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TV Review: Captains of Industry? They’re all rank rotten

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Industry.

The world is based on things the majority of us don’t really understand.

From mobile phones to the trade agreements which brought a slice of toast from farm to your gob, how much do we know about the invisible strings which make them work?

Despite being the sinews of the world in which we live, the banking industry is a mystery to most of us.

We have a rough idea: there are offices full of head-spinning financial chicanery executed by besuited psychopaths.

Industry is a taut BBC drama about a crowd of graduates who one day hope to be the next generation of Gordon Geckos. We’re shown them learning the trade as assistants to established financial lizards; it’s a sort of Bateman and Robin situation.

“What are you, cattle?” says main character Myha’la Herrold’s boss when he spots her nose ring. The trainees are treated appallingly, and they themselves treat others the same way.

In a world where champagne is plentiful and heroism scarce, what you do doesn’t matter, as long as you make money.

How it all works is sidestepped but Industry demonstrates the sort of person who succeeds here.

Industry has been likened to Wall Street or Succession. With a workplace this toxic and potentially deadly, perhaps Chernobyl is a more accurate comparison.


Industry BBC2, Monday, 9.15pm