“Industry,” the cult-hit high-stakes financial drama co-created by former investment bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, is back: Season 4 will premiere on HBO January 11, and the cabler has revealed the first teaser. Watch below.
Set to Nina Simone’s hypnotizing cautionary ballad “Lilac Wine,” the first footage from “Industry” Season 4 shows returning cast members and Pierpoint grads Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) getting into all sorts of trouble — and potentially mending fences. Season 3 ended with Harper leaving London for New York to start her own investment fund. Meanwhile, Yasmin married the wealthy heir Henry Muck (Kit Harington, who joined in Season 3), ultimately ending her relationship with Robert (Harry Lawtey, not returning for this season) in pursuit of financial security over love.
Here’s the Season 4 official synopsis: “At the top of their game and living the lives they set out to have as Pierpoint grads, Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) are drawn into a high stakes, globetrotting cat-and-mouse game when a splashy fintech darling bursts onto the London scene. As Yasmin navigates her relationship with tech founder Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) and Harper is pulled into the orbit of enigmatic executive Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), their twisted friendship begins to warp and ignite under the pressure of money, power, and the desire to be on top.”
Minghella, Kiernan Shipka, Jack Farthing, Toheeb Jimoh, and Amy James-Kelly are among the faces new to the cast this season. Myha’la, Abela, Harington, Ken Leung, Miriam Petche, Sagar Radia, Charlie Heaton, Roger Barclay, Andrew Havill, Kal Penn, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Forlani, and Edward Holcroft all star.
IndieWire this summer deemed “Industry” the 20th best series of the 2020s so far, writing, “Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s propulsive, sexy, and often vicious drama of Gen Z and millennial investment bankers in London was rightly renewed by HBO for a Season 4. Still, it feels like not enough people are watching or talking about this addictive series that turns the world of finance into high-stakes suspense. … Rarely has a show made such over-our-heads jargon — here, the language of the financial world — into such a cutting dramatic parlance that never romanticizes the ugliness of the series’ often rock-bottom world, instead plunging you into the grind of ethically questionable young people. Their high achievement is, more often, their downfall, and it’s riveting to watch.”
The “Industry” Season 4 premiere debuts Sunday, January 11, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT and will also stream on HBO Max.