Madoff: Another Series on Another Real Crook

If you sat out on O.J. Simpson, you still have a chance to see another real American crime, this time financial rather than passionate, in ABC's two-night miniseries Madoff.  Richard Dreyfuss plays the part of the pyramid-scheming Bernie Madoff, while Blythe Danner plays his wife Ruth.  His misdeeds and others like him helped to trigger the Great Recession that started under the Bush Administration. 

In discussing his character in an interview, Dreyfuss pulled no punches:

He was amoral...Most people don't realize that there's moral, immoral and amoral. He was not only amoral, he was a sociopath, which means that ultimately, if you scratch the surface, he didn't give a hoot in hell about anybody including his family.

I like Dreyfuss yet cannot get excited about one more film bemoaning the financial losses of that period.  I suppose this story is easier to tell than the complex array of thievery at Enron, but that is the miniseries I want to see.  Luckily, that too had a happy ending with the crooks in jail.  Unfortunately, most of the Wall Street corruption tales do not end so happily.