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This month, Netflix will be dropping its highly-anticipated documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, which takes an in-depth look at the 2019 college admissions scandal that highlighted an underworld of the wealthy paying their children’s way into elite schools.
Ahead of its release, Netflix dropped the official trailer for the documentary that gives us an idea of what we can expect when the curtain is pulled back.
“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,” a press release reads.
The documentary is set to hit the streaming service on Wednesday, March 17.
How can you tune in to Operation Varsity Blues? Here is all of the information you need to catch the documentary when it premieres on Netflix.
‘Operation Varsity Blues’ Viewing Details & Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFHj8e7mU_I
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Time: 3:00 AM EST
TV Channel: Netflix
Synopsis: “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. From Chris Smith and Jon Karmen, the filmmakers behind Fyre, and starring Matthew Modine as Rick Singer.”
