrative. According to Flack’s mother, she was advised by lawyers and agents to stay quiet – so she did. It meant that the case for the prosecution was repeated endlessly in the headlines, and on Twitter, but the case for the defence – Flack’s version of events – was never heard before she took her own life.”Meanwhile, Celeb Mix’s take on the doc highlights that “for many viewers”, watching Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth will be a “painful” experience as it “revisits a tragedy that remains raw in the public consciousness”.“But,” they add. “It also offers an opportunity for reflection – for empathy, and for change.”A piece published in The Independent also points out that it had actually been Caroline Flack’s own idea to create a documentary allowing her to put forward her side of the story, though she took her own life before she was able to make it happen.The i Paper’s take agreed that the project makes for some “incredibly grim” viewing, noting: “The documentary is neither impassioned eulogy, nor sermon about the ills of social media pile-ons, nor screed against what seems now like such obvious wrongdoing – there have been many of all those in the wake of Flack’s death.“Instead, it is a focused investigation into how Flack’s case was handled, powered by regret from her mother that she could not prevent the unthinkable.”However, it’s worth noting, though, that not all of the coverage of the project has been so positive.The Standard gave it just two stars, branding it “gruesome” and a “repellent true crime framing of a tragedy”, while describing certain sections as “tasteless”.“In trying to clear Caroline’s name and point fingers, I fear Christine will activate the internet sleuths and their insatiable appetite for true crime,” The Standard’s critic opined.Both episodes of Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth are now streaming on Disney+.Help and support:Mind, open Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm on 0300 123 3393.Samaritans offers a listening service which is open 24 hours a day, on 116 123 (UK and ROI - this number is FREE to call and will not appear on your phone bill).CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserably) offer a helpline open 5pm-midnight, 365 days a year, on 0800 58 58 58, and a webchat service.The Mix is a free support service for people under 25. Call 0808 808 4994 or email [email protected] Mental Illness offers practical help through its advice line which can be reached on 0808 801 0525 (Monday to Friday 10am-4pm). More info can be found on rethink.org.

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