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22 hours agoThe Twist in The Drama Is Not the Problem
The film features a controversial plot twist involving a character's past plan for a school shooting, sparking significant online speculation and backlash.
In the fourth season of Industry, everyone has a story to sell: a neutered fund or loveless marriage, shamed husbands, a life aimless after retirement, a payment-processing firm hampered by its ties to porn and sex work. These labels seem to indicate mistaken priorities or misplaced trust. But they are just narratives to be refined or redefined. Everything is up for grabs if you tell the right story.
Whereas other characters are cold and sharklike, Yas feels her way through the world-and uses her vulnerability to manipulate others. Being born into wealth taught her that none of us is in command of our fate, so we had better cheat for whatever control we can. She's the statuesque girlboss for the new gilded age.
We're literally representing every single aspect of UK life. Unlike other series that focused on wealth and power with tantalizing sets to match—Succession, most recently—there's usually a darker, colder sheen to the environs of Industry. Each character is depicted in their own environments more often than previous seasons, just as the scripts reveal deeper and more intimate layers of the characters. The spaces on screen align with their interiority and they're less gleaming penthouse than tarnished mansion.
So many tourists he picks up want to talk about the hit comedy and, as a fan himself, he's happy to oblige. We're stuck in traffic, which is odd for this small city on a wet Tuesday morning. It's because all the media are here, he jokes. But there is some truth to it. I'm visiting for the world premiere of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast,
At the end of Season 3, all signs pointed to "Industry," if renewed, journeying to the U.S. for Season 4, as two of the three series leads seemed set on moving their business across the Atlantic. In the finale, Harper (Myha'la) discussed setting up her new fund in New York, and Robert (Harry Lawtey) was in Silicon Valley raising money for his psilocybin mushroom venture.
About halfway through "Dear Henry," Whitney Halberstram hits his lowest ebb. Thanks to Harper's explosive remarks at the ALPHA Conference, Tender's stock price is cratering. Hayley - who turns out to be a hooker who does secretarial admin on the side and not an executive assistant who occasionally threesomes - is extorting him for $750,000. Henry is AWOL. Not even Jonah will break from putting notes in strippers' G-strings to take his call for old time's sake.
AMC Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn and Chee novels by Tony Hillerman, is the 1970s-set story of Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon), a Navajo Nation police officer, and his sidekicks Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) and Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon.) Over the first three seasons, we've seen them face off against crooked mining magnates, zealous cults, and border patrol conspiracies. (You can catch up on the first three seasons on Netflix.)
The television show I'm most enjoying right now: There is a Hollywood story in David Niven's autobiography Bring on the Empty Horses, in which the screenwriter Charles MacArthur asks Charlie Chaplin how to make the comic pratfall scene of a person slipping on a banana peel new again. Chaplin suggests that MacArthur start with a lady walking down the street and cut to a shot of the banana peel on the sidewalk, which the lady steps over-right before she falls down a manhole.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
From sparks flying during The OC's Spider-Man snog to love stories so powerful they make you weep, Guardian writers have picked the television couples whose tales never fail to make hearts pound. Now we would like to hear yours. What is your favourite TV romance, and why? Share your favourite You can tell us your favourite TV romance using this form.
Pop culture loves a loanword, and German is arguably the GOAT when it comes to words so hyperspecific in mood and meaning that they cannot exist outside their culture of origin. Schadenfreude, obviously. Zeitgeist is useful. And I personally enjoy kummerspeck, which is the German term for the weight you gain from sad-snacking. (The literal translation is a humdinger: "grief bacon.")
Jenny G. Zhang: After a series premiere that seemed to be received pretty well by viewers-although the diarrhea smash cut was certainly divisive-we open the second episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with another jump scare: big dong alert, courtesy of Ser Arlan of Pennytree, who is truly packing the heat. (While he is probably not a Best or a Worst Person in Westeros this week, he certainly deserves some kind of title.)