Ray William Johnson

Because, as it turns out, being a creator, director, and producer of a big budget TV series is actually a really stressful job.

And over time, this stress really gets to Carl.

And he starts abusing his ADHD medication, which can apparently cause mania.

And soon enough, people on set start noticing changes in his behavior.

Like he's constantly shouting and cursing at people and lashing out at all the crew members.

And over time, he becomes completely erratic.

Like he even starts accusing Gabriela, his own wife, of plotting to have him assassinated.

In fact, he gets so crazy that eventually Gabriella, some of Carl's family members, and other crew members all get together and they stage an intervention, which apparently ends up not working at all.

So anyway, more time passes, and it's now 2020.

And by this point, Netflix has already put in $44.3 million into Carl's project.

But despite that, somehow, Carl's production is out of money.

I'm guessing they spent it all on production costs and stuff.

So he has to go back to the Netflix execs and ask for more.

And they initially say no, but Carl tells them that if they don't give him more, that he can't finish the project at all.

So Netflix kind of has no choice.

They don't want their investment to go to waste.

So they wire him $11 million more dollars.

Now, at this point, Carl could try and finish up his production and maybe make Netflix a cool sci-fi show and maybe he'll become the successful Hollywood director that he's always wanted to be.

But that's not what Carl does.

Instead, he takes that $11 million Netflix sent him and he transfers it to his personal stock trading account and he starts trading options and like going all in, making extremely risky trades.