We root for heroes, but a TV show needs villains.
2022 had plenty of manipulators and monsters to keeping us riveted while make our skin crawl.
These characters are vile, and we wouldn't have them any other way.
Check out TV Fanatic's picks for the villains of 2022 we love to hate.
Monet de Hann - Gossip Girl (HBO Max)
Monet was on the periphery of the first season of the reboot, but the writers clearly understood Savannah Lee Smith was the strongest cast member and rewarded her with a deliciously villainous arc on Gossip Girl Season 2.
Monet is one of the richest characters on TV, and despite her mean streak on full display, there are some redeeming qualities.
This type of character is difficult to pull off, but I can't wait to see what becomes of Monet beyond the second season.
Hopefully, we get a third season!
Eric Tao - Industry...
2022 had plenty of manipulators and monsters to keeping us riveted while make our skin crawl.
These characters are vile, and we wouldn't have them any other way.
Check out TV Fanatic's picks for the villains of 2022 we love to hate.
Monet de Hann - Gossip Girl (HBO Max)
Monet was on the periphery of the first season of the reboot, but the writers clearly understood Savannah Lee Smith was the strongest cast member and rewarded her with a deliciously villainous arc on Gossip Girl Season 2.
Monet is one of the richest characters on TV, and despite her mean streak on full display, there are some redeeming qualities.
This type of character is difficult to pull off, but I can't wait to see what becomes of Monet beyond the second season.
Hopefully, we get a third season!
Eric Tao - Industry...
- 12/31/2022
- by Becca Newton
- TVfanatic
What’s to come for Harper Stern after that wild finale? We’ll soon find out: HBO has renewed Industry for Season 3, the cabler announced on Tuesday.
“Industry reached new heights in Season 2, cementing its status as a buzzy hit with addictive storytelling, layered characters, a breakneck pace, and keen observations about contemporary workplace dynamics,” HBO senior vice president of programming Kathleen McCaffrey said in a statement. “We’re incredibly proud of what Mickey [Down] and Konrad [Kay], Jami O’Brien, Jane Tranter and the team at Bad Wolf, together with our entire cast and crew, accomplished. We couldn’t be more excited...
“Industry reached new heights in Season 2, cementing its status as a buzzy hit with addictive storytelling, layered characters, a breakneck pace, and keen observations about contemporary workplace dynamics,” HBO senior vice president of programming Kathleen McCaffrey said in a statement. “We’re incredibly proud of what Mickey [Down] and Konrad [Kay], Jami O’Brien, Jane Tranter and the team at Bad Wolf, together with our entire cast and crew, accomplished. We couldn’t be more excited...
- 10/25/2022
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
Ken Leung doesn’t know what he’s talking about in Industry. The razor-sharp series, about young graduates competing for permanent positions in the cutthroat world of finance, requires its actors to deliver arcane terminology at such a speed you might think they understood the meaning behind what they were saying; you’d be wrong.
“I just can’t grasp the mathematics of it,” says the 52-year star of Lost and Rush Hour. “It took me a long time to get what a ‘short’ is, and I still can’t say I understand it now. You borrow something, you sell it, then you buy it back and return the thing? I have to try and picture it as a concrete thing, like a loaf of bread. But it doesn’t always work that way in finance because of the minutiae of it.” Shorting a stock, Google will tell you, is...
“I just can’t grasp the mathematics of it,” says the 52-year star of Lost and Rush Hour. “It took me a long time to get what a ‘short’ is, and I still can’t say I understand it now. You borrow something, you sell it, then you buy it back and return the thing? I have to try and picture it as a concrete thing, like a loaf of bread. But it doesn’t always work that way in finance because of the minutiae of it.” Shorting a stock, Google will tell you, is...
- 9/27/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Ken Leung doesn’t know what he’s talking about in Industry. The razor-sharp series, about young graduates competing for permanent positions in the cutthroat world of finance, requires its actors to deliver arcane terminology at such a speed you might think they understood the meaning behind what they were saying; you’d be wrong.
“I just can’t grasp the mathematics of it,” says the 52-year star of Lost and Rush Hour. “It took me a long time to get what a ‘short’ is, and I still can’t say I understand it now. You borrow something, you sell it, then you buy it back and return the thing? I have to try and picture it as a concrete thing, like a loaf of bread. But it doesn’t always work that way in finance because of the minutiae of it.” Shorting a stock, Google will tell you, is...
