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There are even memes about how few people we see
Industry
.
The HBO Max series, now in its second season, hasn't become a
Mad Men
, a
Halt and Catch Fire
, or a
Succession
.
The phenomenon has not exploded.
That it has grown is indisputable, that almost nobody has found out, too.
Too complex?
too intense?
too unpleasant?
coffee for very coffee lovers?
What's going on with
Industry
?
Or rather, what is
not
happening?
Released in 2020, this fiction set in the City of London debuted with a promotion that would hardly make sense now.
It was noted from
Industry
(I did so myself) that
its first episode had been directed by Lena Dunham
.
We then prepare to see the creator of
Girls
transfer her generational obsessions and paranoias to the London financial industry, specifically to Pierpoint & Co, an investment bank as invented as it is plausible.
So are the group of twentysomethings who came there ready to take on the world.
The bosses at Pierpoint make it clear right away:
Only a few of you will make the cut.
, many of you will be spit out by the system, this that we are giving you is a golden opportunity that only the chosen ones will be able to enjoy beyond the trial period.
And let the new hunger games begin.
From hunger, financial derivatives, promiscuity and
trading
.
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The Dunham did a good job in the first episode of
Industry
, but the series didn't really need her either.
Mickey Down and Konrad Kay's idea is powerful enough that you don't need to establish a fancy visual grammar to support it.
Her proposal has power to spare: hungry young people, a job that many dream of, nihilism, drugs, sex and
a permanent feeling of "and all this... for what?"
with which
Industry
becomes the most perfect satire of the neo-neo-neo-capitalism to come.
The ingredients that Down and Kay play with are attractive and repulsive, ironic and literal, perfect for a series.
and, however,
difficult to digest
if that series goes to its last consequences.
That's just what
Industry
does .
Without skimping on its portrayals of addiction, anxiety, ambition, and emptiness, this perfect mix of
Elite
and
Wall Street
soon reveals itself as a mouthful for discerning, trained, or otherwise hardy palates.
Seeing her is not a light experience
.
I fear that there are many who, waiting for an Elite, have not endured meeting a
Less than zero
three point zero.
Or those looking for a
Wall Street
, with its glamor and pinstripe suits, have found an office drama,
anti-anxiety drugs and stripes
of the others.
A reflection on the dynamics of power in closed groups and under pressure that neither leaves a puppet with a head nor takes prisoners.
That is perhaps why so little is said about it.
That is perhaps why her audience is so small.
It will have a third season, it is already confirmed.
See her.
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