Another finance drama that I have been following for a while is Industry on HBO. I discovered it when I found out Billions was coming to an end, and I needed some new finance drama to fill the void Billions left behind. Industry is a TV drama series from HBO that focuses on the twists and craziness of working in high finance as an investment banker. Yeah, you know that section of the bank that handles the investments tied to the bank and their client, that is the one. This drama leaves nothing to chance, as they kept it more twisted when it was intriguing.

Everything that comes with high finance, huge figures, drugs, weird characters, and messed-up love lives and personal lives. There is not a single person in this series without some twisted background to their lives and how they pursue a steady income. A lot is going on in everyone's life, and yet everybody is still governed by the desire to make a profit, for if they do not make a profit, then their lives amount to nothing. One of the lead characters, Harper, is a young, talented finance trader, but she has very poor impulse control. She comes from nothing, so she is consumed by the void of making something for herself, a name that demands respect since her family is of no noble grounds.

Nothing was left to chance with this fourth season, as the writers came up with a different angle in this season, a financial fraud that is built on layers and layers of lies. Nothing else but lies about what they do, what they offer, and even the genesis of how they came into existence. The surprising part is that this company, with a web of lies, is moving for a banking license to become a bank that offers financial services to people under the disguise of democratising finance for everyone, and not something for the rich alone.

Aside from this twist from the financial fraud and the people who orchestrated it, there is a whole dynamic to the plot of this season centered on the fact that everyone's actions have a reaction. It did not matter who it was, but every single character involved in this season was a fragment of the entire story. Something like a whole story broken down into pieces, which, when put together at the end, all made sense. Another thing that stuck with me was how a young man hacked into the governing system of the social structure that controls the lives of the social elite. He was able to understand how to play his cards through manipulation and pulling the oldest trick in the book by employing the services of women to get information from the men, and proof that kept them obedient to his demands. This was a textbook move of a pathological liar who kept up the lie even down to the end when everything came crashing down.

Nothing will prepare you for the strange eccentricities in this series from one episode to another, but one thing is for sure: the series did a good job in showing us that there is more to the inner workings of finance, especially the ones we do not see on the TV screen. Many things are done behind closed doors, and the question is, do you have access to such rooms/

My Rating - 9/10

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