The first two series felt like a show that was made by people who work in finance, for people who work in finance. So some of the business language that they use throughout most of the show, I'm a little lost on, since I've never been part of that particular world. And adding to that the drama of the multitudes of cocaine snorting, opioid popping and graphic sex scenes between colleagues and outsider partners. With no love, no affection, just an edge that these dislikable, yet interesting characters need to smooth out. For that, it gets to be quite tedious after a while. The first season was about the relationships between the Pierpoint colleagues and 'will they, won't they' between the main characters. In the second season, you find out a little more about why the characters are the way they are, with stakes being raised a little. Season three, on the other hand, brutally cranked up the lever of high stakes drama, with terrific dialogue and top-notch writing, owing to the creators doing their research on how to write good TV. It doesn't have the same level of in-depth psychological complexity that Succession has, nor does it go onto the full on messiness of the Gen Z problems of Euphoria - but it does have a little bit of both. And in series three, they really lean into that a lot more. So I genuinely hope that season 4 will up the stakes even more and explore different and new angles into the lives of these flawed, interesting characters.

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