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Anyone watching this. What a total load of shite! Cliched, cringy and just utter crap. It looked good from the trailer!

He certainly was! He aged very badly not long after Capital City.

Full of inconsistencies.

Yes, 'Capital City' and agree regarding Douglas Hodge - he was always such a 'pretty boy' in his youth.

I have stuck with this episode by episode and have now come to the point where they are all such horrible people I am not sure I can be bothered to find out what happens.

Are we meant to have sympathy with these young people?

It is almost as if it is writtent to appeal to the worst stereotypes of young people, that they cant think for themselves, are so trapped in the digital world they think they have to act it our in real life, and most of all lack any self respect by wanting to be part of these venal industry!

I started off liking Harper but she sold her soul IMO. The others were all stereotypes really.

I found the nudity very gratuitous . The boys must have been wearing prostectic dicks Right?

@SpookieDookie

I found the nudity very gratuitous . The boys must have been wearing prostectic dicks Right?

I thought it was gratuitous too. Why is it necessary for the women especially to have to show so much flesh and for the sex scenes to be so graphic? Surely we can be left to assume what’s going to happen like a period drama or alike.

Ha! We had the dick conversation. DH was somewhat perturbed by Yasmin's boyfriend when he came out if the bedroom when she got home and was convinced that he must have been wearing a cock ring "like porn actors" to maximise his manhood.

Yep I found myself rolling my eyes at all the gratuitous sex. I mean who suggests blowing cocaine up someone’s (male on male to boot) arse and actually goes through with it! It’s hardly The Wolf of Wall Street. Although I suppose that was the joke?

And why does EVERY sexual encounter happen in a public place?! Is it supposed to show the spontaneity of young people? YAWN!!

Maybe we're the wrong demographic to be watching it? I can imagine that my inexperienced 17/18 year old self would have been much more titillated by the sex scenes?

Maybe the type of people who work in the City (or used to) are generally more risk embracing than average, hence the sex in public places being thrilling? I can think of nothing less sexy than having sex in a loo cubicle!

@NewModelArmyMayhem18 hmmmm, I’m not convinced. DH and I work in Advertising and Media, both of which have a similar reputation for hedonistic lifestyles. Don’t get me wrong, when we were younger and living in London we did party rather A LOT. But I’ve never had anyone ask me to blow coke up my arse in a conference room at an office party! Or witnessed a couple of guys have full sex in an elevator. This was 20 years ago now though. Maybe it’s all changed now? 🤷‍♀️

Or witnessed a couple of guys have full sex in an elevator

I worked for a high street bank, not in branch, and the head office had glass lifts, open to the public. Not while I was there, but two people had been dismissed for having sex in the lift in full view of anyone walking past the building.

But that's not a banking thing, it's an idiot thing!

I do believe you @Rollergirl11. Maybe they have just gone down the gratuitous sex route to up viewing figures. It's lazy though, isn't it?

@NewModelArmyMayhem18 yep very lazy and a bit try hard, using extreme sex and drug use to give it some edge.

I think it just seems unrealistic because they’ve glamourised. I watched Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You back in the summer and I was absolutely blown away by it. There was a hell of a lot of sex and drugs in that too and very often it made for a difficult watch. But it was always necessary to the storyline and absolutely not gratuitous. It was grubby and depraved and heartbreaking and above all realistic. I think that Michaela Coel captured the reality of modern day living in London for young people today in a way that Industry hasn’t.

@Rollergirl11

Agree 100% re I May Destroy You.

Ditto re I May Destroy You which has to be one of the most powerful things I've seen on TV in the past decade.

its got a second series i wonder where they will take it

We just finished watching this last night. By the time we got to the end DH and I couldn’t find any redeeming qualities in anyone! Gus came across as horribly smug and I couldn’t stand him but he was the only one by the last episode that I thought was good basically telling them to shove their job!

Totally agree about I may destroy you, this missed the mark in terms of being gritty. Also the sex scenes! All a bit yuk and not aspirational. I just had a really hard time relating to anyone. Is the city just full of narcissistic sociopaths? 🤣

I struggle to understand why, following the #metoo movement, young actors and actresses are being asked to do sex scenes like that. I've read about body/intimacy coaches 'helping' them out but it feels exploitative to ask young actors in their first jobs to be doing things like that.

I like it
Utter superficial nonsense
But in the covid world where there is limited things to look forward to it's escapism.
Pure filth though -which is slightly worrying as it was recommended by my 68year old mother.

I'm still watching in real time and I'm warming to it, the characters and storylines are becoming more interesting. But I also think the graphic sex and wanking scenes are unnecessary.

Thanks PPs for the recommendation - I've not seen I May Destroy You but will seek that out.

There's going to be a second series!

Are we supposed to empathise with Harper as a niave young woman out of her depth, struggling to make it in a male, white dominated world.

She seems to just glide through everything, but on the other hand must be quite driven to have conned her way into this scummy job!

She's shooting herself in the foot for dobbing in Eric though.