Seeing is believing

The crazier the story, the more likely it is to be true – Showmax and Co will leave you scratching your head.

- CRAIG FALCK

Tired of scientific doccies that use jargon to explain concepts you’ll never understand? Here’s an idea: go to Showmax (and other streaming platforms) and binge on these stranger-than-fiction doccies that are all true.

McMILLION$ (2019, SHOWMAX)

The six episodes search for $24 million (R348 million) in missing prize money from the McDonald’s Monopoly game. Not a monopoly in the business sense, but the actual board game Monopoly. Each menu item was accompanied by a corresponding token that could be used on a McDonald’s Monopoly board. If you got a specific combination, you won a prize. Simple enough, but a bunch of crooks at the company contracted by the food giant to administer the game were secretly pocketing the most important tokens. And since they were running the whole shebang, no one – from customers to McDonald’s bigwigs – was any the wiser that not a single winner claiming prizes from cars to the $1 million was legitimate.

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS (2018, SHOWMAX)