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Where Does Industry Go From Here?


The series has blown up its narrative center, leaving some major question marks hanging over next season.

This ending couldhave easily worked as a series finale, with Harper going further to the financial dark side with a new role dabbling in corporate espionage, Robert leaving the bank, Yasmin securing a wealthy husband, and Rishi hitting rock bottom. The series spends a lot of time this season setting up Henry Muck’s web of influence — his newspaper-owning uncle Alexander, investor godfather Otto, and their Tory protege Aurore Adekunle — and inching him along the failson path toward government service. As Eric told us in the season premiere, Pierpoint was established by slavers, and we’ve seen the generations of awful people who have risen through its ranks, and the board’s implicit distrust of the Egyptian Ali El Mansour, his powerful family, and the Al-Mi’raj Holding Company — the bank’s own clients!

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