Industry is being pushed on MAX as the greatest television series of all time; it has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes; and there's at least one gay character. Should be an obvious must-watch, right?
Maybe not. I've tried getting into it twice, and get immensely bored after five minutes. It's about money. The inter-office squabbles of guys in suits making money by making money for other guys in suits, and trying to position into positions of higher power so they can make more money by making more money.
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion
It's not only boring, it's depressing. You're in friggin' London. Go to the British Museum and see some art.
Can we skip the money and just look at some naked guys?
1. David Jonsson, top photo, plays Gus Sackey, the main gay character. He majored in humanities before he sold his soul to Mammon. Apparently he's closeted, not fitting in to the heterosexist money culture. According to the Wikipedia, he's "assigned to the Investment Banking Division, IBD, and then the CPS desk. I don't know what that is, either.
2. Will Tudor as Theo Tuck, the other gay character, an Eton graduate consigned to a lowly position as research analyst.
3. Harry Lawley as Robert, from a working-class Welsh background, so he doesn't fit in with the upper-class Oxcam graduates working the money angle. There also might be some prejudice against the Welsh. He's on the CPS desk.
4. Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Greg, VP at the CPS desk. Ok, I looked it up: CPS means Cross Product Sales, where you try to sell your bank customers things they don't need, like Wells Fargo: "Oh, you want to open a checking account? How about an auto loan and a credit card?"
How about the Victoria and Albert Museum?
5.Derek Riddell, here getting sexed up in The Book Club, as Clement, the CPS vice manager.
The St. Paul's Cathedral Choir is performing on Friday night.
More money-making cocks after the break