HBO's 'Industry' Features The Most Fascinating Character On TV Right Now
Spoilers ahead for Season 1 of Industry.
An exceptionally bleak finance drama is not necessarily what many of us, myself included, may be itching to consume in 2020, the Year of Bleak. HBO's Industry follows a group of young grads competing to prove they are the "right fit" for permanent positions at the fictional London bank Pierpoint & Co., and in the premiere episode one of those grads literally works himself to death, succumbing in an office bathroom stall after staying up for days and taking a lot of drugs to complete a project.
His demise looms over the entire eight-episode season, now streaming on HBO Max, and the writers are not at all subtle in conveying the significant moral (and mental health) compromises each character makes. In between all of the befriending, flirting, hooking up, snorting coke, backstabbing and sucking
