'Industry' season 3

Season 2 thread.

I'm surprised they made another. Despite it being set here, it's not popular at all in the UK. They air it on BBC2 late at night.

I mildly enjoyed season 1, but never made it fully through season 2. Everyone just seemed like a massive wanker.

Did it get any better?

Succession was never huge in the UK either and I'm hearing Industry showrunners are trying to capture that crowd in the US with this third season. Still, I doubt we'll get another one. And yes, I think the second season was even better than the first one.

Harry Lawtey's hair is unfortunately going pretty quickly, so treasure them while he still has any. He does look good with darker hair, though.

Super intrigued about finally seeing Sarah Goldberg in something that isn't Barry.

Official trailer.

Looks sleeker than ever, the airplane scenes seem VERY Succession-like. Looking forward to seeing more Rishi, I think the showrunners said they were going to give him more to do because they love the actor so much.

I'm insanely excited for this season to start. I was really pumped to see Rishi on the poster, too, R4. I also love the way Harry Lawtey towers over Kit. I know his character is going to be romantically entangled with Yas but I really hope we get a threesome. We know Rob would be up for it.

The reviews for the season have all been raves, every single one. I'm prepared to be wowed.

I gave up on season 2 after the first episode but I decided to watch the rest of it so I can watch Kit in season 2. It's a slog, though.

Too much sex, not enough backstabbing.

The show is called Industry not Sex Among London’s Elite

I have a question about the black woman (sorry I can’t be bothered to learn any of their names).

They have shown her three times eating huge hamburgers. What is the purpose of that? Is it a slam against Americans?

You mean Harper? I think its just to show her being a bit homesick. She misses the American things, but can't go back there.

For R7

Link below also for R7. I don't know how you can call S2 a slog, though. I was completely riveted. I did a recent rewatch and its still exciting, even knowing what's coming.

[quote]The show is called Industry not Sex Among London’s Elite

But they're hot people in their twenties in the world of high stakes investment banking. Of course they want to fuck a lot. I think this season will see the three main characters a little more mature, though.

r9 Definitely not a slam against the Americans, it's what r10 said. There's really not much (any?) slamming of the Americans on this show just in general, as far as I can recall. Myha'la Herrold's hairstyle this season looks so much better than in the first two.

And damn, Rishi looks GOOD in the pic at r10.

I may give season 3 a chance given the good reviews. Though, as a Brit, this part annoyed me:

[quote]Industry season three will be available to stream on HBO in the US from 11 August and on the BBC in the UK later in the year.

I'm pretty sure we used to get it the day after HBO in the UK, which meant it was easy to avoid spoilers. Oh well, I'll just watch it online then - well done, BBC.

Thanks, R10 and R11. I loved Succession, I don't know why this show doesn't grab me. But I continue to soldier on.

R13 I’ll be torrenting it then. BBC is really off the rails lately.

Too much cocaine, not enough sex.

R15 Indeed. I think the BBC might be delaying it because they want it to be one of those shows where all episodes get added to the iPlayer on the same day (especially as it's aimed at the younger adult end who generally consume TV on demand rather than as it's aired), but they obviously can't do that until it's been shown in its entirety on HBO.

If I'm right, that means it won't start on BBC till 30 September.

r16 Not enough gay sex!

Well with Gus and his fuckbuddy gone, they will hopefully find a new gay for us.

Kit Harington called Sir Henry's relationship with Rob a "love hate thing" and said that they have a scene together in ep 2 that he thought of as a love scene. That put quite the picture in my head.

Excellent return for the first hour of the new season. Some truly shocking things happened. I loved Eric doing coke with Yas and her lawyer friend. "I haven't done blow since 9/11!"

Kit Harington's back is gorgeous.

I came across the end of episode 1 while I was waiting for Last Week Tonight and I kept thinking is that Kit Harringtin in a green cap and why is he looking at that tall guy like he really wants him to fuck him.

I guess I'll go back to season 1...

He was quite funny.

What a season opener, Jesus Christ. I'm referring to both the rock-hard cock and the episode as a whole. This show is still in top form. Viewership is up 60%, so that's promising.

I went back to watch the season 2 finale again to refresh my memory as it was so long ago (in another lifetime, before my cancer!), then watched the premiere, and then listened to The Watch podcast discussion of it because those guys love the show. And they made this wonderful point that you don't really need to know much of what came before, you're quickly caught up on everything you need to know to follow along, and that the show even leans into that aspect. Notice how Yas is suddenly on a yacht with her dad even though he changed the locks and cut her off in the season 2 finale? Or how Eric is suddenly divorced?

That old cougar groomed our poor Robbie so he can only really cum when he's fucking her, then brings him hot cocoa afterwards. I checked and it actually was hot cocoa! Revolting predator, glad she's dead. One of the podcast hosts texted the showrunner to confirm that it was a stroke and not poison or drugs. She did drop a couple of truth bombs towards the end, I love the dialogue on this show.

The hosts also made a point that unlike in Marvel movies and in GOT, this show doesn't film around Kit's shortness. They put him around taller guys in that handball scene and it's just perfect for his character. I actually don't mind his acting that much anymore, but his whispery voice still bugs me.

Moe later, this post is already too long, apologies for that.

Is DL slipping? Kitty H is appearing in the nude on the London stage and no reports of his manhood?

There's a whole thread for it, R24, and nothing yet. The West End gays are disappointing me.

R23, I enjoyed your post and agree with most of it except I never thought of Kit's voice as whispery. Love his accent. Also listened to The Watch. I really loved that they paired Kit with tall-ass Harry Lawtey. Kit was quite taken with him, ha ha.

Kit's ass is on display on Twitter today. We'll be getting more of that backside on Industry next Sunday.

r25 I think I meant raspy more than whispery. I'm very sensitive to the human voice and I feel strain in my own throat when I hear someone who doesn't have a clear/clean speaking voice.

And my god, what a majestic ass that is. Perfectly lit too, to accentuate its contours. Why doesn't he take it out of his pants more often?!

When I hear Industry, this is what I think of...

Episode two was SO good.

Rishi was under so much stress, he was breaking out in hives. I wanted him to freak out and take his shirt off right then and there. Boo!

