{"id":108750,"date":"2024-09-30T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108750"},"modified":"2024-09-30T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T08:07:44","slug":"industry-season-3-finale-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108750","title":{"rendered":"Industry season 3 finale recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting your season finale with the following bit of dialogue <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is but one of the reasons we should all toast <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one of the best series of post-Peak TV: \u201cSo, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all been programmed to expect something radical. But what I have here for you today is nothing new at all.\u201d <\/span>At a time when streamers and networks are feeding us shows we can half-watch while we scroll, stuff meant to merely complement what\u2019s on our second screen, this HBO drama insists on our rapt attention with every line, every frame, every scene. That\u2019s not novel yet it does feel radical.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/harry-lawtey-interview-industry-season-3\">Harry Lawtey<\/a>) is not talking about 21st-century television but he may as well be. Salesmanship, as he\u2019s found, has little to do with the product you\u2019re selling. But we\u2019ll get to what he\u2019s selling later. (The episode is circular in structure, with Robert\u2019s words serving as the frame of what this finale achieves.) What\u2019s important to know is that this installment is anchored by the idea that the more things change, the more they stay the same. It\u2019d be an argument for the resilience of the system we call capitalism, but again and again we\u2019re shown that such a system only stays in place because a select number of folks (mainly but not exclusively men) insists on keeping it there\u2014some for their benefit, others for their amusement, plenty for both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- inlinecontent_1 --> <!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so, while the episode begins with a changing of the guard at Pierpoint\u2014sorry, what\u2019s soon to be Al-M\u2019iraj Pierpoint\u2014don\u2019t be fooled by the cosmetic changes afoot. Sure, as Eric (Ken Leung) puts it to the Pierpoint employees once the sale to Ali\u2019s team is all but complete, what they\u2019re witnessing is history in the making (\u201cPierpoint\u2019s history is a history of change,\u201d as he puts it) but that\u2019s all smoke and mirrors, a salesman\u2019s pitch that\u2019s as stale as it is effective: \u201cMoney is peace,\u201d he waxes on. \u201cMoney is civilization. The end of the story is money.\u201d All of those words are little else. It\u2019s clear Pierpoint is on the precipice of a change, and no matter how well Eric sells this pitch, enough of his employees know better than to buy into his mythologizing. It\u2019s why Rishi (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/industry-interview-mickey-down-konrad-kay-sagar-radia\">Sagar Radia<\/a>) bolts, burning bridges as opposed to going across them (as Eric had suggested they all do), and immediately gets to work trying to get hired by Harper (Myha\u2019la) and ostensibly trying to do the same for Sweetpea and Anraj (Miriam Petch and Irfan Shamji).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For if the cruise ship of an institution that is Pierpoint seems headed for some major changes, the nimble operation led by Harper and Petra (Sarah Goldberg) seems ready-made to withstand the every fickle winds of modern capitalism. It would have helped if Leviathan Alpha had made the kind of money they\u2019d hoped to with the Pierpoint short, <em>but<\/em> as we learn, Petra pulled the plug on the short at the right time (from an ethical standpoint) and also, of course, at the very worst time (from a financial one): They made money on the short but not exorbitant amounts of it\u2014all because she opted to do the right thing (much to Harper and Otto Mostyn\u2019s dismay).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<div class=\"grid-x articles-inline-insert\" id=\"inline-related-articles\">\n<ul class=\"articles grid-margin-x flex-container flex-dir-column\">\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/industrys-harper-stern-villain-season-3\"><b class=\"title\"><i>Industry<\/i>&#8216;s Harper Stern is the most deliciously chaotic villain on TV<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"grid-x grid-padding-x\"><a class=\"auto cell copy-container noimage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/industry-recap-season-3-episode-7\"><b class=\"title\">Time is up on <i>Industry<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harper and Petra may have come to a begrudging detente (\u201cNo more unilateral decisions,\u201d they agree) but for those of us who know Harper, it would only be a matter of time before she needed out from what feels like a satisfying, well-oiled machine of an enterprise. She loves the hunt too much. She\u2019s a predator\u2014or likes to think of herself as one. Aggression and self-defense have become indistinguishable for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which is why it was a joy (a cruel one, no doubt) to watch her humiliate Rishi. During what he\u2019d hoped would be a friendly interview for a job he desperately needs (gambler that he is), Harper shows her teeth, asking him to point out exactly when Eric had first decided to axe her (at Rishi\u2019s wedding, he shares, relishing throwing someone else under the bus). She eggs him on to talk about how the only people that succeed at what they do are psychopaths with predatory instincts\u2026all before inviting Sweetpea(!) to sit in on the interview and reveal, of course, that there was no way she\u2019d hire him. \u201cTime\u2019s up,\u201d he\u2019s told, a final flourish where you can see him at a loss for what to do. And as he pleads, Sweetpea delivers the cruelest and realest line of them all: \u201cYou make it very hard to give a fuck.