Blood on the Exchange Floor

Industry, Season 3 | Cast: Marisa Abela, Ken Leung, Myha’la | Creators: Mickey Down and Konrad Kay | English | JioCinema

“Our business is people making money on a hill of dead yellow birds,” says Eric Tao, played by the underrated Ken Leung. Woke investing, or greenwashing, says a member of the company board (who is white and old), is basically like writing a blank cheque to they/them, who happens to be a “black lesbian with one leg”. And this is Leung again, saying “empathy is worse than judgement”. The ruthless world of London high finance is back, with young professionals trying to make a killing for themselves and their clients, while slowly losing their souls in the process. It is a world of nepo kids, outsiders with extreme ambition, and yet others who live for the validation of other people. The relationship between the clients and the brokers is sometimes too close for comfort. Times are tough so redundancies are quite high—who goes and who stays is completely the call of the team leader, and makes beasts out of men. It is bleak, dark and relentless. The focus is now on Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) whose father has been skimming off pension funds and has gone missing. But in this world kids are collateral and Yasmin has to bear the brunt of her father’s misdeeds, making her easy meat for the feral tabloids. Meanwhile Harper, played by Myha’la, the breakout star of the first two seasons, is struggling at her new firm after being disgraced at Pierpoint, and Robert (Harry Lawtey) can’t seem to negotiate relationships. It’s a terrible comment on our fractured times, where nothing seems honest anymore, least of all Sir Henry Muck’s promise of a sustainable future. Muck, played by Kit Harington, is a new addition to the cast and super to watch.

Why watch it? Young people with professional and personal issues, and all sorts of addictions. It has the horrifying effect of watching a car crash in motion. Plus it makes you feel smarter.

Sherlock Da in ’90s Bengal

Shekhar Home| Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey and Kaushik Sen | Director: Rohan Sippy | Hindi | JioCinema

Could there be a better actor than Kay Kay Menon to play the Indian version of Sherlock Holmes? No. So it is just as well that he plays the enigmatic detective with the always excellent Ranvir Shorey as the desi Watson (or is he?) The series is wisely placed in Kolkata in the early nineties. There is Rabindranath Tagore, Hooghly Bridge, lots of Bangla, and many disguises. Each of the six episodes has a new mystery but there is a common thread too of Home and his investigat­ing methods. Is he a genius or a madman? Or a bit of both? Menon plays Home with abandon, toying with the audience, sporting a smile, a nod, agesture, or even a sound. He is not Benedict Cumberbatch, but he need not be.

Why watch it? Despite a somewhat goofy sub plot involving armed rebels, it is delightful to catch up with our very own Sherlock Holmes.

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