Sarah Goldberg's character kinda scares me, but she's also so wonderfully grounded. Her boss is one of those people who is outwardly nice all the time, but also expects her employees to be her friends. Boadicea, really? "Woke coke" cracked me up.

The whole ending of the episode was one big fuck yeah moment. I'm just glad her dad didn't rape her in the flashback, like some on Reddit suspected. That would have been a bit much.

That was an absolutely thrilling hour of television and it was stuffed to the gills with major happenings. I liked the parallel of both Yasmin and Harper receive a dressing down from their mentors on ethics in their business. In Eric's case, I think it was pure jealousy that her trick was something he never would have been able to pull off. Petra is absolutely fascinating.

But also, I really want to see Yasmin pee on Henry. He really responded quite quickly to her dom voice, even with a three day dose of psilocybin.

Botty is one nasty bitch.

So is Kit going thru a middle age crisis? Nude on TV and on the London stage.

He's simply giving the public what they want, R31. Nothing wrong with that.

Also, I suspect that the workouts have been a sub to his addictions, supplanting the old, destructive ones for a new, healthier endorphin rush. I've seen it too many times. He probably does not mind showing that fine-ass body off after all the work he put into it.

He also got naked for the movie at the link below.

Joel Kim Booster, full frontal on last night’s episode.

And this guy's backside. Lots of male nudity last night.

Was it implied that Robert ends up sleeping with Frank (Joel Kim Booster)? Booster said that the way it was filmed, this was heavily implied but he had (at the time of the interview) no idea what the cut version would look like.

Robert is supposedly sharing a room with Henry but gets locked out when Henry hooks up with a prostitute. The next morning, Robert seems to have gotten a bed somewhere even though he was locked out of his room.

Robert would only bang the financial analyst to get something out of him. And the damage to Lumi is already done by that point.

I mean it does seems quite implied, but Robert wouldn't bang a dude just for fun.

My take was that something was attempted in the sauna. Frank is fondling himself while telling Rob "I really love me some compliance." Rob grins, then later tells Eric that Frank is a company man. Does that mean Rob offered his services only if Frank published to buy, or waited until after the panel and that Frank turned him down? Later at the party, Frank tells him that "I may work for an institution, but I'm not [italic]institutionalized[/italic]. That suggested to me that Rob didn't get very far. But it felt the show was pretty much broadcasting that Rob spent the night in Frank's hotel room after the latter bought him a drink. Maybe he gave him a pity fuck.

I don't know R36, there has been plenty to suggest that Rob is bi over the course of three seasons. He is British, after all.

Damn. that post was ruined.

I know I’ll be scolded here, but I think Harry would make a good Bond. He has a nice, deep voice, fit, tall, charming. They could give him a 5 o’clock shadow, work on his accent and he could probably pull it off. They want youth, right? He would have a built in audience, too.

I thought Eric was going to stroke out.

I was waiting for Frank's own little IPO.

I’m late to the party but catching up. I’m loving this show. Just started season 2. Question for those who are caught up- is Harper supposed to be the fucking worst? I hate, hate, hate this character. I don’t root for her, and I don’t get why all these men find her so talented and special. She’s a charisma vacuum. Anyone else share this opinion?

I could have sworn Robert let a man go down on him on the pilot episode, but I was high so who knows. Loved the 1st two seasons, still trying to get into this season.

He tried to impress Yas by making one of the male undergrads go down on him, yes. We never saw it happen, but the look he gave him in the bathroom suggested Rob was not lying. I thought it was clear that Rob is bi pretty early on.

R42, I like Harper but I only root for her to grow a conscience before its too late. She's a really fascinating character. A lot of people see her as sociopathic, but I think Harper is just brash and young and is so absolutely desperate to make in this business that she sees nothing else. It will catch up to her eventually.

I mean they're ALL horrible people, but Harper's particularly awful.

The point of Harper's character is mostly to show that psychos go the farthest in this business/industry. Look what happened to Kenny and his compassion in the premiere, or how Harper's now former boss got shafted by her and Petra even after being nothing but (at least outwardly) nice to her. Also look at those un-PC British bastards in Basel who loved Harper's little panel stunt. She's a closer and a killer, and that instinct gets her to high places even without charm or charisma.

She reminds me of Musk and Zuckerberg. And also of the three biggest psychopaths I grew up with, who are now fantastically successful and wealthy. The world is mostly run by pigs like these, unfortunately.

For R31 - from a recent interview:

[quote]I think the swing back to looking at nudity from the male perspective is actually a really good one. I’m currently in a play where I completely strip off and go full-frontal nudity. And in Industry, I get pretty nude as well. But it is my personal choice. And I think that’s what it comes down to: No actor should feel any pressure to do any nudity. For me, I don’t mind. I’m not one of those people who subscribe to the thought of, like, ‘Well, now it’s the men’s turn.’ But if the script deserves it—and I think with Henry, it certainly does. He’s peacocking. He’s trying to get this girl, he’s showing his bits. I think it’s appropriate.

Yeah, we need to push back hard against Zoomer neopuritanism.

I'm hearing we're getting a Rishi episode next week. I would eat that man out with a dessert spoon! 😍😍😍

Also more Joel Kim Booster, apparently? I thought he was just doing a cute (and sexy) little cameo this week, but guess not.

The Rishi episode looks insane. I'm here for it. The tension is going to give me a heart attack but I will love every minute of it.

Intense was an understatement.

I thought Rishi was going to be dead by the end of the episode.

Same, I thought there's no way this doesn't end with his suicide. Hookers, blow, horse racing, gambling at work, gambling in the casino, scamming his coworkers... fucking hell. One of my favourite episodes to date. I fucking love his frau and the way she spoke to him but still supported him in the end. His bod looked so nice in that tight little shirt in the last scene.

How gross was it when he told that mobster he was in a deep hole and then that guy immediately offered him another 50k?

Loved him saying Rule Britannia, but then also smashing up remnants of the former empire in that shed at the end. Nicely done, writers.

"It’s Rajah, not Roger" was also deeply symbolic. Forgot about that.

That was like one long anxiety-ridden fever dream and I loved every second!

I mean this doesn't end well for Rishi, does it? How the fuck does that HIGHLY destructive behavior sustain itself?

I would have called him a legend when I was young and dumb. Now I'm just stressed out watching this sort of behaviour.

[quote]How the fuck does that HIGHLY destructive behavior sustain itself?

