Follow us. I really like you. I need to let you go. Just get the fuck out of here and do something else. What would it take for us to go away for a weekend and try to develop some big thing on the back of this? And also: God, I have to get out of here because we could really do this together.
That afternoon that Kay was ejected from the world he and Down would come to immortalize years later in their HBO series Industry , he called his parents.
Down, now 35, had jumped from the heights of London finance; Kay, now 36, had been pushed. But the result was the same. New life. But also the terrifying reality that there was no longer anywhere to hide. And, so, as a duo, they went to work. Writing scripts. Staging plays. Making low-budget short films. A low-budget feature. But the tag could have also described the dramatic act of transition for the two, taken on faith. They received their first check about a year in.
Not much money, but enough to sustain the delusion. A micro-budget feature they made led to attention, meetings, and ultimately commissions. The commitment to the idea of this kind of life, and each other, paid off.
Four years after that, in November , Industry hit like a syringe of adrenaline to the heart. ET slot. If you, like I, prefer watching television not to marvel at how well a show can address the development notes of network executives—motivations crystal clear; chasms of character-shaping backstory neatly explicated; structural story beats stacked squarely and predictably—but rather to catch an immaculate vibe, then you may well consider this the best show on television.
