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| ABC | Release Date: February 3, 2016 |
Summary:
Ahead of the HBO movie with Robert De Niro, ABC's miniseries explores the rise and fall of Bernie Maddoff (Richard Dreyfuss), the man behind the $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Positive:
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Mixed:
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Negative:
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
As long as the film sticks to the scheme, it works as well. It’s less successful when it digs into Madoff’s personal life, or when it begins to search for broader meaning, particularly in a heavy-handed comparison between Madoff and the investment banks that caused the subprime mortgage crisis.
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Feb 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Dreyfuss somehow refrains from chewing the scenery, though the script at times would have him leaving only flecks of drywall. Scolari has heartbreaking moments as he flounders with guilt. More focus on the personalities of Ruth and Mark, who killed himself on the second anniversary of his father’s arrest, would have fleshed out this story.
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Feb 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The first night of Madoff is both entertaining and instructive.... But the first night ends on a breathless cliffhanger, and Thursday’s concluding night resolves that cliffhanger in a way that made me feel cheated of drama. And the TV movie only proceeds to slide further.
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Feb 3, 2016
Feb 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Dreyfuss gives a performance that is merely serviceable rather than memorable, while Danner copes with a version of Ruth Madoff that seems regrettably underwritten and underexplored. (Same goes for the sons.) The story is still quite a corker, though--certainly enough to fill four-ish hours of prime-time commercial television, filled with sadness and schadenfreude.
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Feb 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Madoff is a miss, quite unable to measure up either on the outrage/explanation quotient (“The Big Short,” “Too Big to Fail”) or the reveling in billions quotient (“Billions,” naturally, as well as “Wolf of Wall Street”). As a piece of history, the miniseries is hard to follow and a bit too sordid; as a piece of fiction, Madoff feels rushed-off and incomplete.
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: February 3, 2016
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S1:E2. Redemptions; Fallout
Air Date: February 4, 2016
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S1:E1. Millions to Billions; Catch Me If You Cancer
Air Date: February 3, 2016
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Season 1 Overview