Trust (TV Seris, FX 2018)

Trust is based on actual events of one the wealthiest families, the Gettys. Donald Sutherland plays the patriarch of the family, J. Paul Getty who founded Getty Oil Company. It starts out in the year 1973 playing Pink Floyd's Money which sums it up. Money made the family and money destroys the family. We see the material goods. The large, beautiful house and pool. Old man Getty can basically buy people. He has a harem of women in his house. But there is no love. His children really have no desire to follow in his footsteps and become businessmen. Some get caught up in drugs. He has already lost one son and we come into the story as another son has killed himself. He gets the glimmer of hope when a grandson shows up for the funeral and they seem to connect. However, he soon turns into a disappoint too. Getty is a cold man and behaves like he is a king in his home. He has someone dress him and brush his teeth. The irony is with all the money he can be so cheap. Like keeping track of the cost of the newspaper or having a pay phone in the house. There is so much eccentricity here. Like buying a lioness and having it in the house. It makes one think is this what too much money does to a person. Think of Michael Jackson when he had a zoo in his backyard and went around carrying his chimpanzee, Bubbles. As the series continues it will get into the kidnapping of the grandson. It's turning into a fascinating look of this famous family. Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) and Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) also star.