Who doesn’t love watching guys in suits yell at each other in boardrooms, especially when said guys happen to be heavyweight thespians Damien Lewis and Paul Giamatti? Showtime’s still-running marquee title offers dual perspectives on high finance by pitting a hedge fund manager who’ll break any law he pleases to ensure robust returns for his elite clients against the BDSM-enthusiast federal attorney hot on his trail. While the drama pays closer attention to the R-rated shenanigans of telegenic young people, Pierpoint nonetheless shares an office culture with Waystar/Royco in broad strokes: a toxic atmosphere of harassment, hollow promises to sluice out the poison, a carefully designed system of plausible deniabilities to insulate and protect the monsters at the top. During their six-month trial period that comprises the first season, however, they mostly chart exotic new frontiers of sexual deviancy and ingest the full smorgasbord of controlled substances available on Wall Street. ![]() Rather than the C-suite, creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay track a group of hungry recent grads as they climb over each other’s knife-studded backs toward a full-time position at an uppermost-tier investment bank in London. Photograph: Simon Ridgeway/BBC/Bad Wolf/HBOĪ channel-surfer doesn’t even have to leave HBO to remain in the milieu of hostile takeovers and blue-chip portfolios, though this one goes bottom-up instead of top-down.
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