Like it or not, the CBS movie The Crooked E was a ratings winner, both in Houston, where it was #1 in the time slot, and nationally, where it was #2.

The article quotes various critics who offered mostly mixed reviews of the movie. Personally, I'm with Ken Hoffman:

Now I'm thinking the government should un-indict Andrew Fastow and leave the other Enron executives alone.

Instead the feds should go after the producer, the director and the actors who appeared in that wretched Enron TV movie I watched Sunday night.

I hung around to the end for one reason. I wanted to see if Houston cosmetic surgeon Franklin Rose was in the closing credits. Thanks, CBS, for portraying every Houston woman as a breast augmentation junkie and the rest of us as greed monsters and hillbillies.

The only thing CBS left out was, we're all fat, too.

UPDATE: Well, if my referral log is any indicator (and by now we all know what great power the blogiverse wields over the world), we can see why "The Crooked E" was a hit:

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