King of Stonks is a crime-comedy TV series created by Philipp Kässbohrer, Matthias Murmann and Jan Bonny and stars Thomas Schubert, Matthias Brandt, and Larissa Sirah Herden, alongside other cast members. The series has 6 episodes, each with a runtime of around 45 minutes.
Netflix describes the series as:
DESPERATE FOR STARTUP STARDOM, AN OVERLY-AMBITIOUS FINANCE MASTERMIND LIES, CHEATS AND SCHEMES HIS LESS-THAN-AUTHENTIC COMPANY UP THE LADDER TO SUCCESS.
King of Stonks ends on a cliffhanger, but for those who are a little confused with the way the series unfolds – we have it all covered!
King of Stonks Plot
King of Stonks has two players – Felix Armand and Magnus Cramer. The two have been together since before their startup CableCash came into play. Cramer was a small-time employee at a consulting firm and was subdued and ridiculed by his peers. Felix, on the other hand, was the tech genius behind NetWorth, the mother company of CableCash, who created everything that brought this chaos on the road.
Unsatisfied with the lives that they are living under their bosses’ shoes, Magnus and Felix crashed the takeover deal between NetWorth and Deutsche Bank and then brought the almost dead NetWorth together for 1 euro.
Right after this, Felix and Magnus’s relationship starts to go downhill – Magnus became the CEO of CableCash, and Felix kept working as a nobody for 10 years without any appreciation for his work and, eventually, was promoted to COO, much to his chagrin. What irked him the most was that the entire company was dependent on the technology that he had created, and he didn’t even get that respect back.
Annoyed at his drunk boss’s whims and fancies, who has absolutely no idea how any of this works, Felix had enough of saving Magnus’s back and started to sabotage him and his new buddy Klaus so that he can get control of CableCash and hopefully not them sabotage the company that he made from the ground up.
However, CableCash’s CEO is not the only problem that Felix and his company has – there’s also Sheila Williams, masquerading as Amira Wallace, a short seller who wants to take CableCash down and make some money in the process. Colluding with journalist Tom Wieland, Sheila tries her best to get all the evidence against Felix’s company, also because she had taken a huge sum of money that she needs to win back in order to pay her investors back.
King of Stonks Ending Explained
In the last two episodes, Felix is on the verge of quitting but before that, he spent a night with Sheila, still unaware of her true identity. Thanks to her closeness with Felix, she gets to know about Tikksystems, a company that Magnus has used to launder money and show investors that CableCash is making more money than it actually is.
She informs these things to Tom, who is almost on the verge of publishing an explosive piece on CableCash, and decides to short sell the moment he does so, in turn making a huge profit. On the other hand, Felix, just after resigning from CableCash, learns of Sheila’s true identity and his dream of running away with her comes crashing down.
Disheartened, he decides to exact revenge. He makes a drunk Cramer admit on video that he’d never let Deutsche Bank take them over, something that he was banking on in order to get into the prestigious DAX group. Moving on to his next plan to take care of Tom and Sheila. For this, he confessed to bar owner Mike, another short seller, about Tom’s article, knowing fully well that he would also short sell.
As more and more people started to short sell, Tom decided to take his article back because now, people would accuse him of market manipulation. Unfortunately for him, he was too late to stop it and, of course, was accused of something that he had feared. Sheila gets caught up in all this as well, having put all of her money on this deal out of desperation, and later gets accused by Cramer of manipulating the market.
Now with some of the biggest threats out of the way, Felix asks for total control over the company, which Cramer has to oblige. However, the problems don’t stop there and, in the end, Magnus and Felix look on in horror as news reports come in of Jutta Katz’s death in a plane crash – apparently, the Visconti family and the Hermann brothers were behind this debacle, and the two are left to hope that they don’t get into more controversies.
King of Stonks is streaming on Netflix.