One of the nice things about the age of DVD box sets is the way you can go back in time and watch shows that you barely were able to see the first time they aired on TV. I think I caught a couple of episodes of Profit before it was canceled but all I remembered about it was that the main character wore gloves, slept in a box, and had an extremely close relationship with his stepmother. If you are in the mood for a TV show about a deliciously machiavellian anti-hero, you really can’t go wrong with Profit. Jim Profit had a horribly abusive childhood where he was forced to live in a box and forced to watch TV. He grows up to become the perfect scheming yuppie, worming his way into the power structure of the company whose name was printed on the cardboard box where he was confined as a child. Although some people detect his evil nature, Profit always seems to manage to survive any plans to expose him. The show has some virtual reality animated segments that look very dated now, but it really was ahead of its time in the way it combined dark comedy with drama.
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9:30 pm on June 21st, 2006 1
Holy – *Profit* is on DVD now? Man! I never thought I’d see that. Heck, I was always surprised to find someone else who’d actually seen it. What a crazy show.
11:14 pm on June 21st, 2006 2
I think it came out on DVD sometime last year, Netflix has it!
12:50 pm on June 22nd, 2006 3
Profit was co-created and produced by David Greewalt, who would later go on to co-create the Angel series.
I was one of the 5 people who saw it when it originally aired, and was quite pleased when the DVDs came out with the unaired episodes.
Even ten years ago Fox was cancelling promising series…
4:57 pm on June 22nd, 2006 4
Five people, eh Dave? So you, me, Sean McKeever… we’ve got to go look for the other two, they’ve got taste. ;D
12:04 pm on June 24th, 2006 5
Kitty is obviously one, so that leaves just one more. Who is it…?