Industry Season 4 premiere Industry returned with a fast-paced premiere Sunday night, deftly assembling the pieces for the fourth season of HBO‘s financial drama, which creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay have described as a “corporate thriller.” The first episode sets its stakes around the passage of the UK’s Online Safety Act, which has come into effect over the last year and created a new duty of care for online platforms, like payment processors, when it comes to their association with illegal or ethically dubious content. Enter Tender, a splashy new payment processing company that makes a chunk of its revenue working with gambling and porn sites — particularly one called Siren. That is, at least, when audiences meet CEO and co-founder Jay Jonah Atterbury (Kal Penn) and his co-founding partner and Tender’s CFO Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) at the beginning of the episode.
