Why House of Lies cannot compare with Mad Men et al

Basing this on the first episode only (I'm not watching any more) but could there be a worse show on TV than "House of Lies"? This Showtime so-called comedy is ostensibly about a team of management consultants based in LA who catapult into various companies in trouble and give brilliant advice that turns the companies around. The team of 4 is led by a a sexy, smart buy - I don't even remember his name - who breaks the stereotype: he's a black man in an unconventional role, though unconventional only to a point. He's smart, sure, but cynical to the nth degree and completely obsessed with sex: in the half-hour episode he has quite graphic encounters with three women, none of whom means a thing to him, they're disposable objects for him (and for the show) - but he's also hitting on the girl on his team and of course it's only a matter of time for that. Anyway, there is not a single believable moment, character, or situation in the first episode - none - unless you believe that the entire management world is full of sex-obsessed, crude driveling idiots. I'm no fan of corporate culture or of management consultants for that matter - some are good, some are phonies - but the behavior in House of Lies is just utterly ridiculous. To give just one example, the team, on break from their meeting with the client, in which they appear to do nothing other than spout platitudes at a board meeting and try to pick up the receptionist, heads for a break - which they boast they'll bill to the client - at a strip club, which leads to various lurid encounters, ha ha. Compare with The Sopranos or The Wire, which had the honesty to recognize that strip clubs are mob-controlled and that the women are pretty desperate and often addicted - not Beyonce-like models who can charm corporate directors. In fact, compare this show with Mad Men - MM works so well because, whatever contempt we may have, and even the characters may have, for the advertising industry, they take their work serious and do it well - whereas in House of Lies no one takes anything seriously, neither the consultants nor the client, it's all just a big joke and a big scam. There's material in this topic for a good comedy or a good drama - but HofL is not it.