12 Upcoming New HBO Series To Be Excited About
7. McMillions
HBO has long been the domain of documentaries great and good. From classic six-parter The Jinx to recent feature length I Love You, Now Die, the network has repeatedly lent credence to the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. Coming up next is McMillions, a Mark Walberg produced documentary about a truly bizarre scam conducted on the fast food institution.
Most of us will be familiar with the McDonald’s Monopoly game, wherein prizes big and small are available to lucky collectors of Monopoly pieces which are on occasion available with McDonald’s food. McMillions tells the story of an ex-cop who found a way to rig the system in his favour, building a network of conspirators across the country and leading the FBI on a years-long search to bring him to justice.
HBO are giving us little more than the premise at this time, but with these kinds of wild true stories it’s always best to go in knowing as little as possible. Of late, Netflix has been the place to go for weird and wonderful real life content, but McMillions will go some way to reasserting HBO as a major player in the game.
Long form documentary seems to be undergoing something of a renaissance, and there’s a ready made audience waiting for the next true crime story. This one seems to have all the elements of a big hit, and the story it’s based on is certainly a wild one. Expect this to be an office water cooler chat favourite in months to come.