Dirty Money

From crippling payday loans to cars that cheat emissions tests, this investigative series exposes brazen acts of corporate greed and corruption.

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.

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

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Release Date

2018-01-26

Episode runtime

75 min

Rating

8.0 / 10 (203)

What is Dirty Money about?

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

What is Dirty Money like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Dirty Money as measured, its intensity as moderate and its storytelling as easy to follow.

Is Dirty Money violent?

No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Dirty Money.

What did critics think of Dirty Money?

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

Which shows are like Dirty Money?

Shows with a similar feel include The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, The Big Short, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

How long is Dirty Money?

Dirty Money: 2 seasons, 12 episodes.

Is Dirty Money still running?

No, Dirty Money has ended.

Where can I watch Dirty Money?

In United States, Dirty Money streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.