Industry (TV series)
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Industry is a television drama series that premiered in 2020. Created by former bankers[1] Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the show's first season follows a group of young graduates competing for permanent positions at Pierpoint & Co, a prestigious investment bank in London.
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| Created by | Mickey Down Konrad Kay |
| Starring | see Main |
| Music by | Nathan Micay |
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| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
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| Running time | 49–71 minutes |
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| Release | 9 November 2020 – present |
It premiered on 9 November 2020 on HBO in the United States, and on 10 November 2020 on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. In December 2020, it was renewed for a second season, which premiered on 1 August 2022. In October 2022, the series was renewed for a third season which premiered on 11 August 2024. On 19 September 2024, it was renewed for a fourth season.
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Main
- Marisa Abela as Yasmin Kara-Hanani, an ambitious graduate from a wealthy background, fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Arabic, assigned to the Foreign Exchange Sales (FX) desk at Pierpoint
- Priyanga Burford as Sara Dhadwal (series 1), the President of Pierpoint London[2]
- Mark Dexter as Hilary Wyndham (series 1–2), Managing Director (MD) of FX at Pierpoint[2]
- Myha'la Herrold as Harper Stern, an underestimated, intelligent, and talented young woman from Binghamton, New York, assigned to the Cross Product Sales (CPS) desk at Pierpoint[3]
- David Jonsson as Augustus "Gus" Sackey (series 1–2), an openly gay graduate of literae humaniores at Eton and Oxford, initially assigned to the Investment Banking Division (IBD) desk at Pierpoint, then the CPS desk[4]
- Harry Lawtey as Robert Spearing, a graduate of Oxford from a working-class Welsh background, assigned to the CPS desk at Pierpoint
- Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Greg Grayson (series 1 and 3), a Vice President (VP) at the CPS desk[2]
- Conor MacNeill as Kenny Kilbane, a VP at the FX desk at Pierpoint, Yasmin's line manager[5]
- Freya Mavor as Daria Greenock (series 1; guest series 2–3), a VP at the CPS desk at Pierpoint and Harper's line manager[6]
- Derek Riddell as Clement Cowan (series 1), CPS VP and Robert's manager, who struggles with heroin addiction[7]
- Nabhaan Rizwan as Hari Dhar (pilot), a graduate of a state school from a Urdu-speaking immigrant family, assigned to the IBD desk at Pierpoint
- Will Tudor as Theo Tuck (series 1), a closeted Eton graduate and second-year research analyst for Pierpoint[8]
- Ken Leung as Eric Tao, the fiery CPS MD who takes Harper under his wing[9]
- Sarah Parish as Nicole Craig, a Pierpoint client who is sexually inappropriate with Harper (series 1) and Robert (series 2)
- Andrew Buchan as Felim Bichan (series 1–2), a fund manager and Pierpoint's biggest client
- Amir El-Masry as Usman Abboud (series 1), assistant to Kaspar Zenden, Clement's main client
- Sagar Radia as Rishi Ramdani (series 2–present; recurring series 1), an associate and market maker on the CPS desk[10]
- Caoilfhionn Dunne as Jackie Walsh (series 2; recurring series 1; guest series 3), a VP on the FX desk
- Nicholas Bishop as Maxim Alonso (series 2–present; recurring series 1), Yasmin's family friend and one of Pierpoint's potential clients
- Alex Alomar Akpobome as Daniel Van Deventer, aka "DVD" (series 2), the Executive Director from Pierpoint New York who becomes involved with Harper[11]
- Katrine De Candole as Celeste Pacquet (series 2),[12] one of Pierpoint's Private Wealth Managers who begins a lesbian affair with Yasmin
- Indy Lewis as Venetia Berens (series 2–present; guest series 1), Yasmin's newest recruit on the FX desk[11]
- Trevor White as Bill Adler (series 2–3; guest series 1), the global head of FICC (fixed income instruments, currencies, and commodities) at Pierpoint, based out of their New York headquarters
- Jay Duplass as Jesse Bloom (series 2),[12] Harper's primary client, a hedge fund manager who capitalized greatly off the pandemic
- Adam Levy as Charles Hanani (series 2–3), Yasmin's father[11]
- Sonny Poon Tip as Leo Bloom (series 2),[12] Jesse's son who becomes involved with Gus
- Faith Alabi as Aurore Adekunle (series 2–present), a Tory MP and member of the Health and Social Care Select Committee
- Elena Saurel as Anna Gearing (series 2; recurring series 3), the head of FutureDawn Partners and Harper's new boss
- Irfan Shamji as Anraj Chabra (series 3; recurring series 2), graduate trader on the CPS desk
- Kit Harington as Sir Henry Muck (series 3),[13] the wealthy, mercurial CEO of green energy startup Lumi
- Sarah Goldberg as Petra Koenig (series 3),[14] a portfolio manager at FutureDawn
- Miriam Petche as Sweetpea Golightly (series 3),[15] new hire with TikTok and OnlyFans businesses on the side
