Industry is the kind of modern TV show where if you’re into prestige TV or up on what TV critics are buzzing about – Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald from The Watch as examples here – it’s on your radar, but most people have barely heard about.
Which is a shame, because it’s a very good and even occasionally riveting drama about finance bros and gals who go hard at it plying their trade in a hypercompetitive, high stakes… well, industry, and then chase their highs and flee from their lows outside of the office.
And as the song for the Industry Season 3 trailer tells us, “We all do things we shouldn’t do.”
That note alone has me amped.
My only concern, if you can call it that, is that we don’t see much of Ken Leung, who plays Eric Tao, in the trailer. He’s one of my favorite things about Industry, so I do hope he gets more screentime than what’s teased here.
I’m also reminded that if ever there was to be a shared universe with Succession where a Roman or Kendall Roy might pop up, it’s Industry.
Industry Season 3 has eight episodes, and I was tempted to write about how this relatively short season by U.S. standards must surely be due to the recent writers’ and actors’ strikes and the subsequent disruptions to production schedules that it caused. However, it turns out that both Seasons 1 and 2 also had eight episodes, so perhaps Industry trends closer to British style of television and, after all, the show is based in London.
The first three episodes of Industry Season 3 have fun and intriguing titles: “Il Mattino ha L’Oro in Boca,” “Smoke and Mirrors,” and “It.”
Here’s the official description of “Il Mattino ha L’Oro in Boca”:
As Pierpoint gears up to take Lumi public, Eric gets a long-awaited promotion to partner, Yasmin tries to escape Harper’s shadow at the desk, and Robert struggles to manage Lumi CEO Henry Muck. Meanwhile, Harper sees an opportunity to get back in the game at hedge fund FutureDawn.
Personal stuff that has something to do with Industry Season 3
This is as good a time as any to talk about how Harper Stern, played by Myha’la, claims to have graduated from Binghamton University in New York within the world of the show. I put claims in italics because it’s revealed that she falsified her background in Season 1 in order to get the high end internment at Pierpont & Company, and I mention it at all because Binghamton University is my alma mater.
The city of Binghamton alone doesn’t come up all that often in TV shows or movies, so I’m always super excited when it does. Two other high profile examples: Julianna Margulies’ character on The Sopranos, Julianna Skiff, tells Tony that she’s from Binghamton, and a scene in the great movie, Rounders, takes place in the upstate New York city (it involves poker with a bunch of state troopers!).
Industry Season 3: when and where can I watch it?
Industry returns to HBO/Max on Sunday, August 11th, 2024 at 9p. The third season is scheduled to have eight episodes.