"Good TV distracts you from your life. Really good TV distracts you even from your phone. It's rare that Industry fails to suck me into its satisfyingly profane milieu, but the overall effect of the show can be fleeting. I shout oh no or hell yes at the screen, then forget what happened. It doesn't matter because someone will do something more atrocious next week. What's wrong with these people?"
"After Eric leaves the hotel suite where his teenage daughter is sleeping, he tells the young call girl waiting downstairs to make him feel big. He stares at his reflection as she goes down on him, like maybe he'll be able to see the transformation. It's hardly deviant, but I found it excruciating to watch. Did I think that because his daughter needed him, Eric would become paternal? I didn't realize I was so naive."
The episode premiered early and is streaming on HBO Max. The episode uses morally wrenching scenes to force a confrontation that lingers beyond the hour. Eric leaves a hotel suite where his teenage daughter sleeps and seeks validation from a young call girl, staring at his reflection as she performs oral sex, suggesting a desperate search for transformation. Harper grieves her mother's sudden death and adopts a softer, sweeter voice that makes her vulnerability off-putting despite viewers often cheering her sharp-tongued persona. Stern Tao collapses as Jim Dycker and the Sunderland story die; Tender's stock soars and a looming margin call becomes a death sentence after Harper liquidates the fund.
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