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Kirsten Dunst Is On Top Of The Pyramid In 'On Becoming A God In Central Florida'

Kirsten Dunst shines in Showtime's comedy-drama about a pyramid scheme and the weirdos who operate it.
Kirsten Dunst is excellent in the Showtime series <em>On Becoming A God In Central Florida</em>, playing struggling mom Krystal Stubbs.

Much of serialized television is made up of monster stories.

Sometimes it's about a seemingly normal person being revealed as a monster, like on Breaking Bad. Sometimes it's a whole family of monsters in training, like on Succession. In Showtime's new series On Becoming A God In Central Florida, the monster is a pyramid scheme called FAM.

FAM officially sells merchandise — toilet paper, cleaning products, cosmetics. But really, it sells signups. It sells the opportunity to sell the opportunity to sell, and like all pyramid schemes, it cannot possibly work as

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