About
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.
Cast
Don Cheadle
as Marty Kaan
Kristen Bell
as Jeannie Van Der Hooven
Ben Schwartz
as Clyde Oberholt
Josh Lawson
as Doug Guggenheim
Donis Leonard Jr.
as Roscoe Kaan
Glynn Turman
as Jeremiah Kaan
Steven Weber
as Ron Zobel
Seasons
Season 1
Marty and his co-workers scheme to halt an unpopular merger between their firm and a former client. Jeannie struggles to balance her demanding job and her personal life. Marty and Monica spar over who will raise Roscoe.
Season 2
Marty and the pod clash with Galweather & Stearn's new CEO and Marty decides to open his own consulting firm; Jeannie and Marty wrestle with their feelings for each other; Doug falls in love and gets married; Clyde becomes bitter over the lack of recognition he gets from Marty; Monica attempts to clean up her act to be a better mother to Roscoe.
Season 3
Marty slowly manages to get his entire pod back together at his new firm, but can they keep the business afloat?; Jeannie takes down Galweather & Stern and joins Marty in more ways than one; Clyde suffers a breakdown after being traumatized by Monica; Doug waffles between Sarah and a new office romance; Roscoe makes a new friend who is trouble.
Season 4
Marty gets out of prison and does everything he can to rebuild his faltering consulting firm; Jeannie is pregnant with Marty's baby and trying to get back in his good graces after causing his downfall; Clyde and Doug fall in love with the same girl, and Clyde tries to reconcile with his father; Doug gets divorced from Sarah; Roscoe demonstrates that he is his father's son after all.
Season 5
Marty Kaan and his slick team of management consultants are at the top of their game and taking corporate America for all its worth. But when faced with the prospect of the ultimate buyout, Marty must decide: is it worth cashing in his chips and walking away -- or doubling down for the chance to pull off the deal of a lifetime.
Episodes
Season 1
Gods of Dangerous Financial Instruments
Marty and The Pod consult for a mega-bank that wants to justify their year-end bonuses as the financial world around them burns. Back at home, Marty gets some unwanted advice on how to raise his son.
Amsterdam
Marty and The Pod are sent to Phoenix to clean up a mess at a very powerful sports franchise caused by the impending divorce of its high-powered owners. Jeannie takes a dinner meeting with Derek, an old flame, but is deflated when she finds out his real intentions toward her. On the home front, Marty continues his personal war with Principal Gita over Roscoe's cross-dressing.
Microphallus
Marty arrives at the offices to find Greg Norbert there to announce the possible acquisition of Galweather by MetroCapital; the Pod flies to Indiana to consult for a beverage company, where Marty applies his management skills to turn a loss into a win; Clyde questions whether Doug really hooked up with a transvestite; Roscoe struggles with the confusing feelings of liking both a boy and a girl.
Mini-Mogul
With Jeremiah out of town, Marty is forced to bring his son Roscoe to his next job in San Francisco; hoping for some quality time with his dad, Roscoe ends up spending it all with the Pod when Marty is forced to babysit Alex Katsnelson, the teenage CEO of a security software company. Meanwhile, Jeannie reacts to her recent engagement by having a tryst with Kurt, a tortured musician she randomly meets in a coffee house.
Utah
Jeannie has to take charge of the Pod when the racist CEO of a motel chain has reservations about dealing with Marty. Meanwhile, Clyde hopes to hit it off with a lovely Mormon virgin; and when Monica finds she has some free time on her hands, she decides to spend it with Roscoe.
Our Descent Into Los Angeles
Marty goes to war with his son's school when Roscoe is accused of sexual harassment for trying to kiss a boy. On the home front, Marty's personal life is further complicated when April, a stripper he met in New York, suddenly reappears. Meanwhile, Jeannie starts to get cold feet at the prospect of her upcoming wedding.
Bareback Town
When the Pod goes to Washington D.C. to consult for a pharmaceutical company, Marty faces a challenge from April to stay monogamous on the road, which puts Jeannie in the position of having to "take one for the team" and fully satisfy a female client; Jeremiah reveals something serious to April, asking for her discretion until he can tell Marty himself; a jealous Monica drops a huge bombshell on Marty.
Veritas
Marty and the Pod participate in Galweather-Stearn's annual recruiting event, where the best and brightest from Harvard Business School are wined and dined. Marty takes the sole black recruit in the predominantly white affair under his wing; Doug tries to prove to Clyde that he can coach any of the potential candidates onto "the list;" Jeannie grills a sexy, flirtatious recruit to see if she's all style and no substance, but a secret of Jeannie's is revealed that makes her stance somewhat hypocritical.
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