Industry started as an insular show with most of the action taking place on the London trading floor of the fictional Pierpoint & Co. But by the start of this season, our young capitalists have been flung further afield into new jobs and new places that stir up a vague sense of menace even before the actual danger of the plot grinds into action. Harper Stern (Myha’la) moves to a wood-paneled, old-money office before launching a new firm out of a fussy hotel suite. Yasmin Kara-Hanani and Henry Muck are out of their depth in the flashy offices of Tender, a start-up led by the smooth-talking, unreadable Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella). As the season rolls on, we encounter a satellite office in Accra, Ghana, and the offices of newspaper editors and Cabinet ministers — all of it somehow sinister.
Production designer Simon Rogers talked to us about bringing the bad vibes this season as well as office plants, “tropical modernism,” and why a beige carpet is probably a red flag on a job interview.
