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Black Monday (2019)

Black Monday poster
Genre
comedy television series
Country
United States
Length
3 seasons, 30 episodes
Rated
TV-MA
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 90 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The series follows the staff of a small Wall Street trading firm in the year before the 1987 stock market crash. It shows their schemes and personal conflicts as they try to get ahead in the financial world.

comedicfast-pacedirreverentperiodsharpenergeticwittydarkly comic

What happens

Black Monday is an American historical dark comedy television series created by Jordan Cahan and David Caspe that premiered on January 20, 2019, on Showtime. The series stars Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, Regina Hall, Casey Wilson, and Paul Scheer, and follows the employees of second-tier Wall Street trading firm the Jammer Group during the year leading up to "Black Monday", the day when international stock markets crashed in 1987. In April 2019, the series was renewed for a second season that premiered on March 15, 2020. In October 2020, the series was renewed for a third season, which premiered on May 23, 2021. In January 2022, the series was cancelled after three seasons. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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