Anyone watching "Industry" on HBO?

Rayzah

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True, Industry is leagues above Billions, Billions had a chance to be a truly great show.
I’ve watched 2 & 1/2 seasons of industry and all of billions. Aside from the final season

You are tripping

I’m not going to let yall spin this narrative that billions was a bad show because showtime let it drag for too long. Those first 3-4 seasons were very entertaining.

The industry is an acquired taste, I’ve had no desire to finish it other than to watch the sex scenes. It’s a cool show but hell no it ain’t better than billions.


But hey what do I know. I hated succession
 

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I’ve watched 2 & 1/2 seasons of industry and all of billions. Aside from the final season

You are tripping

I’m not going to let yall spin this narrative that billions was a bad show because showtime let it drag for too long. Those first 3-4 seasons were very entertaining.

The industry is an acquired taste, I’ve had no desire to finish it other than to watch the sex scenes. It’s a cool show but hell no it ain’t better than billions.


But hey what do I know. I hated succession

Let's me know all I need to about you

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Aye I’m in.

Season 3. Just watched Rishi’s episode, Lord God, a nice change of pace and was defo the hardest I’ve laughed all series during that HR meeting.

The amount of Rishis I know :damn:
 

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Lowkey, you could make a Wire comp for Industry :jbhmm:
The Wire is a better show to me but the way they tell the story does remind me of The Wire in a few ways. It doesn't dumb things down for the audience. It doesn't explain all the financial terms or have a lot of exposition. Industry just throws a lot of scenes at you that are seemingly unrelated but as the season progresses all the seemingly unrelated pieces all start to come together for a big climax over the last two episodes of the season. It has that delayed gratification sort of story telling. Also the way that there are really no heroes or good guys. It just lets the story play out and leaves it to the viewer to judge.

I just watched the whole series for the first time over the last two or three weeks. Now looking forward to running it back at some point to see all the clues that were laid to what was coming in the future.
 
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I finished this last night. Seasons 1 and 2 were enjoyable watches, 3 and 4 went nuclear - excellent television.

I like how the show's scope widened. Trading floor, city pubs and flat shares to C-suite meetings, country mansions and ministerial involvement. The bigger it got, the darker it became. An uncomfortable world has been created here and I'm looking forward to seeing what season 5 holds.

I shall no longer refer to Kit Harington as Jon Snow; he put in a fukking shift.

My one minor gripe is the dialogue at times; I find it contrived. It's like they have the Collins English Thesaurus (the one that can stop a .50 cal) sitting in the middle of a writer's room session, which is referenced to juice up/intellectualise scenes.
 
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