
ALT Nicholas Quah in Vulture: I have a lot of time for Ian Coss and his team of collaborators at WGBH after 2023’s The Big Dig, where they took a major boondoggle, an uber-expensive highway project in Boston long-decried as the poster-child for government bloat that actually turned out to be highly successful, and used it to tell a bigger story about the politics of American infrastructure. With Scratch & Win, they tackle legal gambling in America, a phenomenon that exploded into cultural ubiquity only recently, and they do that in just the way you’d hope: by running it through the tale of what they call “the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery,” which, of course, took place in Massachusetts, where state officials faced off with organized crime in the ’70s in a bid to take over the market.
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