Set in the secretive and brutal world of high finance, the British soap opera holds a hazy mirror to our own society. Her Season 2 again questions our desire to see her change.
That was just a few months ago. When the Covid-19 epidemic (almost) ended, they thought that the world would change. More beautiful, more virtuous, more sober. This is clearly not the case and, like each of us at the time, the two heroines Industry (1), an HBO-produced series that follows young financial sharks as they try to deal with the confusion that comes with coming out of the pandemic. Harper (Myha’la Herrold), an American and mixed-race outsider who made her way into the bank through ambition, smarts, and smart back-knives, spends a year working remotely in a hotel room that’s so impersonal. it is elegant. And struggles to break out of his isolation at the risk of becoming “invisible” in the eyes of his clients. Yasmin (Marissa Abela, possibly Amy Winehouse in a biopic about the singer), a silk shirt heiress, in turn seeks to warm her cold heart on busy nights on the town, between parties, sex and drugs. will
A pack of young wolves
Two young women, two atmospheres, two solitudes. two ex-friends are at loggerheads today (trading room camaraderie isn’t really appropriate) we’ve been following, trainees who are willing to do anything to get their jobs in the first seasonIndustry:. And we find, as Robbie (Harry Lawton), a young proletarian seeking to accept the rules of the environment. Gus (David Johnson), left to find some meaning by working for an MP. Rishi (Sagar Radia), the son of Indian immigrants, is about to marry a girl from English high society who “has a podcast that tells you how to feel.” Imperfect characters, cruel, sometimes united, but often lost. But whose complexity and spirit (illustrated by acid dialogue and well-felt one-liners) make them impossible to hate. Additionally, this season, the investment fund manager nicknamed “Mr. Covid” is sitting on a much-coveted hoard during the pandemic. And two women, one a client, the other a counselor, the older one, so many paths to take (or not) for the youngest.
In the video: the trailer for season 2 Industry:
Exchangeable values
As in the first season, we still don’t understand the financial jargon thrown out at full speed, in their bubbles of open space, by these aspiring kings of the world to both seek and sell themselves the best. investment This does not prevent us from enjoying this game of carnage exacerbated by post-pandemic pressures, where moral values are traded, multiplied or diminished, as well as those found in markets; courage, compassion, like respect, can quickly turn into cowardice or cruelty, depending on who is sharing or accepting them. how Euphoria and: succession the two major series of the year (also from HBO), Industry: Our fascination plays to two things: a generation that seeks to forget itself in the most combustible, and the extreme arrogance of the rich and powerful. Moral, underlying, but very present. if money doesn’t bring happiness neither does youth. A cathartic function multiplied tenfold by the hardness we would never allow ourselves and the sense of respect we dreamed of having. The whole thing probably holds a strange mirror for us. restless and disturbing because it is strangely alive.
(1) Industry season 2 by Mickey Down and Conrad Kay, available at OCS
Source: Le Figaro
