‘Industry’: Young People Are Capital, But HBO’s Newest Gen-Z Wall Street Show Isn’t Indispensible [Review]
A far cry from HBO’s other youth-centered show (that would be the visceral and brazen “Euphoria”), HBO’s newest attempt at catching the Gen-Z zeitgeist, “Industry,” hews closer to the short-lived “How to Make it in America,” both in treating the professional and sexual lives of 20-somethings as semi-interesting dramatic fodder, and in terms of quality, as the two shows are (or were, in the case of “America”) workmanlike and, ultimately, forgettable.