EPISODE
Madoff - Season 1
The series will follow the prodigious rise and abrupt demise of the former investment advisor, Bernie Madoff, who's Ponzi scheme bilked $65 billion from unsuspecting victims, and the subsequent fallout with his family, associates and investors.
13 October 1947, USA
19 February 1977
17 May 1979, Velzeke, Flanders, Belgium
15 February 1979
12 May 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 October 1947, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
28 May 1967, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
27 November 1960, Tappan, New York, USA
19 November 1956, New York City, New York, USA
28 August 1962, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 February 1937, New York City, New York, USA
21 April 1935, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
7 April 1955, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3 February 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 May 1959, Rockville Centre, New York, USA
February 03, 2016
I'm not sure how much is invented in the script, but one thing is clear: Dreyfuss turns out to be the real magician in making a film with so much financial detail so often entertaining.
February 02, 2016
The miniseries that is constructed around [Dreyfuss], though, is flat and simplistic, with none of the intelligence and intrigue that has elevated other stories set in high finance, Billions and The Big Short.
February 03, 2016
Neither particularly bad nor stellar, Madoff is a mildly entertaining, though far from impressive, miniseries with oversimplified depictions of white-collar thieves, bumbling to the point of cartoonish financial analysts, and fraud run rampant.
February 03, 2016
Madoff succeeds where it counts, at least: it gets great stuff out of Dreyfuss, and from Danner, who gives Ruth a boozy tragicomedy that nicely offsets Madoff's wheezy villainy.
February 03, 2016
The film is otherwise unremarkable, really, but because Dreyfuss is given an exceptional tool with which to pound the sincerity of his remorselessness, it elevates what could be facile villainy to something more indelible.
February 03, 2016
Madoff feels like a network-TV attempt at something much darker and deeper, but outside of its charismatic leading man, there isn't much to recommend it.
February 03, 2016
Dreyfuss somehow refrains from chewing the scenery, though the script at times would have him leaving only flecks of drywall.
February 03, 2016
Hang in there with Madoff, and a surprisingly humane narrative awaits.
