Whatever, Linda is a Canadian web series co-created and co-written by Hannah Cheesman and Julian De Zotti.
[1] The series stars Cheesman as Linda Thoroughbred, a woman in the 1970s who gets a job as a secretary for financier Barney Lahnar (inspired by Bernie Madoff) and becomes the real brains behind the Ponzi scheme that will eventually bring him down.
[2] The series was released on YouTube and via an official website in 2014, but was subsequently taken down and re-uploaded to Vimeo.
[3] Though the series has struggled to find an audience online,[4] it has screened at festivals internationally, winning critical acclaim and numerous awards.
[5][6][7][8] The series garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Original Program or Series Produced for Digital Media, Fiction at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards, and both Cheesman and Hazelton garnered acting nominations in the Performance in a Program or Series Produced for Digital Media category.