“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths | The New Yorker

In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing.

Save this story Save this story At first glance, the HBO financial drama “Industry” would seem to fall neatly in line with the network’s other programming about the wretchedly wealthy. Its first three seasons followed the ups and downs of young, improbably good-looking bankers in a London built almost entirely of glass, brick, and blow, their worst impulses spurred on by a corporate culture of excess. But unlike “Succession” or “The White Lotus,” which fixate on the already élite, “Industry” centers largely on the strivers: people who claw their way upward while knowing full well that they may

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