- Andrew Havill as Viscount Alexander Norton (series 3), Henry's uncle and newspaper proprietor
- Roger Barclay as Otto Mostyn (series 3),[15] Henry's godfather
- Fiona Button as Denise Oldroyd (series 3),[15] Yasmin's lawyer and Seb's sister
- Eliot Salt as Caedi McFarlane (series 3), Henry's executive assistant
- Georgina Rich as Wilhelmina Fassbinder (series 3), the CFO of Pierpoint
- Tom Stourton as James Ashford (series 3), CEO of Ashford Asset Management and prominent investor in Lumi
- Fady Elsayed as Ali El Mansour (series 3),[15] a new hire who hails from a wealthy Egyptian family
- Gustav Lindh as Xander Lindt (series 3), the cocky heir to the Lindt empire and a member of Henry's entourage
- Joel Kim Booster as Frank Wade (series 3), an energy analyst at Pierpoint
- Asim Chaudhry as Vinay Sarkar (series 3), Rishi's loan shark
- Harry Hadden-Paton as Tom Wolsey (series 3), the new CEO of Pierpoint
Recurring
- Joshua James as Justin Klineman, Head of Human Resources at Pierpoint
- Ruby Bentall as Lucinda Young (series 1-2), one of the IBD team leads at Pierpoint
- Jonathan Barnwell as Sebastian "Seb" Oldroyd (series 1), Yasmin's underachieving, drug-addled boyfriend
- Helene Maksoud as Azar Kara (series 1), Yasmin's mother
- Alexandra Moen as Candice Allbright (series 1-2), Eric's wife
- Kare Conradi as Kaspar Zenden (series 1), Clement's only client
- Branden Cook as Todd Barber (series 1), Harper's ex-boyfriend
- Colin McFarlane as Lord Oaki (series 1), a politician who serves on the board of a heart disease charity, with whom Gus gets acquainted
- Brittany Ashworth (series 2) and Emily Barber (series 3) as Diana, Rishi's fiancée and later wife
- Adain Bradley as John-Daniel Stern (series 2), Harper's brother
- Rick Warden as Robert Spearing Sr. (series 2), Robert's father
- James Nelson-Joyce as Jamie Henson (series 2), one of Aurore's constituents
- Naana Agyei-Ampadu as Sadie Sackey (series 2), Gus's sister
- Olivia Grant as Naomi Anderson (series 3), a Pierpoint lawyer
- Chloe Pirrie as Lisa Dearn (series 3), a crusading prosecutor investigating Lumi
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Series overview
Series 1 (2020)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [a] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Induction" | Lena Dunham | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 9 November 2020 | 0.089[17] | |
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University graduates Harper Stern, Yasmin Kara-Hanani, Gus Sackey, Hari Dhar and Robert Spearing interview for entry-level jobs on the trading floor of Pierpoint & Co, a prestigious investment bank. The grads are told that on Reduction in Force (RIF) day in six months, they will be given full-time jobs or let go. Harper is driven, which appeals to fiery managing director Eric Tao, but she is revealed to have never graduated college, and sends a forged transcript to HR. Harper's line manager Daria Greenock invites her to a dinner with a client, Nicole Craig. While Daria is accommodating, Harper pushes Nicole as Eric might and makes an impression. After dinner, Nicole makes an advance on Harper, which Harper rejects. Gus and Hari are on the same team. Hari repeatedly works overnight at the office while abusing energy drinks and stimulant pills, until he suffers a fatal heart attack in the bathroom. Pierpoint does brief damage control and everyone soon resumes business as usual. | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Quiet and Nice" | Tinge Krishnan | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 16 November 2020 | 0.127[18] | |
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Harper struggles with life in London, continuing to live in a hotel. She unsuccessfully looks for an apartment to share but her personality is never a good fit. She later makes a sale to Nicole. Yasmin quickly falls prey to the sexist culture of the FX desk, facing repeated bullying from her line manager Kenny Kilbane. At a Pierpoint-sponsored dinner for the grads, Kenny begins to verbally abuse Yasmin but Harper steps in, picking a fight and angering a drunken Kenny. Yasmin begins to manipulatively flirt with Robert. Robert's manager Clement Cowan has a single client and is indifferent to Robert's need to impress management for a permanent job. After Hari's death, Pierpoint disbands Gus' team, leaving his future uncertain. When he tries to discuss this with senior management he alienates them. Yasmin invites Harper to stay at her house and a friendship forms. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Notting Hill" | Tinge Krishnan | Sam H. Freeman | 23 November 2020 | 0.124[19] | |
