Industry season 2 review, Culture Whisper
The high-finance drama Industry exists on a fluctuating spectrum: wired between trash TV and prestige television.
There are times when the series' corporate politics and jargon feel like intelligent accidents in a base and sexual world, one that makes you concerned about who's screwing whom. But equally, the sex itself – brilliantly straddling submission and domination, mostly represented by traders Robbie (Harry Lawtey) and Yas (Marisa Abela) – is like explicit enticement. Mere foreplay before the adrenalin of investment banking.
The episodes drift between being a millennial Big Short and a wealthy version of Love Island. At times, it settles on a Wolf of Wall Street compromise (Yas even impersonates the tribal hum by Matthew McConaughey). All of this is punctuated, naturally, by enough cocaine to dose a few dozen elephants.