Everyone on the show engages in HIGHLY destructive behavior. Every single one of them is an idiot.

Rishi is a five pump chump!

I think that was 2 better than what he gave Harper right before his wedding.

I went back to check the second season thread and saw that I actually counted the number of thrusts with Harper. And believe it or not, it was twelve, including the initial penetration!

The Rishi episode stressed me out to watch but also left me aroused. I agree with whoever commented about him in the white T-shirt at the end smashing up that room (shed? pavilion?), and I so would 100% beg him to drill me silly.

They really could have lingered some more on his taut torso before he went down on his wife. Much like Yas on the show, he's accrued a passionate gay following and we deserved at least that much.

I don’t get what’s loveable about him. I would never date or marry a man like Rishi. His wife isn’t a gold digger and seems fairly grounded, so I wonder what she sees in him.

He’s a sexy little fucker.

R64 - who cares about marrying or dating? A nice long night of fucking Rishi would be fine by me, then we can bid each other an amiable goodbye. "Hit it and quit it," as the saying used to go.

He's a sexy little fucker who's also a lousy lay and a walking dumpster fire.

Prosthetics of real junk?

^^^ or

[quote]His wife isn’t a gold digger and seems fairly grounded, so I wonder what she sees in him.

In their big fight at the end of the last episode she mentioned that she misses when they "used to be mean to the same people".

They're both raging assholes who aspire to nobility.

I could fix him. My bussy and I could fix him. I know this deep down.

I needed to scroll WAY down. I am a new fan thanks to recent thread. THIS SHOW IS NOW IN MY TOP 6 SHOWS OF ALL TIME. I am only on the penultimate episode. of season 1. It is amazing. It really is Succession and Euphoria. Two of my favorite shows. I put this show up there with The Sopranos and Mad Men. It is sick.

Keep watching R72. It only gets better!

FUCK!!!!!! R73!!! I am 5 minutes from end of Ep 7/Season 1 and dont want it to end (after a certain threesome)

I’m with R42, I really dislike Herrold as Harper, don’t so much dislike the character (who is complex) as the actress, who has a face like a closed fist, hard as nails, zero sex appeal, no warmth and is also a little runt.

Have been watching the first two seasons again before tackling season 3, forgot how much I enjoy season 1. Forgot how openly sexual it is too. hope it comes back for a season 4.

I'm also new to the show, and binged the first two seasons and everything up to the most recent episode. I knew there was a Rishi episode coming, but HOLY FUCKING SHIT! If you've seen "Uncut Gems," you'll immediately get why everyone is saying this is "Industry's Uncut Gems episode," and that one ends much differently. Actually, what it reminded me most of were the standalone character episodes on season two of "The Bear," which were some of their best (which is clearly saying a lot, given the caliber of the show). I *despised* Tina on it until her standalone show and loved her afterwards, and while I'm still not a huge Rishi fan, it was great being able to see things from his perspective. (Also definitely appreciated them not pulling punches on Britain's odious racial & class divides. Rishi should've burned that old gassy pub or whatever it was to the fucking ground!)

Bingeing them is helpful to see how the writers & producers pivot between seasons. The first was almost entirely about the young grads, with a truly batshit amount of sex & drugs. Btw I work in a banking-adjacent field. I-bankers sure as fuck know how to party, but the level of sexual fluidity seen on the show is definitely too far. Bankers are adrenaline junkies, but they're also not suicidal and don't, for instance, fuck their coworkers or clients. I'm still a little worried they're "going there" with newly separated Eric and possibly Yasmin, but I hope not! (Rishi & Harper last season was already bad enough. (But even the women don't hook up with other women even while wasted.) It also had an appalling amount of hazing and misogyny, and having recently watched Kenny during his pre-sober worst, I wasn't exactly upset that Eric pettily fired him in this season's premiere instead of Yaz.

Season two definitely had a tighter focus with Jesse Bloom as the protagonist, but also seemed a tad lost. Gus was almost entirely wasted – is there some reason he couldn't work at a competing bank, like Harper did? – and has now been entirely written off, though the Tory MP he worked for last season curiously was not. I wasn't crazy about the Yasmin/Celeste storyline: it implies, wildly inaccurately, that private wealth management is akin to prostitution. (Maybe on the show, but not IRL.) Also not nuts about Yasmin's asshole-father storyline, last season or this one (and btw I think it's a given that he's dead - it's merely a question of whether Yaz killed him). Still quite a lot of sex & drugs, but less than S1.

This year came as a bit of a surprise: it seems like the writers changed a bunch of shit in the interim, either because they had extra time due to last year's strikes or simply decided to change course. It doesn't seem like they'd even considered before this year that Jesse should *definitely* go to jail for insider trading, and therefore Gus tutoring (and fucking) his son wouldn't last. I know not much about this show is believable, but billionaire white guy Jesse going to jail and young Black American Harper merely losing her job is absurd.

I'll just hazard a guess that most of you cunts have strong feelings about Harper, who's apparently gunning to take down Julie as Biggest Cunt Ever. What the fuck is her DEAL? Fine, she & her brother had a shitty upbringing, but on a show filled with almost entirely unlikeable characters, she's arguably the least likable. (She wasn't the worst in S1 only because the lads on the trading desk were such epic assholes in terms of their hazing.) I'll also hazard a guess I wasn't the only one relieved to see less of her this season than any other character.

How many times were they going to tease us with Henry getting so close to Robert's face I thought they were going to kiss.

Loved Rob's entire ayahuasca scene.

Ayahuasca scene made me laugh, of fucking course Rob's subconscious is all mommy issues, all the way down.

So many revealing things about Muck's character as well – the way he dismissed Rob clearly telling him he wasn't in the right head space for a psychedelic trip (which is the one thing you don't do at these things) and when he said he wanted to monetise that experience. Perfect encapsulation of the Silicon Valley types. Reminded me of all the time Jack Dorsey spent in meditation at silent retreats and just came out even more of an asshole libertarian.

Yas dressed up as Lady Di and her murdered(?) father is named Charles...

I was a wreck watching that hearing and what poor Rob was going through. I would’ve fled the building or fainted if that had been me. He is always shit upon.

Kit Harington is doing a great job as Muck-charming and smarmy.

