Limited Series – Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.

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David F @dfulmer Jul 1, 2023 This is a fascinating documentary about a restaurateur who ran a vegan restaurant popular with celebrities in New York City but was also involved in a truly bizarre relationship with a maniac that dragged her down. Lots of eye-witness testimony and the film provides a glimpse into some weird human nature. See more Gareth v @geewah Jun 23, 2023 Rather dull documentary that suffers by only looking at this tale from one side. Could of, and should of been a couple of episodes long. See more Kieran H @Misty79 May 11, 2023 Long, drawn out, boring. And very very odd and not in a quirky interesting way. I think the same historic clip of Sarma walking down a street and around the restaurant has been used over and over and over again as they had so little to work with. Sarma comes across as quite an aloof individual. So it is hard to root for her or feel sympathy. The whole thing just feels like we are sitting in on a terribly boring therapy session. See more Mike L @MikeLance May 21, 2022 I don't even know what to say about this. I Everything I type doesn't cover it. Pretty girls are crazy, nice guys finish last. That's my experience. This is worse than The Tinder Swindler. The production value is fine but I can't give a higher rating because she might be in on it, and the doc seems to to want empathy. 3 months? She deserved way more than that because she wasn't brainwashed. The recording of conversations clearly states it. See more Apr 21, 2022 Once you watch the show, you think the title is off. She's not bad but she has been scammed. In episode 2 and so on, he dialogue keeps on repeating, redundant. I skimmed through it because its repetitive and slow. I think they could have finished this in just 2 or 3 episodes. See more Apr 9, 2022 Bad Vegan is a Bad Story. The title reflects that we're in murky soup here, vegan or otherwise. From a storytelling perspective, there's the problem that most of this documentary is the interviewing of former restaurateur Sarma Melngailis. She lacks affect, perspective, grace and most of all, remorse for aiding and abetting the $1.5 million swindling of her restaurant investors, employees and her mother. Anthony is the oh-so-obvious swindler and nutter who wins over Sarma. There are so many WTF moments given Anthony's ineptitude and lunacy as a swindler that Sarma's deadpan recounting of the nonsense ALMOST makes for a compelling reason to keep watching. Beware the 50% plus ratings differential between the critics approval and the disgust of us peon viewers (AKA the paying public). Spoiler alert: Sarma's adorable pit bull Leon "the immortal" survives a really disgusting road trip. Phew! See more Read all reviews

Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. — Limited Series

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