Welcome to the Weekend Binge. Every Friday, we’ll suggest a binge-able title designed to keep you from getting too stir crazy. Check back throughout the weekend for even more gloriously queer entertainment.
The High-Strung: Industry
HBO just announced a second season of this new drama coming down the pipeline next year. As such, we recommend giving the first season–which debuted in November–a look. Industry follows a group of young upstarts in the world of London finance. Call it a 21st-century Bonfire of the Vanities or Wall Street. The show makes the wise choice to focus on several women and gay men as its primary characters, which gives it a refreshing feel. Let’s face it; this story has been done with hetero male leads over and over ad-nauseam.
The show’s gay storylines, including that of Gus (David Jonsson), one of the young investors, his married (to a woman) sometime boyfriend Theo (Will Tudor), and Gus’ roommate Kenny (Connor MacNeil), are all handled as well as any other. Industry distinguishes itself with a hard-boiled look at the world of finance: does everyone in the industry have some kind of sociopathic personality disorder? The characters manipulate one another with money, drugs, sex (yes, including gay-for-pay set-ups), blackmail and just about anything else, postulating that maybe sociopathy is a prerequisite to success in the biz.
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
Loaded with beautiful people, chic settings and enough full-frontal male nudity to make Tom of Finland blush, Industry has no shortage of drama or queer themes to keep it compelling. Scandalous, stylish and downright brutal at times, we offer up Industry as a way to spend a weekend…and as an incentive to stay out of the financial world.
Streams on HBO Max.
arnieca
Correction: Gus’s roommate is Robert, who is tall, svelte, and gorgeous. Not Kenny, who is none of those. Robert is played by Harry Lawtey, who is very naughty. On the show anyway. He seems to prefer women, but loves to hang out with the gays, and isn’t averse to making use of any available opening.
There’s also the young very pretty Chris ( James Melville, no relation).
In Ep. 4. Chris may or may not have sucked off Robert, but definitely cruised him heavly in the locker room.
Liquid Silver
I’d say if Congress got off their butts, we might have something left of the economy. 🙂 But it doesn’t look like it’ll happen as neither side wants to talk or compromise.
Heading off arguments: ‘Pelosi herself bristled at Republicans who hoped she’d talk to McConnell: “Tell them to go meet with McConnell,” she quipped.’
No, honey, you’re the leader. That’s your job to hammer out a bill you can both pass. Get off your butt, stop playing Little Miss Too Important To Work, and do your job. If/when Mitch rebuffs you, then you can gripe. Not before.
/topical since Queerty sure won’t cover anything serious.
As far as this, it looks kind of fun.
Kangol2
What are you babbling about? Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats passed a relief bill in May 2020. Months ago. That bill was $3 trillion, which, had the selfish, wacked out GOP passed it, probably would have juiced the economy and helped Don the Con get reelected, as horrible and incompetent as he is.
Since then the Democrats have come down several times from that badly needed number, to $2 trillion, then a little over $1 trillion, and now they are even willing to go as low as $900 million, which barely scratches the surface of what millions of American workers and small businesses need, because Pelosi negotiated in good faith for months with Steve Mnuchin, since the foolish soon-to-be-ex president refused to negotiate with her, and each time, the sticking point has been Mitch McConnell’s desire to let corporations off the hook. Not small businesses, but giant corporations that have in some cases flouted Covid-19 rules.
So rather than simply slamming Pelosi, look at the full picture. The Democrats in the House passed a bill months ago to help Americans with Covid relief, unemployment help, etc. That bill ironically would also have helped Dump get reelected but he is too petty and foolish and moronic to have recognized that. The GOP continues to hold up a bill, because their leadership is more concerned with aiding mega corporations and Wall Street, and could not care less about everyday Americans. Same as it ever was.
Liquid Silver
Didn’t read; too partisan. I expect politicians to do their jobs. She doesn’t and expects others to do them. She had the audacity to pass a CR, adjourn the House, and leave two whole days next week to work out a deal.
It’s a clear signal she has no intention of bargaining in good faith, or at all.
I think there’s a head-deep pile of sand over there, though, with room enough for both parties. Everybody can pretend everything’s great for the next two years while the gridlock and broken government continues. Enjoy, you’re part of the problem.
Kangol2
So you didn’t read but of course had to respond. OK, whatever. Keep blaming both sides. That’s how we got into this mess in the first place.
Liquid Silver
No, each side blaming the other and blindly ignoring their own side’s problems is how we got here. If you’d observe reality, in this case it’s actually got a fairly neutral bias.
All politicians are thieves and out for themselves. Once they figured out how easy most people were to fool, they stopped bothering to hide it. Just strip the educational system, stop teaching logical thought and citizenship, and you end up with citizens too dumb to note that the head says one thing while the hand pays the politician but never throws more than a few crumbs for you.
Keep up the partisanship, it’s going to be a great look during the economic recession that Nancy and Mitch will walk away from while pointing fingers at each other. You’ll swallow it hook, line, and sinker, of course. Most people will.
Heywood Jablowme
“Didn’t read; too partisan.”
Queerty should consider featuring a Dumbest Comment of the Month.
Liquid Silver
Yours might compete! It has almost no content, and serves only to show you’re interested in partisan information that doesn’t make you think or challenge your pre-conceived notions.
It’s fun to watch people immediately hit the “insult” button in their brains the instant they see something they disagree with rather than create an intelligent argument to counter it. That’s generally because they’re unable to do so, as in your case, apparently.
So I do believe your comment would have a much higher chance of winning the contest. At least mine required a few brain cells firing rather than a simple emotional response and the equivalent of a toddler having a tantrum.
You’re more like Trump than you know.
Kangol2
Industry is really entertaining. It manages to make investment banking/hedge funding/arbitrage, as well as the City of London, look almost enthralling. Most of the actors also are really good, especially Ken Leung. But so far there has not been full frontal male nudity except with a few of the actors. It’s worth watching whether they take their clothes off, though.
nm4047
@ Liquid Silver, somewhat concise response for something you didn’t read.
Liquid Silver
I confess to scanning it. 🙂 But frankly, the information content is not that high while the partisanship is extremely loaded.
Let’s add vaccine distribution funds to the list. Nope, we couldn’t agree on that, so let’s adjourn the House and walk out of town without working that out over the next week. It’s not like it’s important or anything. Hospital funds…going down. Unemployment? Running out for twelve million people who can’t find jobs.
No, Pelosi, none of this is important enough to keep the House in session, not at all, it’s Christmas. Pass that buck and tell us it’s somehow our problem to negotiate with Mitch.
It’s a simple matter of comparing what politicians say against what they do. Dem, Rep, Ind, it doesn’t matter. If they don’t match up, you influence the ones you can, because a dishonest politician doesn’t help anybody. And they’re all dishonest (and thoroughly bribed, the longer they’re around, the wider the web of bribes). As a Democrat, I can influence my House rep (who already got a Nastygram). My Senator is a Republican and one of the worst. My House rep sent a nice form letter back that showed they barely scanned my (very short) note. Kept very short because I assume they’re a) busy, and b) if they had brains, they wouldn’t be politicians.
I’m also a fan of term limits. 3 for the House, 2 for the Senate. Possibly 1 for the Senate on a bad day.
Godabed
I was the first person to reply and my comment is still waiting approval. you’re not fooling me with these targeted inquires into my comments Queerty.