'Industry' tackles the impact of overhyped tech in its ambitious third season

Harry Lawtey and Kit Harington in Industry season 3.
 (Photo by Simon Ridgway/HBO)

If you liked Succession, you should definitely be watching Industry.

If you miss the colorfully profane world of Succession, a show where most characters would gladly sell their souls for power and money, then you should be watching HBO Max's Industry. While they share some similarities — both come from British creators and follow a cadre of anti-heroic characters into a world of hyperwealth — Industry is even more focused on the inhuman ambition that drives its characters.

While Succession follows a family that's already wealthy and striving to hold onto its relevance, Industry centers on a group of twenty-somethings who are (mostly) not rich and are all desperate to prove themselves at London's renowned investment bank Pierpoint & Co. Breaking with the rampant nepotism of the Roy family, their workplace could charitably be described as meritocratic — who you are doesn't matter as much as the money you bring in — but it's also an obscenely toxic world devoid of morality.

By Devindra Hardawar

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