Review: Industry, “Dear Henry” | Season 4, Episode 6
"but clouds got in my way"
“It is never if, but when.”
I’ve always admired the way that Industry builds into its seasonal crescendos. I remember watching “Useful Idiot” last year and realizing we were in the thick of it. Fitting for a penultimate episode, sure, but the way in which the series presented that fact felt like it happened subtly. In that instance, Sweetpea’s reveal to Eric that Pierpoint had all these distressed ESG assets was always going to come back around, but even then, that didn’t happen until two episodes later.
As soon as Harper uttered the quote above, which comes roughly 22 minutes into “Dear Henry,” I had a feeling this was going to be the episode that brought everything crashing down. But I don’t think I understood what all that would entail or how, to Harper’s point, swiftly it would all come. What strikes me about “Dear Henry” is how well-executed Tender’s precipitous decline and its immediate fallout are from a narrative perspective. Industry has always laid the track for an inevitable domino fall, but this season is different in its execution. To quote another beloved HBO series, all the pieces matter.
