Erm... What Happened in 'Industry' Season 4? That Ending Explained
“A true honour to show off my serious journalistic skills in the new 10/10 series of @industryhbo,” she wrote on Instagram.We need to talk about Rishi's storylineRishi (Sagar Radia) had an extremely dramatic arc this season. Season 3 saw Rishi dealing with climbing gambling debts, which escalated to the point that his wife, Diana, was shot in their home by brutal debt-collecting loan shark Vinay.In season 4, things only got worse for Rishi. For one thing, he is a suspect in her murder. For another, even more people start turning up dead – after a night of drug use, Jim (Charlie Heaton), ends up dying of an overdose. Rishi attempts to flee the scene by escaping from the balcony. When the police enter the room, he chooses to jump – only to survive the fall with two broken ankles. He ends up being arrested, broken ankles and all.As Radia told Variety, Rishi's shocking arc is all about guilt, survival and self-destruction. “It’s surviving financially, it’s surviving emotionally, it’s surviving psychologically,” he said. “There’s so many different things going through his head. He swings between numb detachment into bursts of self-destructive behaviour, whether that’s drinking or moral disengagement. Ultimately, I think he’s just punishing himself more than anything else.”Hayley's storyline opened up some interesting conversations about consent and power dynamicsWe were also introduced to Kiernan Shipka's Haley, a calculating executive assistant, whose complicated relationship with Whitney and his app opened up some fascinating conversations around consent and workplace power dynamics. It eventually turned out that Haley was in fact originally hired from an escort service. And her role with Tender included committing extortion by setting up compromising situations involving both herself and other escorts with powerful men. After forging an alliance with Yasmin, Shipka seems to be ready to take charge of things in some very unexpected, very satisfying ways. Although Haley is being used, she finds ways to wrestle some power for herself. “She’s not in a position of power, technically, but she finds it. She gets it. And that, I think, is kind of astonishing on her part,” Shipka told Deadline.Eric Tao's Industry journey seems to have come to a shocking endEric Tao (Ken Leung) made a dramatic mid-season exit after being filmed having sex with an underage escort and was blackmailed by Whitney. In a shocking twist, Eric hands over his portion of the fund to his prodigy Harper and walks off, vanishing into the ether as Joni Mitchell's “Both Sides Now” plays mournfully.