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Eric loses a major client, Felim Bichan, after offending his wife, forcing grads to drum up new business. Gus is assigned to Clement, working with Robert. Harper has now moved into Yasmin's house, but they both struggle to keep their friendship and professional lives separate. Harper finds herself increasingly pulled between Eric, her boss, and Daria, her line manager. Work stress manifests outside of work when Harper purposely hooks up with a man who looks like Sebastian, Yasmin's boyfriend. Yasmin and Harper agree to a formal rental agreement. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Sesh" | Ed Lilly | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 30 November 2020 | 0.111[20] | |
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Harper has a wild birthday celebration with Robert, Yasmin, and Greg. Her lack of focus the next day causes problems as she trades on the wrong currency, putting her team at risk for major losses. Given a chance to break even, Harper instead pushes her luck and makes her losses worse. Harper appeals to Nicole to make a purchase and save her, which she does. Eric later talks to her and reveals that he knows she never graduated from college. The two bond over being upstarts hungry for success among colleagues of privilege. Yasmin and Robert represent Pierpoint at a college recruitment event, but are attacked with dye by a protester, bringing them closer. At home, Yasmin is becoming distant from Sebastian, and continues flirting with Robert. Frustrated by his position, Gus further alienates his coworkers and insults Clement. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Learned Behaviour" | Ed Lilly | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 7 December 2020 | 0.116[21] | |
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A former Pierpoint VP writes an exposé on the bank's toxic culture and management goes into damage control. Eric goes offsite, leaving his grads unsupervised. Although unauthorized, Gus covers trades at his desk, while Harper unsuccessfully tries to convince Felim to return to Pierpoint. Both go too far and get in hot water. A furious Eric locks Harper in a conference room and berates her for failing to court Felim back to Pierpoint, noting that he gave her a bonus that doubles that of the other grads. Clement brings Robert to Amsterdam to meet their only client. The meeting goes well and Clement buys Robert a fitted suit as a gift. Clement reveals that he is actually Scottish, and like Robert, was born of lower class and strives to fit in with those born of privilege. Robert also discovers Clement is a heroin addict. Yasmin attempts to get a family friend, Maxim Alonso, who runs a large fund, to bring his business to Pierpoint. She brings Kenny, who humiliates Yasmin after getting drunk and ordering a stripper to their table. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Nutcracker" | Tinge Krishnan | Kate Verghese Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 14 December 2020 | 0.086[22] | |
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Pierpoint holds its annual holiday party. Sara, the president of the London office, makes clear to Gus that she has plans to change the culture at Pierpoint to be less toxic and more inclusive. Maxim's unexpected arrival aggravates tensions between Yasmin and Kenny; Yasmin snaps at Maxim after he criticizes her for not speaking up against Kenny's behavior at the strip club, and later confronts an indignant Kenny about his behavior. Greg parties a little too hard with Robert and Usman, hurting himself by running into a glass door and having to go to hospital. Yasmin pleasures Robert in the bathroom. Theo's girlfriend catches him being intimate with Gus. Harper confides in Daria about what happened with Eric and being locked in the conference room; Daria tells Sara. They push Harper to file a complaint against Eric. Harper is clearly a pawn in a battle of cultures but signs the documents. Eric is fired from Pierpoint. | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Pre-Crisis Activity" | Mary Nighy | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 21 December 2020 | 0.113[23] | |
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RIF day looms. Sara and Daria let Harper keep the unauthorized, outsize bonus that Eric gave her, as long as she stays quiet about it. Yasmin considers leaving the FX desk. Sebastian decides to throw a fancy catered meal for the grads at Yasmin's house, but charges the guests, much to Yasmin's embarrassment. The dinner proves a failure when food arrives late and the grads become too intoxicated; Harper lets slip that she was paid double the bonus as everyone else. Yasmin breaks up with Sebastian, and later walks in on a cocaine-addled Robert and Harper having sex; she initiates a threesome between them, but a jealous Harper becomes uncomfortable and backs out. Daria tells Harper she is required to pay back her surplus bonus after breaking her vow of confidentiality. Harper antagonizes Nicole into cutting ties with Pierpoint. Yasmin's boss Hilary Wyndham learns about how Kenny had harassed her because of monitored communication with Maxim, but encourages her to be a "team player" and not say anything. | |||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Reduction in Force" | Ed Lilly | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 21 December 2020 | 0.103[23] | |
