‘Industry’ tackles the impact of overhyped tech in its ambitious third season

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If you miss the colorful and vulgar world Inheritancea show in which most of the characters are willing to sell their souls for power and money, HBO Max’s industryWhile the two have some similarities, they are both created by British creators and feature anti-heroic characters set in the worlds of the ultra-rich. industry It focuses more on the inhuman ambition that drives its characters.

meanwhile Inheritance It follows a family who are already wealthy and struggling to maintain their status. industry The film revolves around a group of (mostly) underprivileged twenty-somethings desperate to prove themselves at the prestigious London investment bank Pierpoint & Co. In stark contrast to the pervasive nepotism of the Roy family, their workplace can be generously described as a meritocracy (where the money you bring in is more important than who you are), but it’s also a deeply toxic world with no amoral roots.

My introduction to Pierrepoint’s world was through Harper Stern (Mihala Herold, Body, body, bodyAs a young, black American woman, she stands out among the mostly white, British men on the sales floor. Perhaps that’s why her boss from New York, Eric Tao (Ken Leung, lost) sees her as a potential protégé. Harper works alongside Yasmine (Marisa Abel), the daughter of a wealthy publishing family; Gus, a conservative gay black trader; and Harry (Robert Spearing), an understandably brilliant man from a working-class background.

Season 3 will premiere on August 11th. game of thrones’ Kit Harington joins the cast as Henry Mack, the wealthy CEO of Lumi, a popular green-tech energy startup on the brink of an IPO. Design Studio Rumi, Piano learning gadget Lumior Dead Packaging Company RumiBut Theranos and Solyndra and the failure of green tech startups during the Obama administrationBut Lumi may not quite live up to its green claims. Some banks are hesitant to take a troubled company to the stock market, but Pierpoint isn’t, and its job is to make money on the IPO, not to judge Lumi’s long-term viability.

These amoral views are nothing new to Pierpoint and his minions. industryFrom the start, series creators Mickey Down and Conrad Kaye avoided making the series a preaching attack on the investment banking industry, instead making the characters all reflect the self-serving philosophy that the industry first put forward. Wall Street Gordon Gekko: “For lack of a better word, greed is a good thing.”

Some characters express concern about Rumi, industry Consider the more cynical (and perhaps realistic) outcome: that just about everyone finds a way to profit from the company’s potential failure — except, of course, Lumi’s customers and early investors.

“We wanted to write about an energy company that was kind of looming a little bit like a big monopoly competitor in the real world,” Down said in an interview on the Engadget Podcast, “and we also wanted to write about the collapse of that company.” [has] What happens when a company that was founded to do real good goes under and leaves a lot of destruction in its wake?

industry While the show initially focused on the relationships between a small group of colleagues, their hedonistic night lives and Pierpoint’s erosion of their humanity, its scope has now expanded to include the wider global economy and Britain’s role in propping up failed companies and rival trading firms.

“When we started, we were inexperienced writers,” Kaye says, “and we deliberately wrote about the very insular, very universal experiences of people starting in the workplace at a particular time.” 1723050386 The stakes are higher. I’m more interested in how the training ground intersects with the wider world, with politics, with newspapers, with media, with class.”

Beyond the inner workings of the financial industry and dramatic love life Industry Though the cast is diverse, as Down says, the real appeal of the show is “watching talented people succeed at work.” And if you don’t understand all the financial jargon the characters spout in season one, that’s OK. Margin Call and Michael Clayton what industry What’s truly inspiring is seeing smart people repeatedly demonstrate their talents in high-pressure environments.

The show Inheritance Clone early, industry It has evolved into something dramatically different: For the show’s characters, wealth and success are not something they can take for granted, but something they must earn through blood, sweat, and moral compromise.