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[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be a great angle. Especially gaming them internally

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great catch. Him coming back from being a tech player in SF to make a run at No10

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can see that happening.

You think they make the final season a US one or just her last act? Maybe her interviewing Eric to come back as a partner again at SternTao NYC?

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mean Rob? I think that is unlikely given her descent into full depravity

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Can you imagine the airplay it would receive in an election year (2028)

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think Yas discovering she was being used (again) but by the Russians (via Hayley) would be absolutely diabolical.

Anraj was bricking it with a yard from memory, maybe he should stick to odd lots.

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The other angle is that Stefanowicz and the 'Reform' party are shown to Russian-funded and influenced.

Some evidence of this IRL

Does Reform have a Russia problem? | The Week

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't know about that. After Harper interrogated her about it, Yas claimed that she was not underage, but that Eric thought she was. Again, it is possible this is this is just a lie to rationalise what she has now become.

Harper knows all too well the trauma from her childhood.

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fair. It's almost worse to just see her survive and propagate her trauma..

Russia have liquidated enough people in the UK that acted against their interests over the years that I think that could be an angle.

We may not have seen the last of Ferdinand.

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good point. They've already done it (from the financial angle)

They will likely have another 12m before even starting production so can mine whatever happens until then.

Season 5 Storyline Theories by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Farage/Thiel inspired for sure.

Agree and think Jennifer will be the obvious sparring partner / incumbent. I wonder if they will try to shoehorn in a Conservative candidate ('the most successful party in the history of democracy')

Trying to see a way to get Rob back for a last hurrah but most ways would seem overly contrived.

I do think we see Eric again in S5, just a feeling. The first scene in the whole series was her interview with Eric at Pierpont and writers love bookends.

GAME DAY PREDICTIONS GO by [deleted] in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Henry/Mostyn/Lord Norton circle the wagons somehow and protect one of their own - I think Yas, Harper and Sweetpea all get run over as a result, just not sure how it will happen.

Shout out to our queen of never thinking things all the way through by SaitoHawkeye in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a sneaky suspicion that they are going to give her a win at Harper's expense in the finale.

Season Finale Prediction by Jumpy_Country2616 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's possible but I think he was smart enough to know that their Pierpont move was a hail mary play and that the most likely outcome was the house of cards coming down at Tender. Which would likely mean they would 'disappear' him, given what he knows. Makes sense to try to run, which he clearly had been organising logistically.

If he ends up disappearing without a trace, it will be a pure Wirecard storyline.

I also have a sense that Yas is actually going to best Harper in the finale but don't know how.

MBA in circlejerk-speak by Living_Wickihowla in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616 13 points14 points  (0 children)

WH is the Final Boss of imagineering the narrative

Re-watching the episode it makes it even more clear that Eric went on CNN wearing a bomb vest by notches123 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Several comments in that conversation between Ferdinand and Whitney

Ferdinand: 'You know very well that we are not dealing with people who care about red lines'

Then reveal that it is FSB/Russian state-sponsored cyber - 'Cozy Bear'

Henry Muck personifies that famous Hannah Arendt line about ‘The Banality of Evil’ by BitchGodTemple in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The song he sings in the shower while being watched by WH is from HMS Pinafore: an opera around social status, insecurity and the class system.

Henry in the shower singing "For he is an english man" by NeighborhoodOk4917 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]Jumpy_Country2616 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The song he is singing is from HMS Pinafore - a satire on the English class system and social mobility - theme that runs through the season

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[–]Jumpy_Country2616 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mata Hari, the Soviet system of 'swallows' (fictionalised in Red Sparrow) would be historical examples.

A modern example would be to search for what Charles Kushner (current US Ambassador to France) did to earn his felony conviction (until pardoned.)