{"id":252126,"date":"2024-08-07T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/industry-tackles-the-impact-of-overhyped-tech-in-its-ambitious-third-season\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:53","slug":"industry-tackles-the-impact-of-overhyped-tech-in-its-ambitious-third-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/industry-tackles-the-impact-of-overhyped-tech-in-its-ambitious-third-season\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Industry&#8217; tackles the impact of overhyped tech in its ambitious third season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you miss the colorfully profane world of <em>Succession<\/em>, a show where most characters would gladly sell their souls for power and money, then you should be watching HBO Max&#8217;s <em>Industry<\/em>. While they share some similarities \u2014 both come from British creators and follow a cadre of anti-heroic characters into a world of hyperwealth \u2014 <em>Industry <\/em>is even more focused on the inhuman ambition that drives its characters.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Succession <\/em>follows a family that&#8217;s already wealthy and striving to hold onto its relevance, <em>Industry<\/em> centers on a group of twenty-somethings who are (mostly) not rich and are all desperate to prove themselves at London&#8217;s renowned investment bank Pierpoint &amp; Co. Breaking with the rampant nepotism of the Roy family, their workplace could charitably be described as meritocratic \u2014 who you are doesn&#8217;t matter as much as the money you bring in \u2014 but it&#8217;s also an obscenely toxic world devoid of morality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"6789e299-6702-55eb-9a6e-c9b3f772d0db\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8sNShrYy2ro?rel=0\" scrolling=\"no\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"Industry Season 3 | Official Teaser | Max\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8sNShrYy2ro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our gateway to the world of Pierpoint is Harper Stern (Myha&#8217;la Herrold, <em>Bodies Bodies Bodies<\/em>), a genius trader with a dark secret (she never graduated college). As a young black American woman, she stands out from the sea of mostly white British men on the sales floor. Perhaps that&#8217;s why her New Yorker boss, Eric Tao (Ken Leung, <em>Lost<\/em>), sees her as a potential protege. Harper works alongside Yasmin (Marisa Abel), the daughter of a wealthy publishing family; Gus, a gay black conservative trader; and Harry (Robert Spearing), the obligatory high achiever from a working-class background.<\/p>\n<p>In season three, premiering on August 11, <em>Game of Thrones&#8217;<\/em> Kit Harrington joins the cast as Henry Muck, the wealthy CEO of Lumi, a beloved green tech energy startup on the verge of an IPO. (Not to be confused with actual companies like the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lumi.studio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:design studio Lumi;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">design studio Lumi<\/a>, the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/playlumi.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:piano learning gadget Lumi;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">piano learning gadget Lumi<\/a>, or the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/14\/meet-lumi-the-los-angeles-startup-that-just-raised-9-million-for-a-packaging-business\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:dead packaging firm Lumi;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">dead packaging firm Lumi<\/a>.) But, like a cross between <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018-09-05-theranos-dissolves.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Theranos;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Theranos<\/a>, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/specialreports\/solyndra-scandal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Solyndra and the slew of failed Obama-era green tech startups;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Solyndra and the slew of failed Obama-era green tech startups<\/a>, Lumi may not entirely live up to its eco-friendly hype. Some banks would have qualms about pushing a problematic company into the stock market, but not Pierpoint \u2014 its job is to make money on the IPO, not judge the long term viability of Lumi.<\/p>\n<p>That sort of amoral viewpoint isn&#8217;t anything new for Pierpoint or its minions on <em>Industry<\/em>. From the beginning, series creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay avoided turning the series into a lecture against the investment banking world. Instead, its characters all reflect the selfish philosophy initially laid down by <em>Wall Street&#8217;s <\/em>Gordon Gekko: &#8220;Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure prestige-figure xlarge\">\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader caas-breakout-shift\">\n<div class=\"breakout-img-container\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview has-width\" alt=\"Sagar Radia, Myha\u2019la Herrold in Industry season 3\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/y2WCAvSXZPJ.H1w9t3ynxw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTM4NDA7aD0yNTYw\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-08\/ae4e5e70-54da-11ef-b7f4-17cd15970a78\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sagar Radia, Myha\u2019la Herrold in Industry season 3\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/y2WCAvSXZPJ.H1w9t3ynxw--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTM4NDA7aD0yNTYw\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-08\/ae4e5e70-54da-11ef-b7f4-17cd15970a78\" height=\"1280\" width=\"1920\" class=\"caas-img has-width\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"> Photo by Simon Ridgway\/HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While some characters voice their concerns about Lumi, <em>Industry <\/em>explores the more cynical (and arguably realistic) outcome: Just about everyone finds a way to profit from the company&#8217;s potential failure \u2014 except, of course, for Lumi&#8217;s customers and early investors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to write about an energy company that had real world stakes that felt like it was scratching the heels a bit of the sort of bigger monopolistic competitors,&#8221; Down said in an interview on the Engadget Podcast. &#8220;And then also we wanted to write about the collapse of a company like that \u2014 a company which [has] really been founded to do something really good and what happens when that company goes kaput and leaves a lot of destruction in its wake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Industry<\/em> started out as a show focused on interpersonal relationships between a small group of colleagues, their hedonistic night lives and Pierpoint&#8217;s erosion of their humanity, but now it&#8217;s scope has expanded to include the wider global economy, Britain&#8217;s role in propping up failed companies and rival trading outfits.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure prestige-figure large\">\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader caas-breakout-shift\">\n<div class=\"breakout-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview has-width\" alt=\"Myha\u2019la, Harry Lawtey and Marisa Abela in Industry season 3.\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/zDxGTZgXkf1MgF1.73tbQA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI4ODA7aD0xOTIy\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-08\/ae4d9b20-54da-11ef-affd-8b1218931f80\" height=\"961\" width=\"1440\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Myha\u2019la, Harry Lawtey and Marisa Abela in Industry season 3.\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/zDxGTZgXkf1MgF1.73tbQA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI4ODA7aD0xOTIy\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2024-08\/ae4d9b20-54da-11ef-affd-8b1218931f80\" height=\"961\" width=\"1440\" class=\"caas-img has-width\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"> Photo by Simon Ridgway\/HBO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;When we started off, we were very inexperienced writers,&#8221; Kay said. &#8220;We deliberately wrote about a very sealed off hermetic experience, a very universal one, which is people starting in the workplace at a certain time. 1723051902 The stakes are higher. It&#8217;s more interested in how the training floor intersects with the wider world, politics, newspapers, media, class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the inner-workings of finance and the soapy romantic lives of <em>Industry&#8217;s<\/em> characters, the real draw of the show is &#8220;watching competent people be good at their jobs,&#8221; as Down says. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you don&#8217;t understand all of the financial jargon the characters are spouting off in the first season. Like a cross between <em>Margin Call<\/em> and <em>Michael Clayton, <\/em>what makes <em>Industry <\/em>truly compelling is seeing smart people prove their brilliance repeatedly in a pressure cooker environment.<\/p>\n<p>For a show that seemed like a <em>Succession<\/em> clone early on, <em>Industry <\/em>has evolved into something dramatically different. Wealth and success isn\u2019t a given for anyone in the show \u2014 it\u2019s something they have to earn with blood, sweat and moral compromise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/tv-movies\/industry-tackles-the-impact-of-overhyped-tech-in-its-ambitious-third-season-170032365.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] If you miss the colorfully profane world of Succession, a show where most characters would gladly sell their souls for power and money, then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}