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Industry<\/a><\/p>\n 1000 Yoots, 1 Marilyn<\/p>\n \n Season 4<\/p>\n Episode 4\n <\/p>\n \n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n 5 stars<\/p>\n *****\n <\/p>\n \n Jim and Rishi are two losers desperately trying to hit rock bottom, and they finally found it. Jim Dycker has a whole-ass depressing life, it turns out. He has a baby so young that he\u2019s still in a pram. He shares custody with a dopey colleague with whom he had a one-night stand. He\u2019s broke, but someone just ransacked his crummy flat. He\u2019s a human adult man with Ritalin-induced acne and paranoia exacerbated by sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n At the top of \u201c1000 Yoots, 1 Marilyn,\u201d though, Jim catches a break. Tender\u2019s response to Jim\u2019s ankle-biting \u201cinvestigation\u201d is OTT, to his editor\u2019s mind. Edward (David Wilmot) wasn\u2019t impressed with the piece initially, but the sandstorm of legalese it\u2019s kicked up \u2014 defamation! injunctions! \u2014 convinces him there\u2019s a there there. He agrees to send Jim to Accra provided the reporter cuts ties with the short sellers Tender is accusing Jim of colluding with. No problem, Jim says. But the extended opening sequence is bathed in the same sinister blue light we saw in the season premiere when Jim stalked Hayley into the nightclub. The camera work is as shaky as a Bourne film. There\u2019s definitely going to be a problem, mate.<\/p>\n From Tender\u2019s perspective, it\u2019s an inopportune moment to catch bad press. The app launch is imminent, but the team\u2019s still tirelessly tweaking the user interface, over and over. Now, Henry wants the Crypto tab deleted because it makes Tender seem unsavory, which, you know, true. He would like to see the line \u201cPowered by Pierpoint\u201d axed, though we\u2019ll later learn it\u2019s contractually obligated copy. It\u2019s not just that Henry blames Pierpoint for bungling Lumi\u2019s IPO; he has ideological objections to throwing in with the investment firm. Honestly, can someone please sit this man down and tell him he runs a bank? Henry appears blinded by the fairy tale Tender invented to seduce Labour ministers and the financial press: that their unicorn app will democratize investing, promote financial hygiene, and save the faded empire from irrelevancy.<\/p>\n The infighting extends to the rollout strategy. Robin \u2014 the head of comms, who prefers quarter-zips \u2014 wants to keep things classy: a press release, features in Wired and TechCrunch, Henry talking shop with the dudes from the Breaking Banks pod. It\u2019s a conservative strategy, but given that the app is in flux and Henry has been at the helm for all of six weeks, perhaps a conservative strategy is what\u2019s called for.<\/p>\n Yasmin \u2014 no job title, really embracing a quiet-luxury aesthetic at the office \u2014 would prefer something splashier. Imagine Charli XCX in front of a Tender step-and-repeat, extolling the virtues of online investing because having a brat summer isn\u2019t cheap. She wants to see Henry on Chicken Shop Date, which is a joke I wrote before I knew about the Amelia Dimoldenberg cameo later in the episode. (Her character\u2019s surname as it appears in the closing credits? Poulet-Magasin.)<\/p>\n In the end, they split the difference. With a \u201cfuck yeah\u201d from Whitney, Yas books Henry to speak at the Web Horizons conference, even using her friendship with Jenni to secure an attention-grabbing intro from biz seccy Lisa Dearn. Yasmin doesn\u2019t give a toss about Tender or Henry, at least not as a person. Being a Muck isn\u2019t worth as much as it used to be, and the success she wants for her husband is the success she wants for herself. Henry, however, is reluctant to step back into the limelight after the Lumi fiasco. He claims to want to distance himself from the ego-driven part of his personality, though, by his own logic, his ego is what he\u2019s protecting here.<\/p>\n Whitney is bearish on Henry after his meltdown in front of the regulator, but in the end, it\u2019s Henry\u2019s CFO, not his wife, who persuades him onto the stage. Whitney is such an enigma that it\u2019s tricky to ascertain how much he\u2019s working Henry over and how much he would really like to peel back the man\u2019s skin and jump inside. The description drunken Jonah gives to Sweetpea \u2014 Whitney\u2019s always obfuscating and dodging, relentlessly refilling other people\u2019s glasses but never finishing his own \u2014 complicates the picture. \u201cTell them about your conscience,\u201d Whitney advises Henry by way of a pep talk. But Whitney knows the story Tender\u2019s selling is a dud \u2014 they\u2019re still swiping credit cards for the Bonnie Blues<\/a> of this world and then paying its Geoffreys to cover their tracks. Is Henry Whitney\u2019s idol or his fall guy?<\/p>\n Henry manages to put in a good, if overweening, performance at Web Horizons, going off-prompter to lament the lack of sincerity in modern life without bothering to relate it back to mobile banking. He tells an audience of investors and reporters that everyone should have access to the Henry Muck experience \u2014 that his app will demystify the forces that keep his family rich and almost everyone else much less rich. Britons don\u2019t need a social safety net; they need Tender accounts. High off the applause, Henry runs right past his wife for an attaboy from Whit. Something\u2019s definitely happening here. When the TenderBoyz stand side by side, they stand incredibly close; when they touch each other, they linger, which Yasmin is finally clocking. Moments later, when belligerent Jim arrives at the conference to needle Whitney about what the company is up to in Sunderland, she notices that, too.<\/p>\n It\u2019s about halfway through \u201c1000 Yoots\u201d that Yasmin lands on the phrase poisonous double act to describe the nascent SternTao partnership, which is foundering. Tender\u2019s stock price has been climbing so precipitously that Eric\u2019s worried about a margin call. And after Jim breaks things off with Harper, there\u2019s no way to know if the Sunderland story will ever run. Should they feed it to another reporter? SternTao are 100 percent leveraged on the \u00a3250 million they\u2019ve raised, and the only thing they\u2019ve got going for them right now is that Jonah sent Sweetpea all the email correspondence that was subpoenaed in his own defamation lawsuit against Tender.<\/p>\n
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