About “Industry” in a few words:

Industry is a sharp, intense drama about young graduates thrown into the cutthroat world of high finance in London. It follows a group of ambitious newbies at an investment bank where success is intoxicating, failure is brutal, and boundaries don’t really exist. Power plays, insecurity, ego, and survival instincts collide as each character tries to prove they belong — often at a serious personal cost.

Meet the characters from Industry

Harper Stern

Harper is a blistering cocktail of ambition and sweater-scarf chic (okay, maybe not literally a scarf) who treats trading like performance art. She’s razor-smart, hyper-competitive and will probably outwork you while making you question every career choice you’ve ever made. There’s a brittle vulnerability underneath — she wants respect but also craves approval, which makes her both fierce and… occasionally a mess. She hoards notebooks (and weirdly, novelty mugs) but will forget her phone charger at least twice a month.

Yasmin Kara-Hanani

Yasmin is the moral compass who also knows how to make a spreadsheet sing. Principled, meticulous, and quietly ferocious — the sort of person who reads the fine print and then writes the fine print you didn’t know existed. She balances a work-ethical steeliness with sudden flashes of warmth (bring her a good cup of coffee and you’re friends for life — or until markets shift). She memorizes train timetables, quotes poets at awkward moments, and absolutely will not eat mushrooms unless it’s a very specific emergency pizza situation.

Eric Tao

Eric moves through rooms like he already knows what the headline will be — smooth, efficient, and a little bit dangerous. Confident and slightly mercenary, he’s excellent at reading the room: mentor one minute, shark the next. There’s a private side that loves vinyl, late-night jazz, and fountain pens, which makes him weirdly soft if you catch him off-guard. Also, he keeps a list of personal mantras he never admits to anyone, which is both adorable and terrifying.

Robert Spearing

Robert is boardroom steel: polished, institutional, and terrifyingly good at making other people feel like chess pieces. He embodies the old guard — speaks in aphorisms, drinks expensive whiskey, and treats mentorship like a strategic move. Under the tailored suits there’s a tiny nostalgic streak (he thinks in spreadsheets but keeps a dog-eared paperback on his shelf), which makes his cruelty oddly human sometimes. He’ll fire you with a smile and then send a perfunctory birthday email, and you’ll still wonder if he meant it kindly.

Rishi Ramdani

Rishi is the earnest, neurotic wunderkind who wears optimism like armor and anxiety like a slightly-too-tight tie. Brilliant and oddly moral, he has this habit of apologizing for ideas that are actually great — like he’ll pitch the perfect strategy and then say sorry in case it’s “too much.” He bakes intimidating sourdough on weekends and is bafflingly proud of his spreadsheet pivots, which is the cutest combo ever. Sometimes he seems like the office conscience, sometimes like someone who would absolutely scramble for a promotion at 2 a.m.; the flip-flop is part of his charm.