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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comJan 6, 2026
Season 4 Review:
The risks “Industry” and its creators are willing to take prove that the series is one of the best post-pandemic television shows to grace our screens. By allowing these characters to become their nastiest, most immoral selves, Down and Kay continue to push them to the point of no return, allowing their actors to inhabit them in a way no other television ensemble cast does.
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RogerEbert.comAug 5, 2024
The GuardianNov 11, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Industry boasts some excellent writing. ... But its greatest strength is bringing all of its elements together in a moreish package where relationships – friendly, romantic and work-oriented, three categories that frequently overlap – are constantly in flux and the tension is ever-rising.
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The IndependentNov 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Sometimes it’s very funny, but at other times it’s plain cruel. Underneath the spiky and unfamiliar exterior, though, is a beguilingly original series that ought to mark the launch of several major careers, not least those of its creators, barely into their thirties, for whom this is a precocious debut.
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IndieWireJan 12, 2026
Jan 15, 2026
Season 4 Review:
Industry’s potent blend of contemporary finance drama and its characters’ doomed attempts at self-actualization is running on max in Season 4. By putting Pierpoint in the rearview mirror, the series has graduated to a bigger playing field where the consequences are much more dire.
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Jan 6, 2026
Season 4 Review:
Potential for wildly divergent paths in the meta arc of the show. One is that “Industry” rises from the ashes to become bigger and more ambitious than ever, joining the upper tier of HBO’s roster. The other is that, without its distinct angle and grounding ballast, “Industry” tips over into grandiosity, never quite establishing a sound basis for moving past such a natural endpoint. Over eight episodes, Season 4 hews much closer to the former end of this spectrum than the latter.
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Screen RantJan 6, 2026
Season 4 Review:
There are major character shifts that serve as a testament to the foundation built by all involved, from Abela and Myha'la's performances to Down and Kay's thorny and compelling scripts. Once again, the pair write themselves into a corner, but now, the best part of Industry is watching how they'll thrash and claw their way out of it and who will survive the bloodshed.
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ColliderJan 6, 2026
Season 4 Review:
Although there’s never the sense that Industry is holding itself back, the wider canvas that Season 4 operates on suggests that the series could continue to evolve to keep up with reality's increasingly unbelievable events. Industry may share similarities with previous HBO dramas, but it's evolved into a definitive show of the moment.
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Aug 9, 2024
Season 3 Review:
In its third and best season yet, this frisky financial drama — a London-based junior version of HBO’s Succession — finds its footing. Kit Harington joins a cast topped by Marisa Abela and Myha'la to reveal a world broken by sex and greed that looks scarily like our own.
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Jan 12, 2026
Season 4 Review:
Considering everything that has gone down between Eric and Harper, I am not expecting an easy road ahead. Nor do I want it to be friction-free. However, there is something heartening about the way they hash out terms in person, with Myha’la and Leung firing on all emotional cylinders.
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Aug 7, 2024
Season 3 Review:
It wavers between pulpy family melodrama, steamy erotica, and heart-racing white-collar crime thriller at the drop of a hat while discovering new textures to characters that ensure no one lands squarely on one side of the good-bad person spectrum. Plus, the show has finally bought a few shares in a sly sense of humor, something sorely missed from earlier iterations.
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Feb 12, 2026
Season 4 Review:
“Industry” has produced what is perhaps its most conventional season yet—a tale of corporate intrigue in which Harper works to uncover the fraud and extralegal tactics that have allowed Tender to thrive. The righteousness of her crusade means that there’s less of what I think of as the show’s signature effect: a simultaneous awe and nausea at the characters’ Machiavellian maneuvers. .... In most respects, though, “Industry” still feels like “Industry.”
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The Daily BeastNov 19, 2024
Season 3 Review:
Everyone’s arc exists on a sine curve, charging upwards toward success and dipping downwards toward utter failure multiple times per episode. If that all sounds a little too dour, worry not, because the show retains the vicious sense of humor that makes its shocks and thrills easier to stomach.
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The IndependentSep 23, 2024
Season 3 Review:
In a world where prestige drama is so focused on humanising troubled people, it’s gripping to watch a drama that takes their humanity as a given and focuses on the troubles. It’s not just the markets that are irrational: most counter-intuitively of all, this third instalment of Industry is, somehow, a lot of fun to watch.
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Aug 8, 2024
Season 3 Review:
Breathlessly entertaining. Yes, portions of these eight episodes are turgid and overwritten: angry monologues half sold by talented actors, whizzing technical talk delivered with smug snap, high drama that isn’t always credibly sourced. But Industry’s version of all that is vastly preferable to the kind seen on, say, The Bear. At least on Industry, things actually happen.
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Aug 2, 2024
Season 3 Review:
Character development has always been more important to Industry than the intricacies of the financial-services issues that raise the stakes of those relationships. And that remains the case in Season 3. But Down and Kay’s choice of overarching Pierpoint plot feels more purposeful this time.
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The TelegraphSep 27, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Writers Konrad Kay and Mickey Down scrap, and, ultimately, succeed in maintaining interest in their three central characters. ... Most of all, though, Industry is a blast: highly addictive, wicked fun and, in light of renewed focus on bankers and what they’re worth, topical too.
