NYT – The brainchild of the actor and producer Derek Ting (who wrote the script with Mr. Yin and countless others), this dollar-driven drama focuses on Conner (Mr. Ting), an uncannily prescient Asian-American hedge fund trader dispatched to Hong Kong to oversee a hostile takeover.
Once there Conner is drilled in company etiquette and “stealth wealth” — what to wear, what to drive and which women to demean — by a vulgar boss (Michael Park) and a sleazy colleague (Darren E. Scott) whose talents appear limited to crotch grabbing and coke snorting. No surprise then that Conner soon finds debauchery a significant distraction from deal making.
