New Financial Year 2024/2025 Streaming - Industry - Season Three

Industry's buzz worthy third series landed on Binge, mid-August. Just the other week it was renewed for a fourth series. It's odd a series grows its fanbase later in its run. The addition of HBO darling Kit Harington really added some buzz. Particularly after seeing his bubble butt.

Back in October 2022, HBO renewed the series for a third series. Unlike many series hampered by the strikes, production was not expected to be suspended amidst the WGA and SAG strikes due to the series' talent working under the UK-based union Equity.

Joining Harington this season, Sarah Goldberg,Miriam Petche, Andrew Cavill, Roger Barclay, Fady Elsayed, and Fiona Button were added to the third series.

We start off the third season with Yasmin spending the summer in Italy on her father's yacht before catching him performing oral sex on a pregnant boat employee. Six weeks later, he is missing and has been exposed for historic embezzling at Hanani Publishing. 

Yasmin tries to avoid paparazzi as her anxieties build over a leaked photo of her on the boat and the threat of potential lawsuits. 

At Pierpoint, ESG and impact investing have become core tenets of Pierpoint's investment strategy. Eric, separated from his wife, is promoted to partner. Adler, not fully convinced Eric has what it takes, demands he fire a member of the trading desk. 

As the firm gears up to take Lumi, a green energy tech company, public, investor James Ashford voices concerns about Lumi's quarterly earnings report. Sir Henry Muck, Lumi's CEO, returns Ashford's shares, while Yasmin scrambles to find last-minute investors. Meanwhile, Harper has found a job as an executive assistant at Future Dawn Partners. 

When she overhears her boss Anna arguing with portfolio manager Petra over ESG and green investment strategies, Harper later corners Petra at the end of the workday and states her belief that ESG is a fad. At Muck's behest, Yasmin visits his residence, where she finds his uncle Lord Norton and godfather Otto Mostyn in the basement; the men make it clear she must pay for her father's debts. 

After staying the night at Nicole's, Robert wakes up to her dead next to him, later entering work the morning of the IPO shaken and upset. Eric, who shows up to Pierpoint disheveled after an all-nighter with Yasmin and her friend, takes Robert off the desk and tells him to man up. Instead of firing Yasmin or Robert as he initially contemplated, he fires Kenny. 

The power goes out across London the exact moment Lumi goes public.

So the third season opens with a bang. It also concludes with a bang on Binge. Speaking of, HBO will launch their own streaming service in Australia next year. So will Industry remain on Binge or move?

OK, so after that TV industry gossip, as we all need to start delivering parcels via Amazon or food via Menulog to keep up with all our subscription, spoiler warning below for the third season's finale, Infinite Largesse.

As for Pierpoint, Eric’s out. The new owners are hacking more staffers than originally planned, and the London office will now be focused on private wealth. Therefore, there’s no business need for Eric anymore. Eric does however score, $20 million, though.

After reading about Jesse Bloom’s release from prison, Harper reveals to Mostyn that she wants to start a short-only fund. He’s intrigued by her subversive anti-fraud fraudsters pitch. And she wants to run it from New York.

Yas calls Harper and asks why she hasn’t responded to her wedding invite yet, then congratulates her for making Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Eric even gave her a quote. Yas, meanwhile, has gotten her own press in Real Country. Image rehab, complete? Harper asks if there are any corporate big-wigs and what the seating chart’s like. 

And then Rishi’s wife is shot in the head. Yep. Rishi’s gambling debts have caught up with him. Big Man came to collect and when Rishi’s wife berates the guy, he pulls his gun out and BAM. 

Harper calls Eric to thank him for the quote. He tells her to take care. There’s a finality to it. So really this could have acted as a series finale if HBO hadn't given the series the green light the other day.

Eric quits his moping at the Pierpoint office. He ends the call with Harper and immediately starts networking.

The episode concludes with Robert (sadly not nude with Joel Kim Booster) in the States working at his new job and making a pitch. He received a million dollars from Henry, after all. And he assures his listeners that they can come in on the ground floor of a spectacular journey. 

I for one, hope the usual two year wait isn't in order for the fourth season. Season one landed all the way back in November 2020, season two August 2022, then this third season in 2024.

I am pumped for season four of this sleeper series. I don't even think HBO could have seen this being one of its best performers of 2024. Now let's see if the Penguin continues to shine in episode two, ahead of The Franchise commencing next week! Not a good time for Binge to be losing HBO. Just saying!