Photo: Amanda Searle/HBO As Hollywood has made clear, the finance world is seemingly full of aggressively sexual straight men. If you, like me, have watched Hustlers, The Wolf of Wall Street, or Billions, you probably also picture an industry filled with coked-up pinstripes speaking in dick metaphors and harassing women.
While sex and drugs are the butter to the finance world’s bread , Industry subverts tired gender dynamics. In movies and shows about Wall Street, women’s bodies are usually appendages of male desire, like a sudsy Margot Robbie explaining mortgage-backed securities from the bath in The Big Short, a sex-worker fuelled orgy in The Wolf of Wall Street or Billions’ Damien Lewis walking into a hot tub with naked girls.
In Industry, it’s the men who are aggressively pursued and objectified. Yasmin’s much hornier than her boyfriend — she likes rough sex, public sex, kinky sex — and he’s constantly turning her down, which only fuels her flirtation with Robert. Most naked shots of women happen while they’re getting oral sex from men; the only full-frontal nude is of Robert, who Yasmin and Harper objectify throughout the show.
Go skanks!
ooh! Working on my review this week actually; found this series quite daring in many ways
This was good miaschoenhals