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industry (hbo) really is brilliant. it's probably the most brutal hbo show there is, if you're defining brutality by one's capacity for psychological damage alone. i'm not sure i've appreciated sheer unadulterated toxicity like that, just voyeuristically, in a hot minute. like... you wanna get into the crux of what competition and capitalism and cocaine look like when they collide on the freeway? yeah, that's the show.
industry on HBO is a survivor-style show about, “we took a bunch of 20 year olds who all have deeply fraught relationships with sex, need, and boundaries. and we put them in the job division that birthed cocaine dependency. and… we’re just going to see what happens.”
obviously the privilege and daddy issues are inherent to his character and I'm most likely making this comparison due to their respective shows' common setting of the cutthroat finance world but half of what drew me to harper stern is that to me, she is like kendall roy minus the privileges he was born with. because Hear Me Out she really acts in the same way! she will overshoot, every decision she makes is BIG, she will hold her blackmail cards close until the last minute because she will always try to play the game first, because moral superiority is failure compared to winning! she will fight whatever! she will hurt and hurt and hurt and LOSE but keep going because She Has No Shame! (as you may know there is an hour of me talking about how kendall has no shame besides that which is enforced by logan) and that is so so so compelling because she doesn't have the parachute of privilege to save her, she has to be smarter that him. and she will absorb the poison, everyone's poison! and she will die a little bit every time trying to convince herself it's anti-venom. there are so many things wrong with her she's a piece of shit and I love her