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Forget everything you think you know about heist shows. Prime Video’s Steal doesn’t just raise the bar—it clean forgets there ever was one.
Imagine starting your Tuesday thinking you’re just another office drone navigating spreadsheets and stale biscuits. By lunchtime, masked villains with Hollywood-grade prosthetics have stormed your building, you’re being forced to execute trades worth billions, and somewhere between the terror and the adrenaline, you realize this might be the most exciting day of your life. Welcome to the world of Steal—Amazon Prime’s breathless, twisty, and ridiculously entertaining six-part thriller that stars the inimitable Sophie Turner as Zara Dunne, a woman who is definitely, absolutely, probably not what she seems.
A Heist That Actually Has Something to Say
Let’s be honest: heist shows are a dime a dozen. But Steal—the debut screenplay from Sotiris Nikias (who cut his teeth writing crime novels as Ray Celestin)—refuses to be just another glossy caper. Yes, the villains are nimble, intelligent, and quietly vicious. Yes, the tension is so thick you could cut it with a butter knife. But beneath the adrenaline rush, Steal is actually a clever meditation on something we all think about while staring at our bank accounts: the absolute evil of money.
The series pulls off that rare magic trick of being wildly entertaining while secretly making you smarter. It depicts the financial world as what it really is—glorified gambling with other people’s cash, where a tiny elite get grotesquely rich while the Myrtles and Zaras of the world survive on crumbs (and whatever nice biscuits they can scavenge). The management committee pulls in £1 million a year plus guaranteed bonuses. Our heroes? Let’s just say they’re working for the biscuit budget. The resentment is palpable, and Steal argues that when wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands, something has to give. Usually, that something involves masks, hostages, and a lot of shouting.
Sophie Turner: Cornered Terrier, Absolute Legend
Post-Game of Thrones, Sophie Turner has been quietly building a résumé that screams “I can do literally anything.” In Steal, she delivers what can only be described as a masterclass in controlled chaos. Zara Dunne isn’t a superhero—she’s a cornered terrier, all sharp instincts and desperate survival tactics rooted in a traumatic upbringing by her alcoholic mother (the incomparable Anastasia Hille). The scenes between Turner and Hille are so emotionally brutal they could power a small city, and honestly? Someone should write a domestic drama just for these two.
What makes Turner’s performance sing is her refusal to let Zara become a caricature. When the heist kicks off and the violence starts (gruesome enough to establish stakes, never repulsive), Zara doesn’t suddenly transform into Jason Bourne. She improvises. She calculates. She breaks and rebuilds herself in real-time. When Luke (Archie Madekwe) crumbles under pressure, Zara steps up—not because she’s invincible, but because she has no other choice. You’ll spend six episodes cheering for her, gasping at her choices, and wondering if she’s playing everyone or genuinely trying to survive.
The Twist You See Coming—And the Twenty You Don’t
Here’s the thing about Steal: it knows you know how heist stories work. So it lets you think you’ve figured it out—Zara’s in on it! Cue dramatic music!—and then spends the next five episodes systematically proving you know absolutely nothing.
The plot expands like a chess game played by caffeinated geniuses. Enter DCI Rhys Kovac (Jacob Fortune-Lloyd), an astute detective with secrets darker than his coffee, who begins unraveling a conspiracy that stretches far beyond one office building. The alliances shift. The loyalties fracture. The “necessary preposterousness” (as every great thriller has) somehow never tips into actual absurdity. By the final episode, you’ll be breathless, slightly dizzy, and immediately texting friends to start watching so you have someone to discuss theories with.
Why You Should Drop Everything and Watch This
Steal succeeds because it understands something fundamental about great television: we don’t just want to be entertained—we want to be grabbed. This show grabs you by the collar in minute one and doesn’t release you until the credits roll on episode six. It’s smart without being pretentious, political without being preachy, and twisty without being exhausting.
In an era where too many shows mistake slow pacing for sophistication, Steal is a shot of pure adrenaline. It trusts its audience to keep up, rewards attention with genuine surprises, and gives Sophie Turner the showcase she deserves. Whether you’re here for the heist mechanics, the social commentary, or just the sheer joy of watching a great actress at the top of her game, Steal delivers.
Verdict: Clear your schedule. Buy the good biscuits. Steal is the kind of television that reminds you why you fell in love with binge-watching in the first place. Sophie Turner isn’t just stealing billions in the show—she’s stealing every scene, every twist, and absolutely your heart.
Steal is streaming now on Prime Video.
