# Dirty Money (2018)

> An investigative docuseries that exposes corporate greed and corruption, from predatory payday loans to automakers cheating emissions tests.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/66097

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 75 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Elizabeth Warren, Alberto Ayala, Joe Barton, George W. Bush, Jack Ewing, John German, Alex Gibney, Walter Groth
- TMDB rating: 8.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7889220/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: indignant, tense, investigative, sobering

## What critics say

Audiences broadly rate the series positively for its investigative reporting on corporate misconduct and corruption.

## Synopsis

Dirty Money (2018-2020) is a American investigative docuseries created for Netflix. Each of its twelve roughly 75-minute episodes across two seasons takes a single corporate scandal and unpacks it with the methodical patience of a long-form exposé. Its engine is accountability: reporters, regulators and insiders trace how companies build profit on deception, from payday lenders trapping struggling borrowers in cycles of debt to automakers engineering vehicles to pass emissions tests they were designed to fail. Interviews with officials and former employees, including figures like Elizabeth Warren, Alberto Ayala and Jack Ewing of the New York Times, are interwoven with archival footage and documents that let the paper trail speak. The series adopts a stern, investigative register, tense and indignant without tipping into sensationalism. Its structure is case by case rather than continuous, so each episode stands on its own while the two seasons build a broader portrait of American corporate wrongdoing. Fans of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, The Big Short and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley will find the same blend of institutional anatomy and moral outrage that makes financial scandal gripping television.

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