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On RIF day, grads present to the managers but their presentations are also broadcast on the trading floor. Bill Adler, Pierpoint's global head of FICC, flies in from New York for the presentations. In his, Robert talks about client relationships, getting Adler's positive attention and a job offer. Yasmin gives an uninspiring presentation, but her boss vouches for her being a "team player" and she is hired. Gus reads a note to begin his presentation, a line of which was part of a bet, and then leaves the room. He is not hired. Harper has an anxiety attack and leaves the presentation room without saying a word. Among the managers, Daria supports Harper. Adler invites Harper to a private meeting with Eric and encourages her to recant, as Eric is too valuable to the firm. Sara pulls Harper aside and tells her that they can create a new culture at Pierpoint. Seeing how Daria expects her to know her place while Eric encouraged her hunger to succeed, Harper recants and is hired, Eric returns, and Daria is let go. Yasmin, who was going to leave FX to work for Daria, is angry at Harper for reinforcing the worst parts of Pierpoint's culture. | |||||||
Series 2 (2022)
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| 9 | 1 | "Daddy" | Birgitte Stærmose | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 1 August 2022 | 0.082[24] | |||
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As Pierpoint traders return to work after COVID, Harper continues to work remotely from the hotel where she is living. There, she meets notorious hedge fund manager Jesse Bloom, who profited heavily from the pandemic. Eric tells Harper she needs to return to the office, frustrated that she has lost her edge. Yasmin and Harper continue their feud in and outside the office. Amid talks of closing either the New York or London office, Daniel Van Deventer (nicknamed "DVD") arrives from the New York office. Robert is sober but is struggling with confidence, and struggles to make enough outgoing calls. While Kenny is away in rehab, Yasmin essentially leads the desk, castigating a female grad and using personal contacts to bring in business. At a party, Maxim tells Yasmin that his fund is closing, and Yasmin meets Celeste Pacquet, a Pierpoint Private Wealth Manager. Harper stands up Eric at a client meeting with Felim, instead going to see Bloom speak. | |||||||||
| 10 | 2 | "The Giant Squid" | Birgitte Stærmose | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 8 August 2022 | 0.076[25] | |||
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Rishi has pre-buy stock options that Eric guarantees he can sell to Felim. Worried about his position, Eric pushes Robert to call inactive clients. Robert cold calls Nicole Craig, winning her over by admitting he is out of his depth. At dinner, the two connect on both being of modest beginnings trying to find their identity among the elite. She makes a successful advance on the drive home. Yasmin begins a relationship with Maxim, which is complicated when her father Charles shows up unexpectedly. Celeste invites Yasmin to a client dinner, but Yasmin misinterprets her role as being sexual. Feeling lost at the FX desk, she tries to get her father to move his assets to Pierpoint and away from Maxim. Harper begins to court Bloom as a client. Eric feels threatened seeing DVD, his former protegé, in a position of authority. Harper is stuck in the middle. When DVD insists Harper answer a call from Felim against Eric's orders, she blows the deal. To cover, she gets Bloom to buy the stock at the last moment, leaving Eric feeling even less in control. | |||||||||
| 11 | 3 | "The Fool" | Isabella Eklöf | Matthew Barry | 15 August 2022 | 0.075[26] | |||
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Pierpoint hosts a shooting holiday to celebrate the stock purchases, but had assumed Felim not Bloom would be the major buyer. Felim and Bloom are antagonistic, as Felim rejects his modest beginnings while Bloom embraces his. Gus is hired by Bloom to tutor his wayward son, Leo, on a university essay. After trying to help, Gus tells Leo that success is true rebellion. At a meeting with Celeste, Yasmin's father treats her like a child and not a professional, embarrassing her. When Yasmin reluctantly brings Kenny to a client meeting, he winds up connecting more than she does. Eric pushes Harper to get in line and have Bloom to sell his shares to Felim. Harper bristles at this and senses Bloom and another investor is being lied to and has to decide who she supports: Pierpoint or her client. She confronts Eric who reminds her that he is the boss. Yasmin drops by Harper's apartment looking for advice. Harper is still away, but she and Robert chat. Robert acknowledges the control she had over him and advises using her manipulative power on her father. Against Eric's orders, Harper advises Bloom to keep his shares and buy those of FutureDawn Partners, a socially conscious investment fund, for a controlling interest. | |||||||||
