| How to entertain yourself this weekend. |
This weekend you can either watch Industry, which kicks off season four on HBO on Sunday, or pick up with The Pitt, which returned to HBO yesterday. Or both, if you have free time like that! —Nick Catucci, site director |
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Inside Industry Season Four
Last we left Industry, the acclaimed HBO series about the London office of an illustrious American bank, the illustrious bank in question had been sold off to a Gulf-state sovereign wealth fund and its principal characters had been scattered to the wind. If the season finale felt like the end of something, that was by design—the culmination of perhaps the first version of the show. “We were trying to basically scorch the earth because we didn’t think we were coming back,” says Industry cocreator Konrad Kay.
Read Daniel Riley’s new feature on the show.
Industry’s Horny Appeal
Late in Industry's third season, after Myha’la’s Harper Stern shanks her “best friend”—by virtue of sheer lack of viable options—her former mentor leans in and snarls, “You know I’m guessing you live with the feeling that you’re a monster. And now there’s nothing stopping you on your path to whatever behavior provides you with an externalized fantasy of what you really think of yourself every moment of every day. I want you to know from the bottom of my heart, that what you think about yourself is true.” The mentor is Eric Tao, reacting to his mentee effectively burning the setting for much of Industry’s first three seasons—the trading floor where Eric trained her—to the ground. Harper’s actions, speeding the self-inflicted demise of the institutional investment bank Pierpoint, and Eric’s prophecy, inform much of Industry's thrilling new season.
Read Abe Beame’s take on episode one.
Industry and 18 Other Picks for ’26
This is, quite simply, the hardest show out and the season premiere lives up to that mantle so much that it made me want to run through a wall. There’s a special thrill that comes from watching a show level up from good to great in real time—season three was that, and so far season four is doubling down on that energy.
Read Frazier Tharpe’s ranking of the albums, TV shows and films he’s most looking forward to this year.
And How About That Pitt?
The début season of the HBO Max drama The Pitt kicks off the way a lot of workplace pilots do: new characters arrive, and their introductions to their various colleagues and to the processes of their job efficiently bring the audience up to speed. The new staffers here are mostly medical students, because Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center is a teaching hospital. The students will spend their very stressful shift on a “see one, do one, teach one” rotation through a wide range of ailments and crises, but they’re not the only ones who learn about medicine through the cases they treat. As we pick up with Season 2 of The Pitt this week, much of the satisfaction of the show comes from the specificity and realism of the medical plotlines: every patient offers viewers a concentrated dose of the kind of hard-earned, scientifically sound, prosocial expertise that is under attack politically right now.
Read Tara Ariano’s take on the second season. |
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