This week I’ve spent a good chunk of my downtime rewatching Industry, BBC and HBO’s high-tension, high-finance drama, which returns for a third series in the UK on 1 October (American viewers are already charging through it). Watching it a second time, is just as intense as a first: the pace, the jargon-filled crosstalk, the queasy, quick-cut camerawork … I’ve never had a speedball, but this seems like the televisual approximation of what taking one might feel like.
Another show I’ve been revisiting this week is ER. Not, alas, because there’s another season coming but because the medical drama celebrates its 30th birthday this month, and that seemed excuse enough to dive back in. And, rewatching the first series, what struck me was just how much like Industry it seemed.