| 12 | 4 | "There Are Some Women..." | Isabella Eklöf | Zara Meerza | 22 August 2022 | 0.094[27] | |||
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Eric has taken two weeks off and DVD takes over his duties. This includes handing out bonus checks, which causes Eric to feel displaced and pushes him to visit the New York office. Harper receives the maximum compensation after a great year. In trying to get her family's money to Pierpoint, Yasmin discovers their finances are in disarray thanks to her father's nondisclosure settlements with women he had affairs with. At a party, Celeste flirts with Yasmin but later mentions she has a wife. Now having an affair with Nicole, Robert learns she made advances on Harper their first year at Pierpoint. Gus is now working for an MP connected to Anna, while engaged in a relationship with Leo Bloom. Yasmin visits Harper at her home, late, worried about a life without family money. The next day, Harper and DVD share their family backgrounds and later sleep together. That same night she advises Bloom to go against advice DVD gave him. In New York, Eric tries to have DVD fired but DVD has already maneuvered to take Eric's place. Defeated, Eric is assigned a meaningless position and given a corner office. | |||||||||
| 13 | 5 | "Kitchen Series" | Caleb Femi | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 29 August 2022 | 0.067[28] | |||
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DVD and Harper continue their sexual relationship. Yasmin travels to Berlin to transition a client to Jackie. Harper talks her way on to the trip, hoping to find her estranged brother, John. She does. The two bring Yasmin to a disco and take drugs, breaking John's six months of sobriety. Later, John shares the pressure he was under from their mother and why he disappeared. As Harper tries to take care of John, he rejects her and calls her selfish. Robert finds out Clement has died. He is sent to Oxford with Venetia, a grad on the FX desk, to recruit a much sought after recruit. There, he struggles to reconnect with his father, a local publican, and breaks his sobriety. At dinner with the recruit, drunk, he successfully sells Pierpoint as the goal of all of her work. The next day, sober, he makes peace with his father. Gus is invited to do more important work for the minister he is working for. Yasmin connects with her former nanny, but is turned away when she asks if she had an affair with her father. Back in London, Harper is cold towards DVD. When he asks her if she had an affair while in Berlin, Harper rebuffs and insults him. | |||||||||
| 14 | 6 | "Short to the Point of Pain" | Caleb Femi | Joseph Charlton | 5 September 2022 | 0.145[29] | |||
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| 15 | 7 | "Lone Wolf and Cub" | Isabella Eklöf | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 12 September 2022 | 0.053[30] | |||
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| 16 | 8 | "Jerusalem" | Isabella Eklöf | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 19 September 2022 | 0.127[31] | |||
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Series 3 (2024)
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| 17 | 1 | "Il Mattino ha L'Oro in Bocca" | Isabella Eklöf | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 11 August 2024 | N/A | |
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Yasmin spends the summer in Italy on her father's yacht before catching him performing oral sex on a pregnant boat employee. Six weeks later, he is missing and has been exposed for historic embezzling at Hanani Publishing. Yasmin tries to avoid paparazzi amidst a leaked photo of her on the boat and the threat of potential lawsuits. At Pierpoint, ESG and impact investing have become core tenets of the firm's investment strategy. Eric, separated from his wife, is promoted to partner, but Adler demands that Eric fire a member of the trading desk. As the firm gears up to take Lumi, a green energy tech company, public, investor James Ashford voices concerns about Lumi's inflated quarterly earnings reports. Sir Henry Muck, Lumi's CEO, returns Ashford's shares, while Yasmin scrambles to find last-minute investors. At Henry's behest, Yasmin visits his club, where his uncle and godfather make it clear she must pay for her father's debts. After staying the night at Nicole's, Robert wakes up to her dead next to him, and enters work the morning of the IPO shaken and upset, but Eric motivates him to return to Lumi's offices for the IPO. Instead of firing Yasmin or Robert as he initially contemplated, Eric fires Kenny. The power goes out across London the exact moment Lumi goes public. | |||||||
| 18 | 2 | "Smoke and Mirrors" | Isabella Eklöf | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 18 August 2024 | N/A | |
