‘I don’t want to kink-shame him. But he’s, like, into urine,” says finance worker Sweetpea Golightly (Miriam Petche) in the third season of Industry – the HBO drama that explores the lives of a group of power-hungry financiers at the fictional bank Pierpoint & Co. She is oversharing with her colleague Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) about the sexual mores of a character in the Industry-verse, Henry Muck (Kit Harington). Muck is a tantrum-prone aristocrat who has rebranded himself as the messianic CEO of clean energy company Lumi, which is about to go public on the London stock exchange.
At the end of episode two, alleged urine-lover Henry invites Yasmin to a fancy dinner spot to seduce her. Instead, she marches him into the bathroom, where she demeans him in the mirror and insists it’s “never going to happen”. Then, she sits in the toilet cubicle and urinates, tempting him with the trickling sound. “In that moment, she’s saying: ‘If you want to pursue this, you can, but know that I’m the one who has the power,’” explains Konrad Kay, co-creator of Industry. “You’re subordinate to me, but game on.’”
