Industry - Series 1-4, come chat all things Pierpoint where there's more bonking than banking!

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Just binge-watched S3. What a ride!

Anyone else had a look yet?

Is it a class thing? A lack of sophistication?

I think it’s because Yasmin loved him but Robert was never going to give her the lifestyle she’d grown up with. That could only have come from Henry. The fairly low-key car containing with women with the crying kids and being with a man who bought scratchcards as some sort of financial planning tool was enough to snap her back into reality.

I know, I hated that aspect, and it just felt so casual, like Vinay killed her just to make her shut up and stop irritating him.

I dreamt last night that Industry season 4 arrived - it had all new characters and was set somewhere else (not clear where), and I was so disappointed! This last season has really stayed with me.

Do any of you have any knowledge/thoughts about what season 4 might be like? Season 3 felt so final. I read that the writers had wanted to give it a sense of finality in case it wasn't renewed, but I struggle to think where they might go next with the existing characters, much though I want them to continue.

Doesn’t say that much but an interview with the show runners about season 4

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/industry-season-4

“There is something about London and, especially in the last season, our exploration of London, and in particular London high society, which I think is unique to this show and I would hate to lose.”

Interesting, and I agree with this.

Anyone recognise one of the guys Robert was pitching to at the end of the last episode? I thought I was going mad but a re-watch of series 1 confirmed it!

No, who was it?

Greg (the guy who ran into the glass wall at the Christmas party).

I predict Henry Henry dies and is replaced by Robert. Yas married Henry because his uncle said “we protect our own” because yes knew she’d never be safe from the tabloids. And the comment from the uncle at dinner about Robert borrowing his suit the uncle said something about being the same size - so heir apparent?

Has anyone mentioned Otto Mostyn yet? One of the most sinister characters to ever feature on Industry. When he tells Harper he could basically just say the word and ruin her life...shudder.

I guess it also helped that he looked very like the original Blofeld!
https://images.app.goo.gl/Ujpfn8411Vh4Z2r89

I thought that conversation showed how Robert had been accepted into the elite as one of their own. At the beginning of the series, he was very much an outsider. Remember the sneery remarks about him wearing a Ted Baker suit in episode one? Now he's borrowing a suit from a lord.

Loving these theories about Rob. @Balcanoona and @JSMill. I got the feeling that the utter corruption and decadence of the upper classes (Otto a particular example, @BlanklyMyDear and @KillingMeDeftIy ) meant that no one would give a flying fig if Yasmin loved and shagged Rob, as long as she rescued Henry from himself, and the suit sharing thing was also somehow an expression of that.

I do wonder a bit how Yas will be saving Henry from himself - during the proposal he questioned whether he loved her and didn't seem that bothered about marrying her (but seemed v happy about it at the dinner table - the 'Bulla bulla' shouts re Bullingdon Club were particularly cringe!!). Just at times, it seemed a bit like why is it so important to Northcliffe etc for her to marry him? (I know an heir etc, but why Yas particularly?)

Epic observation, @Karmaisagod. Thank you. And yes, the sheer wrongness of Robert’s early S1 wardrobe was painful.

I do recall noticing how much his wardrobe had improved this season. He’d become much more at home in his world.

I guess, given Henry was probably shagging half of Europe, Yasmin was a known entity - they already knew and could manage the worst the world would know of her. And at the same time she was sophisticated enough not to be so terrified of all things Muck that she’d bolt at the next scandal Henry dragged the family into.

(Maybe they could have looked for a 19 year old virgin to marry him off to. But then the children might have turned out insipid and spineless - which wouldn’t be good for the dynasty.)

Finish series 3 this evening - rollercoaster doesn't begin to describe it and I was gripped from start to finish. I spotted Ben Lloyd Hughes right in the final scene and would love him back in any series 4.

Just binged watched series 2 and 3. Can not imagine what series 4 will look like.

Robert needs to have a happy ever after with someone other than Yasmin. Fairly certain that she isn't pregnant - the final scene she was in was meant to be some months after her having sex with Robert.

The Diana scene was shocking.

Given that Harper and Robert will be Stateside, Yasmin married to Henry and Eric and Rishi out of a job, I wonder if the showrunners will decide to hire an entirely new cast? That can work sometimes, but there needs to be a thread involving the old cast too. Maybe Eric and Harper will wind up working together in New York! Keep your friends close and your enemies closer etc etc...

Im really enjoying season 3 I think each season has got better.

Just finished S3, really good with the Rishi episode being the highlight. As always, completely unrealistic portrayal of banking. You might have got away with some of the trading floor antics in the 90s but certainly not now.
One niggle - the Robert character mumbles so much I have to watch him with subtitles

The Yasmin storyline could go on for ever in a Downtown Abbey sort of way.

I agree! I watched all of series 1 when it first came out but didn't bother with series 2 until a couple of weeks ago and then got properly hooked.

Interesting, I must be alone in finding the whole premise of the series, but most especially S3 just abhorrent, so hollow and vapid, for all the high drama. I find it very hard to care what a bunch of vile people in a toxic industry get up to, and half the dialogue is incomprehensible, which makes it boring. And if the idea is to highlight the toxicity of that world, all I can see is the sucking up to it, the money and the buzz, just like Succession, which I hated too. Maybe it's a perfect mirror to our society today, but I prefer to look elsewhere for a bit of humanity and warmth.

A review said something about it being a study of the male condition, but I guess I just don't care enough about how terribly hard it is to be a man in today's world.

Here's the quote:

"Maybe this is what Industry is trying to say: that to be a man is to be in lifelong negotiation between the past and present, because the changing expectations of masculinity are often in conflict. It’s not just about reckoning with your own past, but deciding whether you want to be different from the generations of men who came before you."

Whatevs. Or, you know, just don't be an arsehole like everyone in this show.