TV Review: The Industry is BACK BABY!!!!!!!!
Industry Season 4 is absolutely exceptional, and furthers the show as a strange, entertainment threesome between Succession´s themes of wealth, House of Dragon´s conversations on morality, and Dynasty’s underbelly of camp gaud. The season peaks with a question that has always sat at the corner of its gluttonous feast: what’s the point of being good.
If you have followed Industry for the past few years, this is not a show where you, exactly, cheer for people. You either go from morally corrupt to morally insufferable; there truly are only two options. Yet, if there is a beating heart to its characters, it stems from the fact that most of them are just people determined to live their most lavish life after years and childhoods of absolute struggle. Still, their determination can be blinding, and Myh´la´s Harper and Marisa Abela’s Yasmin takes the cake this season.
To be honest, I could watch an entire show just based off of Yasmin and Henry’s TOXIC marriage. I never thought Yasmin could become such an empty vessel of herself that I pulled for Henry, but, sometimes, I did. Kit Harrington does a great job of showing Henry truly is a depressed d*ck. Literally, he is impotent. Yet, as the season progresses, and he tries to face his depression, become moral, and more emotionally invested in making his life and marriage happy, you feel bad that someone could genuinely crash into every warning label as if it is automatic to endanger themselves: starting with his choice in wife. I truly can watch these two have a spin-off; they practically engulf the screen with cruelty and chemistry. Very Macbeth!
Meanwhile, Yasmin and Harper go full blown Alicent and Rhaenyra this season and I love it. These are two powerful women that struggle with the fact that they have no problem chewing on their own hearts just to get a bite of wealth. Both become crueler and maniacal as they try to manage the world of excess, extreme money, and the keepers of it whom have no problem eradicating them. It is a DANGEROUS game to carry the money of the rich, and these two gals are absolutely delicious in their dissent into absolute sourdom. They are not good people, but the question is do they want to be or can they handle that they already know the answer…..no?. Hence, the addition of Max Minghella´s Whitney feels smooth and effortless; he becomes a character conglomerate of every excuse each character uses to be inexcusable.
Minghella´s poor boy turned ultimate tech con elaborates how inevitable this season moral existentialism has been and gives a sneak peak into our own future´s rise in AI, digital cons. With the world being more money and moral, he embodies a lack of humanity oddly excused by its own adversity, which feels very Industry. Whether you were born with a silver spoon filled with lithium because your father emasculated you to the point you married a woman who does the same or you were born so poor and realized most wealthy people are just dumb people bold enough to try,this season culminates the ultimate battle between how badly you want to be happy versus rich. For More Information On Industry Click Here.
