Following the true story of Richard Scott Smith, a cunning man that preys on women and claims that he loves them and disappears after robbing them. His all victims cooperate with one another to sue him.
At best it's an odd confluence of true crime, documentary tropes, and visual artistry. The familiarity of this situation that makes Love Fraud watchable if not indispensable.
...a portrait of a sociopath whose villainy is so obvious that spending over three hours studying his scams and assaults feels akin to dissecting a rotten piece of fruit to understand why it isn't juicy.
Love Fraud hangs together much better than any of 2020's popular docu-series. There's barely any flab in these four hours as the story takes progressively weirder, more surprising turns.
The work of collage artist Martin O'Neill and the animation by Andrew Griffin help to create an atmosphere of surrealistic fantasy around the hard facts of the case.
There's a fun kind of justice rolling across the American Midwest in this four-part documentary... Stunning graphics add to the slightly hyperreal feel.
