The writing and performances here are the equal of Succession and The White Lotus. Industry has always been a good (sharp, audacious) show. Now it’s great.

It is just as cool and confident and brazen (and sweary and explicit) as before, and yet considerably more significant. If Succession needed an heir, then here it is.

The plot moves at a breakneck speed, so it can be hard to catch your breath, but creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay have delivered one of the best shows of 2024 so far.

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.

This is the most disparate, sprawling season yet — but the plot-twists, back-stabbing character drama and endlessly high stakes keep Industry as gripping and raucous as ever. 

What has emerged is a series about the erosion of relationships, why certain people will always choose themselves and why others thrive under a cycle of cruelty and malice.

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.