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a delicious scene, made all the more thrilling for how simply it\u2019s shot. (That frame of Harper awash in grays and blacks, with only the green grapes giving it a pop of color? Divine.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This all happens at the same time as Rob and Yas (Marisa Abela) find themselves at an estate in the country owned by Henry\u2019s uncle. It\u2019s not quite what was on the schedule during their road trip but Yas has a way of keeping plenty of plates spinning. Instead of returning to London, Yas suggests to Rob they stop by there. Henry (Kit Harington), she coyly says, has invited them over. She doesn\u2019t really share that she\u2019d called him perhaps with the sole intention of reconnecting, as the Hanani publishing lawsuit is still an annoyance she\u2019s trying to defuse and Henry\u2019s Viscount uncle (you know, the one who controls an entire media conglomerate) may come in handy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rob, though, puppy-eyed as he is by this now sweeter, gentler Yas, agrees to the detour, not knowing, perhaps, what he truly got himself into. He gets to suffer through Henry\u2019s latest transformation (he\u2019s seen the light and wants now to dedicate his life to public service!) and is only slightly baffled when he realizes they won\u2019t just stop by. They\u2019re asked to stay through the weekend for the birthday party being thrown for Viscount Norton (Andrew Havill). Initially, it seems like the weekend in this lavish estate (think Downton) may well play backdrop to the budding romance between the young (ex) Pierpoint\u00a0 employees. And for a while, we are thrown into a loving montage where it might seem like Yas will forsake all she\u2019s ever had to make a life with the tender working-class boy who\u2019s been so good to her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not that simple. After seeing Henry at night and calling him out on his bullshit (she\u2019s not buying his rebrand), she wakes up early and has a fortuitous conversation with Norton. Serving as a fatherly figure who nevertheless has to reveal who her own father was (an abuser), he\u2019s kind and gentle, telling her perhaps what she\u2019s long longed to hear: \u201cThat has nothing to do with you,\u201d he tells Yas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What follows (her choosing to gallivant with Rob around the estate, giving us a pastoral vision of their idyllic romance) feels almost too good to be true. I kept expecting it to be a daydream. That\u2019s how jarring it felt\u2014and looked. No two other characters could make a line like \u201ccum for me\u201d feel so romantic. That they cap with twinned \u201cI love you\u201ds almost had me believing Yas would finally change.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1854885043\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1854885043\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1854885043\" src=\"https:\/\/img.pastemagazine.com\/wp-content\/avuploads\/2024\/09\/25170015\/industrys3e8-recap-embed.jpg\" alt=\"Myha\u2019la (Photo: Simon Ridgway\/HBO) \" width=\"854\" height=\"569\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1854885043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myha\u2019la (Photo: Simon Ridgway\/HBO)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alas, in true <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">form, that all set us up a shocker. Almost immediately, Yas heads to Henry\u2019s room where, in purely practical terms, she lays out why the two should become (go back to being) an item. She\u2019s thinking, of course, about what his uncle told her about being protective of his family\u2026and how he\u2019d hoped Yas\u2019 influence would better his nephew. Sealing such a deal with Henry is a way of keeping the press on her side once the Hanani scandal goes supernova (as it will since she\u2019s refusing to play nice with everyone at the publishing house who\u2019d hoped she\u2019d take the fall for them).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s how, by the time the birthday party dinner gets going, Rob learns they\u2019ve gotten engaged(!). How gorgeous and heartrending is the image of the two of them alone at that dinner table, silently accepting what Yas has done? The way the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scene is shot, which has us going back and forth between the dinner and the proposal (with sweeping, choral arrangements making the moment feel all the grander), is beautiful and heartbreaking in equal measure. It\u2019s a marriage of convenience, a Jane Austen plot twist with 21st-century trappings. For Yas knows she\u2019s the one gaining more here. (\u201cBut Henry,\u201d she cautions him, \u201cI deserve everything.