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The best way to tell what a person is really like is to see them under pressure.
Where are the cracks in their foundation?
Are they strong and skilled enough to cut through the noise?
Three seasons in, the stakes are impossibly high.
Who are our characters when things fall apart?
Smoke and Mirrors is a stress test for all our favorite little traders.
The power has returned after a brief outage, but Lumi is trading below the price point Pierpoint promised.
Harper capitalizes on the chaos.
This is anathema to FutureDawns status as an ethical fund, but Petra doesnt care.
Shes tired of her investments being tied to Annas dogma.
Is Petra the cool-headed shark that Harper has always longed to work with?
Petra is like Eric without the volatility.
Did Harper need a mommy, not a daddy, all along?
Maybe Petra, with her Germanic aura of cool, will be the key to Harper genuinely maturing.
Petras not wrong, but what is Harper without her toxic feud with Eric?
On the Pierpoint floor, Eric, without Harper, continues to be an absolute basket case.
Lumi IPO is going to hell in a handbasket, and Eric is failing the stress test.
Bill Adler shows up and works on some of the phones, which helps lift spirits slightly.
Then, everything falls apart again, thanks to Kit Harrington being a total nut job.
Either way: Great job, Kit!
Robert isnt only dealing with Henry.
I take back everything I said about them seeming kind of healthy and loving.
Robert tries to leave, but Nicoles daughter thrusts herself on him, trying to kiss him.
Weve touched on this a little before, butIndustryhas an ambivalent, complicated relationship with sexual assault.
(Is it arealbond or a subconscious trauma bond between them?)
But I also chafe at media that can only see people subjected to sexual assault as martyrs and victims.
Im still working through this observation as our season progresses.
Power is what our characters are constantly coveting, stealing, bargaining with.
His confusion with her daughter then makes sense.
The daughter has no power over Robert, but she also symbolizes the person who did.
This brings us to Yasmin, this seasons leading lady.
Yasmin nearly collapses on the floor under the pressure of the Lumi IPO.
Her chumminess with Eric after their bender is rapidly cooling.
Honestly, I wondered if maybe she was going to be fired.
But instead, Yasmin comes through and saves the IPO.
This is all to say that Yasmin knows these people and the worlds they inhabit.
This is not something I think he would have ever said to Harper.
If anything, he was all about Harper compromising herself.
I continue to dislike the Eric/Yasmin pairing.
But theres a sexual, incestuous undertone here that slicks the whole scene with ick.
Later, Henry invites Yasmin to dinner to thank her for her work that day.
Its both a thank you and a romantic overture.
Yasmin picks up what hes putting down and gestures for Henry to follow her to the bathroom.
Yasmin cant seriously think another man will solve her problems, right?
Baby, its time to grow up.
Loose Change
SOMETHING is happening with Rishi.
Hes making some questionable decisions with his book, and he has a back … itch?
Anraj is so cuddly and so anti-Rishi.
Otto Mostyn, the hedge fund owner who menaces Yasmin, is utterly terrifying.
