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Great acting by great actors I must say. I have worked in Corporate (a bit less intense than trading though) and I recognize plenty of situations. The script is really good. The only thing that does bother me, and it is mostly in season one is the graphics of the intimate scenes... as audience we do get what is going on, we do not need to see every single detail. If this would have been solved in a more classy way , I would have given a 9/10. Note: plenty of language errors in the Dutch subtitles but ok.

The third season of Industry continues to deliver the high-stakes intensity that made the first two seasons so gripping. With sharp writing and strong performances, the show remains as thrilling as ever, offering deeper character development that makes it even more engaging. Standout episodes like "Nikki Beach, or: So Many Ways to Lose" raise the tension to new heights. The season also takes a bold and unfiltered shot at ESG investing, adding another layer of intrigue. Surprisingly, we finally see more likable sides to characters like Yas and Rob, making their arcs more compelling. Fast-paced, addictive, and razor-sharp, Industry Season 3 proves the series is still at the top of its game.

The first season of Industry begins right away in an intense atmosphere, marked by competitiveness, in a world where you have to be a predator. You immediately sense that these are young climbers ready to do whatever it takes to make money. The series paints varied portraits, but ones that, deep down, are quite similar.

I'll start with the negative point before moving on to the many positives. The main flaw is this tendency to repeat the same pattern from one episode to the next, as we've seen in other series before it, such as Euphoria, Elite, or, more long ago, that series SKINS.

It's this inclination to portray characters who are completely desperate, trapped in addiction, moving from party to excess. There are also completely unnecessary sex scenes, included only to provoke, without adding anything to the main storyline. They're there to keep the attention of an audience unfortunately drawn to what is trashy, to what is "dirty." This point hurts the series, which could have been perfect without these excesses.

One very important thing about the series is its ability to develop these characters within a similar routine - because it's the same day, their workday, the same main activity of the company. So the challenge is: how do you make characters engaging in such a strict, closed setting, with particular rules? This is a challenge the series succeeds in brilliantly, because these characters have a certain fragility that we can perceive just through a look, through suggestion, through the weight the character carries behind them, and the pressure they endure day after day. We can quickly identify with these characters, especially if we are part of an entrepreneurial world or work for a multinational.

From there come the positive points, which are numerous. First, the realism of the characters and a certain honesty, whether in their sensitivity, fragility, illusions, emptiness, or cruelty. Some move through this universe like pawns, aware of their status, yet still striving to become kings and prove their place within the company. The series perfectly addresses this addiction to work, this constant tension, this universe of modern slavery, in a world still largely dominated by men. (Either we accept it or refuse)

That's why Harper, in a way, has to "become a man" - and she does, which is remarkable - while the other characters remain incomplete.

Industry finished its 3rd season earlier this year but I just now started watching it. I'm not sure why I put it off for so long because I heard good things about it but I just put other shows in front of it. Now I'm actually mad at myself for putting it off this long because it's that good of a show. I started watching early last week and binged through all 3 seasons in that time. I just couldn't stop watching it. I know it gets compared to Succession a lot and I guess I can see why and even though I really liked this show, it's not nearly as good as Succession was. The one thing they have in common are a bunch of rich people where every character on the show is unlikable. The other thing is how great the acting and writing is. It's one of the rare shows where each season gets better than the previous one. I'm looking forward to more seasons of this in the future.

I love this show, absolutely love it. It gets better and better with each episode and each season. I'm glad it's finally catching on and becoming the hit it should. Having said that, enough with Harper. They've written her character to be so despicable thats it's getting hard to watch. You want to root for the main characters, not wish they'd write them off the show. I see this is what the majority of fans think too because wherever I go...here, Reddit, X, or anywhere else on social media the overwhelming majority can't stand her. I get that most of the characters on this show are not good people but most still have some redeeming qualities that make you root for them, Harper has none. Listen to the fans and get rid of Harper already.

Industry is not so much a drama as it is a masterclass in how to populate a show with the most detestable characters imaginable. Every episode is a parade of egotism, emotional immaturity, and moral bankruptcy. And not in a thought-provoking or satirical way-just pure, unfiltered unpleasantness.

Yasmine and Harper, in particular, deserve special mention. Yasmine is a painfully self-involved narcissist masquerading as someone emotionally fragile. Her presence is a constant reminder that privilege without self-awareness is a recipe for disaster. Then there's Harper, whose entire personality seems to be built around being emotionally unavailable and self-sabotaging. The show wants us to believe she's deep, complicated, and brilliant. In reality, she's just cold, reckless, and exhausting to watch.

I kept watching for one reason only: the hope that one day, finally, these two would face the consequences of their actions. Every episode feels like a waiting game to see if karma will catch up with them. So far, it hasn't-but I live in hope.

The writing lacks any real critique of the toxic corporate culture it claims to depict. Instead, it indulges in it. The result is a hollow, joyless slog through the worst people doing the worst things for the worst reasons.

