Weekend Read: 'Industry' is Back to Save Us All

And, just as importantly, save HBO Sunday nights

No spoilers

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If it sort of feels like there hasn’t been an electric, home-grown HBO product delighting us every Sunday for awhile, it’s because there hasn’t been. Sure, there was House of the Dragon, but that was a spin-off with an unusually high, nerdy barrier to entry. Plus, it limped to its finish line, resting on its laurels of confirmed future seasons, blaming the writer/actor strikes, and delivering a dud. 

HBO had some other exciting Sunday night swings this year that didn’t quite connect, like an ambitious adaptation of The Sympathizer, the Kate Winslet-starring The Regime, and a messy but popular True Detective season headed up by Jodie Foster and creator Issa Lopez. 

Not since Succession wrapped last June has Sunday night felt like appointment television for HBO and Max, but I have a sneaky feeling that Season 3 of Industry, whose first episode airs tonight, will reclaim some of that magic, claw back some prestige, and reverse the growing feeling that “it’s not HBO, it’s TV.”

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