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Spoilers for theIndustryseason-two finale,Jerusalem, below.
I keep waiting for the moment my brain starts to process the meaning behind stock-market words.
Something to do with high-frequency trading algorithms!
The HBO seriesssecond seasonpulled off the kind of punched-up escalation all second seasons aspire to and few achieve.
After spending the whole season trying to build a partnership with the megainvestor,Harper appearsto have failed him.
Theyve been concocting an elaborate short play that has to do with a brick-and-mortar pharmacy company called FastAide.
Blooms short position means hes going to lose untold millions of dollars.
Harper begs him to stop out of it.
Harper runs down to the trading floor and starts yelling at Rishi to buy everything.
Do what the man on the TV says!
Im just glad that in a place like Britain, they still take anti-competition rules seriously.
Harper, jaw agape, stares at two screens on a Bloomberg terminal.
In one screen, the graph plummets.
In the next, it soars.
Hes also completely screwed Harper, who realizes she just helped Bloom perform a stunning bit of insider trading.
What I saw instead was Bloom speaking a new reality into existence.
Nothing at all has changed about the shows physical world; nothing may everactually change.
Like magic, though, Bloom says something on TV and the graphs on Harpers screen begin to crash.
But eventually those medical words added up to some tangible reality: The patient lives or dies.
The doctors succeed or fail.
But within the world ofIndustry,its an addictive sweet spot between immense power and pure make-believe.
Does it matter if I grasp how all of the magic works?
ForIndustrys protagonists, the magic words finally collapsed.
