The new trailer for Industry season two is out - and we’re in for more stress than ever

There’s no rest for the graduates of Pierpoint & Co
Vicky Jessop1 July 2022

Banking: one of the most stressful jobs in the market. Right?

According to the new trailer for the BBC and HBO’s show Industry, pretty much.

In the new trailer for season two, which will air later this year, the graduates of banking firm Pierpoint & Co are in for more stress, more shouting and more drama than ever before.

“You know what they say about flying close to the sun,” main character Harper Stern (played by Myha’la Herrold) says at the start of the trailer. “It gives off a lovely light.”

It then cuts to various shots of the graduates and staff running around the trading floor, as well as drinking and dancing the night away at various parties around London.

The American branch of Pierpoint also look set to feature more heavily in season two, with the company’s chief executive Eric Tao (Ken Leung) telling Harper: “You don’t work with me. You work for me.”

New arrival: Jay Duplass as Jesse Bloom
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“Industry gives an insider’s view of the blackbox of high finance following a group of young bankers as they forge their identities within the pressure-cooker environment and sex and drug-fuelled blitz of international bank Pierpoint & Co’s London office,” the synopsis reads.

“In season two our grads are no longer allowed to hide behind their graduate status. The market is ripping, and Pierpoint’s back to work or else mandate has the trading floor more charged up and paranoid than ever.”

During season one, viewers followed a clutch of fresh-faced graduates as they attempt to make it in the cut-throat world of finance following the 2008 financial crash – and now, in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Among them was the show’s lead Harper, a New Yorker who moves to London in search of success- and who secures a job after lying about the university she graduated from.

She’s joined by Gus Sackey (David Jonsson), a gay, black graduate of Eton and Oxford, Robert Spearing (Harry Lawtey), a Welsh Oxford graduate who struggles with classism in the industry, and Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela), the child of well-connected Lebanese parents with a drug-addicted boyfriend.

Towards the end of season one, Yasmin, Robert and Harper also shared a three-way kiss, hinting at more drama ahead during season two.

There will also be plenty of new additions to the cast. Last month, American actor Jay Duplass was announced as hedge fund manager Jesse Bloom – who has travelled to the UK along with his troubled son Leo (Sonny Poon Tip).

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