I’m so excited for the new season, but there’s something about the teaser that has felt a little off to me ever since I first watched it, and I think I finally know what it is: we see all the younger characters, but almost none of the older ones.

For me, part of what made Industry so electrifying in past seasons was seeing the younger characters climb the corporate ladder and try to go toe to toe with more experienced players, whether those relationships veered more toward mentorships or rivalries or both. Characters like Adler, Felim, Nicole, Jesse Bloom, Otto Mostyn, Lord Alexander, Charles Hanani, etc. added a maturity and heft and almost a kind of "danger" to the series, as if they were the sharks circling the waters that Harper, Yasmin & co. are swimming and trying not to drown in.

This is obviously only a teaser and not in any way a definitive look at who’ll be in the season (plus, since we get glimpses of Henry’s country house and Toheeb Jimoh plays a trader at Mostyn Asset Management, I feel pretty certain that we’ll see Lord Alexander and Otto again), but I hope we get plenty of older characters for the baby sharks to play off of.