It's always about the money – because that's fun ‹Crimerads

The third season of The white lotus Set the monetary-earner alsmotif-for-murder trope, as Mike White, the creator of the series, thought about killing his family to kill his family. While trading curves are often a means for a character receive Money or hold Money, that was not the motive of the wealthy patriarch. Timothy Ratliff knew that the FBI was closing and his financial ruin was imminent and had to kill his family completely for another reason – to save her from the soul that suddenly destroyed the despair of becoming poor.

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If you question the plausibility of this motif, remember that an article in New York Post speculated that the dysfunctional southern TV clan was inspired by the Real-Life Low Country Murdaugh family. As early as 2023, the fellow lawyer was convicted of twice the murder of his wife and son. And just like Ratliff, this Murdaugh father did not kill to get or keep money. Rather, the prosecutors argued that he had killed his family members as Diversion. Yes, you read that properly. In her case, it is said that Alex Murdaugh killed his wife and 22-year-old son in the hope that her deaths would distract the investigators from his charges for financial fraud and thus receive some sympathy. This proves the idiom that the truth is sometimes more strange than fiction.

While these are two examples outside the box, how money disorders can make someone crime, there is the simpler situation in which a character simply needs money and will do what is necessary to get it. This need and more precisely, the security allowance can buy, be it the basics of food or accommodation or in the case of the Ratliffs, Country Club memberships and his and her Rolexes, has long been a device with which our fictional friends are launched a way of crime if legitimate options do not protrude. If the financial pressure increases, writers can create a scenario that justifies the decision of a character to go on the dark side if the relief states.

And here the fun begins.

In my novel, The pension planFour dreams of couples are weakened by a bad investment. Bush and strive to get their lives back on the way, what makes the husbands and women this leap to crime. The women hire a killer to kill the husbands for their insurance payment, but the husbands are far ahead of them. They stole millions from the casino where two of them work.

That may look that way too Ocean's 11 For about sixty year old bare men with pot bellies, if it hadn't happened in real life. When I researched my novel, I came across the story of four employees in a Miami-Dade County casino, which had stolen more than five million dollars for over four years. They were only caught because they spent the prey; Purchase of houses and cars, even for college formation. To put too much more to them would be a spoiler, but I can say the couples The pension plan Wated into criminal life because they felt they had to.

And that's why the concept works.

When Walter White was confronted with a cancer cancer diagnosis in the final site breaking BadHe calculated that he needed $ 737,000 to secure the comfort of his family after his upcoming death. He began to cook meth desperately and without legitimate options. As soon as he had crossed this moral line, it was as if he were turned to an airport traveler up to eleven. Walt was in front of him at full speed, not even slower, when he went into remission and no longer needed this money. When Creator Vince Gilligan introduced it to the studio, this high school teacher turned from Mr. Chips to Scarface. And we would not have had five seasons, prequel and continuation series and a film if Walt had been a successful tech tycoon. Walt had to need the money. At least in the pilot episode.

In the same vein of meth production, which is apparently a very lucrative company, the characters are in Dope thief, A current Apple TV series based on the novel by Dennis Tafoya is far in their fraud to steal the dealers dope when Ray visits his stepmother and spent their overdue invoices. Fear that she hides a medical problem, he doubles to bring her home home. If the DOPE thieves had been the enterprising owners of maybe Taco Bell franchise, they probably wouldn't have hit Big Time Meth manufacturers and ended up in seven other episodes.

And then it doesn't need as much money as it wants.

We saw Jon Hamm as the advertising man Swagger in Swagger mad MenThen an oil -Tycoon in LandmanAnd now he has brought this Rich-Guy-Pomp to the new show Your friends and neighbors. Minutes in this series is crashed by his throne. Unemployed, unemployed and at six months, until the carpet of money under his ex-wife and the children he is still supported, he has to make some tough decisions. Now I have only seen the first couples, but so far he has not made good decisions. If he is characterized by a 60,000 dollar charity dinner engagement, he remains the table that he cannot afford. He needed cash and begins to suck part of the excess wealth in the neighborhood. He slipped into the homes of his friends and steals luxury items – and says it is only until he can get up.

This works because he doesn't do it for kicks, he does it so that he can pay for the private school. Admittedly, the practical solution would be to transfer their children to the public school, but I dare to propose this to his ex-wife. And that's not a spoiler, because the opening is a look at the bird's perspective on Jon Hamm, who is next to a dead man. In one way or another, I suspect that his perceived burglaries will escalate to the ultimate crime without victims.

When we meet the title character, the Mom-Slash myster author in Finlay Donovan kills it She juggles sticky children and custody threats from her financially safe ex-husband. In her mortgage notes and the difficulties of keeping your ex in chess, Finlay is perfectly prepared for being addressed by someone who wants to hire you to commit a murder. She is desperately kept her children, she will entertain every option. She is a figure on the edge and it is the most fun to see.

Back to my novel, The pension planWhere hector, the killer, both the husbands and the wives hire this kind of situation as “… sometimes in the business of bad people, the other bad people do bad things, they only try to be the last bad person who takes a step.”

Although I call myself sentimental, but I guess a good person who does bad things for the right reason. And it generally ensures a funny, twisted Turnny story – my favorite.

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