Why Shows About Scammers And Frauds Are Getting So Popular?

In case you didn’t notice, it seems we have entered the age of the scammer. Every web series, TV show, and lately movies based on robberies, scammers, frauds have become more exciting to watch for the audience than any other normal movie.

Our complete lockdown while watching the various seasons of the most trending web series “Money Heist”  on Netflix. The series was completely based on a group of people breaking into Spain’s national mint. The series was so addictive that the people found them addictive with its episodes and hence its 5 seasons have to be released. 

Scam 1992 is another drama series that chronicles the details of the scam market scam committed by Harshad Mehta that shook the financial world in the year 1992. It is also among the most loved series released on the Sony Liv app.

This year alone, we’ve seen the Netflix docuseries breakout The Tindler Swindler featuring Simon Leviev, the Israeli con artist who used the eponymic app to trap women and dupe thousands of dollars from them.

Stories and series like them have always existed in the entertainment culture. Audiences love scandals, frauds, robberies, docuseries whether a boy of the Amazon trying to fake it until he makes it. What makes the current era different from the past depends on two major reasons- first, the stories now released on-screen are influenced by true stories and, because of the visual quality, the editing, the music, the strong characters, and the aspirational visuals. In spite of all the mishappenings caused by the frauds, scandals, the viewer's mindsets deny accepting the truth.