The rise of anticapitalist comedy
SHOWTIME’S BLACK MONDAY opens with a panorama of Wall Street on Oct. 19, 1987—the date of the catastrophic stock-market crash that gives the show its name. A white-haired businessman crumples on a curb, sobbing. Two giddy punks spray-paint YUPPIES LOST on a pillar above his head. And a chauffeur clambers out of a Lamborghini limo the color of fresh blood just in time to watch a jumper in an expensive-looking suit slam through the car’s roof.
The apparent suicide remains unidentified as the show, which premieres on Jan. 20, jumps back a year to provide a day-by-day
