Greed Is Good . . . for TV Drama

By Brian Lowry Artwork by Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger Untitled (Can money buy you love?), 2011 Archival pigment print. 32 by 50 inches. Courtesy 0f the artist and Sprüth Magers Gordon Gekko, the amoral investor in Oliver Stone's Wall Street, got it partly right when he said, "Greed is good." Greed might not be beneficial to society, as Michael Douglas' character argued, but in recent times, it has certainly helped produce good TV. Granted, greed has taken many 21st-century iterations in television that Gekko scarcely could have imagined back in 1987, among them an abundance of . . .