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Telemarketers (TV Miniseries)

Telemarketers

2023

Sam Lipman-Stern, Adam Bhala Lough

Documentary, Self: Sam Lipman-Stern, Pat Pespas

6.8

212

TV Series. Documentary Follows former telemarketing employees Pat Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern, two longtime office friends who find themselves hot on the trail of a sobering look at the ugly side of American capitalism and the abuse of customer trust.

	Author	Review
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"A rowdy, eye-opening exposé"	POS
United States	Judy Berman Time	"[It] is a wild scammer epic—and one of the most exciting docuseries in years"	POS
Australia	Robert Moran Sydney Morning Herald	"The series' greatest strength is its intimacy (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] got me a little angry and outraged, but not as much as I might have hoped, given the topic. However, I laughed a lot"	NEU
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"[It] made us laugh just as much as it made us outraged. We were eager to see just where Lipman-Stern and Pespas go with their mission to expose all charity fundraising companies"	POS
United States	Casey Epstein-Gross The New York Observer	"A fascinating portrait of a predatory industry, but it's even better as a devoted character study, a warm-blooded testament to friendship, and an antidote to cynical acquiescence"	POS
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"[It] is both a damning takedown of the people who ruin your dinner with their phone calls and a heartening story of redemption"	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"[It] deserves your time for being that rare bird of documentaries (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"The cinematic equivalent of a visit from your favourite drunk uncle: wildly entertaining, irrepressibly scuzzy and almost too much to take in one sitting"	NEU
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"A scroungy, antic masterpiece"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Eye-opening HBO doc (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Australia	Craig Mathieson The Age	"'Telemarketers' is amusing and occasionally intriguing (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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