Dramas set in the financial world usually focus on the savvy power brokers on top. The new HBO series “Industry” is more invested in the struggle (and sex and partying) at the entry level, with a group of Gen Z recruits trying to make it at a London investment bank.
Their gatekeepers: a managing director who grips a baseball bat on the trading floor. A trader who flips into hazing mode when an underling botches a salad order. A manager who demands that a junior analyst stop doing all nighters in the office—not for his sake,…
