O/T....McMafia

Absolutely diabolical show. Honestly, I've seen better acting on Hollyoakes. I gave up on it by about episode 4 I think. The script was a mess, disjointed, stale plus completely and utterly humourless, who the hell at the BBC read it and said “yeah, let's piss the licence payers money up the wall on this shit”?. Very unlike the BBC actually, I mean yeah they do make some shit, but they don't normally throw money at the shit.

The only interesting thing, is I used to work on the square that the lead character was sometimes seen when he was outside his office (on St James's Square, London), in financial services too (a subsidiary of an investment bank), so I was actually wondering whether it might have been someone I used to work with who wrote it, just because there were a lot of minor coincidences, so I looked up the names of the writers, and alas, no, never heard of any of them, was definitely shit enough to have been written by some non-entity I used to work with but actually I doubt any of the writers have a worked a day in banking in their lives.

Spent many a late night there actually, studying for my CFA exams in the evenings, then walking over to the West End/Soho/Mayfair etc after to get wrecked (most nights), then coming back into work the next morning, often late, sometimes wearing the same clothes, occasionally with zero sleep, and quite often still drunk. I'd sometimes even have a shower after I got in, then go into the bathroom cubicle and just sleep there for about 4 or 5 hours. I honestly don't know how I did it now, plus pass my exams, and not get fired! Or even as much as a warning or any kind of hint that might say “Stan, rein it in because you're taking the absolute fucking piss now”.

It looks... different but I cant bring myself to watch any dramas on BBC anymore, far too dull. Gave up on Dr Who with Capaldi like a year ago.

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