Sophie Turner is done playing royalty and jewel thieves. Now she’s playing someone who gets caught in the worst workday imaginable, and honestly? It’s a pretty wild ride.
What Steal Gets Right
Steal isn’t trying to be Ocean’s Eleven. This isn’t slick criminals pulling off an elaborate con with witty one-liners. This is six episodes of pure anxiety – tight shots, sterile office spaces, and a clock that never stops ticking. All six episodes dropped on Prime Video on January 21, and yeah, it’s built for binging.
Turner plays Zara, just a regular employee at a London pension fund company called Lochmill Capital. One minute she’s joking with her coworker Luke (Archie Madekwe) about dying of boredom at work. The next, armed thieves storm the building and force her to help steal billions in pension money. Not corporate cash – actual retirement savings from regular people. That’s the kind of stakes that make you squirm.
The Twist That Changes Everything
Here’s where Steal does something different: the heist happens early. Most heist shows spend the whole runtime planning and executing the robbery. But this show flips the script. The real story is what happens after – the fallout, the investigation, the web of lies and conspiracy that starts unraveling.
Sophie Turner herself said it best in interviews: “It’s nice to see the fallout from it and the real effects it has on real lives.” That’s exactly what makes this show hit different. Detective Chief Inspector Rhys (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd) is trying to piece together what happened, but he’s got his own problems as a gambling addict trying to stay clean.
Where It Stumbles
The show gets a little messy when it starts layering in MI5 conspiracies and shadowy organizations. Sometimes it feels like the writers are throwing in complications just to keep things moving rather than because they make sense.
The pacing can be uneven too. Some episodes feel like they’re spinning their wheels, while others move so fast you barely have time to process what’s happening. And while Turner is solid in the lead role, some of the supporting characters feel underdeveloped. You get the sense there’s interesting stuff going on with them, but the show doesn’t always take time to explore it.
The Verdict
Despite its flaws, Steal is worth your time if you’re into tense thrillers. It’s not going to change your life or redefine the heist genre, but it’s an addictive watch. The kind of show where you tell yourself “just one more episode” and suddenly it’s 2 AM and you’ve finished the whole thing.
Turner continues to prove she’s more than just Sansa Stark from Game of Thrones. After Joan last year, she’s carving out a nice niche in crime thrillers. And with the Tomb Raider series coming to Prime Video next (where she’ll play Lara Croft), she’s staying firmly in Amazon’s orbit.
Creator Sotiris Nikias, working with directors Sam Miller and Hettie MacDonald, has crafted something that feels fresh even when it’s being familiar. The claustrophobic office setting, the emphasis on consequences over execution, the way it shows how one crime ripples out to affect dozens of lives – that’s all smart stuff.
Is Steal a masterpiece? Nope. Is it a perfectly fine way to spend six hours getting stressed out about pension fraud? Absolutely. In the crowded world of streaming thrillers, that’s honestly good enough.
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