And Eric Tao (Ken Leung), the increasingly erratic and cutthroat team leader, is Henry VIII.
Each of these costumes is a not-so-subtle nod to where these characters currently stand in theIndustrykingdom.
Its a show that is ostensibly about money making money, specifically.
Harry Lawtey as RobSimon Ridgway/HBO
Dont let the finance jargon fool you: Class isIndustryscentral tension and shared language.
It is the gateway to understanding the series and modern British life on a whole other level.
Soon, the politician realizes that Rob isnt just a representative hes a sacrificial lamb.
One statement from a Lumi employee called you Sir Henrys whipping boy, the committee member says.
Id say youre more Pierpoints whipping boy.
From the first season ofIndustry, class anxiety has been central to Robs character.
In the third-season opener, he and Nicole sit together after having sex.
Rob tells her that he doesnt need a toff CEO Henry Muck to say well done to him.
Yeah, you do, she laughs.
Thats all youve ever wanted!
Validation from your betters.
Were all just chimps in a hierarchy.
Tension between Rob and Henry has been brewing all season.
Two words instead of 30.
Itd be easier for you.
Go on, say it.
At one point, Nicole mocks a silver necklace he was given by his girlfriend.
You look like a fucking club rep from Zante, she says.
Henry also tells Rob that hes surprised that Rob is such a bad bullshitter.
Isnt that what the Oxford tutorial system is meant to teach us?
Its not just Rob who has been made to feel like hell never be inside the fold.
Up until this season, we havent learned much about Rishi, the strangely endearing loudmouth misogynist.
But this season, he gets his own episode, White Mischief.
Well, at least people likeusare, anyway.
You love your fucking English country rose!
I dont want to be someones country wife, she says.
Some dull breeding machine you spunk into.
It unlocks a more complex and vulnerable side of him.
But at the start of Season Three, her dad has gone AWOL amid an embezzlement scandal.
Yasmins last name, which has allowed her to float through life, is instantly toxic.
And now, shes having to work for her place on the top rung of the ladder.
At the Select Committee hearing, allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior are made against Henry.
I can only fuck down.
Both are stalked by the shadows of father figures who have let them down and talked them down.
But its in the smallest details that we learn the most.
Its a tiny, blink-and-youll-miss-it moment that tells us everything we need to know about Yasmins father.
He didnt just turn bad, hes rotten to the core.
She is handed a glass of champagne and heralded as our future prime minister.
