The 'Industry' Season 3 Trailer is Prepped to Step Into 'Succession's Shoes
The Max streaming debacle will one day be featured in classrooms as a case study of every misstep made in the entertainment world during the transition from linear cable television to digital streaming. However, few shows have suffered quite so severely during this era as Industry, the British series that, by rights, should be as big a hit as its sibling series on the HBO/Max brand as Succession and Euphoria. Set in the world of investment and finance, it has all the cutthroat power moves laced with black comedy as the former and all the young sex'n'drugs soap opera of the latter. However, the lackadaisical "if we put it on, they will watch" approach of AT&T and now WarnerBrothersDiscovery has failed the show twice. Thankfully, with the looks of Season 3, both the production and recently empowered HBO President of Entertainment Casey Bloys look as if they are determined to course correct.
Though the first season of Industry struggled to find its footing (not unlike Succession) with cast turnover between the pilot and regular season and then Seasons 1 and 2, the show's sophomore outing in 2022 was a powerhouse, turning the central ensemble of David Jonsson, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, and Myha'la Herrold into household names in the U.K. Jonsson, who exited at the end of Season 2, has already shot to the A-list with Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy. The other three are not far behind, with Abela starring as Amy Winehouse in Back to Black, Myha'la dropping her last name ahead of co-starring in Leave the World Behind, while Lawtey will make his big screen debut in Todd Phillips' Joker: Folie à Deux.
But just in case these rising stars haven't caught enough attention on this side of the pond yet, Industry has taken out some insurance by casting another mega-star from the U.K. to stir up trouble for London's prestigious investment bank, Pierpoint & Co, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and all eight of his abs as Harry Muck. (That's not a six-pack, darlings; it's an eight-pack, and I do believe I could grate cheese on it.)
