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Patrick Dempsey plays a bad egg in the new drama on Sky Atlantic
With the aftershocks of the GameStop v Wall Street soap opera still reverberating, Sky’s new high-finance drama Devils (Sky Atlantic) arguably arrives with perfect timing. But for once reality is more interesting than fantasy. Glossier than a straight-from-the-showroom Mercedes, Devils depicts the world of stock shorting and leveraged buy-outs as one built on bluster, chicanery and perfectly coiffured hair. The problem is that it does so in thumpingly dreary fashion.
What it is, essentially, is Oliver Stone’s Wall Street meets Damian Lewis’s Billions. Yet it lacks the moral outrage of the former (along with Michael Douglas in braces) and the pulpy fizz of the latter. Instead it unfolds as a plodding thriller populated with a rogues’s gallery of backstabbing bankers, with former romcom pin-up Patrick Dempsey potentially the wickedest of them all. It’s fine that it is derivative. Devils’s real sin is to be