US EditionNew Prime Video Thriller Steal Is a Heart-Stopping High-Stakes Cash Heist — but Stick with the Sloppy Middle to Get a Gratifying Payoff
The thriller explores pension theft worth billions, focusing on underpaid clerks caught in a hostage crisis and a gripping police and MI5 probe.
- On Monday, a London trading office is taken hostage, with Zara among those held as armed strangers seize millions from everyday people's pensions in Prime Video's six-part Steal.
- The premise frames the heist within workplace monotony, making motives more plausible as creator Sotiris Nikias weaves inequality and disaffection into characters driven by hunger for millions and normalized betrayal.
- Revelations show Zara's role is deeper than it first seemed, complicating trust as clerks Zara and Luke are forced to transfer $8 billion, with Anna Maxwell Martin appearing as a blunt MI5 enigma.
- Critics note a taut opening and a rewarding finale, though the series' middle treads water as Metropolitan Police investigator Rhys Kovaci leads the probe with MI5 involved.
- Steal appears among this January's streaming choices, drawing direct comparisons to Harlan Coben's Run Away and Agatha Christie adaptations, with reviewers noting its six-episode miniseries format but preferring a tighter four-episode arc.
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Sophie Turner loves messy characters like those in ‘Steal’: They’re ‘quite liberating to play’
LONDON — Sophie Turner is interested in playing complicated, potentially messy characters. The British actor is drawn to women who are forced to prove their own worth, although the parallels between them aren’t always deliberate. In “Steal,” a six-episode limited series on Prime Video that premieres in full on Wednesday, Turner embodies an undeniably chaotic finance worker named Zara. “Easy women are boring,” she says, speaking from her publicis…
New Prime Video thriller Steal is a heart-stopping high-stakes cash heist — but stick with the sloppy middle to get a gratifying payoff
I’ve never wanted to work in finance less after watching new Prime Video thriller Steal — but after this traumatic binge, I can probably add trade processing to my CV.
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