Binge in Australia has just added HBO/BBC Two title Industry. Season one is an easy eight episode watch. The series has already been renewed for a second season.
The UK (although with a very American feel) series follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at Pierpoint & Co, a prestigious investment bank in London.
Lena Dunhan directs the pilot so it's no surprise the series is packed with sex and nudity.
The show explores the graduates from all walks of life compete over the limited amount of full-time employment opportunities and focuses on Harper Stern (Myha'la Herrold).
Harper is a black upstate New York native who uproots her life to pursue success at the London branch of Pierpoint despite not having graduated from where she claims to have graduated.
Other graduates at Pierpoint include, Hari Dhar, a state-school graduate and child of Urdu-speaking immigrants; Augustus "Gus" Sackey, a gay black British graduate of Eton and Oxford; Robert Spearing, a white working-class Oxford graduate who is eager to please but taken by surprise by the change in social mores concomitant with high finance; and Yasmin, a privileged, well-connected child of Lebanese parents with an underachieving, drug-addled boyfriend.
All the characters (like most HBO shows) have flaws. The show is addictive whilst being fast paced loaded with sharp dialogue in line with Succession.
HBO needed another decent series on its books now Insecure is also set to conclude either this year or next.
Industry like Betty was annoying to have to wait for Binge to decide the series was worth Australians to view.
I would strongly recommend this series to anyone looking for something new to add to their list of series to catch up on.
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