The first season of this docuseries attempts to investigate our global economy from many different angles and aims to be informative and funny at the same time. We the viewer watch Kal Penn play naive about a lot of fairly interesting economic topics (corruption, money laundering, AI, crypto currency, etc) and travel the globe trying to learn about these topics.

Each episode features comedic interludes where a famous person (usually comedians) does a bit to try to explain some financial topic via humorous metaphor. If you've seen the Big Short (directed by Adam McKay who is the executive producer on this show), you'll probably recall Margot Robbie in a bathtub sipping champagne explaining what sub prime mortgages are. Unlike that scene in the Big Short, the comedy interludes in this show fall pretty flat. The comedy attempts overall in this show fall pretty flat, with Kal attempting to inject puerile humor into each episode, usually in the form of something about dicks.

This show does have a few funny moments, and some of the interviewees are interesting as are some of the topics. But mostly there's not a lot of new information, and the people behind this show clearly set out to "show how screwed up everything is" and "how bad rich people and bankers are" and didn't offer a ton of nuance.

The production quality is also only so-so, definitely a step down from major docu-series like the ones you see on Netflix. Overall, this wasn't terrible or unwatchable, just not special. As an intro for someone who doesn't know a lot about this stuff, and wants a palatable simple intro into some global economic issues this may be worth your time.