Despite being in Max’s top five shows, Industry is shockingly underrated among viewers. With its chaotic season 3 finale, the series has officially proved (if it hadn’t already) exactly why it deserves your watch. 

The series follows staffers at London-based financial firm Pierpoint as they navigate the toxicity of banking, the threats of capitalism and their own too-complex relationships. With profoundly hateable characters, ever-changing plotlines and more drama than politics, this series is a must-watch. 

With Kit Harrington added to season 3 as Henry Muck, an erratic business owner and millionaire, the series is hopefully gaining some more traction. It has already been renewed for a fourth season, where fans can watch how the events of the third season’s chaotic finale play out. 

Though the series occasionally uses language and plots that might be difficult for financially illiterate viewers, more than the ins-and-outs of the firm, the series’ true heart lies in its characters. 

From calculating Harper (Myah’la) to perhaps the only redeemable character in the entire series Robert (Harry Lawtey), this show gives extremely dynamic character representations, filled with unpredictability and angst.

The series is full of sex, drugs and pushes its characters to the brink as they frantically try and navigate their own desires in their equally destructive and beneficial capitalist world. 

If there’s any time to start watching, it’s now. The season 3 finale left the series in absolute disarray, with the fate of Eric (Ken Leung), Harper, Rishi (Sagar Radia) and Pierpoint itself hanging by a thread. If you like corporate politics and shocking twists, Industry is your series.

Season 3 Recap

Spoilers Ahead for Industry Season 3

In this season’s tumultuous finale, viewers finally get to see the end of what’s been coined as Yasmin’s (Marisa Abela) season. After being complicit in the death of her dad, Yasmin has spent the season weighing her options and trying to protect herself from the looming threat of her father’s previous company. In this season, we’ve watched what was once a quiet, submissive young trader come into her own power as she attempts to define what she truly wants. 

After being fired from Pierpoint for accidentally giving previous Pierpoint trader Harper sensitive information about the firm’s failing infrastructure, Yasmin is left without options. Her father, now dead, cut her off in season 2, and the luscious lifestyle she’s been used to is completely inaccessible. In her desperation, Yasmin calls her former rich lover Henry Muck, and her current series long on-and-off love interest Robert joins her as they visit Muck’s family mansion under the guise of looking for Muck’s investment in Robert’s new company. At the mansion, Muck’s Uncle Viscount Norton gives Yasmin an option: if she marries his nephew, then he can help her get rid of all of her financial and legal problems. 

With the options weighing on her, Yasmin takes Robert to the garden, and in an uncharacteristically artistic scene, the two share a long-awaited moment of passion where they finally have sex. Since season one, the pair’s chemistry has been a massive facet of the series, and here viewers finally get to see the two as their realest, most vulnerable selves together. What initially appeared to be the two finally admitting their love together is quickly revealed to be a moment of saying goodbye, as Yasmin shockingly announces her engagement to Henry Muck during a dinner party. Despite Robert’s love for her, he is oddly understanding of Yasmin’s decision. 

As Yasmin and Robert visit Muck, Pierpoint is falling apart. In a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat, Eric Tao, the fierce leader of Pierpoint’s trading floor, contacts Egyptian investors to save Pierpoint. In the end, this decision completely backfires, Pierpoint becomes Al-Miraj Pierpoint, and the wealth fund completely flips Pierpoint on its head, even closing its trading floor where all of the show’s characters derived.

Meanwhile, Harper is making big moves at Leviathan Alpha, her company with Petra (Sarah Goldberg). From the debris of Pierpoint, Harper picks up staffers Sweatpea (Miriam Petche) and Anraj (Irfan Shamji) to join her team. She also brings in Rishi for a fake interview, in which she takes the opportunity to completely humiliate him and get her revenge for his helping to fire her at Pierpoint. Though Harper seems invested in her new venture, she is characteristically unsatisfied. In the season finale, Harper approaches Leviathan Alpha investor Otto to start her own all-shorts fund, where she’ll move to New York to operate.

If this all wasn’t shocking enough, at the end of the episode Rishi, whose crippling debt and gambling issue has completely destabilized his family, comes home to find his wife Diana sitting at a table with loan-shark Vinay, who he owes a lot of money to. In what can only be described as the climax of an already daunting finale, Vinay shoots and kills Diana right before Rishi’s eyes.

Season 4 is confirmed to release sometime in 2026. Industry’s first three seasons are available for streaming now on MAX.