Myha’la on Taking HBO’s Coked-Up Corporate Drama ‘Industry’ to the Next Level in Season 3: ‘We Kind of Blew This Place Wide Open’
variety.comIndustry” — she had just been ejected from her center of gravity. As her mentor, Eric Tao (Ken Leung), avoided eye contact, an HR officer sternly informed her that elite bank Pierpoint & Co.
had learned her college transcript was a forgery. Minutes earlier, Eric disclosed he’d footed the bill for Harper’s monthslong hotel stay during lockdown, a testament to their quasi-filial bond; now, he was stabbing her in the back. “I have to let you go,” Eric croaked out.
The line was standard corporate-speak, but in Leung’s delivery, it sounded more like a breakup. “Industry,” the provocative, fast-paced HBO drama set in the world of London high finance, is built around Harper, a young woman who’s ditched a troubled home life in New York and faked her way into a spot as an analyst at Pierpoint.
That deception caught up with her in the final moments of Season 2, which followed through on Eric’s mounting wariness toward his protégé and the ruthless ambition he’d once encouraged.
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