If you're looking for nuanced characters or meaningful insight, look elsewhere. If you're watching out of pure schadenfreude, welcome to the club.

I'm currently watching Industry with my brother as I write this review and the first thing that comes to mind when watching this show is...addicting. HBO is known for having great shows and Industry is no different. It really is a good show that feels fresh and thrilling. It shows the cutthroat world that is banking. It's a fascinating look inside their world of greed, sex, drugs, back stabbing and every other bad thing these people do to each other. You don't have to know much about this world to enjoy the show, I think most people watching don't and that's a testament to how good the writing is. You really do get pulled into that world and can't wait to see what happens next. I'm fully invested in this show and I think you will be to if you give it a chance.

This show is very intriguing and frustrating at the same time. It's a good story and with a talented cast but my struggle is with the characters. There is absolutely nothing to like about these characters. Even the "bad" guy in a film can exhibit some human emotions that the audience can identify with but the characters in Industry have no redeeming qualities. They're arrogant, rude, self centered, morally depraved people.

The most annoying character is Harper. There's nothing sympathetic about her. She is so ill mannered, manipulative, expresses poor judgement, and a pathological liar. She always looks like a deer in the headlights. She's a deeply sad and depressing character. Yet I'm still watching and holding out hope that someone in the show will emerge as decent person or at least redeemable.

Industry is a brilliant, razor-sharp exploration of the intoxicating world of high finance, capturing both its magnetic allure and its devastating toxicity. The series masterfully portrays the passion and ambition that drive young professionals, while never shying away from exposing the darker undercurrents of greed, manipulation, and the relentless hunger for power.

What makes Industry so compelling is its versatility-the way it seamlessly shifts between the thrill of financial conquests and the emotional wreckage left in their wake. Relationships are as volatile as the markets, and the show does an extraordinary job of depicting how personal ambitions often clash with loyalty, love, and self-preservation.

The performances are electric, and the writing cuts deep, creating characters that are flawed, ambitious, and hauntingly real. The energy is palpable, the pacing is relentless, and the atmosphere immerses you into a world where every decision can mean triumph or ruin. Industry is not just a show about money; it's about human vulnerability laid bare against the brutal backdrop of power games. An absolute must-watch.

Started slow but got better and better and better. Compulsively horrible characters, but always empathetic. Genuinely surprising ending.

The first two series felt like a show that was made by people who work in finance, for people who work in finance. So some of the business language that they use throughout most of the show, I'm a little lost on, since I've never been part of that particular world.

And adding to that the drama of the multitudes of cocaine snorting, opioid popping and graphic sex scenes between colleagues and outsider partners. With no love, no affection, just an edge that these dislikable, yet interesting characters need to smooth out.

For that, it gets to be quite tedious after a while. The first season was about the relationships between the Pierpoint colleagues and 'will they, won't they' between the main characters. In the second season, you find out a little more about why the characters are the way they are, with stakes being raised a little.

Season three, on the other hand, brutally cranked up the lever of high stakes drama, with terrific dialogue and top-notch writing, owing to the creators doing their research on how to write good TV.

It doesn't have the same level of in-depth psychological complexity that Succession has, nor does it go onto the full on messiness of the Gen Z problems of Euphoria - but it does have a little bit of both. And in series three, they really lean into that a lot more. So I genuinely hope that season 4 will up the stakes even more and explore different and new angles into the lives of these flawed, interesting characters.

Finishing season 1.

This is my second comment.

There is a lot of potential. The soundtrack is excellent.

Some characters are well written.

Yasmin and Robert are great and we'll written.

I'm not sure I will continue watching this show because of Harper's character.

She is lying all of the time, betraying everybody and then cries and again lies and then again cries... And still the show runs around her ... Why ???

In any real company she would have been fired after 1 week.

Everybody is speaking at her like she is super important and irreplaceable, even top management while she is just ruining everything.

Top management is begging her even when she is lying or doing unprofessional things .

She is pushing back everybody or betraying everybody but still ameverybody is begging her, like she is the boss. (She just joined the company).

I don't get it and it looks like a big bias in the scenario !!

What a great show to binge.

It's easy to think of Industry as a finance saga, but it's really a darkly kaleidoscopic and very contemporary character study.

All the central characters are grotesque in some critical way, and we're never allowed to forget why we shouldn't like them, but we're given so much great context, so many insights into their strengths and vulnerabilities, and so many reasons to re-evaluate our opinion of them, they become like difficult siblings we have to love, (albeit, we'd never lend them money).

The acting throughout is fantastic, especially Myha'la and Ken Leung, and the production never feels cheap.

Most impressive is the disciplined narrative over the three seasons, the third being especially brutal, closing the books on their accounts brilliantly.

I'd be surprised - and perhaps a little disappointed - if they came back for a 4th season, but i'd have to watch it all the same.

Well done all.

