James plays Tinder co-founder and eventual Bumble entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd in a glossy TV movie that plays like you-go-girl agitprop, and without the wit or filmmaking craft of the only social networking biodrama that was so far actually good.
Almost immediately after she appeared in The Tinder Swindler, Cecilie Fjellhøy got to work on Love Con Revenge, which almost serves as a companion piece to Netflix’s 2022 documentary.
“Because it was such a need,” she explained the quick turnaround in an interview with Swooon. “The amount of people I already have now, people reaching out to me wanting help. Can you imagine? Like, ‘I need help from you because no one else is helping.‘ So that’s what happened after The Tinder Swindler even before Love Con Revenge was born.”