No one has anything to say about those truth bomb dropping scenes in Sunday's episode? Yas vs Eric, Eric vs Harper, Harper vs Yas! That was a lot of yelling.

R80 - I've been waiting for discussion to blossom on the most recent episode. Pretty intense all around, I thought. Harper is a revenge-thirsty, soulless automaton! Yas was great, and Eric was tragic in a pathetic way. I loved the episode.

Billions is campier yet far more entertaining.

I could never get past the third episode of Billions. It was just not for me, I found it way too banal and soapy, and I love Damien Lewis and Paul Giammetti.

Conversely, I was hooked on Industry by the second hour. Love everything about it. The writing is far superior to Billions.

R83, yes. The writing is far superior to Billions, unquestionably.

I’ll give Industry another go. I want to clear up my current health issues & feel normal again before getting invested in another series.

Daniel K Isaac in Billions is hot and gay.

I thought it was a great episode. I’m glad to see the explanation of Yasmine’s behavior on the boat. God her dad was creepy and having to see and relive his hard-on must be a mindfuck.

All the arguments and name-calling were brutal. No one won.

I don’t care for Harper’s partner at all.

Really good acting all-around.

I’m gay as fuck, but Yas is one sexy woman. Great body, great voice, great hair…

That was one of the greatest smack-talking episodes I have ever seen. I say episodes because there was more than one scene of said smack talking. And the best part is, everyone was right! The way Harper smiled when she called Yas useless (after talentless, but before the whore part) was just fantastic, I had to rewatch it several times. She fucking relished in sticking in Yas like a knife those exact same taunts Yas' father used on her just before his death.

Speaking of, I thought the showrunners dragged the death mystery just long enough, glad it wasn't the big reveal at the end of the season. I'm also glad she didn't kill him, would have been too soapy.

Loved seeing Petra smack Harper down as well after that rehab blunder. Wtf, imagine your business partner throwing something like that in your face in the middle of a street?

What the actual fuck is happening with Eric? I had no idea his pathetic and performative "I'm a man and I'm relentless" in the season premiere was a portent of things to come, he's obviously going through a horrible midlife crisis. That breakfast with Yas was brutal, glad she clocked him. Thanks, lawyer friend!

Renewed!

Yas is fat.

[quote]She fucking relished in sticking in Yas like a knife those exact same taunts Yas' father used on her just before his death.

I don't think she really did. She lashed out because Yas said hurtful things to her and it was instinctive. It's what Harper does. But I actually believe that Harper was happy to have Yas as a friend. I rewatched the scene again, and it all felt very tragic, seeing that friendship end. especially with the way the episode ends by going back to Nikki Beach and seeing them so close. I am so curious how they're going to end this season.

Sorry, but you don't go where Harper went on instinct alone. After all, she didn't instinctively do with Petra the thing that eventually got Yas fired either. She ultimately made a choice, even if she felt a bit conflicted about it. It might have been instinct at first, but by the time she came to "useless" and delivered it with a gloating smile, she was definitely enjoying herself.

As for the friendship bit, I think the showrunners are leaving it intentionally ambiguous whether these two function better as friends or as enemies. Or indeed, if they ever have been real friends at all, or if this was all just détente we were seeing this season.

Wow. Can't believe Eric did that, but I was kind of suspecting it would happen. Still, made my stomach turn a little bit. I can't believe I felt so bad for Bill Adler.

Someone needs to punch that Wolsley guy in the nose.

I hated watching Bill have to defend himself and him knowing he is of sound mind but a trusted “friend” threw him under the bus in such a humiliating, underhanded way. Eric is just as bad as Harper.

I needed a cigarette after that episode and I don’t even smoke!

I want something good to happen for Robert.

Did Yasmin’s lawyer say she thought they could beat this? Does Yas even have a chance? If not, she made the right call. It’s her or the women who signed the NDAs. I’d save myself too.

The lawyer told Yasmin that Yasmin could win a PR war with Hanani and then gave her the terrible PR advice of "when they go low, we go high," which doesn't even make sense in the context of the plot of this show, since Yasmin's golden ticket is the company records showing how the company put all of the women on the company payroll.

What Eric did in this episode ranks up there with the worst moral things we've seen in the three seasons of this show. Absolutely reprehensible.

Petra looked so dowdy in the scenes in her huge fucking kitchen, I loved it.

"He had difficulty seeing people as... well, people." Great writing, but what a thing to hear about your deceased cunt of a father. Yas' reaction to it was perfect.

Did the actor playing Rishi have a broken hand and they waved it away with a throwaway line, or will we get an "in-universe" explanation for it? Is the implication here that Vinnie(sp?) broke his arm because Rishi couldn't pay back the loan and he's about to escalate the threats even further?

Who the hell is the guy behind Petra's venture? His goons looked like hicks.

[quote]Does Yas even have a chance?

She has a chance, I'm just wondering – just like the Hanani rep – where she's supposed to get the money for all this corporate litigation. I imagine her lawyer friend isn't doing this pro bono.

R99 And I wonder if Eric’s very public shivving of Bill will come back to bite him in the ass. He embarrassed the company in front of Mitsubishi execs FFS.

[quote]Is the implication here that Vinnie(sp?) broke his arm because Rishi couldn't pay back the loan and he's about to escalate the threats even further?

Yes. Vinay was calling him on the trading floor. He means business.

[quote]Who the hell is the guy behind Petra's venture? His goons looked like hicks.

Otto Mostyn. Henry Muck's godfather. He's basically a Bond villain. Did you miss the scene in the episode set in Switzerland where he talks to Petra and Harper and gives them 2 mil for seed capital to start their fund?

You’re so right, r102–he is a Bond villain and I think he’s perfect!

[quote]That was one of the greatest smack-talking episodes I have ever seen. I say episodes because there was more than one scene of said smack talking. And the best part is, everyone was right! The way Harper smiled when she called Yas useless (after talentless, but before the whore part) was just fantastic, I had to rewatch it several times. She fucking relished in sticking in Yas like a knife those exact same taunts Yas' father used on her just before his death.

To backtrack a bit: I watched some BTS stuff about the scene, which took months to fully sort out, and included both actors as well as the showrunners and writers. Myha'la was the one who decided Harper should slap Yas back! After all that! Fucking SAVAGE!!!

