comments Employing dramatic recreations within a documentary has the stink of cheap perfume about it. Engaging, meticulously reported treatments of most modern-day true crime cases are fine on their own and generally don't require professional actors to embellish the story. Then again, cases like the college admissions bribery scandal known as Operation Varsity Blues are made for Lifetime if not exactly once in a lifetime. True to form, the women's cable channel churned out its fully dramatized version in October 2019 not long after the scandal broke open in the spring of that same year. Advertisement: By that timeline Netflix's "Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal" feature deserves credit for taking its time with handling the case even though the conclusions to which it arrives is virtually the same as the moral to the Lifetime story. Not only that, but you also already know what it is: elite universities are the brick and mortar holding our lopsided and unequal social systems in place.