We knew this would happen, didn’t we, Industry Fanatics?
While Pierpoint never respected Robert Spearing’s name, no one can say the same about Harry Lawtey.
He’s quite the hot commodity, and with this incredibly talented Industry cast staying booked and busy, it was inevitable that someone would exit the series ahead of the new season.
Lawtey won’t check into Industry Season 4 when the series starts filming in March.
Sadly, it’s due to scheduling conflicts, which means that Lawtey, whose career has taken off since joining the series, can’t revisit his role as Robert Spearing anytime soon.
Robert asked viewers (and some American investors) to join him on the ground floor of something spectacular, and no truer words sum up Industry Season 3, one of the series’ best seasons to date.
It certainly sums up Robert’s journey on the show, which seemingly works as a proper sendoff as Pierpoint is a shadow of what it used to be, a ghost town held up by white sheets and Eric Tao.
Meanwhile, after more heartbreak, our Pierpoint puppy moved on from the messy, mostly one-sided romance with Yasmin and pursued his own startup in the States.
The Americans will eat that dashing, sweet, British drink of water up, and hopefully, he’ll find more success there than he ever did in the shark-infested waters of Pierpoint.
But with Robert’s departure, there’s some excitement over how dark and ruthless this series can get in the next season!
Industry notoriously has awful characters. They’re the bottom-of-the-barrel humans who embody all the worst traits one finds in humanity.
Everyone’s self-absorbed, selfish, self-serving, disloyal, ruthless — downright SAVAGE.
The beauty of Industry is that these characters are truly awful and unapologetic about it on all fronts, which means they’re unpredictable on good days and depraved on great ones.
It makes the series exciting and unpredictable.
However, at Industry’s core center and heart, there was always Robert, the guppy in an ocean of Great Whites and Orcas.
Robert never quite fit in with the other characters because he was always pure. He still wanted to do good but couldn’t quite hack it when it came to the cutthroat tactics that the financial Industry calls for, and at some point, as the season concluded, he accepted that.
Coming into Pierpoint as the kid from the wrong side of the tracks with a heart of gold, Robert never stood a chance, but he still provided the glimmer of humanity and morality in a series where both were stunningly lacking.
However, everything is up in the air after Industry Season 3’s incredible finale, and it’s hard to figure out where the series will go next.
It’s already exciting for that reason alone, as Yasmin and Harper made some significant and somewhat shocking choices for themselves.
Eric is in such a fascinating place that I’m eager to see what the series could do next with him, but the most jaw-dropping moment was Rishi’s violent arc.
Never in a million years could I have anticipated that the series could take such a dark turn as to execute his wife in front of him in a horrific fashion.
Robert exiting the series as it turns to a darker side fits, right?
But it opens up the possibility that the upcoming season will be more savage than ever.
Industry has excised its heart with Robert’s absence. He was the last thread of morality and goodness the series had left, and now, it gives the series license to unleash the cap and lean into its savagery.
In many ways, Robert kept so many of the other characters grounded. He was the soft spot for both Yasmin and Harper, arguably their weakness in human form.
Their fondness for him often kept them as close as both women could get to the straight and narrow.
Both often acknowledged that this human rendition of a golden retriever was the best of them all and one of the only seemingly pure people they surrounded themselves with personally and professionally.
Removing that allows these wonderfully flawed, complex, ruthless women to give in to their baser instincts entirely.
They don’t have anyone they genuinely care about to hold them to account or encourage them to defy what comes naturally to them to “be better.”
And isn’t that the most entertaining place for Industry’s other characters to be? Bold, unapologetic, ambitious, and ruthless?
Bring on the savagery!
Over to you, Industry Fanatics.
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