Returning to today, as well as savagery: I'm with R99 on Eric & Bill. Destroying a mentor of 30 years is EXTRA savage enough; doing so when he has months to live is just flat-out cruel (and Eric has now handily topped even Harper at her worst - if he keeps it up, he might almost be half as bad as Trump!). I read a contra argument here that I don't agree with, but OTOH at least makes a reasonable point: Bill was being in total denial that he had months to live, and was in no shape whatsoever to be negotiating side deals with Mitsubishi and whatnot (especially without telling them about his condition, for which they could've sued the living shit out of Pierpoint IRL). As such, that argument is that Eric destroying him in front of everyone was a mercy kill of sorts. (I think the mercy part is bullshit; they could've come up with a less cruel way to get the point across.)

R99, I wondered about Rishi's broken arm as well, but I read elsewhere that it's assumed to have been broken – in the interim between episodes, that is – by the loan shark who's been after him for months and is no longer being polite (and starting to get REAL!) about getting his money back. I'm assuming this storyline will be wrapped up on the finale, and it ain't looking good for our bloke at present.

Am I the only one getting the impression that Rob and Yas are getting shown the door? Considering we already know Gus moved to the Bay Area between seasons, the mention of a job offer in Silicon Valley was too much to be a coincidence. I also don't see what future Yas has here, either, meaning on the show. I'm not sure if this counts as a spoiler, but the showrunners have said one thing since day one: the show IS Pierpoint. That's why I knew there was no way Barclays would buy it: Pierpoint needs to remain Pierpoint, and in a way it's the show's most important "character." And I can't even fathom what Yas could do in banking after being even peripherally involved with her father's murder, even if her own actions are never revealed.

Yes, I know there are obviously exceptions, particularly Gus & Harper. Still, Gus is now gone, and I'm getting the strong impression that Harper (after being sidelined for much of this season) will take charge on the show next season – meaning it seems like she'll end up back at Pierpoint somehow.

One last bit: there's one, and only one, thing either Harper or Yas could do that could top what Eric just did to Bill – pin the blame for Yas's dad's death on the other. It would not surprise me ONE FUCKING BIT if that's what's coming on the finale. Those two bitches DESPISE each other, and for excellent reason. And we just saw Yas throw five or six other women her father sexually assaulted under the bus to save her own skin. If the authorities uncover evidence that suggests that a single person was spotted on the yacht doing nothing to save Charles, and Yas finds out about it, how hard would it be for her to set up Harper to take the fall for it? (Or vice-versa.)

Now THAT would be savage AF.

Nice post, R105.

Except I don’t think Harper can be implicated in the death of Yasmin’s Dad, except that she learned what happened after the fact and said nothing. But Yasmin is vulnerable to Harper’s charge that she willfully let her father die. But I don’t think she’ll do that.

Yasmin WAS bad at her job and is a spoiled princess and it’s to the credit of the writers and the actor that we knew all that about her but don’t have contempt for her. I agree she would seem to have no real function on the series at this point. And this series has shed a lot of characters from season to season, I agree that Yasmin and Rob are probably out going forward.

[quote]Otto Mostyn.

r102 Oh yeah, he seemed familiar, thanks. I guess I was thrown off by the garage scene and his goons looking so low-rent, I thought it must have been somebody else. Didn't really jibe with his high-class image we had seen previously.

Mostyn gives them a few hundred million in capital for their fund. He’s a billionaire.

[quote]Except I don’t think Harper can be implicated in the death of Yasmin’s Dad, except that she learned what happened after the fact and said nothing.

While I admittedly don't know how this works in European countries, a number of US states have "accessory after the fact" laws. Long story, but a trashy slut my brother once dated was tried for murder later down the road: a subsequent boyfriend murdered a dude he (incorrectly) thought the gf was cheating with him on – this occurred during a meth rage – and said nothing about it until after the deed was done. Still, they were both charged with second-degree murder, in her case because he called her panicking afterwards and she helped him dump the body. Something similar could theoretically happen with Yas & Harper, but agreed that it's a stretch.

Also, as pointed out upthread, it's an open question whether even Yas is culpable. In American law (and most other legal systems based in old English common law), there is no "duty to help" someone in peril. What I'm trying to remember, and cannot, is whether the deckmate her dad was fucking believed Yas's story about him. If she *saw* Charles jump in the water (e.g. from a stateroom below deck or something) and could also see that Yas did literally nothing – no life preserver, no rushing to turn the boat around, etc. – that could be a problem.

OTOH the biggest shock might be that he's not actually dead, though that might be a bit too daytime soap-esque for this show. Yas ID'd the body from its ring. If they didn't bother to do any DNA testing afterwards, how do we know it's not some rando person who washed up? (It was at least a bit suspect that Charles – a skilled yachtsman – couldn't even tread water for all of 20 seconds, plus they weren't *that* far from the shore. Why not at least attempt to swim it?)

Or maybe Charles faked his own death. That would explain how the ring got on another person's hand, and also why he did the weird jumping-off-the-boat thing in the first place. (If it was moving at full speed, he'd know how long it would take to stop and do a full 180.) He knew he couldn't save himself any other way, in theory. Still, this is also on the melodramatic side – very "'Melrose Place' S2."

Interesting theory that Charles might have faked his own death. It would be a way of avoiding his many problems and fucking up his daughter too. He did talk about his hip or leg being injured when he hit the water. If true, it suggested why he wouldn’t be able to swim his way to land. But it also could have been phony.

And if alive, he’d be aware that his daughter did nothing to help him, didn’t get the boat to turn around, etc. But where would he find a body he could let molder in the ocean? Ll very “Talented Mr. Ripley,” and Charles may certainly have been a sociopath.

All very melodramatic and film noir and would be a fun twist. But I think is Yasmin doesn’t remin a regular next season, they’d have no reason to go there.

Sweet Pea Golightly?

[quote]Oh yeah, he seemed familiar, thanks. I guess I was thrown off by the garage scene and his goons looking so low-rent, I thought it must have been somebody else. Didn't really jibe with his high-class image we had seen previously.

He was toodling around with one of his several classic cars. Probably has quite the collection.

Thanks, R107. I knew I missed a couple of zeroes. It was 300 mil just to get Pierpoint on retainer.

