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The Lady and the Dale - Season 1
Elizabeth Carmichael, a larger-than-life entrepreneur rose to prominence with her promotion of a fuel-efficient, three-wheeled car known as The Dale.
January 27, 2021
The Lady and the Dale is a thoroughly engrossing, but sometimes uneven look at gender constructs, family bonds, and one of the biggest frauds to befall the automotive world.January 27, 2021
The Lady and the Dale is the rare biographical doc in which the subject's domestic self is as interesting as their "professional" feats.January 26, 2021
A balanced, well-rounded almost Citizen Kane like portrait of this charismatic complex figure.January 27, 2021
Thanks to lots of old clips and some shockingly candid interviews, this close look at the media treatment of her is one of the most valuable aspects of The Lady and the Dale.January 25, 2021
The narrow lane The Lady and the Dale must stay within is at once telling the rollicking yarn of the Dale, a fascinating con, while keeping an eye on the lady, who really lived and whose story deserves care. Gratifyingly, it succeeds.January 27, 2021
The Lady and the Dale thoroughly explores a complicated figure in trans history, a fascinating glimpse at a rebel who dared to dream big.January 28, 2021
If the four-part documentary The Lady and the Dale were someone you met at a post-pandemic cocktail party, it would be sidling up and saying, "Want to hear a crazy story?"January 29, 2021
The series, produced by the Duplass brothers and co-directed by Nick Cammilleri and Zackary Drucker, is as inventive in storytelling technique as Liz was in inventive grifting.