Watch enough of Industry, HBO’s hedonistic, dark-souled, capitalist-critiquing financial drama, and you can start to feel unmoored from reality.
There’s the heavy amount of technical jargon in the script, which can render whole scenes like watching a foreign movie with the subtitles switched off; the claustrophobic atmosphere of life on the trading floor, with viewers rarely accessing the other side of the glass skyscrapers the characters tap into at 7 a.m.
each day. And then there are the time frames involved in everything that happens in an average episode: Characters arrive at work early, leave their desks in what appears to be the middle of the night, and still find time to get high or carry out an ill-advised affair.
Ultimately, the best way to watch Industry is to stop trying to keep up and just let the whole thing overwhelm you. Industry’s main characters, a group of new hires at the London branch of a major investment bank called Pierpoint, fight for survival in the cutthroat and supremely competitive world of high finance.
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