New "Wall Street"' show, Black Monday, premiered on Showtime, 1/20. Half-hour episodes
Named after the infamously bad stock market crash of October 19, 1987.
Black Monday: Black Monday Official Trailer | SHOWTIME (official Showtime clickable link) and
youtube version
Maurice “Mo” Monroe (Don Cheadle) runs a Wall Street “chop shop” (as his new employee Blair Pfaff, played by Andrew Rannells calls it), which is mostly held together by longtime collaborator Dawn Towner (Regina Hall).Part of that shift in perspective comes from the fact that the show’s leads are black, though race isn’t a focus in Black Monday,
"Black Monday may take its name, and central plot mechanism, from a real-world event, but it isn’t set in anything remotely like the real world. Showtime’s latest half-hour purports to track the build-up to the titular stock market crash in October 1987. In truth, however, Black Monday takes place in the 1980s as imagined, and parodied, from the 2010s. Where Billions, the network’s other high-finance show, aims to capture Wall Street as it actually is, Black Monday wants to channel Wall Street with the satirical gift of hindsight."
'Black Monday' Review: Showtime's Wall Street Comedy Is a Volatile Investment
Yes, ‘Black Monday’ Is a Comedy
Named after the infamously bad stock market crash of October 19, 1987.
Black Monday: Black Monday Official Trailer | SHOWTIME (official Showtime clickable link) and
youtube version
Maurice “Mo” Monroe (Don Cheadle) runs a Wall Street “chop shop” (as his new employee Blair Pfaff, played by Andrew Rannells calls it), which is mostly held together by longtime collaborator Dawn Towner (Regina Hall).Part of that shift in perspective comes from the fact that the show’s leads are black, though race isn’t a focus in Black Monday,
"Black Monday may take its name, and central plot mechanism, from a real-world event, but it isn’t set in anything remotely like the real world. Showtime’s latest half-hour purports to track the build-up to the titular stock market crash in October 1987. In truth, however, Black Monday takes place in the 1980s as imagined, and parodied, from the 2010s. Where Billions, the network’s other high-finance show, aims to capture Wall Street as it actually is, Black Monday wants to channel Wall Street with the satirical gift of hindsight."
'Black Monday' Review: Showtime's Wall Street Comedy Is a Volatile Investment
Yes, ‘Black Monday’ Is a Comedy
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