That a series reflects reality very well does not make it good.
Nor is a film that respects artificial conventions necessarily bad.
The plague
is not better
for being exquisite in its historical recreation or less
Frears's
Dangerous Friendship
masterpiece
because it speaks in contemporary English.
Let's start from there.
It is undeniable that
Industry's
portrait
of a financial company in the City of London is accurate.
Trust me: it is.
Also his look at how a group of hungry twenty-somethings live their entry into that peculiar world.
The Mickey Down and Konrad Kay series was sponsored by Lena Dunham, who directed its first episode.
His is the attractive promise of
"a mix of
The Wolf of Wall Street
and
Melrose Place
.
"
Industry
is that but also many other things.
The series, which can be seen here on HBO, takes advantage of
the audiovisual education we have received from reality shows of competitive coexistence
:
Industry
could well have been conceived as one of those programs, or as a factual in the style of
Selling Sunset
.
But if those formats-genres demand a certain ironic distancing from their viewers in exchange for preventing them from witnessing certain miseries,
Down and Kay's series does just the opposite
: they are the twists and turns of Harper (Myha'la Herrold), Yasmin (Marisa Abela), Robert (Harry Lawtey) and Gus (David Jonsson) who make
Industry
a very interesting series.
In the hands of little-known actors, these
four kids eager to be part of the elite of London's money (move)
are more similar to the other sum of their own references with which HBO Spain sells the series:
Euphoria
and
Succession
.
From the first Industry takes youth, nihilism and misunderstood innocence (and drugs);
in the second, cynicism and cruelty that at the end of the season reach frankly indigestible heights.
Industry
is a tale with a twisted moral
, a permanent battle of loyalties and egos that illustrates very well the paradox of extreme individualism: theory always works, practice almost never.
That monster factory that
Pierpoint
is
, a fictitious corporation that barely conceals which real companies it is X-raying
, I imagine is intelligible to most viewers, ignorant of what a hedge, a structure or a spread is.
But what is a betrayal, a disappointment or a vertigo ... that everyone knows.
Harper, Yasmin, Robert and Gus, manual JASPs, are learning it.
To hosts.
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