Titans: The Rise of Wall Street

Even if you are not person who cares much about Wall Street, this has amazing way of story telling. My kids enjoyed it thoroughly as well.

My first review on imdb.

This series is fairly accurate in its portrayal of Wall Street history. However, there is a clear bias in the narrative crafted; Wall Street and banks are evil and the federal government is the good savior. They rightfully highlight unethical business practices by bankers but fail to show any of the corruption of the political elite who were just the other side of the power-struggle coin. The series promotes the Roosevelt/SEC as the white knights who save the day, yet ignore the decisions by both that prolonged the Great Depression by seizing control and retarding markets.

There is then a convenient time-jump that ignores decades of political ineptitude (40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s) in an attempt to jump straight to Ronald Reagan's presidential term, and then vaguely allude that Regan was responsible for some relatively unknown criminal Wall Street players in the 80s. This series starts off really well, before delving into tired apocryphal narratives.

To be clear, there is no direct fabrication in the series. What they show is factual. There is just a very clear bend in the story-telling that feeds a popular post-modern theme.

The earlier Titans series on early Hollywood was very good, and I had high expectations for this. If you work on Wall Street, this might hold your attention, but I could not stay awake. The sets were good, but script, acting and music were awful. Also, who decided that JP Morgan should look like JD Vance? (Carl Malden, WC Fields, Wilfred Brimley impersonators...?) In all honesty, I turned it off in the middle of episode 4. I tried, but completely lost interest.

Great series! Finally some meaningful insights into the scrupleless world of american finance. Baffles my mind how any american can revere the likes if these people. Classic recounting of the privileged few taking advantage of the many. Born on 3rd base...but they all think they hit triples!

Loved this series!

As JSG25 said, this series is biased. It shows all the bad qualities of each man not the good ones. It portrays everyone as devious bankers, who will do anything for money. I'm not saying that the SEC and the government are bad and useless, but they definitely aren't the best choice, and definitely not what you would expect from watching this. Like JSG25 said, Roosevelt is pictured as a white knight, and I don't agree with that. In one of the episodes, a lot of bankers make many bad decisions, and the show says that "the government must come in." but in reality, the bankers should have owned up to their faulty investments, and so they wouldn't do it again (just ten years later). I'm sorry for such a bad outline.