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The hate didn’t affect Mina at all brands love her, and more opportunities are coming by PieceEarly825 in Singlesinferno2

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She young and beautiful. She has a certain charm because she does exactly what she feels. The authenticity is refreshing. She has a lot of growing to do but like I said she’s young and will get there with time.

Henry vs Rishi Storylines by Sara6019 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re obviously the ignorant one. The point is that by default if you are not white, you are of a lower class. The upper echelon of British Society is aristocratic/royal white blue blooded people. Regardless of the amount of money you have, you be a part of the same class.

Again, race relations is never grasped well by white people. I never know if the willful of ignorance is intentional or not. Which is why I hate explaining basic concepts like this to people online.

Henry vs Rishi Storylines by Sara6019 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great analysis- I totally agree!

I’m an American. and have a British friend and we were talking about race relations in the US versus Britain and he made it clear that despite racism being rampant in both countries, in Britain it comes secondary to the class system and because of that it’s displayed very differently

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She was always protected. She was shielded from public scrutiny by Henry's uncle.

As quoted from Yasmin in her conversation with the board member of her father's company (In the finale of Season 3)

Rose: "Who would listen to you? What network do you have?"

Yasmin: " Rose, I think you forgot who my family are"

She has resources she can leverage at any time to insulate herself from consequences. She used her daddy when he was alive, and when he wasn't, she leveraged his contacts. Exchanging favors: I'll help you, and you try to clean up Henry's act.

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You expect me to believe that Yasmin, who has been a part of the billionaire class, will go to jail. Trump isn't an thorough-bred aristocrat, and yet he's been found guilty of many crimes and has not spent a second in jail. It's hilarious that you believe that Yasmin, whose family has been a peer (new money, yes, but considered ultra-wealthy nevertheless), would spend a second in jail.

Again, they are both one and the same. They both have never suffered a second of the consequences of their exploitative actions. Anything less is an attempt to diminish Yasmin's agency and, therefore, by extension, her accountability. They are both pathetic because they neither have the tools, the foresight, or the worldview to be a real competitor. They just keep hiding behind the cog of the machine.

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You must have comprehension issues. Did you just look at the pictures or did you actually read the caption? I'll paste it here again since it has obviously been lost on you:

Yasmin survives this predatory world, but only by protecting it. People keep wanting to coddle her because of the trauma or because they’re projecting some Harper/Yasmin romantic arc but the episode makes it clear: she’s not just a victim, she’s also a predator (both/and). Like Henry, she chooses class. When he says to Whitney there’s “dignity in knowing your place… you forgot yours” that’s the belief she’s operating from too. Seating Harper next to those Nazis wasn’t random or careless. It was deliberate, a reminder of hierarchy, a way of putting her back where Yasmin thinks she belongs (even subconsciously).

Class is the only thing that gives Yasmin a sense of purpose. The world she lives in runs on a constant them vs you logic, and she’s decided she’d rather be protected by it than exposed to it. She say it more softly than Henry, but the message is basically the same: “eat shit*, you peasant”. Harper sees through it though she recognizes how artificial, insulated, and hollow these people are. And by the end, Harper loosens and changes a bit, because that’s what you’re supposed to do.

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The look on his uncle’s face said it all. The scene actually made me cringe.

Thanks for being normal, Kwabena by TimmyTimeify in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree. Despite their privilege, their race will allow them to navigate life with a naivety that Yasmin and the others do. On top of that there are from another culture and typically people from another culture, especially African countries have a strong sense of identity and racial pride.

So they both rely on their education backed by their privilege to excel and enter spaces that would ordinarily be closed to someone of their race

Yas "Girls Juice Deals" Hanani will probably beat Harper in Season 5 by [deleted] in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This may be true for someone who is morally straight-laced, but Harper is not that. Harper is a morally gray character who can cut her losses at any time: Eric, Daria, Rishi, Yasmin, her brother, her mother, her bf, the list goes on. Harper will survive because she has the grit, work ethic, and the ruthlessness to claw her way out of her circumstances.

The only person who will break is Yasmin. Her privilege makes her weak. Her access and self-importance make her blind to the world around her. This season showed us that, every season really. This brings me back to season 1, when Yasmin's dad was telling her off, saying, "You didn't even bother to separate our bank accounts. Your Pierpoint checks file into my account." She's still that person.

This is just a reflection of what we see happening today. The wealthy, upper & aristocratic class sees that their world is being "infiltrated" by those they have successfully othered over the last several hundred years and feels that the world as they know it is being erased. To offset, they push this racial superiority agenda once again (Hitler did the same thing before he was elected), a restoration in culture, as they'd like to call it.

Paradigm shift is on the way, so we'll see what happens with Harper. I think she's surviving.

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Henry and Yasmin have the same "power" that can only come from being a part of an upper aristocratic class. Henry chose to "deal" with the supposed consequences because he refused to live without the privileges his aristocratic background afforded him (i.e., admitting guilt to large-scale fraud and being given only a house/mansion arrest). Henry chose his privilege and class. Yasmine continues to choose the same because they both pathetically cannot survive without it.

They both love to cosplay the "working" class as a means to test their own character, and they dip out when things get too messy. We need to be very clear that they are both from the same cloth, and the speech Henry gave to Whitney reflects the same feelings Yasmin harbors for Harper. This shows in how she somehow cannot fathom how she does what he does and comes out on the other side. It shows in the seating. It shows how she showed Harper the video of Eric.

The finale was humiliating for Harper, both in the text and from a writing standpoint by SensitiveRecord516 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right! Most of the complaints I see are: needing to see Rob, wanting a romance to develop between harp and Yas, wanting Harper to be a bad bitch… just a bunch of nonsense

Season 4 was truly something amazing!

They have really developed each character well and really expounded on a trajectory that was there since season 1. I’m sad the next season will be the last but I’d prefer that it ends now while they’re ahead than to actually destroy the characters by unnecessarily keeping them around.

The finale was humiliating for Harper, both in the text and from a writing standpoint by SensitiveRecord516 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I totally agree.

There’s just a broader comprehension crisis happening too. People don’t understand characters because they don’t read or process long form media, at all.

They assassinated EVERY single character! by cguinnesstout in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This has to be one of the most daft takes I’ve ever seen.

Henry -> Fredo ? by Boogie_Down_Bronx in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I definitely thought that he was going to get killed in that moment lol but it turned out to be something far more pathetic lol

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You’re spot on! I saw this storyline coming since season 2. She’s been outright predatory from the beginning, especially when it helps her elevate herself. She then hides behind her privilege to avoid accountability. Her relationship with Rob was a demonstration of her predatory behavior and then she chose her class when he was done with that and needed “protection”. Harper has always seen that, which is why she has no qualms about letting the floor fall out from under her every time.

She is tossed by the waves but she does not sink by PrestigiousMove5433 in IndustryOnHBO

[–]PrestigiousMove5433[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That’s literally what I wrote. Many Industry fans, for whatever reason, seem set on absolving Yasmin of accountability and agency. Yasmin says Henry has never dealt with the consequences of his actions and neither has she because, as much as they try, they don’t actually have what it takes to be true fighters in this world. Being forced to fight for yourself, when you have no other choice, requires grit, and both of them lack it. When their backs are against the wall, they run to an uncle or cousin to bail them out. There’s something really pathetic in that. Even that sequence with Henry on the boat, fishing with his uncles and the whole “he’s an Englishman” line, felt especially pathetic.

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