The other IB show on Amazon is more entertaining and accurate. Industry is an over-stylized, inaccurate and slow mess. When I saw the first episode was directed by Lena Dunham, it made a ton of sense why it is what it is, and why I won’t invest another second of my time to the show. I’m more qualified to do a tv show on the non-profit industry.

 

Wish the writers from Succession or Veep/Silicon Valley would develop a show on banking. Why is every show or movie about finance a cringey wet blanket of a production? I’d even take a finance version of House of Lies before this drivel

 

Agreed, Silicon Valley is the funniest show in the last five years and Succession is the best in the last few years. So I would be happy to see IB done in either of those two styles. The guy who did Margin Call did a phenomenal job, and would be able to do a drama on par with Succession. Not sure if there’s someone who can do a Silicon Valley for banking though. I think Mike Judge was a tech guy for a hot second so he at least had some first hand knowledge before doing Office Space and Silicon Valley.

 

I have found it entertaining but I don’t wanna ruin the image I have of IB with that. Never worked in IB and I feel like this is a weird vibe to get into.

 
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Don't worry. Finance is not like this at all. Would elements of this show happen across an employee base of several thousand in one building? Yes, absolutely. But the show is so exaggerated it is almost as unrealistic as Wolf Of Wall Street (BTW, a 16 y.o. kid from my gym wanted to join banking based on that movie!).

I think HBO was trying to create the Entourage of the banking world with unknown actors.

Most people I met in banking are a bunch of middle-aged, average looking professionals where their entirely family would rely on that one paycheck. They spend so much time in a cage called "office" that their lives will disappear in front of their eyes.

 

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