Airdate: Operation Varsity Blues

Netflix screens docudrama Operation Varsity Blues, on the 2019 college admissions scandal, later this month.

From Chris Smith and Jon Karmen, the filmmakers behind Fyre, this stars Matthew Modine as fraudster Rick Singer.

An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged. Using an innovative combination of interviews and narrative recreations of the FBI’s wiretapped conversations between Singer and his clients, Operation Varsity Blues offers a rare glimpse into the enigmatic figure behind a scheme that exposed the lengths wealthy families would go to for admission into elite colleges, and angered a nation already grappling with the effects of widespread inequality.

Wednesday March 17 on Netflix.