“Follow the Money” – A very crooked trail [MOVIE REVIEW]
“Follow the Money” may very well be the best television series you’ve never heard of. Playing on the Topic streaming channel, this three season Danish series is ambitious, thrilling, and unexpected. The closest comparison might be with the extraordinary HBO classic, “The Wire” from both the storytelling and acting standpoints. There are not enough superlatives to describe “Follow the Money” so I won’t try. (Yes I will but I still won’t’ be able to impart how mesmerizing it is.) American series television has yet to crack the fraud crimes arena. Yes, we’ve had two and three part mini-series about the Madoff scandal (of which only one was wholly satisfying) and excellent documentaries about the implosion of companies that were built on a house of cards (“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley”), but we have yet to see “Law and Order: Fraud” and never will. And most of that is because fraud doesn’t happen overnight and can’t be solved quickly. It’s not glamorous; it can be painstaking. Even a show based on the trail left through money laundering the proceeds of high ticket drug operations is usually about making a drug bust not about…
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