We Talked To The Cast And Creators Of 'Industry' About What To Expect In Season 3

HBO’s smash hit “Industry” returns for its third season on Sunday, replete with coke-fueled ragers, an afflicted embezzler heiress, “corporate girlie” influencers and “woke” investing.

The British-American series follows a group of fledglings-turned-financiers at Pierpoint & Co., a fictional London-based investment bank, as they juggle life, love, survival and late capitalism.

Created by ex-bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the cult-favorite series has slowly garnered critical acclaim for its gripping on-screen examination of power, institutions and identity. The show — dubbed “the first great Gen Z workplace drama” — is poised to capture the attention of audiences still grieving the loss of “Succession,” per Variety. A masterclass in storytelling, with Season 3, “Industry” may finally clinch a long-overdue Emmy nomination.

“Expanding the world of these characters was sort of the mandate for the writer’s room at the very start,” Down said in a news conference. “In Season 2, as the characters grew and got a bit more responsibility, we could raise the stakes a bit. By the time we got to Season 3, we wanted to show how Pierpoint and banking fit into a wider sort of industrial complex.”

The talented cast is helmed by Myha’la as infamous antiheroine Harper Stern, a Black American banker from upstate New York who is determined to succeed by any means necessary. Thanks to her boss and saboteur Eric Tao (Ken Leung), Harper’s scheming results in a painful ousting from Pierpoint in the Season 2 finale. She leaves behind two colleagues from her cohort: frenemy and nepo baby Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) and working-class boy toy Robert Spearing (Harry Lawtey).

“Industry” Season 1 chronicled the graduates’ initiation into