What do you think was the point the writers were trying to make with that Welsh frau with the janky teeth and the Libra tramp stamp? Was it to show how quickly Yas is willing to fuck over one woman whose face she knows, so of course she'd have no compunction fucking over all those faceless Hanani women on the list she got? Or was it to show how much she's willing to fight for something that isn't even hers, i.e. Rob and the Hanani payout.

I think the point of that scene was verbalized by Rob in the same episode -- Yas feels better when she can cunt it up and make fun of someone not as fortunate as her. She might care for Rob, but she knows they'll never work. Yet the idea of another woman potentially taking his attention away from Yas will always threaten her.

Also, those women on the list are not all faceless. She was looking at Teresa Werner's name on her phone - her nanny from when she was a kid. She went to see her in S2 when they were in Berlin and found out that the woman had had an affair with her father while she was working for the family and they had a child together. The preview for Sunday's episode shows her asking Lord Norton about the "Werner file", so she will absolutely throw the woman under the bus.

I think R113 got it: the entire point of that interaction was to more or less "show" why workingman's son Rob could never make it work with spoiled trust-fund brat Yas. We're three seasons in, and Yas has now has at least two full years of dealing with the fallout of her father's actions, including last season. And yet, unlike Rob, she STILL hasn't learned a fucking thing, and still considers herself "superior" to women with "tramp stamps."

Rob OTOH remains the show's lone character with any humanity, and the yawning chasm between the amount he has and the degree to which everyone else on the show does not has only grown. He was an immature party boy for S1 and most of S2, and yet always maintained the moral high ground even without trying (though this obviously resulted in him being used time & time again, first with Clement and then with Harper, Sir Henry, and of course Yas).

R113, you also helped put two-and-two together for me: I haven't seen a preview for the finale, but OF COURSE I should've clocked that Yasmin's nanny is one of the people who signed an NDA after her father, and she'll have to throw her under the bus to save herself – and she of course will do exactly that.

[quote]the entire point of that interaction was to more or less "show" why workingman's son Rob could never make it work with spoiled trust-fund brat Yas

Yeah, I listened to The Watch podcast this morning and they read that scene as being mostly about class differences, which I now totally see.

Just FYI, the "Industry" finale will air an hour late because of that show about flightless birds.

I love flightless birds, such a shame so many have gone extinct thanks to fucking humans.

I love Rob.

I want them to go tits to the glass and end the season with a shootout.

Tits to the glass

Balls to the wall

Unless Harper swoops in

PIERPOINT WILL FALL.

Holy shit, Harper didn't swoop in and Pierpoint DID fall! NO fucking idea where they're going next season, except it seems clear Rob's out of there.

Poor Diana. (Rishi's wife.)

[quote]I want them to go tits to the glass and end the season with a shootout.

You got it. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW GODDAMMIT?

Seemed like a series finale. It’s a preposterous show but there’s very little good TV at the moment.

R124, they announced its renewal before the finale, probably for this reason (people assuming it *was* the finale). No idea how they'll continue it with the characters so scattered, but the writers have already noted there will be a "multi-year time jump" before next season. Also no idea who stays or goes: seems like only Harper & Eric are all but certain to return.

OTOH I would be quite happy to see Lady Yasmin take control of all of her Uncle Otto's dirty, filthy money. Hopefully she'll learn how to make him BEG for it!

Robert looks sort of sick. His skin looked kind of off in this last episode. Also his voice was kind of odd in the first few episodes of this season.

HOLY FUCK!

I’m the person who wants Robert as Bond. He just needs some tweaking. Maybe he’s leaving the show for something else.

I missed something. Is Harper leaving Petra?

R128 isn’t she going to stay with Petra but spy?

What an episode, pure series finale vibes. Apparently there is going to be a substantial time jump next season.

Yas took one look at that miserable frau in the car with her crotchfruit and Rob with the scratch ticket, and she was like "Fuck. That." Had one final blissful afternoon with Rob in the graden, then got engaged with a possibly HIV- positive BPD billionaire whom she doesn't even love. Personal

Loved the surreal moment of Diana getting capped in the face and then just promptly moving on. Rish, mate, your luck has all but run out.

Rob at the end with those youthful curls perfectly hiding his receding hairline, hustling the gringos. Seemed like the perfect goodbye for his character. But who knows, he drove off on a motorcycle at the end of the first season as well.

Once Max committed muscle and $ to this series to make it a kind of successor to “Succession,” it was obvious that they were going to raise the stakes and change the direction they were going in. This series has always been ruthless about shedding characters and plotlines, and it was no different this season.

A time jump makes sense, they were mired in the immediate post-Covid period when the world’s financial outlook was still shakey. Now the U.S. finds itself with the most robust economy in the world, as China, Russia, England, France and Germany falter. Lots of interesting directions they could go into next season.

Muck’s “home” is so depressing .

Kit looked great.

The way he nonchalantly said he had watched the sunrise with some tramps under the bridge and then did some smack with them cracked me up!

R131, the challenge there will be figuring out a way to depict it in a way that doesn't piss off a large chunk of the audience – or Russia or North Korea in particular. They may not talk about it much, but the latter successfully "defeated" Hollywood a decade ago with their devastating Sony hack. Also, targeting Russia is often a great way to find oneself poisoned.

The elephant in the room that they'll have to dance around is the fallout from Israel-Gaza. They steered clear of Russia this season (they invaded Ukraine well before filming), despite its economic travails from Western sanctions, and I truly don't see any way of even mentioning it onscreen. (Particularly on a show this cynical & transactional, like Bibi himself.) Further still, they'll have to film everything without knowing what happens IRL, assuming Ukraine & Gaza are still ongoing when they begin breaking down S4.

Also, Max didn't cough up THAT much money. Kit Harington may be the most well-known actor on the show, but he's also had a severely shaky post-GoT career, and the last thing he was in was that Marvel shitfest "Eternals" (and even there he had a smaller role than his much LESS famous actor-brother, Richard Madden). And they still filmed most of it in Wales, and obviously that was the reason for Rob & Yas's odd road trip there. The show's doing well, but hadn't yet begun generating consistently strong traffic (and, most importantly, keeping existing subscribers and finding new ones). It has 1/5th the viewership of "House of the Dragon," for comparison's sake, at least for the first week on streaming.

