House of Lies (stylized as Hou$e of Lie$) is a great new Showtime comedy television series created by Matthew Carnahan. The show is based on the book, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, written by Martin Kihn, a former consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. It's about a group of management consultants (Cheadle, Bell, Schwartz, Lawson) who stop at nothing to get business deals done, even if it calls for extremes. It's an interesting mix about work and the racy private lives and shenanigans of the characters. The non-PG pilot looks at Cheadle's complicated love life (sex with the ex and, incidentally, also the mother of his gender-neutral son and his professional competition) and self-loathing behaviour (sex with strippers, hurray! and sex with the mother of his son's 'friend' in the school play), while he tries to close a deal with MetroCapital, a bank looking for a plan to unscrupulously justify their year-end bonuses as the financial world around them burns.
Review of House of Lies
