Profit - The Complete Series (1996)

A charismatic sociopath climbs the corporate ladder by means of blackmail, sexual manipulation, and murder.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 9-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD Product Description

Dreary story about unsympathiic charaters.

Bleah! The pilot was enough, great actors terrible story. There were no real likeable charaters, just sad people doing bad things to each other, not for me.
July 22, 2008

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

Probably the most outstanding service Amazon.com brings to it's customers are the product reviews. I purchased this incredible set last week having never heard of this series and solely upon the written reviews. Wow. How could Fox television have dropped such an amazing show so quickly? For years CBS gave us Dallas with the infamous JR Ewing. Well, I'm here to say that JR could learn a few things from Mr. Profit. Had Fox shown a bit more patience, they would have enjoyed a smash hit that would have rivaled the venerable Dallas. If you, as myself, had never heard of Profit - please buy the set. As these intricate stories unfold, you will watch transfixed as nothing seems to phase Mr. Profit - he is a cold calculating machine. For you and me, waiting for the other shoe to drop is a fact of life - for Mr. Profit, another opportunity. Your only regret is you cannot get more of this truly excellent drama. I guess a small Profit is better than no Profit at all. July 17, 2008

Jim Profits at everyone elses's expense - you local sociopath at work

Jim Profit is an ambitious executive - he's not likeable or really even admirable, but he's fascinating to watch, he's also incredibly damaged from his childhood and a total sociopath. The producers of this show are quick to tell you they were 5 years before their time and having watched the episodes produced, it's easy to agree with them.

The lead role of Profit is played by Adrian Pasadar best known these days for his role in Heroes as Nathan Petrelli - but physically he's changed remarkably little since he was in this 1995 series. It plays like a corporate version of the series DEXTER without the deliberate weekly bodycount, but like that show you keep coming back to it because it's a bit like watching a disaster unfold and you can't take your eyes away from it.

Profit is a well produced series that really deserved a longer run than it got, and one that even now is very watchable for the little that was made. Its easy to see why it's a cult favourite.

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June 10, 2008

Cheesy, sleazy, and outrageous

Such outrageous dialogue and situations, such cheesiness as having the main character look at the camera sometimes when he is doing his oh-so-clever voiceover, such sleazy fare as his stepmonster threatening him while simultaneously wanting to be with him in a way that a stepmother never should. It could only be Profit, the short-lived series featuring Adrian Pasdar in the title role of Jim Profit, who grew up living in a big cardboard box with scraps of food and nothing but the TV for companionship.

Somehow, he survives to become a well-groomed, computer-savvy, corporate-ladder-climbing fellow who will stop at nothing to gain ground in the Gracen and Gracen company, playing the CEOs against each other, forcing his secretary to help with the dirty work, and outsmarting two agents who are trying to finger him as the criminal mastermind.

Add to this the goofy theme song, with is mostly synth mixed with some guy howling "YeeoWWWW!", and you will be in goofball TV heaven.







May 11, 2008

profit

I enjoyed this dvd and wished it had not ended if you have seen dexter this is a milder version but absolutely fantastic I recommend this entertaining , extremely well done series, profit , is a winner....enjoy it you will not be able to stop watching it...fantastic acting a great show I can not say enought about this vid February 16, 2008

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