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Showtime is exposing the dark underbelly of multilevel marketing companies in its new comedy, On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Set in 1992, the show stars Kirsten Dunst as an Orlando-area water park employee making minimum wage who ascends the ranks of a multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme called Founders American Merchandise.
To create the faux multilevel marketing company, producers researched real companies but used “nothing proprietary” from any of them, co-creator Robert Funke said earlier this month at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour.
However,
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