The 2021 documentary on the death of Caroline Flack was a timely reckoning on the destructive nature of fame on vulnerable women. This two-part follow-up, Caroline Flack: Search For The Truth on Disney+, is very much not that. It’s a gruesome two-part post-mortem where a clearly grieving mother metastasises her loss as a lurid true crime who-dunnit.
Christine Flack is a woman in limbo, unable to process the death of her daughter Caroline, who died by suicide (although her mother uses terminology that most people have moved away from) aged 40 in February 2020 while she awaited a trial for an alleged assault against her then-boyfriend Lewis Burton. She has spent the past half-decade demanding answers, obtaining police documents and trying in vain to arrange meetings with leaders from the institutions she believes are to blame for Caroline’s death.
