288: Should You Gamble On McMillions? - a podcast by Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole
from 2020-02-05T10:00
Even though Eve and Sarah D. spend most weekdays thinking about the true crime that's worth your time for their newsletter, they still didn't know much about the Mobbed-up McDonald's Monopoly-game fraud case that's at the center of HBO's McMillions. Will this docuseries join the scam-umentary pantheon alongside The Dropout and The Imposter? Is Doug Mathews the write-in presidential candidate we need now? And why aren't off-camera docu directors ever mic'd properly? After we considered those questions, we went Around The Dial with BoJack Horseman, The Outsider and other HBO Sunday-night offerings, the end of The Good Place, and Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet. Eve screened an episode of Home Movies for the Canon; then Tim Robinson won and Terry Crews lost, before we filled in the blanks -- in pen! -- in a history-making Game Time. Grab a light meter and go undercover for an all-new Extra Hot Great!
SHOW TOPICS
- McMillions
- ATD: BoJack Horseman
- ATD: Curb Your Enthusiasm
- ATD: The Outsider
- ATD: The Good Place
- ATD: Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet
- The Canon: Home Movies S04.E01: Everyone's Entitled To My Opinion
- Winner and Loser of the Week
- Game Time: TV Crossword
SHOW NOTES
- The Daily Beast post on the case
- Margaret Lyons's review for the NYT
- The documentary about the McDonald's hot-coffee lawsuit, plus Dr. Marcia Chatelain's Franchise: The Golden Arches In Black America
- Eve's dog goes bazoo for McD's fries
- Tara on Citations Needed
- Tara's BoJack review for VF
- Sarah on Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer and I Am A Killer for Primetimer
- Photo: Christian Wiediger
DISCUSSION
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