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Can Industry Succeed Succession?
With a new Sunday-night time slot and Kit Harington co-starring, can this buzzy Gen-Z finance drama finally break out?
The series kicks off with Harper as its point of entry: She arrives for an interview in the pilot at the British outpost of a fictional American bank known as Pierpoint & Co. (think Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, or JPMorgan but somehow more evil), bluffing her way into a job alongside Yasmin, Robert, and some other grads, even though she’s faked her college degree. Kay and Down, with the help of their heads of department, tend to be exceedingly particular about the details: the movies the characters watch (this season has a joke about dating a guy with a Mubi subscription), the places they go (a season-two American newcomer is doomed from the moment he mentions wanting to go a pub that’s like Harry Potter), and especially what they wear. “In the U.K., we talk about social mobility, the erosion of class divides,” Kay says, “but Mickey and I think it’s more entrenched than ever.” Those old-fashioned dynamics come to the fore when Yasmin, in the wake of her father’s scandal, finds herself grasping for financial and emotional stability.
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