YMMV / Profit

• Audience-Alienating Premise: This show featured a Villain Protagonist before other shows dabbled with the concept. It didn't last a single season.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show was a surprisingly big hit in France.
• Magnificent Bastard: Jim Profit is an amoral sociopath whose life's goal is to become President of Acquisitions at the multinational company Gracen & Gracen Enterprises, thus giving him indirect control over one of the most powerful economic entities in the world. He uses various schemes such as leaking bad stories to the press and blackmailing his predecessor's secretary in an attempt to get him fired before later having him framed for murder to permanently dispose of him. Jim also ingratiates himself with the company elites and their loved ones, zeroing in on their personal demons and shortcomings to use against them and sow discord, such as causing a falling out among the Gracen brothers to maneuver himself into becoming the CEO's right hand man and using his equally manipulative stepmother Bobbi to seduce and further control his boss. When the head of security catches on to his scheming, Jim forces her psychologist to perform hypnosis on her and then presents himself as her rescuer to discredit her claims against him. Jim Profit is an expert manipulator and schemer whose machiavellian plots allow him to get away with murder, extortion, and ruining people's lives multiple times and always has more cards left to play when faced with adversity.
• Nightmare Fuel: Joanne's nightmare when she first starts to suspect Profit's true sociopathic nature: she's just walking through the office, minding her business, when he appears out of nowhere and proceeds to strangle her to death while everyone else ignores them.

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