Entertainment
Show me the money: TV series Industry cashes in on finance drama boom – Sydney Morning Herald
Lena Dunham directs the pilot episode of the new BBC show about a group of young graduates competing for a permanent position at a London investment bank.
HBO’s The Wizard of Lies, about the Bernard Madoff case, the Amazon digital currency/crime drama Startup and films including The Wolf of Wall Street and Greed, which both exploit and satirise personalities in the world of high finance, are other parts of an expanding money mosaic. Even shows like Succession, about a media dynasty, and the political thriller House of Cards, share DNA with the genre.
The success of finance world dramas is borne out of the suspicion which naturally surrounds the personalities…
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