Further still, it's still basically a bloodbath situation at WarnerMedia. They're hemorrhaging money, as well as explicitly cutting projects that cost too much. OTOH it really boils down to ratings: "The Penguin" has taken over their time slot, and for obvious reasons – A-list talent and movie-caliber sets, to start – it cost far more to produce than "Industry." AND Max produces the single most expensive TV show on the air today that doesn't have a huge FX budget: "And Just Like That...." The three leads are getting $2M PER EPISODE, along with ratings-based bonuses. That's about what an ENTIRE episode of "Industry" costs to produce: $2M.

Update: HBO almost nixed the final scene with Rishi & Diana! Also, I have no idea what he'll be doing, but apparently Rishi will be back: "Personally, and practically, we wanted Rishi in season four." For those of y'all with a paywall, here's most of the rest of the article:

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As the finale aired on Sunday, reaction online was swift, with fans posting Succession-esque responses to the show’s many turns of fortune.

“Industry is so good because they just keep moving forward. Mickey and Konrad are completely unafraid to put characters on paths they can’t easily undo for the sake of plot convenience. This is peak storytelling,” @lesliezye posted on X following the finale.

Added @cinnaMENA, “From Rishi’s sad bachelor pad scene to Yasmin’s country house breakdown I—I have emotional whiplash.”

For Down and Kay, it was all about elevating the storyline into new heights. “That core is shaken when something sort of seismic happens,” Down says of his scheming characters. “And your wife being shot in front of you to settle the gambling debt is a seismic thing, which means that Rishi in season four will be a totally different character than he was in season three and before.”

Did anybody else think that castle interior, looked like the same interior in Red, White, & Royal Blue during the final scene confronting the King?

I looked at pictures, they look mighty similar!

I keep forgetting the showrunners are relatively young, they sound quite a bit older when they give an interview on The Watch podcast at the end of a season.

They're so funny and laid-back, love them.

How is Rishi going to handle his wife’s murder? Will the guy come for him if he calls the police? Will he call someone to help him dispose of the body? Will he kill himself or maybe find god and become insufferable in another way.

Stressful and depressing episode, but I loved it too. I look forward to next season for sure.

r139 I don't know, but we should be expecting a profoundly changed Rishi, according to the showrunners. Also, there will be a significant time jump, so you might never get the answer as to the logistics of body disposal.

Sagar Radia was so humble at the SAG-AFTRA panel, nothing like Rishi. That nice comfy yellow sweater also doesn't give me Rishi vibes, lol. I'm becoming a fan!

I found this season unevenly paced, but, yikes, what a great finish.

Rob is too good to live, and though we knew he always had a yen for Yasmin he is hapless and was always a bit of a cuck and a masochist when it comes to women. But it’s the Yasmin side of their ‘romance’ which made no sense to me, maybe especially here. They want us to simultaneously believe that Yasmin pined for Nice Guy Rob as a sort of ideal while every other series marker regarding her character (including words from her own lips) suggested she is incapable of love and terrified of vulnerability.

Terrified also of being ‘seen’ as we learned in the killer scene with her new secretary, who confirmed the hints of abuse that have been dropping all season. I think where they were able to maneuver Yamin in just the last couple of episodes was genius, it’s exactly where she should be and it speaks well of the creative team going forward. Her rattling around in her fabulous estate gave me “Darling” vibes. We all know that going forward, she will fuck and suffer miserably in her tasteful wardrobe.

I dislike Harper (and the actor playing her) but she makes a nice foil to Yasmin, so I’m glad she’s around. And unlike some of you I got the impression that Rob will be back too — why bother to give him the first and last scene (pitching to one of his old colleagues from Pierpoint who got shit-canned in season 1) unless he is going to be part of the series going forward?

As for Rishi — his hyper, big-dick energy was always a shot of adrenaline but I’m at a loss as to how he can get out of this. Either someone very wealthy pays off his debt and makes his wife’s murder look like a robbery-gone-wrong (maybe the boss of the trigger-happy thug will sacrifice him to save Rish?) or (more likely) some Mr. Big he owes money to decides to co-op him as a mole to infiltrate the moneyed world he used to move in to siphon more cash from the vulnerable. Either way he (like Harper, Yasmin, even Henry — will he be a regular next season?) have all sold their souls to power brokers so it would fit the main theme of the series.

Jeff was another who sold his soul only to realize it’s more painful to live without one than he thought. I assume he’s been permanently written out along with Pierpoint and that’s okay with me. But I bet Jesse Bloom and his billions and the new Chancellor of the Exchequer with her highly malleable values, will be back.

So lack of love creates monsters who grow up to wreak havoc on those capable of love. It’s an old theme, but the way the show-runners distilled it here shows they know what they’re doing. Looking forward to season 4.

That scene with Yasmin and Henry's uncle (Lord Norton?) was brilliant and so uncomfortable to watch play out because there was so conspicuous subtext between them. What I got was he wanted her as a wife/partner for Henry because she's from wealth and knows what's expected of her as that type of wife, and possibly because Henry in a fucked-up way does love her at least for now. The uncle knows she has some kind of influence on Henry, and he wants to make use of that in exchange for offering Yasmin a way out of her current familial scandal clusterfuck. She needs and wants to be ensconced within the power, protection, and added wealth of Henry's family. Marisa Abela has done a gorgeous job portraying the character of Yasmin; so many nuances and undercurrents come through. I do feel sorry for Robert, but he gets it even as he keeps falling for her games. The scene with Rishi and his wife - yikes. Brutal. I'm enjoying this series as much as I enjoyed Succession, really. The way the interpersonal dynamics are written, filmed, and portrayed are fantastically compelling for me.

Who's Jeff, R143?

Sorry, R145, of course I meant to write Eric, the part played by Ken Leung.

I assume when we return to Yasmin, she will have a toddler running around, and we’ll be left to wonder if the father is Henry or Rob.

They’ll find a way to bring back Eric. Ken Leung is too good not to.

[quote]Did anybody else think that castle interior, looked like the same interior in Red, White, & Royal Blue during the final scene confronting the King?

It was similar, but they're not the same. RWRB was filmed almost entirely on location in and around London, which they even dressed up to look like D.C. and Texas in a few scenes. "Industry" is filmed primarily in Wales, near Cardiff, and only shoots occasion location scenes in London (two hours by train(. The Muck house is apparently owned by the Marquess of Bath (though it's not his primary residence, Longleat), but they only filmed some exteriors there & I gather shot its interiors at the same country house outside of Cardiff where Jesse Bloom lived last season.

