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S01E01: Recent b-school graduate Cathy Lee manages to sneak into an associate position at the prestigious Boldwyn Brothers investment bank thanks to an affirmative action program, where she discovers that her new boss has a penchant for late-night PowerPoint sessions, and her co-workers are actually gonna judge her based on her competency.

S01E02 - Finale: While her colleagues spar over the pecking order, Cathy is overwhelmed by the responsibility of finding the best font size for the firm’s pitch to run the IPO of Macrotech, a hot tech company they are courting against rival banks. This life-changing experience will lead a burned-out Cathy to quit her dream job and become an Instagram influencer.

 

HAHAHA

Watched the first 3 mins of this and oh my fuck.... just watch it for yourself.

Starts off with a group head screaming his head off at some FTers who failed the S79... like wtf

 

The amazon reviews are really good and some former IB analysts are even saying its accurate... not sure what to believe lmao

 

Pretty sure that’s the point but hardo’s are taking it a bit too serious

 

Mmmmmm another show for non-target kids to jerk off to

 

if they're gonna make a shitty show about what the media thinks IB is, and center it all around the main character being a woman and "SmAsHinG tHe PaTriArChY", the LEAST they could have done is make the main character hot. Or hell, at least somewhat pleasing on the eye.

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i thought the whole mark ups, turning decks, printing stuff and working on useless pitch books that no one ends up reading seemed quite accurate. don't care for the whole "taking down the patriarchy" angle but did find it interesting that the whole leadership of the TMT group was minority. But then again the asshole MD had a redeeming arc and the white clients turned out total douches so i guess not surprising.

 

Yup, agreed. Definitely was exaggerated, but there were enough specific references to IB in their jokes and words that you could tell that actual bankers were consulted when creating this show.

I found the main character's subplot about deciding to do IB to be the most fascinating more than anything else. Considering the first season was a little more than an hour long, I would actually be interested in seeing another season.

 

yeah i mean how could you not like things like making fun of DCM, plugging random assumptions to back solve for desired answers in model oh and "SHIFT+8? IS THAT A SHORT CUT I NEED TO KNOW?"

guys chill out. its like 1h tops for whole season if you fast forward the intros etc. its pretty funny. its the supporting cast of analysts who make it enjoyable imo rather than the patriarchy taking down associate.

 

IDK where everyone's sense of humor went but I got some good laughs out of it. It's 13min micro content and not meant to be taken seriously (for those of you who didn't catch that...).

Goldberg reminds me of a buddy of mine and had me laughin' quite a bit.

"Out the garage is how you end up in charge It's how you end up in penthouses, end up in cars, it's how you Start off a curb servin', end up a boss"
 

lmao this board is full of the most insecure pussies I’ve ever seen on the internet

 

Accurate depictions of IB/PE doesn't work for good TV/movie entertainment; it needs an interesting twist, e.g. American Psycho Murders and Executions. It's easier to write good scripts/dialogue of the drama that happens in hedge funds (Billions), sales & trading (Wall Street, Wolf of Wall Street).

On the other hand, I love House of Cards and there's bits of accurate management consulting so I dunno maybe it just depends on the lead actors and the creative team producing it.

Doubt even HBO will make me want to watch Lena Dunham as an investment banker though...

 

did anybody actually bother to watch it before going on a crusade? clearly, the show has never claimed to represent the "true life" nor does it aim to do so. yes, the show exaggerates but isnt that the role of satire?

i actually enjoyed the show with its hints of realism:

"i just saw you alt-tab you little prick" "what is this shit, we are not fucking Raymond James. You are the in a BB now" "why are the numbers not fucking blue" "where did you get 6%? DCM. The DCM dont know what the fuck they are talking about okay?"

cmon guys give a try

 

It’s awful. I thought it would be like Suits but the acting, screenwriting, production, and storyline just suck. I expected more considering there are 6 13-minute episodes, so ideally the creators would have enough good writing to be able to make each episode watchable.

 

is it a great piece of theatre? No!

Did it have the budget or cast for one? No

Its just a low budget just for laughs thing. Get over yourself and laugh a little.

No one is seeing or expecting this to be depiction of mainstream banking but I def think people who have been part of the industry were consulted.

Deck on which the main character spent an all nighter being discarded without even being opened certainly brought back some memories

 

No one can deny that most jokes are real around what actually happens / what people think in the back (eg whys analyst not here and some VP stuck dealing w it, should I be in med school, wondering who should go to the free tickets games). It’s just banking people who made a joke show around if I could say what I meant. No one is trying to win an Emmy here

 

I read the comments here before watching but thought you guys were exaggerating. Watched the whole season (like an hour and a half) and it’s pretty bad. The main character has the personality of a mop - pretty much anything not including her was more interesting than anything she did.

 

I watehced the first season, the acting is cheesy as hell and its generally super corney. But there are extreme elemnts of PTSD and some funny anecdotes such as seeing "v3" on their computers, the excel shortcut references.

Other than that its complete satire, detached far far from reality...

 

Maybe the fact that it's so relatable makes it hard to watch? Or maybe it's the lackluster story line and character development? I will give it props that the analysts are funny but overall it's just bad acting.. however it's worth the binge given that each episode is like 10 minutes long.

 

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