Post by Logan on Jan 31, 2016 20:39:46 GMT -6
ABC's two-night miniseries "Madoff" has a lot going for it — Richard Dreyfuss in the title role, Blythe Danner as his wife and still fresh memories of the sleazy financier Bernard Madoff's 2009 guilty plea on 11 federal charges, including operating a Ponzi scheme.
What it doesn't have, oddly enough, is much of a point of view.
The four-hour miniseries was created and written by Ben Robbins and will air Wednesday and Thursday. It's modestly engaging, but is likely to leave viewers less than satisfied when it's over. That's because when you're watching a show about a scoundrel as unprincipled as Bernard Madoff, you want to be thoroughly convinced he's getting what he deserves in the end.
Madoff launched the Ponzi scheme in the early 1990s, essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul. A Ponzi, or pyramid scheme, is like a financial game of Jenga. Madoff, a stockbroker and financial adviser, created a fraudulent fund, wooing investments but then paying the investors dividends from funds he'd secured from other investors, rather than any profit from the investments. The only real beneficiary of the investment fund was Madoff.
Read more: www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Madoff-gets-off-lightly-on-ABC-series-6797156.php
What it doesn't have, oddly enough, is much of a point of view.
The four-hour miniseries was created and written by Ben Robbins and will air Wednesday and Thursday. It's modestly engaging, but is likely to leave viewers less than satisfied when it's over. That's because when you're watching a show about a scoundrel as unprincipled as Bernard Madoff, you want to be thoroughly convinced he's getting what he deserves in the end.
Madoff launched the Ponzi scheme in the early 1990s, essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul. A Ponzi, or pyramid scheme, is like a financial game of Jenga. Madoff, a stockbroker and financial adviser, created a fraudulent fund, wooing investments but then paying the investors dividends from funds he'd secured from other investors, rather than any profit from the investments. The only real beneficiary of the investment fund was Madoff.
Read more: www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Madoff-gets-off-lightly-on-ABC-series-6797156.php