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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!

@topcat2014 In what respect? I can't remember exactly how it ended...

I was confused by tonight's- I didn't understand Harper's mistake or how it was fixed.

I am trying to like Harper but don't really like any of them still.

I should just let it go as a bit of fluff I know. Why did daria get the boot?

Really didn't like the NDA and the double crossing.

Wonder what real life Goldman Sachs felt about the mention.

What to watch now?

@Xmasbaby11

I was confused by tonight's- I didn't understand Harper's mistake or how it was fixed.

I am trying to like Harper but don't really like any of them still.

If I've got it right, the woman whose niece was in the play called the Pierpoint office before Harper arrived back to agree to buying at the rate Harper had begged her to agree to. She spoke to Eric, who actioned the deal and saved the day.

Darin got the boot because she had used Harper's complaint about Eric to get rid of Eric and take his job. The bank then realised he would take business away with him so brought him back.

@Xmasbaby11

I was confused by tonight's- I didn't understand Harper's mistake or how it was fixed.

I am trying to like Harper but don't really like any of them still.

As optimist said.

In the previous episode, she had wanted that guy (Albany or something?) who was in the big meeting to take on her idea around the US Housing Market, and Eric was pushing her as he was pissed off that he just lost his biggest client. When he didn't, she got Albany to agree to buy at $50 but we saw her put it through as £50.

This was shown and because the currency had fallen, to change it from £ to $ she would lose £50k, but she predicted an announcement at 13:30 that would strengthen the currency, so her loss would reduce, which it did and she went into profit. But took too long to action and seconds later the currency weakened again and she lost £140k.

The woman who put her hands down her pants in the last ep and whose niece she saw in Shakespeare, agreed to buy the Yen which was of no real benefit to her but gave a £340k profit to the desk which covered Harper's mistake overall. Eric actioned it.

I think that some people have watched it all(?) and so there are spoilers for some of us who are watching it week by week.

My problem with it, apart from nobody being very nice, is that they dont record voices at the same level. So even within conversations one person is totally audible and the other isn't. (Happens in many other series. You would think advanced technology would have made it better, but films recorded using old boom microphies never that this problem.)

Another is that sometimes plot twists are in text messages. And unless the mobile is directly square on can be impossible to read. Again this seems to be something film makers just dont take into account. In the early days of text messages becoming part of plot they were often shown in bubbles on the screen.

More and more film makers seem to be less and less interested in how it actually appears and sounds to those who watch them!

All in all, not only does this series make the finance industry seem really vile, but makes young people seem totally devoid of real emotion and caught up in performing life in line with the idea that young people are air heads only interested in recreational sex and drugs.

Thank you for explaining!

I hope we find out more about Harper's background and why she lied about her qualifications. They all seem quite ruthless and like noone can trust each other but I find the work culture but horrifying and fascinating. I suppose it's the polar opposite of my life so that's why I find it intriguing!

I've watched 3 episodes, all I can say is that for me it's a very very poor man's This Life

I have finished it now.

I sort of liked how it ended because it was a slap in the face. Yas was great - 'my success doesn't lessen your success' and the discussion with Harper at the end. I did feel sorry for her because her work outcome was just an easy get out whereas she was so keen to be good. I also agree was that the sex she liked was just the sex she liked and wasn't getting from the constantly wasted boyfriend.

Harper was just a twat in the end. I still find the Robert aspect really weird.

Enjoyed it.

Thanks to last few posters for explaining the ending, though, I hadn't understood it at all! Still, characters/setting/ plot were quite interesting. I stuck with it and it did improve from the less interesting earlier episodes.

I loved it.

Watched the first episode and didn't really get it but came back to it and binge watched them all within the week. I do tend to love everything Lena Dunham touches.

I enjoyed the escapism and certainly was not looking for realism (a day in the life of the financial sector - how dull).

I thought a lot of it was relatable as a woman. Yasmin's bully boss - being brave enough to ask for the sex you want, being talked down to as silly and young - being quizzed about your background to see if you 'fit'.

Hope there is a second series!

I am still wondering how Harper is supposed to have the money to spend on a hotel room for £5 k a night. Interns don’t get paid well, just nonsense in places. Addictive nonsense though.

I think that Harper's bonus letter showed that she was on £50 000 before her bonus of another £50000.

She also wasn't paying rent (or not for a significant amount of time).

Was it just me who worried that Robert was going to have an accident on his scooter?

I wondered if he was going to kill himself after what was said to him by Daria. On the other hand, as 'Adler' liked him, he may have got the job. It was a bit too ambiguous.

I thought it was awful. Gave up after half an hour. The characters were all two dimensional stereotypes and deeply irritating.

WRT to her boss’s chat about the IMs, it got flagged by the system for review based on the slang then sent to him to read. He knew it was coke and hookers, that’s why he said “I know you’re just talking about dog names and kitchen fixtures” he was letting her know he wouldn’t follow up on it and he’d also realised he screwed up by not having better oversight over his team/Kenny/etc (I think he’d made an earlier comment to the team about how he was great because he was a hands off boss) as he probably read some of what had gone down as well in the messages. So it was a veiled offer/threat, that if he let her off then she wouldn’t make a formal complaint, which would open a can of worms for him.

I think it said he gave her a bonus of 50k which took her total to 116K, so her basic was 66k. Wheras all the other grads got a 25k bonus to 91k.

I think 65k is probably about right for top end grad pay, my nephew who did law at a Russell Grp uni a couple of years ago and got a first and is now on a big London city law firm's grad scheme started on 65K, at 21. I'm not convinced they'd get even a 25k bonus in the first year though, esp as they are normally discretionary and performance-linked and particularly if they were still not permanent hires and were involved in some sort of hunger games style cull at the end of the first year where 50% weren't offered permanent positions (which surely doesn't actually happen anywhere in 2020?!?)

Maybe intern schemes but they wouldn't be on 65k

and in terms of the story line, as unbelievable as some of it was, being on being on 66K at 21/22 with no mortgage, no kids and just rent with no utilities would be more than enough for nights in 5 star hotels!

They usually have a specific bonus scheme with sign-on and milestone bonuses. Outside of the trading floor I know it is around 20-30% of their salary, so this isn’t outside the realms of possibility for the area these grads work in. The VPs would have bonuses more than their annual base salary. Seems crazy money if you don’t work in financial services.

It seemed like a pastiche of how the City was in the 80s/90s. There was a series with Douglas Hodge that was similar but made in the late 80s - can't for the life of me remember its name though.

@hangryeyes

They usually have a specific bonus scheme with sign-on and milestone bonuses. Outside of the trading floor I know it is around 20-30% of their salary, so this isn’t outside the realms of possibility for the area these grads work in. The VPs would have bonuses more than their annual base salary. Seems crazy money if you don’t work in financial services.

I think the new regulations have stopped all that. I work in financial services and I've not seen bonuses of more than salary these days.

Very senior execs get kind of two salaries I stead now. To keep their bonus in line but not inflate their salary so it's not pensionable. I can't recall what my last place called the second bit now, "skills allowance" or something. It was reclaimable if people resigned.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

It seemed like a pastiche of how the City was in the 80s/90s. There was a series with Douglas Hodge that was similar but made in the late 80s - can't for the life of me remember its name though.

It was called Capital City

I remember that. Douglas Hodge was lovely in those days.