“Thank you, Mommy,” purrs the elusive Hayley (Kiernan Shipka) in the latest episode of Industry. Yasmin (Marisa Abela)—surprised her freak has been matched, one could say—stares in petrified shock as Hayley lifts her skirt and exposes extremely work-inappropriate lingerie. It was perhaps, at this moment, my own shock giving way to laughter, that I knew Industry hadn’t lo its touch.
I hope you know by now, but Industry is a rather debauched BBC and HBO investment banking drama. Its fourth season centres on Tender, a banking startup which may or may not be partaking in serious financial misconduct. Characteristically undeterred by morals, legal repercussions, or really anything else, Harper (Myha’la Herrold) attempts to manipulate the market in her fund’s favour by feeding compromising information about Tender to journalist Jim (Charlie Heaton). Elsewhere, the aforementioned Yasmin secures her husband Henry (Kit Harrington) a job as Tender’s CEO and makes herself a cuckold after instigating, watching, and instructing a jaw-dropping sexual encounter between Henry and Hayley, his assistant. And that’s not even counting the many plights of Rishi, which must be seen to be believed.
I have come to expect this level of unadulterated indulgence (and, frankly, insanity), from Industry. My expectations, though, have been exceeded: it’s off the wall, unfiltered, unavoidably well-done TV. Get it while it’s hot.