Col. Muammar Gaddafi was a brutal dictator, but on The CW show Devils his history is reinvented. It suggests he may not have been the one deciding to commit mass murder, and that bankers were calling the shots instead.
The third episode of Devils on October 21 mirrors reality by showing news reports of a mass grave in Tripoli, Libya and weaves it into a fictional, financial conspiracy plot. Devils points the finger at financiers for Gaddafi’s killings.
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Here s all you need to know about Devils.
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When is Devils available to watch?
Devils first aired on Wednesday 17 February. The show will be broadcast weekly at 9pm but, for those that can t wait, the entire boxset is
available to watch in full on Sky Atlantic and NOWTV.
What is Devils about?
Massimo Ruggero is a high-flying finance trader in London for the prestigious New York London investment bank. After working rigorously for a number of years, he s hoping to be made the European vice-CEO.
However, once the US CEO, Dominic Morgan, comes to town, a scandal then comes to light involving Massimo that jeopardises his promotion. The synopsis teases: Sensing that Dominic is hiding something, Massimo sets about clearing his name and finding out the truth behind the vast political game plan he has inadvertently been caught up in.
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
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