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It Starts On The Page (Drama): Read ‘Industry’ Episode 304 Script “White Mischief” With Foreword By Mickey Down & Konrad Kay

'Industry' creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay talk about writing Episode 304 of HBO series. Part of a franchise featuring scripts of Emmy contenders.

The finance drama, created by lapsed investment bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, details the vertiginous rise and dizzying crash of the high-stakes trading world of the prestigious firm Pierpoint and its power-hungry upstarts. It’s among the first episodes to go off-script, so to speak, dedicating its entire runtime to exploring the self-destructive exploits of Rishi (Sagar Radia), an associate at Pierpoint with a troubling gambling problem whose debts loom over his marriage, professional stability and bodily safety. The performative nature of a kind of turbo masculinity, British-Asian class and racial anxiety, the interchangeability of financial markets and the roulette wheel, the modern office as a site of the culture wars — all of this and more swirled around as we discussed the scenes.

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