At the same time, the narrator is taken with her new colleague, Vlad, who is married to fellow professor Cynthia. One day, the narrator and her adult daughter, Sid, follow John's car and see him meeting with Cynthia at the school. Believing that they're having an affair, the narrator resolves to act on her obsession with Vlad.
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.
"Sup, playa," Rob says as he reveals to the always-befuddled Eric that he's not only a Traitor but a Traitor seeking to recruit him to his ranks. And how do you say no to "Sup, playa"? With death as the only other option, Eric is, of course, onboard to become a Traitor, which means he has to murder - and the three people that our new Traitorous pairing is choosing between are Natalie, Dorinda, and Stephen.
Their first order of business is arguing whether Rob turning on Lisa and Candiace was him hopping off a sinking ship, or if he was the one who sunk it. The Housewives maintain that they had zero intention of ever turning on Rob, but he's convinced that it was never an "if" but a "when."
What's fascinating about this season of "Industry" is how well it speaks to this moment. Tender starts as a payment processing platform for adult content. The show references the very real (and still controversial) Online Safety Bill that the UK introduced, which has led to age verification and other enhanced rules for consuming adult content online. Because of its affiliation with adult content, Tender finds itself at odds with the new government's regulation and must pivot or die, as the saying goes.
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.