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The power outage sends Lumi's stock into a tailspin, with both Pierpoint and FutureDawn (where Harper is now working as an executive assistant for Anna Gearing) scrambling to sell shares. Amid Henry's erratic behavior, Robert snaps at him over his flippancy and entitlement, leading to a fight between them. Robert leaves to Nicole's house to pick up a necklace given to him by Venetia (who he is now dating). He discovers that Nicole has a 15-year-old daughter, and leaves when she tries to make sexual advances on him. Yasmin arranges a meeting at an exclusive club between Henry, his godfather Otto Mostyn, and a potential investor from a major electricity company, while alerting the paparazzi to her own presence there; the resulting photographs of the meeting spark rumors of Lumi's possible acquisition, successfully giving the company's stock the necessary boost to make it through the IPO. Henry later invites Yasmin to dinner to thank her, and the two begin flirting. At FutureDawn, Harper helps shrewd portfolio manager Petra Koenig hedge her exposure from the Lumi IPO chaos by having her go through Yasmin to buy credit default swaps on oil and natural gas shares, despite it contradicting FutureDawn's ESG commitments; as a result, she wins Petra's respect while antagonizing Anna. | |||||||
| 19 | 3 | "It" | Zoé Wittock | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 25 August 2024 | 0.133[33] | |
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Pierpoint joins Lumi for a climate conference in Switzerland, hoping to retain the rest of their ESG pipeline amidst rumors of their overvaluing Lumi pre-IPO. Henry insists on bringing Yasmin along. Petra, disillusioned with Anna, decides to start her own hedge fund alongside Harper; the two discreetly attend the conference to court potential investors. Pierpoint analyst Frank Wade publishes a research report making a "hold" recommendation on Lumi stock - tantamount to a "sell" since Pierpoint is also Lumi's lead underwriter - in the middle of Eric's panel discussion with Henry and Anna, which Harper announces during a Q&A session along with the fact that she and Petra are starting their own fund. They get the attention of an investor called Peter, as well as Otto Mostyn; the pair agree to provide them with seed capital. Harper and Petra decide to enlist Pierpoint as their broker, further humiliating Eric. Accepting Lumi's downfall, Henry confides to Yasmin that he chose to start his own company to escape the depression he faced after his father's suicide, and that he brought her on the trip in hopes of courting her. The two have sex on Pierpoint's private jet on the flight back, in view of Eric and Robert. | |||||||
| 20 | 4 | "White Mischief" | Zoé Wittock | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 1 September 2024 | N/A | |
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Rishi is revealed to be deep in debt: not only does he owe £200,000 to loan sharks due to gambling — with a further £20,000 in vig overdue — but took a £300 million long position on pound sterling against the US dollar during the 12-hour risk limit increase that Adler granted him the day of Lumi's IPO. Rishi is relying on a rumored top-rate tax cut to raise the value of the pound, otherwise risking a significant chunk of Pierpoint's money. During an office Christmas party, Rishi collects a total of £8,000 from several employees — ostensibly for betting on horse races — and gambles it at a casino. He initially wins big, parties (getting into a fight with a patron), then gambles his newly earned cash, only to lose it all. Rishi goes home and has an argument with his wife Diana over his infidelity and gambling addiction, during which she admits to an affair with a family friend whose cricket pavilion Rishi is renovating. Diana agrees to cover Rishi's loan debts. The next day, however, Pierpoint receives word that the UK chancellor is approving the tax cut, finally raising the value of the pound and netting Rishi £18 million. Venetia, meanwhile, decides to leave Pierpoint. Rishi cathartically ransacks the pavilion the next day and calls his loan shark to report that he has recovered his money, only to take out another loan to gamble away. | |||||||
| 21 | 5 | "Company Man" | Isabella Eklöf | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 8 September 2024 | N/A | |
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Lumi is subject to a select committee inquiry following its collapse and subsequent £2 billion bailout by the government, which was funded by taxpayers and left millions of low-income households using Lumi with mounting energy bills. Robert is sent as Pierpoint's representative in the hearings, quickly realizing he is to be their scapegoat. Aurore, however, takes full responsibility for Lumi's failure and resigns from her cabinet position. After the hearings, Henry takes Robert to a member's club, where Aurore reveals that her performance at the hearings was a ploy to win over the public in preparation to run for prime minister. Meanwhile, recently-hired Pierpoint trader Sweetpea Golightly tells Eric she discovered that the outsize debt Pierpoint issued to fund its ESG pivot is now reaching maturity, but cannot be paid off due to the string of failed ESG IPOs post-Lumi. Eric tells Sweetpea to keep it quiet, but Harper overhears Sweetpea telling Yasmin in the bathroom. Adler later confirms to Eric that Pierpoint is on the brink of collapse, and reveals that he is dying of a malignant brain tumor. Robert joins Henry on an ayahuasca trip and hallucinates visions of Nicole and his mother - he returns home the next morning at peace. Yasmin joins him in his bed and the two have an honest conversation, where Yasmin says she killed her father; Robert laughs it off as a joke. | |||||||
