Black Monday was a show I liked enough - a Showtime comedy with plenty of recognizable names in the cast, ten episodes, half an hour each, very clearly a limited series.
Wait, what?
Goddammit. Why? It's okay for things to just... end, you know? The entire structure and format of this show was that it was a countdown to the infamous Black Monday, a cheeky and fictional explanation of how one group of people trying to con each other made the whole thing happen. The first season ended with the cons completed and the market crashed. What need is there for a second season? Where does it go? What does it look like?
Anyway, what I liked most about Black Monday was its willingness to dunk all over '80s Wall Street culture instead of trying to venerate or celebrate it. These are all extremely shitty people with very bad morals and I think the show did a great job staying just barely on the right side of the "laughing with these people" to "laughing at these people" ratio when it came to depicting, say, sexual harassment in the workplace or systemic homophobia.
Give it a shot, maybe? Andrew Rannells, Don Cheadle, Regina Hall, Paul Scheer. You can do worse.
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