Autumn should be a time for cosiness (exorbitant energy prices notwithstanding) and comfort. This year, though, our sadistic TV overlords have decided to make us feel anything but comfortable, dropping two terrific shows into the schedules that are almost ulcer-inducing in their tension.
First up: series two of Industry (Tuesday, BBC; whole series on iPlayer), Mickey Down and Konrad Kay’s tale of young, horny, terminally messed up investment bankers. Anyone who caught the first series will be aware that it has the tendency to be a real nerve-shredder; one episode, in which talented but chaotic graduate Harper gets sucked into a Charybdis of ever-worsening trading floor decisions, had me doubled-over with stress. But even so, series two ups the ante and then some, as a looming reshuffle at Pierpoint & Co sets its employees nerves on edge, while a smiling assassin of a hedge fund manager (Jay Duplass) is busy making moves in the background.
