Black Monday

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 20, 2019
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
  3. Negative: 2 out of 23
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  1. ephemeralviolet
    Jan 21, 2019
    10
    Hilarious look at the fast-paced, cocaine-laced world of Wall Street in the 1980s in the year leading up to the stock market crash of 1987. Episode 1's witty writing sketches out an ensemble of unique personalities with the promise of some nuanced backstories. Can't wait to watch 1987 unfold in Black Monday.
  2. EludiumQ36
    Apr 12, 2019
    9
    I really liked Don Cheadle in Showtime's "House of Lies" and he similarly drives this dramedy of 1987's Black Monday stock market dive. It's full of over the top, high octane Wall Street Type-As who are more caricature stereotypes but it's fun that way. I mean, Cheadle's character "Marauding Mo" is driven in a stretch Lambo - insane. The screenplay is full of all types of manipulation,I really liked Don Cheadle in Showtime's "House of Lies" and he similarly drives this dramedy of 1987's Black Monday stock market dive. It's full of over the top, high octane Wall Street Type-As who are more caricature stereotypes but it's fun that way. I mean, Cheadle's character "Marauding Mo" is driven in a stretch Lambo - insane. The screenplay is full of all types of manipulation, double-crosses, and at the end even more dbl-crossing. The final episode is a crazy mishmash of all that and nicely recalls the opening scene of ep 1. This first season ties up storylines pretty nicely but leaves some things open enough for a subsequent season. Showtime isn't like Netflix or Amazon who kill off good original shows, so I'd expect a several season run for "Black Monday", though admittedly it's kind of tough to base a long-running series around a single event and its aftermath, and I'm really not sure I care about the characters after this point.… Expand

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Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 28
  3. Negative: 2 out of 28
  1. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Jan 7, 2020
    80
    The comedy, starring an effervescent Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells and Regina Hall, is an outrageous reimagining of what caused the Wall Street crash of 1987 and is packed to its coke-crusted gills with rapid-fire one-liners, not all of which work, but it doesn't matter because the one that comes three seconds later probably will.
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  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Adrian Horton
    Dec 3, 2019
    40
    The problem is that the market is short for either catharsis or humor on Black Monday and, given the options abounding on TV, audiences may not want to bet on a whole season.
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  3. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Jan 26, 2019
    80
    This is the first time anybody has unleashed director Seth Rogen, the overlord of Hollywood juvenilia, on the subject, and Black Monday is every bit as madly, sickly funny as you might expect.
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