| 22 | 6 | "Nikki Beach, or: So Many Ways to Lose" | Isabella Eklöf | Joseph Charlton | 15 September 2024 | N/A | |
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A flashback to Yasmin's summer vacation reveals that her father jumped off the deck of the yacht while drunk, as a spiteful response to Yasmin wishing him dead; Yasmin made no attempt to save him from drowning, and Harper - who was also on the boat - helped her cover up her involvement. In the present, Charles' body is discovered, and Yasmin identifies it for the autopsy. Eric later takes Yasmin out to lunch and drunkenly attempts to proposition her, which she loudly rebuffs. Harper informs Petra of Pierpoint's looming debt crisis, and the two decide to short the firm. Petra gets an unwitting Yasmin to provide them with a list of Pierpoint's ESG positions, despite Harper's hesitation to exploit her grieving friend. Upon learning of this, a furious Eric storms into Harper's office to berate her. Harper and Petra enlist Kenny, Daria and Jackie - now all working for Goldman Sachs - to aid them in shorting their ex-employer. Eric is forced to fire Yasmin after photos of Charles' corpse leak on the Internet, and reveals Harper's betrayal to her in the process. Yasmin has a vicious argument with Harper at home, ultimately severing their friendship. | |||||||
| 23 | 7 | "Useful Idiot" | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 22 September 2024 | N/A | |
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Yasmin learns that Hanani Publishing plans to pay off the settlements to her father's victims, in exchange for making her the public scapegoat for the scandal. She joins Robert on a road trip to Wales for his interview with Little Labs, a startup producing medicinal psilocybin pills. The two book a hotel for the night, where Yasmin takes a heavy dose of the drug and breaks down to Robert. The next day, Yasmin decides to fight her father's company in court. Robert, meanwhile, tells her that Little Labs has enlisted him to find Venture Capital (VC) funding in California. On Pierpoint's 150th anniversary, the firm's share price plummets, and newly-appointed CEO Tom Wolsey and his executives - including Adler and Eric - scramble to find emergency funding for the firm. A Barclays acquisition falls through due to regulatory concerns. Harper learns of the Barclays CEO's arrival from Rishi, and realizes an acquisition would jeopardize the short; Petra refuses to call it off, forcing Harper to confess that they are operating on confidential information she overheard, making their short illegal. Petra tells Otto that Harper is a liability. Adler brokers a meeting with Mitsubishi executives; Eric exploits Adler's illness to gaslight him into believing he overlooked a major error in the dealbook, causing Adler to have a breakdown and reveal his illness to the room. As Adler is escorted out, he realizes Eric betrayed him. Eric reveals his backup plan: he reached out to Ali El Mansour - a new trader and heir to the Egyptian sovereign wealth fund Al-Miraj - to bring in his family as Pierpoint's buyers. | |||||||
| 24 | 8 | "Infinite Largesse" | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | 29 September 2024 | N/A | |
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To calm the London traders, Eric delivers a rambling Hail Mary speech - ranging from his immigrant past to quoting a Denis Johnson story (The Largesse of the Sea Maiden) on the power of money. Albeit initial hesitation from the traders at the start, Eric delivers a successful speech and wins them over. Yasmin and Robert visit Henry's family estate in the English countryside after Yasmin asks Henry to provide seed funding to Little Labs. Henry's uncle Lord Norton, a newspaper proprietor, implies to Yasmin that her PR problems will disappear if she were to marry Henry. After wandering the palace grounds, Yasmin and Robert finally have sex and declare their love for one another. The same day, however, Yasmin decides to marry Henry to become part of his family empire, and Robert makes peace with her decision. Otto, impressed with Harper's ruthlessness, tells her he wants her as his successor. Nevertheless, Harper and Petra ultimately call off the Pierpoint short to keep their operation legal, ending their relationship with Otto. Rishi quits Pierpoint to work for Harper, only to realize her offer was a sham designed to humiliate him on behalf of Sweetpea and Anraj, who Harper has hired. Six months later, Eric learns that Adler has passed on, and that Al-Miraj