Telemarketers (2023)

Sam and Patrick, two former employees of a New Jersey call center, are going to illuminate all of the actors in the scheme (including dirty US Senators) in this three-part HBO docuseries. In between parties and roughhousing in the office, employees of Civic Development Group cold called people on behalf of charity groups. As then-telemarketer Patrick describes it, their job was to “chisel ’em outta money.” The guys began filming while at CDG, and they kept at it after being outed from CDG. Their mission: take down the industry from the inside since the media and state government can’t. If this show feels like a Danny McBride comedy, you aren’t wrong — McBride is listed as an executive producer. Twenty years later, they’re done collecting footage and commentary on this billion-dollar industry and tell us how really bad it all is.