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Inside Industry’s Brutal, Bespoke Wardrobe

Laura K. Smith, the show’s costume designer, tells GQ about Henry Muck’s power watches, Savile Row suiting, and the unspoken rules of power dressing.
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In Industry Season Four, Zillenials and Zoomers Feel Their Age

The HBO trading-floor drama has morphed into the first great TV show about hyperachieving cuspers staring down adulthood's big chill.
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Even Industry's Max Minghella Isn't Sure How Whitney Really Feels About Henry

Tender's tech-bro sociopath on this week's episode “Dear Henry,” that shower scene, and why singing Whitney Houston was a “miracle moment.”
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The Pitt Season Two Just Locked In

After five episodes of slow-building tension, the HBO Max hit’s Fourth of July shift bids a tragic farewell to a series regular—and delivers its first truly great hour.
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Is A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms a Comedy—or Just Game of Thrones for Kids?

Following the lead of other franchises, GoT is trying its hand at levity, with mixed results.
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Industry Is So Good at Casting Against Type

The HBO series is quietly becoming a paradise for actors from the likes of Stranger Things and Game of Thrones to shed their image and get wild.
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Kal Penn on Industry’s New Rich Slob and Friendship With Zohran Mamdani

Penn’s hungover, profane, and ultimately doomed Jonah just stole the season 4 premiere.
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Industry Blew Up the Bank—Then Got Right Back to Work

When Industry premiered in 2020, it was one of the least-watched shows in HBO history. But having grown in scale and ambition in subsequent seasons, Industry, in its fourth season, is more self-assured, more stylish, and more powerful than ever before.
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Heated Rivalry’s Costume Designer Also Loves Ilya’s Leopard Shirt (And Shane’s Sexy Reading Glasses)

“Our budget wasn’t huge,” admits Hanna Puley, who outfitted the smash-hit series. “So I was trying to be really strategic.”
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Who Is Shane Hollander’s Stylist?

In episode five of Heated Rivalry, Canada’s pro-hockey golden boy finally turns his swag on. GQ asked the show’s costume designer, plus a few real-life stylists and publicists, to break down his fashion journey.
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The Naked Ambition of the Heated Rivalry Boys

Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams were both virtual unknowns when they signed up to star as on-the-DL hockey players in a boldly smutty gay romance shot for a Canadian streamer. Now that the series is 2025’s biggest surprise hit, they’re navigating unfamiliar territory (and negotiating unprecedented thirst)—but at least they have each other to lean on.
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9 TV Shows to Get Hyped for in 2026

From two Game of Thrones spin-offs to new seasons of Industry and Euphoria, next year the small screen is gonna be big.
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Inside the Sad, Normie Style of Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company

To achieve the HBO comedy’s frumpy corporate aesthetic, costume designer Nicky Smith had to renounce all her natural instincts. “Wrinkles are good. Disheveled is good. Uneven is good,” she tells GQ.
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Task Is the Show of the Year

The HBO series restored the feeling of old Sunday-night prestige classics. Now let’s keep it one-and-done, writes GQ columnist Frazier Tharpe.
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Task's Jamie McShane on that Brutal Finale

The well-travelled character actor gets on the phone to discuss Perry's fate, biting Mark Ruffalo, and whether we've seen the last of Task.
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They Don’t Make TV Like Task Anymore

A staple of 2010s TV, the hard-boiled detective drama has largely gone out of fashion. But Mark Ruffalo’s new HBO series is more than up to the, well, task.
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Caleb Hearon Is Actually Very Nice

The comic and podcaster with the “she/they shooters” thinks “we need to bring back public beef”—but had a good conversation with MrBeast after their online dust-up.
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The Gilded Age Is the Most Exciting Show on TV

A show once known for petty infighting has significantly raised the stakes. Ahead of the season three finale, we dig into how the period drama has become a thrilling must-watch.
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The Decline and Fall of the Prestige-TV Nude Scene

Nudity used to be one of the key ways prestige television reminded us we weren't watching regular TV. As business realities and popular taste continue to shift, are streaming and cable headed for Nudity Zero?
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Marc Maron On His New HBO Special Panicked, the End of His Iconic Podcast, and Busting Open the ‘Worry Folder’

In his latest stand-up show, the soon-to-be-former WTF host grapples with his father’s dementia, the Los Angeles wildfires, and childhood trauma.