Cost of Capital - Web Series

Has anybody seen these before? Bit short but seem alright.

COST OF CAPITAL is “Wall Street meets The Social Network.” It’s a rare behind-the-scenes look into the shadowy world of billionaire investors – where egos and intrigue collide and a single deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars must get done at any cost.

The 6-episode dramatic web series, written by Brian DeChesare, is currently in post-production in Los Angeles, and was released on September 17, 2012. A new episode will air each week until Season 1 is finished.

 

Ok, I just watched through the 6 episodes. This is horrible, LOL.

[quote]The HBS guys have MAD SWAGGER. They frequently wear their class jackets to boston bars, strutting and acting like they own the joint. They just ooze success, confidence, swagger, basically attributes of alpha males.[/quote]
 

I could hardly make it through the trailer, but SB to anyone who watches the full episodes and can point me to the full scene of the guy doing rails off his steering wheel.

Aside from the cliches, the production quality is very impressive. I never would have guessed that M&I had the resources to sink into a project like that.

 

Watched the last couple episodes. What a depressing show. It's not entertaining, and it's not educational. You're left wondering what the purpose of making the show was. To give a very depressing day-in-the-life account of working at boutiques?

 
OGBanker:
Watched the last couple episodes. What a depressing show. It's not entertaining, and it's not educational. You're left wondering what the purpose of making the show was. To give a very depressing day-in-the-life account of working at boutiques?

Maybe because it is depressing and not entertaining in real life?

I like it.

 
OGBanker:
ThePenceOfSpence:
Leveraged Sellout 2.0... could it be? No.

That could be entertaining if they added some Leveraged Sellout flavor to it...

There's a TGI Friday's shoutout to Leveraged Sellout in one of the scenes. But I agree with the other posters - it makes PE look a bit depressing. Nothing like what Romney was trying to sell us about PE a few weeks ago.

 

it was meant to be for the wider audience, but guess what....no one, absolutely no one, outside of banking wants to watch a show about PE, particularly when that show hasn't done a Suits and made boring work look awesome. it's just made boring work look depressing and awkward with shit characters (name one character you like....), poor acting, poor story line and weak attention to detail (eg. who the fuck wears grey shirts and uses a multiple of profits when valuing PE)

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

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