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Anyone watching this. What a total load of shite! Cliched, cringy and just utter crap. It looked good from the trailer!

I watched it -it was ok!

It was very 'class differences by numbers ' though.

I enjoyed it - it was exactly what I thought it would be like.

What were you expecting, OP?

Am watching it a bit later. Nope still think its rubbish!! Got slightly better.

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I enjoyed it - it was exactly what I thought it would be like.

What were you expecting, OP?

Something with significantly better writing.

I watched it, and I felt a bit nostalgic, I went to uni with a lot of knobheads like this. All wanting to work for the likes of Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Barclays Capital

They were exactly how I remembered them. But it was also very predictable in the shock value as directed by Lena Dunham

I didn’t hate it but I’m not convinced yet

I recorded it last night and just watched. I had to force myself to stay with it.
Quite a few of the younger characters reminded me of people I have managed in the past.
If they all party that hard, it is no wonder that they burn out at 30!
I think I will continue to watch, though, as a lot of the settings look extremely familiar!

I watched it and quite "enjoyed" it! This maybe because it confirmed all my worst prejudices about people who go into the city.

I also liked that it seemed to give a lot of younger actors and actresses the opportunity to have leading roles. (Recently having watched prime time dramas on bbc and itv kept getting confused because so many old faces was never sure which series I was watching!)

Think its interesting that they dont think it deserves a BBC1 prime spot but have put it on BBC2. That usually means that they think their core audience would not respond positively to a series about young people and with a multiracial cast. Have no doubt that the sexism and racism is actually worse than shown in the series.

At the moment I intend to stick with it as it so completely gratifies my distate for the industry and the type of people who seem to be attracted to working in it. Not forgetting that these are the people who bought about the financial crash that led to the austerity that still blights so many peoples lives.

I am hoping they all have some downfull or other - so long as other people dont have to pay the price.

For those who missed the first episode this is the link on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pb85

I work in an Investment Bank in London (fair enough not in front office but do have a lot of exposure to them) and watching this just made me laugh as it is so far away from what I have experienced in both my current company and the one before it.

Maybe I have been lucky but us “city folk” are more likely to be sitting watching tv in an evening than doing all nighters in a club

I don’t really understand, how did the guy that was pulling all-nighters in the office die in the toilet? You saw him in the cubicle kind of slump to one side. Are we supposed to think it was because he burnt out alongside taking all the energy tabs and drinks?

It’s a bit like the program Press that was on a while back about journalists with Ben Chaplin. That was utter tosh as well.

And the clubbing scene was absolutely ridiculous! Lena Dunham clearly never been to a bar/club in the city! Nobody does ket on the dance floor in that way and nobody would get fully naked to have sex in a toilet like that.

I work in an Investment Bank in London (fair enough not in front office but do have a lot of exposure to them) and watching this just made me laugh as it is so far away from what I have experienced in both my current company and the one before it.

Me too. My wife kept asking if this was accurate, I said in 25 years I've never seen anything like this

We both work in FS and I have to say that was vastly unrealistic, like something from the 90s or even 80s. If anyone spoke to anyone, never mind a grad, the way the older guys and Hanis female boss spoke to them, they'd be hauled before HR withing days. And DH says he never seen anyone drop their trousers right down at the urinal in his life I mean we why would you, so unhygienic. And yes any club in London containing men in suits does not have people sniffing drugs on the dancefloor. Oh and nobody wears a tie anymore, never mind white shirts, striped shirts or sock suspender!

Very unrealistic and trying too hard to be Wolf of Wall Street.

How sad for the writers of this drama who both claim to have worked in the financial sector!

Quote: "It was very important to me and Mickey that a finance person could watch this show. Even if it is like a tiny percentage of the audience they can be like, 'Oh wow, slightly sensationalized, a little bit heightened, but the essence of the world is almost totally correct."

www.newsweek.com/industry-hbo-bbc-real-life-true-story-mickey-down-konrad-kay-interview-1545995

I think quite a few dramas get made that sort of rely on popular caricatures, as audiences want to have their prejudices (like me) confirmed. Not to have to think!

Maybe 20 years ago!

I think finance really had to clean up its act in the noughties after lots of scandals and court cases and the whole diversity movement. maybe the writers left to become.writer around then and don't realise that it's not wall Street anymore. Shady stuff still goes on I'm sure but not openly like that.

The people are vile but I find it strangely compelling!

This makes working in the City look like it might be less toxic to sniff petrol. I do love it, though it looks like Hollyoaks on heroin .

I worked on a trading floor for a big American bank in the mid 80s and early 90s. It was not dissimilar but would like to think it’s not the same now.

It's ok-ish. But I'm pissed off that I can't hear it properly. They need to turn down the background noise and increase the voices. It's probably done on purpose, but it's bloody irritating.

I've watched the first 2 parts, I was hoping for a finance-based This Life, which it sort of is, but the characters aren't interesting enough (yet).

I enjoyed as a bit of escapism. It's nice to see new actors being given opportunities.

I want to see more banking and less spunk to be honest. But it is a fun watch......

I quite enjoyed it from a nostalgic point of view. I agree it is out of kilter with the current era. I worked in big investment banks since the 1990s and the partying and “banter” and trader egos all ring true with what was going on back then. But you don’t see it today and the graduates are so over qualified and career focused that they barely even drink and it’s all clean living and gym going. I don’t envy them as when you take the fun out it’s a pretty dull job with very long hours. And only a tiny tiny number of people earn enough that they can cash in their chips and retire early.

Must admit I was more interested in the financial manipulations (which I dont always understand) and am really not interested in these sad young people who see to only have dysfunctional relationships - or really they are just sex encounters. That is a tv cliche and used I think more to seem cutting edge than reflect reality.

But as someone said up thread, nice to see a tv series giving young actors a chance.