There has been an unfortunate trend this year for biopics about big business. First up came future dad movie classic Air and the slightly less entertaining Blackberry, but the mini-genre soon descended into parody with the arrivals of Tetris and Flamin' Hot.
In a world drowning in content masquerading as movies, these visualized Wikipedia pages felt almost immediately exhausted. All of those films ask the same question: how does it feel to develop and launch a hugely successful product?
Telemarketers, a new three-part HBO series debuting on August 13, asks a different, more intriguing question: how does it feel when you’re convinced your hugely successful bosses are scammers?.
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