Devils

Name: Devils
Genre: Drama, Suspense
Released: October 7, 2020
Rating: 47

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The CW | Release Date: October 7, 2020

Summary: Massimo Ruggero (Alessandro Borghi), the Head of Trading at NYL, becomes involved in an international financial war that pits him against his mentor and boss, NYL's CEO Dominic Morgan (Patrick Dempsey) in this thriller based on a book by Guido Maria Brera.

[Premiered originally in Italy on Sky Italia on 17 Apr 2020]

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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John Anderson

Oct 5, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Devils,” full of interpersonal intrigues, betrayals and sexual sparking, weaves actual economic events into its plotline, and features a subplot about the shadowy Daniel Duval (Lars Mikkelsen) running the WikiLeaks-like Subterranea, which seems poised to blow the lid off NYL. All of which makes for a bracing story, even if it takes a few turns that leave a viewer struggling to keep up. Read full review

Joel Keller

Oct 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: There’s nothing that’s awful about Devils; it’s not eye-rollingly dumb and the performances are decent. It’s just that the first episode grinds along so slowly, you just wonder when the real story is going to kick in. It does, at the end, but by then you might be too bored to care. Read full review

IndieWire Tambay Obenson

Oct 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: “Devils” isn’t compelling, courageous, or sharply observed enough in tackling the real-world issues to speak to today. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Oct 12, 2020

Season 1 Review: Hard bodies and blank expressions may mix well in porn, but they don't make for effective melodrama. With Devils, the fall season ends not with a bang but a surly grunt. Read full review

The Independent Ed Cumming

Feb 18, 2021

Season 1 Review: Despite its frantic pace and shiny surfaces, Devils lapses into dullness more often than it ought to. Read full review

The Telegraph Ed Power

Feb 18, 2021

Season 1 Review: There’s not enough of either star [Patrick Dempsey and Lars Mikkelsen] in an opening episode that moves quickly and slickly but ultimately feels too much like a poor man’s Wall Street. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Feb 18, 2021

Season 1 Review: Well-shot but so-far charmless City soap opera. Read full review

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Nov 2, 2021

Devils is a slow moving thriller, and no that’s not a contradiction in terms, it’s just what it is, slow moving at first, and a crime thriller you understand from the start deals with the immense and undue influence of the financial business, banks in particular, on the day to day ives ofDevils is a slow moving thriller, and no that’s not a contradiction in terms, it’s just what it is, slow moving at first, and a crime thriller you understand from the start deals with the immense and undue influence of the financial business, banks in particular, on the day to day ives of people, all over the world. First thing one expects from big banks’ management is that they are without scruples, and in this series, that they are. The short bits of narrated comments at the beginning of the episodes equates what we would associate with the devil’s chronicler, hinting at what evil goings on will occur in the upcoming episode or has occurred in the previous, as if it was read from passages of the devil’s bible. For some this is annoying and or irrelevant, for me, it was fascinating as I tried to make the connections which I seldom did, simply because I was not that focussed on it once the action starts; others may have done better than I, but I could care less and so, I suspect, does the general viewing audience.

The action takes place in the period leading to and happening during the 2008-2009 world financial crisis, with actual video sequences of real events and real world leaders spewing their political spin, just like today. So, you get the idea that the story is a dramatization of real behind the scene historical events. It’s not, it’s all fiction based on notions of what may or not have happened, but we will be easily convinced they are. Can’t prove they aren’t. They only thing we know for sure are the economic and financial impacts of the days, because those are know facts most of us have experienced in one form or another. The series highlights those impacts as often as it needs, if not to make you believe the series story, at least to keep you coming back for more as you are plunged into a discovery process, the one about the devils that control the world and plays people as puppets or casualties of the game of life, played by the money handlers and their high placed political friends. The main character, Massimo Ruggero played by Alessandro Borghi is the star of the series, playing the head trader for the NYL bank; good guy, bad guy, it will take you all ten episodes to determine if you haven’t made up your mind from the start or changed it a little pass midway. The next important character, Dominic Morgan played by Patrick Dempsey is the devil you’re dying to find out what he’s got up his sleeve as head of NYL, the New York London Bank. Now the story cannot unfold without the indispensable characters of Sofia Flores played by Lala Costa, Carrie Price played by Sallie Harmsen and her cohort Kalim Chowdrey played by Paul Chowdhry, all of who do a damn good job in their characters. Lars Mikkelsen who plays Daniel Duval and Malachi Kirby who plays Oliver Harris both have roles which also are key to the development of the plot that unfolds in the end, but was brewing all along. I didn’t want to spoil it for you so I’ve left out what I know you are asking yourselves. Yes you’ll have to be patient and discover for yourself. Speaking as a person who’s worked most of my life in finance, bank, and international finance companies, even as internal auditor for a major one during a five year period, I can assure you this series had me on pins and needles. While you’re at it, please try to enjoy the scenery that takes you through London mostly , New York and beautiful Italy (I loved my vacation there, in the country of the former great empire).… Expand

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