America has jumped the shark.

Every news headline reads even more sensationalist and nebulous than the next. A national TV journalist’s mother vanished off the face of the earth. President Donald Trump and Israel launched an attack on Iran, killing their leader, while the United States still holds another sovereign leader hostage. OpenAI lent its software to the war machine after siphoning our data through seemingly innocuous artificial intelligence and Studio Ghibli trends. And another deadly shooting we’ve become numb to.

Amid all … that, the media most of us look for is more a means of escapism than to address the terrors of modern life. HBO's "Industry," however, takes an unflinching look at the horrors of late-stage capitalism and its insatiable desire to consume everything in its path, even after there’s nothing left.

'Industry' Season 4 mirrors real-life descent into technofascism

"Industry," a love child of "Succession" and "Skins," once followed a group of graduates working at a fictional bank based in London, Pierpoint & Co. We saw the group find their footing in the world of finance to varying degrees of success while wrestling with canon experiences of post-grad life and the hollow trappings that accompany the endless pursuit of power.

At the center of Season 4 of "Industry" is Tender, a financial investing and banking app targeted at Gen Z. But an investigation from protagonist Harper Stern's (a stellar Myha’la) new investment fund, which plans to profit off the company’s failure, reveals its smarmy underbelly.

Despite all of Tender’s grandstanding about being the future of banking, none of it is real. The revenue, the cash, the profits – it’s all fake. It doesn’t just end there. It’s later revealed that the company’s........

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