"At first glance, the HBO financial drama "Industry" would seem to fall neatly in line with the network's other programming about the wretchedly wealthy. Its first three seasons followed the ups and downs of young, improbably good-looking bankers in a London built almost entirely of glass, brick, and blow, their worst impulses spurred on by a corporate culture of excess. But unlike "Succession" or "The White Lotus," which fixate on the already élite, "Industry" centers largely on the strivers: people"
"Harper (Myha'la), the series' antiheroine, is a Black American who didn't finish college; her mentor at Pierpoint & Co., Eric (Ken Leung), is a fellow-Yank of modest origins. Marrying an English rose doesn't help their associate Rishi (Sagar Radia) in his bid for social advancement-though it does give him plenty of opportunities to crack jokes about avenging the colonization of India. Even Yasmin (Marisa Abela), a spoiled heiress fluent in seven languages,"
Season 4 follows former Pierpoint associates after the firm's collapse as they pursue second acts shaped by ambition and social constraints. Harper launches her own fund and leverages others' weaknesses in pursuit of profit. Yasmin emerges as a co-lead whose arrivalist instincts amplify competitive drive. The series focuses on strivers rather than inherited elites, showing how Britain's class system and personal grievances compound existing personality defects. Characters scatter into varied roles and industries, and their core flaws continue to determine opportunities and failures as ambition curdles into insatiability.
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