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Aug 2, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Industry is an incredibly watchable show, but for my money (which is largely allocated in a risk-averse portfolio of mutual funds), the primary draw is how much fun it is to listen to. It’s not so much a radio play as it is a fully immersive sound bath, made of constantly roiling tension and the occasional relief of someone in the background yelling about NFTs.
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The IndependentAug 2, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Industry is the same show it was the first time around, with the same pleasures and pitfalls. The dialogue is so laden with financial jargon it occasionally becomes unparsable. ... If you found something to like in its bleak worldview and blistering pace in season one, you’ll be glad to follow Harper back into the office.
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Aug 1, 2022
Season 2 Review:
No one watching HBO dramas in 2022 worries about whether characters are likable. But despite their deficiencies of conscience and personality flaws, these twentysomethings are oddly lovable—a credit to the writers and the actors, who fill these strivers with charm and energy.
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The Daily BeastAug 1, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Without the straightforward narrative of Industry's first season, there’s more opportunity for episodes to drag and meander, particularly when we peer into characters’ troubled pasts and lives outside of work. ... But the series always manages to reel you back in with its characters’ sly maneuvering and ruthless power plays—not to mention a handful of what will hopefully be Emmy-nominated performances next year.
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Nov 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
An often exhilarating, eight-part drama centered in the City of London, the series presents a world that’s thoroughly believable, frequently appalling and fully enthralling. This is, in large part, because it doesn’t care what you know: Viewers are dropped into a maelstrom of numbers, jargon and deals and as a result will be swept up, and away.
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Nov 4, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It’s that very back and forth that makes Industry so much fun. This workplace and its employees are so callous, so singleminded you want to see them trip over their own inflated egos not once but a dozen times. You want to see them rise from the ashes of their own mistakes and try to make it, even if doing so will make you hate them just a little bit more.
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The PlaylistJan 12, 2026
Season 4 Review:
“Industry” is still perfectly good as a thriller, but this new genre styling gives way to even better human drama this year. While the investigation might move quickly to uncover the truth behind Whitney’s company, the show itself takes a notably more brooding and melancholic pace in interactions between characters.
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Jan 6, 2026
Season 4 Review:
The characters are all terrible people who spend their daylight hours operating as professional psychopaths and their downtime coming up with perverse ways to make themselves miserable. The bedroom antics and boardroom battles are, of course, delicious to watch, but the tiny glimmers of vulnerability that the players display is enough to keep us invested in their success.
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Nov 30, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The set-up isn’t unique, of course. There have been numerous shows about doctors and lawyers and such having to fight their way to success in a crowded field. The difference is those characters usually do something redeeming along the way. These people are just plain greedy and flippantly vile. Which doesn’t mean they can’t make for a guilty pleasure. And they’re a varied lot.
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Nov 9, 2020TV Guide MagazineNov 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Not recommended for those who prefer their TV heroes to be especially likable. Industry is a heady, raunchy rush of unchecked avarice. [9 - 22 Nov 2020, p.9]
Nov 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
There are moments of genuine insight about how much said workplace has changed, from the make-up of employees to rise-and-grind culture to mixed messages from executives about “slowing down” while also “not letting up.” They’re too far and few between the bacchanalian scenes and familiar storytelling beats about succeeding at all cost, which sets Industry squarely in mid-cap territory.
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RogerEbert.comNov 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While there’s not a bad performance in the bunch—Leung, Abela, Freya Mavor, and David Jonsson are particular standouts—the fine acting doesn’t render “Industry” appointment-viewing. There’s a frustrating and probably deliberate sameness to the first three episodes in particular; characters often repeat the same beats in new configurations again and again, which adds thematic richness while also making each episode feel a bit stale.
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Nov 2, 2020
Season 1 Review:
It isn't just the sheer volume of mumbo-jumbo that's impenetrable. Down and Kay, in their first series as creators, rush through the hierarchy and structure at Pierpoint, leaving it for viewers to figure out the reporting structure. ... Maybe if the creators are able to give the context some real meaning, Industry will evolve beyond tawdry, infectious fun into something more HBO-appropriate, as opposed to "Too spicy for Freeform, not spicy enough for Starz." The upside feels like a YA version of Succession.
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Aug 12, 2024
Season 3 Review:
The series aims, in its third season, to pair power plays of the sort “Game of Thrones” specialized in with the agon of “Uncut Gems” and the brutal humor and banality of “Barry.” That’s a tough recipe to nail. In this case the result, while certainly entertaining, abandons realism — and the sense of moral peril that characterized earlier seasons — for plots that range from soapy to pulpy to simply absurd.
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The PlaylistDec 7, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The show is heavily reliant on the specifics of the financial world but, ironically, could be interchanged with any other stressful profession. More interested in exploring the rotating bedfellows of entry-level workers, “Industry” has little to actually say about the industry that it showcases.
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Nov 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
All the pieces work fine — its gray and noisy world is fully realized and each character has a clearly defining schtick. But the show doesn’t appear to be about anything. Everyone is in favor of winning and opposed to losing, but there’s no meaningful motivation or specificity to any of their behaviors.
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The TimesJan 6, 2026
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