Meet the new star of your scam obsession: the working stiff
In a scene early in "Quiz," a limited series premiering on AMC in May, two middle-aged men sit in an empty pub, whispering in hushed tones like spies on a covert mission.
Their eyes dart around nervously, even though it's the middle of the day and the pub is empty.
"I've been working with some people," says Paddy Spooner (Jerry Killick), leader of a group called the Syndicate that is, as he puts it, forming "an unlikely resistance in the quiet little villages of England - the perfect place to plan our attack."
"Attack what?" asks Adrian (Trystan Gravelle), a jittery, trivia-obsessed dad whose kids are waiting in the car outside.
"The show, of course," replies Paddy, referring to "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?," the hit game-show format that originated on Britain's ITV in the late '90s and helped usher in a new era of reality television.
In three brisk and wildly entertaining episodes, "Quiz" tells the
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