If you're looking for finance and sales in particular I wouldn't suggest Severance or Empire. Severance is speculative fiction on generic corporate culture with a sci-fi premise and Empire deals with the music industry rather than finance. Suits is more lawyer/legal focused.
I'd say Billions, Industry, and StartUp would be your best bets. Billions and Industry deal directly with finance firms and StartUp is about three people coming together to launch a cryptocurrency.
i suggested it in jest because your original request sounded like something a marketing executive would formulate if they were brainstorming an idea for a television show. i almost wanted to ask you what you wanted it for as it didn't seem like you just wanted to watch it.
but also because it does meet your requirements inasmuch as finance goes. the wire, over all seasons, demonstrates an intricate financial web between the legitimate and illegitimate economies. its scope is very good.
not strictly what you're looking for but you won't find a better tv show.
this.
also american psycho and wolf of wallstreet plus all films within that orbit sort of meet the description except they're films too.
i'd suggest dopesick. has the financial side of the 9-5 execs as well as true corruption scandal plus dramatic depth.
The tv shows are one medium of many that I use as a spring board of ideas/ call to action. I got significant value of Empire. Seeing the business acumen of Cookie Lyon inspired me to acquire a mentor for my personal passion project. That ended up being one of the best decisions I've made in awhile, as I now have access to someone that generates six figures from it. And seeing her unapologetic demeanour positioned me to do a SWOT analysis of myself. Saying that though, when I started Empire around six years ago, it was solely for entertainment purposes, its just fortune that it got my creative juices flowing. And there's other aspects which I haven't been able to replicate .. yet.
Upon the suggestion, I gave
StartUp a chance and can confirm I've now completed series 1. I got significant value from a scene in episode 5 which led to a paradigm shift in mindset. There's a scene where the protagonist is down is suffering from a mental block, and her companion says, "is it impossible, or do you just not know yet .. the latter is good." I had to pause the scene and jot that down, and it reminded me of the notes I took from How to Steal Like an Artist. Namely, analog to digital loop. With a computer its too easy to press the delete button, we become perfectionists that are ideas don't manifest. My analog desk has nothing but markers, pencils, pens, papers, index cards, stick notes and newspaper. Nothing eletronic is allowed on that desk. Stand up working, pin things on wall and look for patterns. I give myself 30 minutes and see what I can put to the paper, anything that comes to my head goes on. And then I have my digital desk with no papers and I'm viewing spreadsheets of my ideas, free software, apps, and just typing and editing my thoughts. So cheers for that, took those notes awhile back, but that one scene reignited a desire to execute on those notes which I did last Saturday. Hopefully in six months time, it will still be a part of my weekend routine. Hopefully Season 2 will give me ideas on Crypto itself.
Industry - I've watched the first two episodes and its clear to me that it meets the criteria of "salesman ... go getter/workaholic in 9-5 ... work life balance .. a life balance whether that's friendships, relationships". I haven't felt a call to action just yet, but given the nature of the show, I'm positive it will evoke an action in me eventually. Or give me an insight that will have a galvanising influence
Billions - I had already started. I'm looking forward to see how I can apply the episodes to my own investments, and to gain an insight on how the wealthy spend their money to create time.
One of my favourite YouTube channels recommended WestWorld for those interested in artificial intelligence. The digital space is linked to one of my side hustles. So, I'm excited to see how
The Peripheral will appeal to the "creative" side of me.
I watched two episodes of
Selling Tampa hoping it would give me an insight on real estate, but I've decided I won't be continuing with the series.
Without spoilers, how would you say
Dopesick is different to
The DropOut?