Watching Industry via this release is a surprisingly fitting experience. The show is claustrophobic—all fluorescent-lit trading floors, beige hotel rooms, and coke-fuelled bathroom stalls. The x265 encode handles the grain and the muted, cool color palette of London finance well.
This file is a pirated compromise, but so is the world of the show. Pierpoint & Co. is a place of compromised ethics, compressed humanity, and extracted value. The x265 codec is just doing the same thing to the visual signal: extracting as much perceived quality as possible while discarding the “redundant” data. Industry S01 WEBRip x265-ION265
It’s not how the creators intended it. But then again, nobody at Pierpoint intended for the junior analysts to sleep under their desks, either. Watching Industry via this release is a surprisingly