[quote]That scene with Yasmin and Henry's uncle (Lord Norton?) was brilliant and so uncomfortable to watch play out because there was so conspicuous subtext between them. What I got was he wanted her as a wife/partner for Henry because she's from wealth and knows what's expected of her as that type of wife, and possibly because Henry in a fucked-up way does love her at least for now.

Interesting take: my own subtext from that scene was him telling her that he's basically a "confirmed bachelor," he's getting up there in age (I know, he's also supposed to be 60, but still), and since he'll have no children of his own & Henry is a daft cunt, the Muck family will need someone to manage their finances after he passes away. Given the multi-year time jump, I won't be at all surprised if he *is* dead by the beginning of next season: if Yasmin's coming back as a regular character, she needs to be doing something finance-related.

[quote]How is Rishi going to handle his wife’s murder? Will the guy come for him if he calls the police? Will he call someone to help him dispose of the body? Will he kill himself or maybe find god and become insufferable in another way.

R139, we know two things for certain: Rishi's coming back next year, and there will be a multi-year time jump. The details of his wife's death will almost certainly be irrelevant by then. While I suspect they'll somehow kill off the loan shark between seasons, I'm thinking Rishi has absolutely no way out of a situation like that one – and it's difficult to emphasize how EXTREMELY rare deaths by firearm are in the UK – other than, at minimum, confessing the truth, that he owed £600K to a thug, couldn't pay up after losing his job, and Diana "paid up" his debt via murder.

Seems highly unlikely Rishi would go to prison for anything here, but OTOH it's completely absurd that white billionaire Jesse Bloom got two years for insider trading while Gen Z no-degree-no-scruples Harper got off scot free, so who knows? Still, I think he'll likely be back, and he could either be a changed man or an even-worse one, though that's difficult to fathom, frankly.

Bloom was jailed for tax evasion, not insider trading.

This season was excellent. So glad we are set for a season 4. They would be wrong not to retain some of our key faves in some capacity.

Throwing that perfectly good doughnut in the bin was the worst thing Harper's ever done, by far.

I am only 1/2 way through episode 2 SEASON 2!!! (Not even on Season 3, and I scroll down this thread like a blind demon so I am not spoiled) but this fucking show SLAPS HARD.

I am putting it up there with my nearest and dearest- The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Comeback, Succession, Fleabag, Six Feet Under, Girls, and Breaking Bad-

I will probably say this is my 6th favorite show of all time- It depresses me a little because I am almost 45 and was recently fucked HARD (next level) by my company I have worked for for 13 years due to the fact we were acquired (and I am in sales).. But this show kicks ass- the soundtrack, the actors- every one of them is fantastic- and then London? My favorite place on earth. Awesome show, and it sounds like the 3rd season kicks ass, and the show seems to be getting popular.

I just finished and what a great show. I, too, got series finale vibes. Everyone is scattered. If season 4 goes forward will necessarily be different.

Among great performances, Marisa Abela is the standout as a spoiled nepo baby making awful choices and treating people badly and still making us sympathetic.

Conversely, Rishi’s character was awful and i thought the murder of the wife too over the top and out of sorts with the vibe of the show.

Eric’s betrayal in that boardroom was one of the most loathsome scenes seen lately on tv.

R152, it only slaps harder from there! S3 gets MASSIVELY hard-core in multiple ways.

R153, it was outperforming S2 by so much that Max announced its renewal two weeks *before* the finale! The showrunners have already said that there's almost certain to be a large time jump before S4, but it's already lined up to start shooting in the next few months. (That said, you're correct that they wrote it – just in case – to serve as a series finale if it somehow bombed.)

As for Rishi's wife: I know you (and plenty of others) despise him – entirely for good reason, considering he's a truly terrible person – but the writers had to resolve that plot thread in a way that keeps Rishi on the show, but makes clear the severity of his problem. (No chance they could've left it unresolved, especially after giving him a standalone episode.) Yes, it is patently absurd that anyone would just cap someone in the head like that in the UK, in broad daylight and in an average flat: handguns actually *are* rare there, and Vinay would almost certainly be caught via CCTV entering & exiting the building.

Fully agreed re: Eric, but he paid a severe price for his betrayal. (And thankfully Adler passed away fairly quickly, likely a blessing in his case.) For some reason I suspect he'll end up working *for* Harper at some point, but we'll see.

[quote]But this show kicks ass- the soundtrack, the actors- every one of them is fantastic- and then London? My favorite place on earth.

Actually, this is the result of some impressive staging & production design by the crew. About 95% of the show is filmed in Wales, if only because it'd cost so much more to film in London. Obviously they shoot a ton of exteriors in London, but as one example: for the scenes set at Lumi, they greenscreened all the windows and replaced them digitally with London views.

Shocker, Harry Lawytey ("Rob") is not returning for Season 4 of Industry.

Supposed excuse is scheduling conflicts.

Damn

Honestly, I'm neither surprised nor disappointed, even as a Rob fan. His storyline seemed to reach its natural end, with Yaz finally giving him a brutal breakup – which he needed (as a character to move on). I thought the same about Gus in S2 and wasn't surprised that he didn't return for S3 (though in his case he actually did have a scheduling conflict filming the latest "Alien" movie).

OTOH if Yaz & Sir Henry are both back, I'm guessing that likely means two things: Yaz is controlling the family finances, and Rob probably knocked her up with spawn she's passing off as Henry's.

Kal Penn and that Stranger Things actor joining season 4. Kiernan Shipka also among new cast members.

[quote]Penn will play Jay Jonah Atterbury, described as the “CEO and founder of payment processor Tender.” Heaton will play Jim Dycker, “a finance journalist.” Finally, Forlani will play Cordelia Hanani-Spyrka, a “corporate PR heavy-hitter.”

Yaz's sister?

Okay, I see now Forlani is 53, so she's probably her aunt.

r157 Yeah, I feel the same about Rob. It was time, and I wouldn't be surprised if the scheduling conflict was just an excuse to allow the actor a graceful exit. I'm more miffed about Gus disappearing, the only gay character on the show.