It's bizarre that Black Monday failed to break out

Slate

"I can’t understand why no one’s been talking about Black Monday, the Showtime comedy about Wall Street in the ’80s that stars Don Cheadle and Regina Hall," says Heather Schwedel. The 1980s-set drama's plot doesn't even matter, she adds. "Or it only kind of matters," she says. "When you’ve got a cast like Black Monday’s and dialogue like Black Monday’s and costumes like Black Monday’s, you should be able to forgive a story that isn’t quite as remarkable as it might think—but is, actually, still pretty good: There’s a mystery to follow (someone dies in the pilot, but we don’t know who), there’s double-crossing, there’s the Yakuza, there’s a shoot-the-moon deal involving a Jordache-like jean company called Georgina. What more could you want?"