This is a workplace of excess and extremity, where people are pushed, and push themselves, beyond all rational limits.Īfter Hari’s pass automatically flags that he hasn’t left the building in over two days, his manager demands he makes a swift exit. Don’t get comfortable, the show tells its viewers, disaster could strike at any time. He gulps Red Bull, pops Modafinil, and uses his Pierpoint gilet as a pillow when he curls up on the floor of a toilet cubicle to sleep – the same one where, 48 hours or so later, he will die. One of five grads vying for positions at prestigious London banking institution Pierpoint, Hari (Nabhaan Rizwan) attempts to prove his value to the company by never leaving it. The first series of Industry (2020-2022) – the sexed-up, drug-fuelled trading floor show written by two ex-finance bros, and widely hailed as ‘the first great Gen Z workplace drama’ - kicked off with a kid dying in a toilet cubicle. From Severance to Industry, the office is no longer imagined as a site of absurdity, but one of tragic flaws, grave errors and violence
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