'McMillions' turns the McDonald's Monopoly scam into unmissable TV. Savor it
Every work of nonfiction is shaped by available resources, who shows up to talk and, in the case of film, how they talk and look and comport themselves. More than 50 people were indicted in this case, and it’s a sure bet that not all of them are as sympathetic or amusing as the ones who have agreed to meet here. Nevertheless, “McMillions” builds its story from an impressive number of voices, including FBI agents, McDonald’s executives, fraudsters and their family members .
Significantly missing are Jerry Jacobson, the “Uncle Jerry” at the center of the scam, and Rick Dent, the agent in charge of the case, through agents Dent reported to are present. It makes a kind of hole in the story into which other characters rush, notably Doug Mathews, a talkative, eager-beaver young agent in the bureau’s Jacksonville, Fla., office — a backwater, Mathews, says, where “for big cases, man, you’re like duct-taping stuff together, just ‘cause you want to make it happen.
Indeed, there is an incidental timeliness in a story about a bad apple and the barrel it spoiled. We are living through a time in which gaming the system is now just the system, in which cheaters prosper and whatever one gets away with is by definition OK because one has gotten away with it. “McMillions” is clear about the damage caused by even the “good people” who found themselves working for Uncle Jerry and may have imagined that they were doing no wrong, and that no one was getting hurt.
Meanwhile, waiting for episodes is not only good television, it’s good practice. Our desire for getting whatever we want whenever we want, or at least delivered within a day, does us — each of us and all of us — no good. I don’t mean to say that saving the world is in the HBO business plan.
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