Review: Industry, “Infinite Largesse” | Season 3, Episode 8
"I learn to cry for someone else"
“Pierpoint’s history is a history of change.”
Of all the many takeaways from Industry’s titanic season finale, that dialogue sticks out the most to me. It’s a line Eric is using to rally the Pierpoint troops on their new future, and it’s inherently rooted in nostalgia, which—as we heard last week—is only useful when you’re selling something. This notion is a useful prism to view the finale, “Infinite Largesse,” as it smartly informs the thesis for the series, especially this season; that said, the idea of change is readily apparent throughout this third season finale, one that fundamentally alters the course of every single one of its characters.
Had the series not scored an early fourth-season renewal, there would be a lot of questions focused on whether or not this was a series finale. That was my immediate reaction to watching a screener of “Infinite Largesse,” prompting a Twitter1 DM conversation with a colleague about whether or not what we’d just watched marked the conclusion of the show. Given the finale's events, you wouldn’t blame me for asking those questions. Industry’s managed to keep some semblance of its central premise—young adults working in the high-stakes banking world—while pushing the scope further out on what makes an episode of Industry, well, Industry. And “Infinite Largesse” tests that idea with all its big shifts—can Industry still be Industry after this?