HBO’s tense finance drama, Industry, has added a new player to the board. Deadline reports Max Minghella (The Handmaid’s Tale, Spiral) will join season four of the series from creators Mikey Down (The Avengers, Gregor) and Konrad Kay (Hoff the Record, The Avengers). The third season wrapped last fall and was blessed with a renewal ahead of its final two episodes.
According to Deadline, Minghella will portray Whitney Halberstram, the CFO and founder of a new payment processor company, Tender. Minghella’s joining follows the series’ trend of casting big-named antagonists for each season. Season three cast Game of Thrones’ Kit Harington as faux environmental-friendly tech bro, Sir Henry Muck. The sophomore season cast Jay Duplass (Togetherness, Cyrus) as the nefarious hedge fund manager, Jesse Bloom.
Minghella joins a stunning returning cast including Harington, Miriam Petche (Vexed, The Worst Witch), Marisa Abela (Rogue Agent, Back to Black), Myha’la (Leave the World Behind, Bodies Bodies Bodies), Ken Leung (Missing, Lost), and Sagar Radia (Unicorns, Lucky Man), according to Deadline. While there isn’t much information about the fourth season, Kay and Down have a vision for the next entry.
“We want to write a corporate thriller,” Down told Deadline in an interview in December. The co-creators and writers of the series are eyeing inspiration from the George Clooney-led film, Michael Clayton, which Down called “the greatest corporate thriller of all time.”
Premiering in 2020, the series follows a group of interns at the prestigious UK-based global finance firm, Pierpoint & Co. In addition to surviving the cutthroat politics of the corporate jungle, they face personal strife from familial feuds to toxic work environments. Season three saw our main three pupils — Harper, Rob, and Yasmin — play an intricate game with Harington’s Henry Muck. Harry Lawety’s (Joker: Folie a Deux, The Pale Blue Eye) Rob got tied up in Muck’s financial fraud while Yasmin played meet-cute with the dashingly disturbed nepo baby. Harper, no longer at Pierpoint, sought to benefit from Muck’s wealth at the expense of her former coworkers. Ultimately, the series placed all three on brand new paths from where they started.
According to a previous mxdwn article, the series etched modest ratings, seeing rise in viewership each season. Season three posted series-high ratings after shifting from Monday evenings to Sunday’s primetime slot. This is impressive for a series with no previous franchise attachment led by younger and newer faces. The series scored a Critics Choice nomination for Best Drama Series, via Deadline.
Production for season four begins next month and will consist of eight episodes, according to Deadline. All three seasons of Industry are available to stream on Max.