\u201d)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does she love Henry? Was she honest when she told Rob she loved him? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m good at making people feel like I love them,\u201d she\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/industry-recap-season-3-episode-7\">told Robert bluntly<\/a>. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know that I have.\u201d It\u2019s unclear if that\u2019s still true. Which makes her decision all the sadder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so Harper and Yas (and Eric, who is unceremoniously sacked by the new brass at Al-M\u2019iraj Pierpoint) have to face fresh new starts. Yas fits right into the role of would-be bride. (She\u2019s hired the boat girl! How much of a sadist must she be and\/or how selfless can she think herself to be?) Meanwhile, Harper clearly struggles with her work with Petra. She\u2019s bored. Content. Which is not her style. It\u2019s fitting that she connects with Mostyn and pitches him a new firm where she\u2019ll use \u201cforensic accounting <em>and corporate espionage<\/em>\u201d (her actual words) to short \u201cbad\u201d actors that will likely shield them from criminal suspicions even though what she\u2019s proposing is obviously unethical and illegal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the end, it all comes down to Harper\u2019s relationship with Eric. As they talk on the phone (he on an empty trading floor, she on the streets of London), there\u2019s a brutal honesty between them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBeing wealthy isn\u2019t the same as being loved,\u201d Eric tells her (or himself?).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut most of the time it\u2019s close enough?\u201d she wonders (to herself?).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The question is left hanging, which is what eventually brings us back to Henry\u2019s pitch. He\u2019s left for the U.S. and is doing the same\u2014only not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where does <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">go from here? With a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/industry-renewed-season-4-hbo\">confirmed season four coming<\/a>, it\u2019s clear we didn\u2019t just witness an ending but a myriad of beginnings: Jesse Bloom is out of prison. Mostyn and Harper are wholly in cahoots. Rob made quite the move. Yas and Henry seem to want to make their marriage work. Eric is flush with money and nowhere to go\u2026 Pierpoint may be over but the tenets of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remain, and I, for one, cannot wait to see how these various plot threads are spun next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Stray observations<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 <em>How did <\/em>Industry<em> just off one of its characters in the most Tarantino way possible<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>?!<\/em> R.I.P. Diana (and also Rishi\u2019s sanity, arguably). We could say it felt ripped from a different kind of show but it also felt of a piece with a storyline that could only ever end in such violence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 Fun fact: I had to Google whether \u201cWhizz Wheels\u201d was a real rental car company.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 Is \u201cprosciutto money\u201d the most insufferable wealth euphemism you ever did hear?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 \u201cBoth Buckleys. No Vidals in the room\u201d has to be the nichest burn Mostyn could\u2019ve drummed up when describing Harper and Petra. And in case the reference went over your head, may I suggest the 2015 doc <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Best Of Enemies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 \u201cUgh. All these classically educated guys hide their thuggishness behind their verbosity and tailoring\u201d\u2014Petra\u2019s best line all season.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 I may become a one-man FYC campaigner for all things <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But beyond the stellar writing\/directing\/acting, I need the Emmys, who have ignored the HBO series in its past two seasons, to see how fabulous the show\u2019s costume design, art direction, editing, and score is.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022 \u201cI love a woman who doesn\u2019t leave money on the table\u201d \u2014 Harper on Sweetpea\u2019s extracurriculars.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2022\u00a0 <\/span>Gotta love a good Julie Andrews reference: \u201cThoroughly Modern Lady Muck\u201d is one heck of a headline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- admarker --> <!-- inlinecontent_2 -->\n                            <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/industry-season-3-finale-recap\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting your season finale with the following bit of dialogue is but one of the reasons we should all toast Industry as one of the best series of post-Peak TV: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=108750\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}