are closing the London trading floor, leaving him without a job. He calls Harper to wish her well. Harper privately partners with Otto to start a fund dedicated to shorting corrupt companies, which she plans to run from New York. Rishi's loan shark Vinay visits him and Diana, revealing Rishi owes him half a million pounds; when Diana begins to berate Vinay, he shoots her dead and leaves. Yasmin has successfully turned around her public image and hired Alondra, the woman she caught her father with on the boat, as her secretary; Alondra says that Charles and his friends had girls as young as 12 on the boat, and offers Yasmin her sympathy for any abuse she may have suffered as a child. Yasmin vehemently denies this, only to break down crying; she has Alondra fired moments later. Robert is seen enjoying his new role pitching Little Labs to VCs in California. | |||||||
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In November 2017, it was announced that HBO had put the series into development, with Mickey Down and Konrad Kay set to write the series with Jane Tranter set to serve as an executive producer, under the banner of her Bad Wolf British production company.[34] In June 2019, it was announced that HBO had greenlit the series, with Lena Dunham set to direct the pilot.[35] Principal photography began in June 2019, in Cardiff, Wales.[36] In December 2019, it was announced that Myha'la Herrold, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, David Johnson, Nabhaan Rizwan, Freya Mavor, Will Tudor, Conor MacNeill and Ken Leung had joined the cast of the series, with Tinge Krishnan, Ed Lilly and Mary Nighy set to serve as directors, and Sam H. Freeman and Kate Verghese to serve as writers.[37]
In December 2020, HBO renewed the series for a second series.[38] In July 2021, Alex Alomar Akpobome and Adam Levy were cast as new series regulars, while Indy Lewis, who guest starred in the first series, was promoted to a series regular for the second series.[11] The second series filming wrapped on December 8, 2021.[39] In March 2022, Jay Duplass, Sonny Poon Tip, and Katrine De Candole were cast as new series regulars for the second series.[12] In October 2022, HBO renewed the series for a third series.[40] Production is not expected to be suspended amidst the WGA and SAG strikes due to the series' talent working under the UK-based union Equity.[41] In April 2023, Kit Harington and Sarah Goldberg were cast in a recurring capacities for the third series.[13][14] In May 2024, Miriam Petche, Andrew Cavill, Roger Barclay, Fady Elsayed, and Fiona Button were added to the third series.[15] In September 2024, HBO renewed the series for a fourth series.[42]
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The series premiered on 9 November 2020 on HBO and HBO Max in the United States. In the United Kingdom, it premiered 10 November 2020 on BBC.[43][44][37][45]
The second series premiered on 1 August 2022 on HBO[46] and premiered on BBC One on 27 September 2022.[47]
The third series premiered on 11 August 2024 on HBO.[15]
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the first series holds an approval rating of 76% with an average rating of 7.7/10, based on 38 reviews. The website's critics consensus states, "Though Industry's social critiques tend toward the superficial, sharp writing and an excellent ensemble make it easy to enjoy its soapy workplace drama anyway."[48] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[49]
The second series has a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Finessing complicated financial jargon into scathing repartee, Industry's stock is way up in this superlative sophomore series full of frustrated ambitions and tested loyalties."[50] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100 based on nine reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[51] Vanity Fair described the series as the "missing link" between Succession and Euphoria.[52]
The third series has a 98% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The website's critics consensus states, "Finding cunning and surprising new angles to play in the Faustian rat race, Industry's ruthless third season is its best yet."[53] On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100 based on 19 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[54]
Awards and nominations
| Award | Year | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| BAFTA Cymru | 2023 | Best Director – Fiction | Isabella Eklöf | Nominated | [55] |
| Best Sound | Industry Sound Team | Nominated | |||
| Celebration of AAPI Cinema and Television | 2024 | Supporting Actor – Television | Ken Leung | Won | [56] |
| Critics' Choice Awards | 2025 | Best Drama Series | Industry | Pending | [57] |
| Guild of Music Supervisors Awards | 2023 | Best Music Supervision for Television Drama | Ollie White | Nominated | [58] |
| RTS Craft and Design Awards | 2021 | Casting Award | Julie Harkin, Rae Hendrie | Won | [59] |
| Photography – Drama & Comedy | Milos Moore | Won |
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