![]() ![]() In addition to staring at indecipherable charts and muttering incomprehensible acronyms, they do things the rest of us can understand, like fighting with each other, getting high and most importantly, hooking up. There’s Harper, a cynical, biracial New Yorker who grew up working class Yasmin, a cosmopolitan, eager-to-please rich girl Robert, a blond-haired heartthrob who loves to party, and Gus, a gay, Ivy-league educated Black man. (“Half of you won’t be here in six months,” says one of the firm’s managing directors in the least motivating speech ever.) Unlike most shows about power and money, not all of its characters are white. Industry focuses on a group of four grads who are put in a hunger games-like fight for permanent jobs at a London-based company called Pierpoint & Co. Fletcher - it’s still rare for a series about a testosterone-fueled space like investment banking to give women power of any kind, let alone sexual agency. While the past few years have seen an explosion of sexed-up women on-screen - Fleabag, Broad City, Insecure, Mrs. And since I don’t personally know anyone who sits on the top floor of glass buildings yelling about numbers, I’ve accepted this on-screen version of events as gospel (in my defense, the stockbroker who inspired The Wolf of Wall Street said that in real life, the debauchery was “even worse.”) That is, until HBO’s Industry introduced me to some extremely horny women in the finance world.įinally, some WAP on the trading floor. ![]() ![]() If you, like me, have watched Hustlers, The Wolf of Wall Street, or Billions, you probably also picture an industry filled with coked-up pinstripes speaking in dick metaphors and harassing women. As Hollywood has made clear, the finance world is seemingly full of aggressively sexual straight men. ![]()
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