发表时间：2024.08.27     作者：Jingyi     来源：Bloomberg     阅读：81

2025.4.26 补齐，由百度翻译完成。

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HBO的《工业》是一部描写金融业的戏剧，它跳起来了，演得太过火了，腐败严重，到底有多现实？在很多方面，它完全是过头了——彭博终端的布吉之夜。但据该剧最大的粉丝之一的华尔街内部人士称，在其他方面，这是非常非常真实的。

该剧已进入第三季，故事发生在虚构的美国投资银行Pierpoint&Co.的伦敦办公室。那里有骚扰和虐待（性和心理）、无视证券法、堆积如山的打击以及与同事和客户的不断联系。

联合创作者Mickey Down和Konrad Kay表示，一位观众告诉他们，他们让银行业再次变得性感。他们经常被那些告诉他们节目中某个角色“很明显是我”的人接近。但他们表示，他们很惊讶——尽管他们不应该——工业已经成为金融业的招聘工具。

虽然性、毒品、违法和虐待在华尔街并非闻所未闻（例如，伯尼·麦道夫、杰弗里·爱泼斯坦和乔丹·贝尔福特），但合著者们加大了戏剧性的力度。但唐和凯在牛津大学毕业后都曾短暂从事金融工作，他们精心捕捉了一些更微妙的技术和文化细节，这些细节使该剧成为金融兄弟们的最爱。

高盛集团股份有限公司（Goldman Sachs Group Inc.）的一位热爱该剧的前合伙人表示，故事情节之所以听起来真实，是因为现实的人类戏剧——Z世代的初级银行家们对支付他们的会费和争分夺秒感到恼火，而他们的职业中期经理们知道他们只能和下一个行业一样优秀，他们害怕他们雄心勃勃的下属会阻止他们。

华尔街的观众与剧中人物在办公桌上的生活细节有关——交易的结构、定价和执行方式、争夺谁获得信贷以及客户如何受到对待或虐待。

许多这样的细节可能不会被不熟悉的人发现。当年轻、雄心勃勃的女销售员Harper Stern（Myha'la Herrold饰）接到亿万富翁对冲基金经理Jesse Bloom（Jay Duplass饰）的第一个订单电话时，他警告她不要“点击我”，否则他再也不会给她打电话了。任何销售人员都会告诉你，点击退出是指你让客户暂停，这样他就听不到交易员的报价了。

大银行也受到了抨击。当初级销售人员Yasmin Kara Hanani（Marisa Abela饰）因为花时间在财富管理集团而不是在交易台上而被老板训斥时，她回答说：“你知道，One Pierpoint”，这显然是指One Goldman Sachs，这是一个促进全行合作的俗气名字。

每个人都是两面派，这对现实生活中的银行家来说也是如此。当一个角色离开Pierpoint加入一家对冲基金时，她成为了她旧公司的客户，并利用她对谁有实时价格以及谁没有实时价格的了解，使交易更有利可图。

还有很多人利用同事的弱点，把他们扔到公共汽车下面。当一位资深银行家接管一个新团队时，他立即解雇了一位与他关系密切的人，但为了确保他们的忠诚，他放过了其他没有威胁的人。用华尔街的话来说，这被称为用棍棒击打小海豹。

对于一些观众来说，逼真度太过分了。一位金融兽医说，他停止观看是因为节目中的每个人都很不愉快、不值得信任和不讨人喜欢。换句话说，他说，作家们对这个行业的把握太好了。 —— Sridhar Natarajan

原文

Just how realistic is Industry, HBO’s hopped-up, oversexed, deeply corrupt drama depicting the finance industry? In many ways, it’s completely over the top—Boogie Nights with Bloomberg terminals. But in others, according to Wall Street insiders who are among the show’s biggest fans, it’s very, very real.

The series, now in its third season, takes place in the London office of the fictional US investment bank Pierpoint & Co. There’s harassment and abuse (sexual and psychological), disregard for securities laws, mountains of blow and constant hookups with colleagues and clients.

Co-creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay say one viewer told them they’d made banking sexy again. And they’re often approached by people who tell them a certain character on the show “is quite clearly me.” But they profess to be surprised—though they shouldn’t be—that Industry has become something of a finance industry recruitment tool.

While sex, drugs, law-breaking and abuse certainly aren’t unheard of on Wall Street (see, for instance, Bernie Madoff, Jeffrey Epstein and Jordan Belfort), the co-writers have amped up the dramatic bits. But Down and Kay, who both worked briefly in finance after graduating from the University of Oxford, have meticulously captured some of the more nuanced, technical and cultural details that have made the show a favorite among finance bros.

What makes the story line ring true, says one former partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who loves the show, is the realistic human drama—Gen Z junior bankers are miffed about paying their dues and jockeying to get ahead, and their mid-career managers, who know they’re only as good as their next trade, are terrified that their fiercely ambitious underlings will defenestrate them.

The Wall Street viewers relate to the minutiae of the characters’ lives on the desk—the structure of trades, how they’re priced and executed, fighting over who gets credit and how clients are treated or mistreated.

Many such details might go undetected by the uninitiated. When Harper Stern (Myha’la Herrold), a young, fiercely ambitious saleswoman, gets a call for her first order from the billionaire hedge fund manager Jesse Bloom (Jay Duplass), he warns her not to “click me out,” or he’ll never call her again. Clicking out, any salesperson will tell you, is when you put a client on hold so he can’t hear the price the trader is quoting.

There are digs at big banks, too. When junior salesperson Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela) gets chewed out by her boss for spending time with the wealth management group instead of on the trading desk, she replies, “You know, One Pierpoint,” an apparent reference to One Goldman Sachs, the cheesy name of an initiative to foster collaboration across the bank.

Everyone double-crosses everyone, which also rings true to real-life bankers. When one character leaves Pierpoint to join a hedge fund, she becomes a client of her old firm and uses her knowledge about who has live prices—and who doesn’t—to make a trade more profitable.

And there’s a lot of throwing colleagues under the bus, taking advantage of their weaknesses. When one senior banker takes over a new team, he immediately fires a person he was close to but spares other non-threatening people to ensure their loyalty. In Wall Street parlance, that’s called clubbing a baby seal.

For some viewers, the verisimilitude goes too far. One finance vet says he stopped watching because everyone on the show is so unpleasant, untrustworthy and unlikeable. In other words, he says, the writers had captured the industry far too well. —With Sridhar Natarajan

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