“I just can’t grasp the mathematics of it,” says the 52-year star of Lost and Rush Hour. “It took me a long time to get what a ‘short’ is, and I still can’t say I understand it now. You borrow something, you sell it, then you buy it back and return the thing? I have to try and picture it as a concrete thing, like a loaf of bread. But it doesn’t always work that way in finance because of the minutiae of it.” Shorting a stock, Google will tell you, is...
- 9/25/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read further if you have not seen the Season 2 finale of “Industry.”
Brutality came to the boardroom on Monday night, as the second season of HBO’s “Industry” delivered some brutal bottom lines for those inhabiting the international banking series.
Series lead Harper Stern (portrayed with anxious nuance by actor Myha’la Herrold) has successfully orchestrated a coup against her high-powered employer Pierpont. She’s locked up the institution’s biggest client (Jay Duplass’ Jesse Bloom) with the same aplomb that got him signed. In the end, however, a life-threatening secret from Season 1 has returned to bludgeon her — a blow dealt by her mentor Eric Tao (Ken Leung).
Despite her penchant for high-flying stock purchases, Harper never graduated from the state college she told the London-based bank Pierpoint she attended. Moreso, she fabricated evidence of a college transcript and fed it directly to human resources. For this,...
Brutality came to the boardroom on Monday night, as the second season of HBO’s “Industry” delivered some brutal bottom lines for those inhabiting the international banking series.
Series lead Harper Stern (portrayed with anxious nuance by actor Myha’la Herrold) has successfully orchestrated a coup against her high-powered employer Pierpont. She’s locked up the institution’s biggest client (Jay Duplass’ Jesse Bloom) with the same aplomb that got him signed. In the end, however, a life-threatening secret from Season 1 has returned to bludgeon her — a blow dealt by her mentor Eric Tao (Ken Leung).
Despite her penchant for high-flying stock purchases, Harper never graduated from the state college she told the London-based bank Pierpoint she attended. Moreso, she fabricated evidence of a college transcript and fed it directly to human resources. For this,...
- 9/20/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched “There Are Some Women…,” Episode 4 of “Industry” Season 2, now streaming on HBO Max.
HBO’s “Industry” is a show about being young and hungry: for money, sex, love, power and control. But in the ensemble of twentysomethings attempting to find themselves professionally and personally in the cutthroat world of British investment bank Pierpoint, creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s drama’s most memorable character — and most commanding performance — is their much older boss. Eric Tao (Ken Leung), the managing director of the Cross Product Sales desk that houses half of the show’s main quartet, isn’t the typical mentor figure, even as he develops a compelling camaraderie with the highly driven Harper (Myha’la Herrold). He’s single-minded in his pursuit of profit, and his preferred method of management is to bully and intimidate his subordinates into submission. Leung...
HBO’s “Industry” is a show about being young and hungry: for money, sex, love, power and control. But in the ensemble of twentysomethings attempting to find themselves professionally and personally in the cutthroat world of British investment bank Pierpoint, creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s drama’s most memorable character — and most commanding performance — is their much older boss. Eric Tao (Ken Leung), the managing director of the Cross Product Sales desk that houses half of the show’s main quartet, isn’t the typical mentor figure, even as he develops a compelling camaraderie with the highly driven Harper (Myha’la Herrold). He’s single-minded in his pursuit of profit, and his preferred method of management is to bully and intimidate his subordinates into submission. Leung...
- 8/23/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Faking college transcripts, pulling continuous all-nighters and slamming your system with uppers? Whatever it takes to make it in the unrelenting world of finance.
Welcome to HBO’s latest drama, Industry, where a group of young graduates enter a pressure cooker of a preeminent London investment bank with hopes of proving themselves indispensable. While Harper (played by Myha’la Herrold, Modern Love), an American, wrestles with a very-illegal decision that will surely affect her future, party-boy Robert (Harry Lawtey, The Letter for the King) and stress ball Hari (Nabhaan Rizwan, Informer) take very different approaches to their first few weeks on the job.
Welcome to HBO’s latest drama, Industry, where a group of young graduates enter a pressure cooker of a preeminent London investment bank with hopes of proving themselves indispensable. While Harper (played by Myha’la Herrold, Modern Love), an American, wrestles with a very-illegal decision that will surely affect her future, party-boy Robert (Harry Lawtey, The Letter for the King) and stress ball Hari (Nabhaan Rizwan, Informer) take very different approaches to their first few weeks on the job.
- 11/10/2020
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
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