Get ready for a wild, unrestrained, bumpy ride through the bright lights of London’s financial powerhouse. Industry premieres on BBC Two and iPlayer on 10th November.
If you like your TV drama bold, daring and addictively different, then the BBC, HBO, and Bad Wolf show Industry may be the tonic you need after the endless COVID-19 lockdown. This new, energetic, risqué and addictive slice of TV feels like The Apprentice on steroids as we enter central London’s banking world post-2008 financial crash.
Industry follows a group of graduate interns through their first placement at a fictional ‘big bank,’ where their future careers depend on their performance as they are encouraged to compete for attention. But there is also life beyond the trading room floor, as our young hopefuls deal with the pressures of work, sex, friendships and drugs in an almost Skins-esque story of the fiery end of adolescence and the beginning of a career-focused young adulthood.
Industry isn’t afraid to tackle some big themes, from class-based discrimination to racism, sexism and self-harm, in a show that unpicks the “go big or go home” mentality of the financial sector.
Lena Dunham (Girls) directs the opening episode and ensures the show launches with a bang. The bright lights of London’s financial district dovetail with a much darker exploration of the slippery ladder to success, the gloss and glitz of London’s ever-growing skyscrapers coupled with post-crash politics, greed and unchangeable trading behaviours.
While Industry is fiction, that doesn’t mean this intoxicating mix of Wall Street and Skins does not reflect some uncomfortable home truths through a haze of drugs, booze and sex. From greed and corruption to the need for wealth and status at any cost, this show shines a light on the grubbiest corners of finance, business, and the drive for wealth and success.
So get ready for a wild, unrestrained, bumpy ride through the bright lights of London’s financial powerhouse. It’s bold, abrasive and utterly compelling, and, without doubt, your next box set binge.
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