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Positive:
13
Mixed:
14
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineJan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Broadly satirical. ... Thankfully, you don't have to like these jerks to enjoy them. [21 Jan - 3 Feb 2019, p.13]
IndieWireMar 16, 2020
Season 2 Review:
At its best, “Black Monday” operates as a satire meant to epitomize everything that has gone wrong with big money culture. At its worst, it’s a muddle. If there is a destination, it takes the most circuitous path to get there. It feels frenzied and forced, as though straining to make the most over-the-top series depicting Wall Street excess ever.
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Jan 18, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Cheadle, Hall and the supporting players lustily sink their teeth into these morally bankrupt characters, but "Black Monday" doesn't even make them particularly interesting as antiheroes. Nor does the big-buck finagling rival smarter versions of this material, leaving the '80s excesses as the program's main calling card.
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Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There’s so much going on that it’s difficult to separate Black Monday’s sharpest moments from its constant throwaway lines. Cleverness appears in each of the first three episodes (one bit in which Oliver Stone’s hired researcher shadows Mo to get ideas for the movie “Wall Street” is a nice, full basket of ’80s Easter eggs), only to be drowned out by all the frantic energy and half-attempts at humor that smother it. Rannells and Cheadle are good together--enough so that the series may yet settle down and find its way.
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Dec 28, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s possible to nail all the details but miss the feeling entirely. ... There’s hope yet for "Black Monday," whose first three episodes are carried across with confidence if nothing else; even when characters are delivering long and clumsily written chunks of exposition, they carry it off like tightly crafted David Mamet dialogue.
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Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The Jammer Group would be nothing without the skill of Dawn Darcy, who is Maurice’s top lieutenant and former girlfriend. The same might be said of the show’s reliance on the actor in the role, Regina Hall. ... Dawn functions as the conscience of the show: she groans at the Challenger line before the audience can, and she articulates our objections to the nonsensicality of the plot. Still, she’s just a den mother. Cleaning up this crassness is janitorial work--it’s beneath her to manage such toxic assets.
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Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The barrage of period allusions functions as a connective tissue binding the disjointed parts of Black Monday, which tries to stitch together an over-the-top comedy of the go-go ’80s and a tut-tutting, cautionary morality tale, fitted out with appropriate music, fashions and hairstyles. What it doesn’t supply is an actual feel for the period, or a coherent point of view about it, or anything more than clichés for the show’s talented stars--Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall--to play.
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