Why ‘Black Monday’ Season 2’s episodes have been rescheduled and where we left the show’s characters
Unfortunately for fans of the Showtime Wall Street dark comedy series ‘Black Monday’, the second season has come to a halt right now. With six episodes out so far, the season is scheduled to be back later in 2020 for the remaining four episodes. But so far, no specific dates have been announced for its return; just a promo video that says it’s going to be back later this year.
Per a Deadline report, both ‘Black Monday’ and ‘Billions’ were in production on their current/upcoming seasons when the shutdown caused by the global coronavirus outbreak occurred. So, they will only air when production is up and running again. Earlier this year, Showtime had already shifted the comedy series’ airing pattern from two back-to-back new episodes premiering a week to one.
Episode 6 of ‘Black Monday’ Season 2 left a lot going on. Let’s recap where each character is at right now.
Mo (Don Cheadle) is back in the TBD group, cleared of all criminal charges. But he’s there with an agenda. Mo, trapped by the FBI, has now become their informant inside the TBD group. The FBI knows that Dawn (Regina Hall) and Blair (Andrew Rannels) caused the eponymous Black Monday crash on Wall Street but they need more proof. Mo was able to inform them that Blair was using his senate contacts to get privileged information that let him trade profitably (and illegally).
Dawn, in episode 6, decided to take over managing the $30 million-worth African-American Scholarship Fund. But she does suffer from the dilemma of risking the future of thousands of black teens in the U.S., knowing that her involvement, and especially the TBD group’s involvement of the fund, would only cause trouble in the future.
Blair, on the other hand, had a whole different kind of trouble surrounding him. He was having an affair with Congressman Roger Harris (Tuc Watkins). But the Congressman’s father-in-law Pastor Newell (Michael Hitchcock), a staunchly anti-gay Christian televangelist of power and repute, realized his son-in-law’s quote-unquote indiscretions. Following that, Newell made the Congressman go to conversion therapy.
Blair, however, decided to intervene and on Mo’s cue, told Harris that he would finance his campaign, thereby making it unnecessary for him to depend on his father-in-law’s money. But this money would obviously have to come from the African-American Scholarship Fund now controlled by Dawn. After all, the TBD group was nearly broke.
And finally, Keith (Paul Scheer), who briefly went to prison for white-collar crimes (literally just half a day), now works for the Lehmans, and together they intend to destroy the TBD group, especially Mo and Dawn. At the same time, Keith and Larry Lehman (Ken Marino) seem to be developing a kind of romantic relationship -- at least they are in the early stages of one. Keith asked Larry to join him for a screening of 'The Phantom of the Opera'. The wheelchair-bound, facially disfigured other Lehman brother was obviously not happy about this.
Trouble is everywhere. And we don’t know how things will fare for the rag-tag group of brokers. Hopefully, we’ll soon find out when the show is back on the air.