OTT Review: Industry Season 4 - Class War in London
That woke shit won’t work in this new world, says an old toff anointed by the king to the young Black woman he hired to give his fund a progressive sheen. Even by Industry’s brutal standards, Season 4 is hellish.
A dystopia of avaricious young women and class-obsessed young men perpetuate the exploitative system that spat them out. Yasmin and Harper are back, frenemies who now need each other more than ever. Set in London, with the Labour Party having taken over, and resetting the national agenda, with guardrails for marginal groups in every legislation, the class war is sharper than ever as our former Pierpointers try to get to the top of the heap. Yasmin is now firmly ensconced in the aristocracy because of her marriage to Sir Henry Muck, but she has to find something useful for her husband to do. Harper has to find another fund to create and make profit for clients she despises but needs.
Max Minghella plays an American who is trying to buy his way into the posh set while abandoning his loose cannon CEO who cannot have enough of porn and drugs, played by a very slurry Kal Penn in fine form. Kiernan Shipka, now all grown up, joins the cast as Minghella’s assistant while Charlie Heaton enacts a financial journalist looking for a scoop. It’s a not-so brave new world where too much money can never be enough, drugs are rampant, and power has corrupted everyone equally.