Lena Dunham?
Gonna be an uphill climb.
I had a similar concern, but she was an EP and director for only the first episode. It’s not her show.
Didn’t know this when I watched the first episode and I was disappointed when I didn’t see her voice in it at all. Zero humor at all. Was good to see Junior’s insane asylum friend in another part. Bugged me for like 20 minutes watching until I could place him.
I’m 3 episodes in. So far the only thing that is in Dunham’s style is the presumption that on screen sex between 20 somethings is inherently interesting.
This show is slickly produced but hasn’t really struck me as having terribly deep insights. Investment banking is toxic yet intoxicating work environment? NO WAY THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
I’m going to watch the whole thing because the whole atmosphere of ignorant 23 year olds in suits pulling all nighters and partying alot takes me back to my first couple of years in the workforce. The whole “panic attack from using the wrong font in a client deck” is a real thing, lol.
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I am also squarely in the “it’s good enough to watch” crowd. My standards are pretty low at this point! Third episode seemed to be more in the soap opera relationships vein, which is much less interesting to me than the cutthroat/backstabby work environment.
Ken Leung deserves special note tho. He’s killing it.
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He is the real standout, but alot of the performances are actually pretty good.
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It’s a brutal watch. Commanding performances. But you better know what you’re getting into with that show. Though it seems that could end up being true about Industry as well
I watched the rest. Pretty all over the place but still watchable.
soapy work drama
This ended up being mostly correct imo. Gets much soapier as it goes along.
Final episode definitely seemed like a classic “we don’t know if we’re getting a second season” situation.
Yeah I was struck by how little I cared about what was actually happening while I was watching it. Still not sure how Eric bailed Harper out of her fuckup in the fourth episode. All I would have had to do was rewind so I could hear his line more clearly, but why bother? It was obvious some 11th hour BS was going to save her, the details aren’t really important.
If I mildly disliked the show after the first episode should I watch more?
edit: bonus points for me watching more if Ken Leung’s character is awesome going forward, only guy from episode 1 I cared about.
I think he said that the down-low lesbian client had called him after Harper went to her kid’s play, but things had already completely gone to shit by that point, which is why I was confused. But again, who cares!
Did they ever actually say that was definitely her twin brother? If it was, then yeah it’s super weird that more wasn’t made of it. I thought that was just her ex-boyfriend.
It depends why you disliked it, but it’s probably still worth watching. If you liked Yasmin (the Spanish? girl), keep watching. She’s super sexy imo.
That’s a good question. I think I didn’t like it because no one in the show really made me care about them or their situation. A couple of thirsty new graduate dudes wanting to make it big in the scumbag world of investment banking? Hard pass. A young girl trying to grift her way into the grifty world of investment banking? Eh. Oh, did I mention this grifter was a woman of color? Double eh.
I’m not opposed to a show about investment banking in this vein, but I want it to more impactful. Like, I loved Margin Call. I’d watch a TV show just about Spock’s subordinate’s origin story in Margin Call. But this? There’s no voice. At least not in the pilot. Except for Junior’s insane asylum buddy, he was great, if he’s increasingly great, sign me up.
Yeah maybe not for you. To whatever extent the show addresses any actual “issues” it’s very ham-handed. You will likely never care about any of the characters or the decisions they make. I’m avoiding addressing Ken Leung’s role but I will say that he is not the center of the show, and totally should be. Maybe if there’s a season two.
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I mean it’s not about the “issues” but I think if a show doesn’t make you care about the characters and their lives and their problems in the first episode then what are we even doing here? Honestly I can’t think of a single TV show that’s a counterfactual to this test.
That said, I didn’t hate it, I was just mildly annoyed by the first episode and casually interested in a few of the characters.
Although, that’s kind of the general feeling I had through much of Girls, a show I love. And Lena Dunham directed the first episode of Industry?!?! Maybe that’s why I was mildly annoyed! Fuck it, let’s see the next episode!
This was way better imho, first season especially, ymmv.
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This part didn’t make sense to me at all.
First of all, I thought she clicked sell or whatever when it was at negative 140K, so it seem like the loss was locked.
Second, what was she trying to get that woman who groped her in the cab to do?
Third, Eric mentioned (I think) that the she actually called and did something that allowed them to escape the 140K loss. What was it?
I had to rewatch it and it didn’t make sense to me either. I thought that she hadn’t clicked and he came back in at end of day and closed it for her. That would have made sense too because she had said that it was going to bounce back. So I went back and rewatched that she did click sale. So I don’t know what happened there
Also, why did she get Eric fired? Especially after he did so much for her? It didn’t make much sense to me
The supporting cast were better than the main cast imo. Eric was charismatic. I was disappointed when he relegated to the b plot. The washed up has been trader was great and Kenny was a trash bag of a human being. All of those guy were more impactful than the main story relationships.
Also Daria was very very tall.
Overall, got to give it the Imdb rating 6/10. Would have been more interesting if it would have been more the ins and outs of trading and less rich kids doing drugs and having sex with each other.
My recollection is that Harper booked her trade at a loss then tried to sell an obviously bad trade to her other client to offset the loss. The other client booked that second trade at the end of the day.
The guy who was in the background on the phone (Rishi?) everytime they were at their desk was the star of the show
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