Caroline Flack documentary branded ‘harrowing’ but ‘essential’ as series airs

Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth follows the former Love Island presenter’s mum Christine as she explores the events surrounding her daughter’s final months

A documentary examining the heartbreaking story of Caroline Flack has launched to five-star reviews. Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth follows Caroline’s mother, Christine, as she uncovers the truth about the former Love Island presenter’s final months.

Over two episodes, it sees her uncover shocking new details, ask difficult questions, and expose the misrepresentations, pressures and failures from institutions and decision makers that shaped her daughter’s final days. After being arrested in 2019, Caroline was caught up in a media and online storm, eventually ending in tragedy as she took her own life in February 2020.

With access to powerful testimony from Caroline’s friends and those who knew her best, the docuseries tells the story she was never able to share and gives an unprecedented look at what really happened. Both episodes of Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth are streaming exclusively on Disney+.

Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth earned a wave of positive reviews after its launch on Monday, November 10, with critics branding it ‘thorough’, ‘forensic’ and ‘harrowing’. In its five-star review, The Guardian said: “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. Christine is steely, strong and resolute. She wants justice, she says, and ‘will do anything to clear Caroline’s name’.

“The result is a two-parter that feels thorough and forensic, an antidote to the true-crime gravy train that usually steams through cases like this one.”

TechRadar called it ‘the most harrowing watch of the year’, adding: “If the two-parter doesn’t hammer home a duty of care we all have to Caroline, Christine and anybody else who will find themselves under such intense public scrutiny in the future, I don’t know what will.”

Vogue said: “Before watching, 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.

“This documentary series isn’t just justified, but essential in handing some power back to a woman who was stripped of her voice, and to whose story we should listen closely.”

Meanwhile, the London Evening Standard called it ‘a repellent true crime framing of a tragedy’. Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth follows the 2021 documentary Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death and hails from the same production team of Dov Freedman, Charlie Russell and Jessie Versluys for Curious Films.

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