“Ashley Madison: Intercourse, Lies & Scandal” was launched on Netflix on Might 15, and since then, it is gotten plenty of consideration, cruising excessive throughout the streamer’s world prime 10. On the time of this writing, it is sitting at quantity two for English-language TV reveals, proper beneath the primary half of “Bridgerton” Season 3.
Opinions for the sequence have been a bit blended, nonetheless. The documentary at the moment holds a 50% recent ranking from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a dismal 30% viewers rating. “There’s an attention-grabbing story to be instructed right here, one which probes how the connections the web gives has essentially shifted the state of human relationships,” the Day by day Telegraph’s Keith Watson wrote in his one-out-of-five evaluation. “However ‘Ashley Madison: Intercourse, Lies & Scandal’ comes up frustratingly quick.” Decider’s Joel Keller gave the sequence a extra constructive evaluation however in contrast it unfavorably to “The Ashley Madison Affair,” a 2023 ABC docuseries overlaying the identical topic. That earlier present holds an ideal 100% recent ranking on Rotten Tomatoes.
Netflix has gotten a good quantity of chuff during the last a number of years for placing out documentaries which might be extra model and drama than substantive reporting. You may hint that line of criticism all the best way again to the early pandemic phenomenon that was “Tiger King,” which does not let you know all the things concerning the true story. In keeping with the viewership numbers, although, that is not stopping subscribers from tuning into this newest exposé.