From 'The Dropout' to 'Inventing Anna,' nothing represents this era of television better than the prevalence of scammer programming.
piece and memoir about Delvey’s escapades published by a writer she tricked. Then there’s the BBC podcast, which explores 10 different modern scammers,Documentaries about con artists are enormously popular right now. Netflix has, a documentary about an Israeli man who cons several Scandinavian women out of small fortunes, andabout a British man who essentially kidnaps college kids and a single mother by pretending to be a spy. The platform also just releasedmagazine article.
In this age of grifters, the prevalence of stories examining how rip-offs happen gives us an opportunity to observe hoaxes unfolding from a safe distance. Scam stories have flourished within the larger true crime boom, and like true crime, they are usually ripped from the headlines, reliant on preexisting intellectual property. If they are dramatizations, they often feature stunt casting. In the case of both, they provide the lead an opportunity to play a narcissist with an idiosyncratic way of speaking and notably bad hair. And their narratives hew to a well-worn rise-and-fall track: Watch the person fool everyone, until suddenly they don’t.
True crime stories are appealing as much for the perverse sense of comfort they give their audiences as the vicarious thrills they offer. If you’re watching the crime, you can’t also be its victim. Consuming crime as entertainment, then, can feel like a prophylactic against disaster. In the same way, our appetite for scam stories reflects a cultural anxiety about becoming marks ourselves.
With so many streaming services jostling over so much content, leaning on this type of story makes business sense. Like a heist movie or a slasher flick, scam tales are a known quantity, and because they are based on already successful projects in other formats, they’re a known quantity twice over. But this enthusiastic embrace of grifter tales has resulted in an oversaturation that makes it difficult for new entries to the Scam Show Canon to avoid a sense of staleness.
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