Industry can't escape being compared to Billions which - with all its shortcomings - is probably considered the best finance tv-series around. Yet Industry is my new favourite (and a close second for all those lured by the crazy plot-twists of Billions): indeed a more realistic and better written one in a lot of departments.

I don't have the time nor the background to feel like dissecting the storylines, the cliffhangers, the characters, the overall writing style, the acting. Let's simplify by saying that overall Billions is better produced and hits harder with a lot of climaxes, surprises and... billions. Industry on the other end is more consistent, less pretentious and more realistically focused on the daily experiences of new-hires in a wealth management firm. Unfortunately some plot holes, puzzling characters and overindulgent coverage of sex-drug related behaviours drag the production down quite a bit.

Having fun watching not one decent person in a very large, but OK cast. I once thought I could be a broker, so I took and passed my Series 3 and 7. I was the worst salesman in the world, so I quit before I got fired. That being said, nearly all the men---and they were in those days, all men...I met at my firm (a small regional) and at other firms were decent human beings; most of them did like to drink, but always behaved themselves.

But the people in this amusing series are utterly despicable, devoid of any sense of shame, loyalty, compassion, ethics, or common decency, Even the best person depicted, Gus, is untrustworthy. Everybody degrades everybody, including themselves. Still, horrible people are fun to watch.

These characters are scarier than any horror movie out there. Semi-intelligent but morally bankrupt. Leong is terrifying in both his ruthlessness and weakness. Great acting obviously but makes you feel kind of dirty being of interest to you. I wonder about the creators and writers. It would be just as entertaining if it were toned down a few notches. Wonder what the end game will be for these deluded sorry souls. Well a fourth season coming up so it's tapped into our fascination with the cruel and broken. Hope they all get their dreams Of course I'm watching every episode. I'm so confused. And scared.

This is a really good show, but it took time to find its footing. You have to get through the first season and then it gets better and better for the second and third. I honestly wasn't motivated to watch some episodes early on, but I knew there were seeds of a great show. Writing is excellent in the third season and acting is fantastic throughout. Ken Leung for the win.

That said, you have to like antiheroes and shows about horrible people doing bad things as a commentary on social structures, ego, and past trauma. The show asks what you would do for power, ambition, and money. It's also a classic HBO show with slightly excessive sex and drugs. But it fits into the character, narratives and traumas.

I tried . Really tried. But I can't. Did you see Billions? Other examples? What's that? There was a balance between things like alcohol , drugs and sex. But in this series 10% market deals and other sex between guys and girls with drugs. Too much

In this kind of context, it's hard to top Billions. The stories and characters developed so well especially in the first two seasons. Suits was a bit of Americanism overload with incredible smart-alecy rubbish, but watchable. This one is somewhere in between. I'd ignore the naysayers based on one episode. It's a decent start. Yes, it's interns and their travails, which young millennials seem to lament. The script is fun and there's a modicum of truth in it. I'd watch this show. It's a solid 7 out of 10, nothing more, nothing less.

A refreshing take of the financial industry, where you have the old guard of employees protecting their assets, while the company all the time search for new talent that is hungry for success in whatever way it takes. There's twist and turns in every episode that is driven by a superb cast, who really burns through the screen in the best possible way, even their characters are mean or nasty. It's about money, lots of deals, drugs to perform or just to get a rush, sex is used as a tool to get what they want or just for the sake of it, all part of being young and hungry for more. If you liked Succession you will also love this one.

Well played, interested to see how it evolves. Some of the characters might nees more depth but is a coral ensemble.

Somehow, I completely missed *Industry* until I saw a trailer for season 3. I binged the first two seasons over the weekend, and I can honestly say it was some of the best 16 hours I've spent watching TV. I don't usually get hooked on many series, and it's even rarer in the age of TikTok to find something that keeps me from glancing at my phone every few minutes.

But this show? It had me hooked. I ended up with an unexpected two-day social media detox because I couldn't look away.

*Industry* gave me major *Skins* nostalgia, but with the characters grown up and jumping headfirst into the corporate world-a jungle I know all too well. The backstabbing, the relentless chase for profits, the toxic work environment-it's all disturbingly familiar. The show is spot on with the dark side of corporate life: the psychopathic colleagues, the inappropriate clients, the late nights out that end with a hand where it shouldn't be.

This series doesn't miss a beat, and I'm seriously excited for season 3. It's easily one of the best series I've ever watched. If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor and start now. You won't regret it.

Only just started watching the series after it kept popping up. Currently on season 3.

There's literally a ton of screwing going on between mad parties and constant snorting of cocainand pill popping. It's a wonder these people ever get any work done. When they do, it's cut throat stock transactions.

As someone else said, Harper, the main character, is annoying, two-faced, cutthroat and constantly has resting bit@h face.

I can barely keep up with it and don't even understand what's going on half the time 😒 🤣🤣but for some reason I can't stop watching it. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️. It's definitely compelling.