The first series plunged viewers headfirst into the dizzying world of Pierpoint & Co, a leading investment bank. Deals on the London office’s trading floor are made on a dime, and rake in millions.
Just as intense as the work is the lifestyle. Drugs, sex and drinking collide with equities portfolios. Anyone who doesn’t keep up – in any department – risks failure, which in this world is unthinkable.
BBC and HBO’s Industry features university graduates striving for permanent positions at Pierpoint and Co, an esteemed investment bank. Where we left off in series two, Harper (Myha’la Herrold) and Eric (Ken Leung) had just pulled off a dramatic deal with Bloom (Jay Duplass) and secured themselves new positions at Pierpoint, but not without the help of some very illegal insider trading.
Extrapolations presents an imminent apocalyptic future where the catastrophic effects of climate change are choking modern society. The world is at breaking point, and humans are taking action.
Storylines involving family, faith, love and work all come to the surface as characters suffer and prosper via planet earth falling apart around them.
Cocaine use is spiraling ot of control in the UK, says Gordon Ramsey, and the celebrity chef is on a mission to de-glamourise the drug. The UK now consumes more cocaine than anywhere else in Europe, he finds.
Gunpowder is set in the 17th century during the reign of King James I, at a time of social unrest and in the midst of a war with Catholic Spain.
Despite many unsuccessful attempts to kill the new king, a plot was formed that went on to become one of the most notorious assassination attempts in English history: The Gunpowder Plot.
