Jesse Armstrong's the creator, but he's only credited with writing Episode 1, and 9-10. Each of the others has a different writer. Adam Arkin's directed some of them.
Odd decision that almost every music cue is essentially a rearrangement of the main theme, which is great (Nicholas Britell).
It's a black comedy? OK, offering the kid $1 million for home run (then giving him unwanted watch gift); Strong getting held up, thus missing the crucial Board vote. But what we're supposed to make of Culkin wanking on his window, I do not know... A counterpoint to Cox pissing on the carpet? For me it has more of a Sweet Smell of Success vibe about it. More of an ironic drama, too, especially the way it ends... Father Always Wins. (That ending is surely a reference to the Kennedy-Chappaquiddick affair.)
Macfadyen's is a complex role as he wears so many faces: arse-kisser, bully, child (on being taken to stag party), adulterer. That episode includes the best line, delivered by he to Braun, who's just taken three consecutive lines of cocaine: "I hope you don't die. If you do, you're heart's going to be pumping so hard, it'll probably bring you back to life." And, to Macfadyen - "Congratulations, Tom. I hear you swallowed your own load." (Best not to ask.) As such, Tom Wambsgams is a funny and somehow fitting character name. He's a good actor.
Well, yes, we could foresee the family counselling session in the desert wasn't going to work out...
An HBO production. Series 2 is out, 3 in production.
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