Why 'Industry' HBO is enough to get you back to the office
LA TimesWelcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who might be getting a tiny, little bit antsy working from home. —Michael Ordoña Catch up Everything you need to know about the film or TV series everyone’s talking about Trevor White, from left, Myha’la Herrold, Ken Leung and Priyanga Burford in HBO’s “Industry.” Here’s an idea for replacement therapy: Switch out the bad stress of your own workplace drama for the good stress of HBO’s “Industry.” Creators Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, themselves veterans of London’s cutthroat financial sector, have crafted a trading floor knife fight of hot, young, ambitious strivers at once aspirational — you heard hot, young and financial sector, right? —Matt Brennan Guest spot A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they’re working on — and what they’re watching Paul Walter Hauser in “Black Bird.” Paul Walter Hauser has played gormless sidekicks, like Tonya Harding’s bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt, a co-conspirator in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, in 2017’s “I, Tonya.” He’s played wronged heroes, like the security guard falsely accused of planning the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell.” But in “Black Bird,” which concludes its six-episode run Friday on Apple TV+, he manages to capture malevolence itself, in the form of suspected serial killer Larry Hall. Sun., Aug. 7 “37th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards” : They’re making a joyful noise in this new special. “Why Not Us: Southern Dance” : Southern University’s Dancing Dolls put their best feet forward in a new season of this docuseries.