Failed “Finance Bros” Find Success with HBO’s “Industry”

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David Remnick sits down with Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the creators of a amusement helium loves, “Industry,” which is presently airing its 4th season. The amusement is centered connected the fiscal and idiosyncratic dramas of inferior employees astatine a fictional London concern bank. Down and Kay are aged friends who some did unsuccessful stints successful banking. “Before we could formulate our ain identities, we allowed the instauration to marque them for us,” Down tells Remnick. But, having near concern for television, helium says, “I inactive consciousness similar I privation to marque money. . . . I’m ne'er contented with my career. The crushed our amusement feels similar it’s perpetually changing and vibrating with energy is due to the fact that maine and Konrad are, successful presumption of our careers. And, you know, we privation to beryllium successful. We were concern bros successful the archetypal instance.”

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