Industry Showrunners Talk Latest Episode and Upcoming Finale
'Industry' Creators Talk Explosive Episode 6 & Tease Upcoming Finale: "A Lot Comes Home To Roost" https://t.co/ug5Ry9FVom
- Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 16, 2024
Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, co-creators of HBO's Industry, once again talked to Deadline about the most recent episode of their show. They also teased the upcoming ("extra long") finale and that they have a "good Season 4 idea"
Hoping for at least five seasons, but is all that charted out or are they going season by season?
Down: A bit of both. You start to think about how it would end, but then, as long as we’re creatively fulfilled of it, we want to continue. We have a really good Season 4 idea. I’ll just put that out there.
What can they say about the rest of the season?
DOWN: They’re massive episodes.
KAY: We’re behind the camera for the first time.[...] We have an extra long finale as well, like 12 minutes over length, which HBO granted to us on the strength of the material. [...] I feel like a lot comes home to roost in seven and eight, which I think will make a very dramatic view.
How do they come up with the fun background lines?
Down: So when we have a moment to be a bit silly or to just say something funny or to say something bit cutting, we really relish it. It’s where me and Konrad are most unchained in our writing. We’re not having to think about plot or character [...] but we can just say things that make each other laugh. That’s where Rishi’s background dialogue came from.
Kay: You realize the show could actually just never be too funny. So basically every avenue now that’s potential to just for it to be humorous, we’re just going to take and double down on.
Talk about the final argument between Yas and her dad and his death:
Kay: We wanted something seismic to happen to Yasmin between seasons. We knew that if we wanted to tease the idea of her being somehow culpable for her father’s death, it might be a bit of a betrayal of the audience, given they weren’t set up for this sort of thing in the show, if she outright killed him, but we thought that this felt like an organic way for her for her to be given a decision about whether to save him or not, which felt a little bit more [within] the reality of the show.
Down: The idea of actually the way he died was obviously something we talked about a lot, and Konrad’s totally right. We felt like if she actually had a direct hand in his death, it would feel like a real betrayal, and it would actually do too much the character. It would traumatize the character in a way that’s actually very hard to come back from. I think it’s very, very hard to have to process that for the whole episode, [and] see it on her face in every single scene. So we just thought, ‘Okay, she has to be one piece removed from it.’
On the Harper & Yas bookends of the episode:
Kay: We were shocked by how much that scene could keep going. Just when you think the basement of the scene has been hit, someone’s capable of saying something worse and something worse and something worse. [...] ‘Actually, this is just what they know about each other.’ Every time someone slashes at someone, they feel the need to slash back…they just know exactly the right thing to hurt one another. They know all of their weaknesses. They know every part of their underbelly.
The slap between Harper and Yas:
Down: It’s triggering. It’s very intentional. The same dialogue comes out of Harper’s mouth now, that it did her father’s, and it’s hugely triggering. It’s one of her massive insecurities, and it’s like, ‘That’s exactly my father made me feel. This is what he projected on to me, and ultimately, that’s the last thing he said to me before he died.’ As Konrad said, we’ve gone too far with words, now [she] has to take action. I think that was one of our writers’ ideas. It was a great one, and he was great on those little ideas, because we’d be like, ‘She says this. Then she says this.’ And he’s just like, ‘What if she slaps her?’
Full, much wordier interview, at SOURCE
Can't believe there's only two episodes left!
