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Prime Video Steal Series Tries Hard But Doesn’t Quite Stick the Landing
- Sakshi D
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Sophie Turner deserves better than this - Sakshi D
I put on Steal because I saw Sophie Turner’s face on Prime Video and thought, “Six episodes, heist thriller, why not?”
The first episode hooked me immediately: pure adrenaline, violent thieves storming an office, billions in pensions getting stolen. I was fully in.
Then episode two happened, and I realized I might’ve celebrated too early.
TMJ Rating: 🍿🍿/5
What’s Going Down?
Zara (Sophie Turner) works at a pension fund investment firm, living her normal office life until armed robbers burst in and force her and her best friend Luke (Archie Madekwe) to transfer billions in ordinary people’s retirement money.
The show jumps between the chaotic heist aftermath and the weeks leading up to it, slowly revealing who orchestrated everything and why anyone would target something as random as pension funds.
The Good Stuff in Prime Video Steal Series
That premiere episode is genuinely fantastic.
The tension feels suffocating, the thieves are eerily calm and brutal, and the pounding score keeps your heart racing. Those early sequences with minimal dialogue, worried faces, tight editing, and dread building through silence work incredibly well.
Sophie Turner carries the emotional weight hard. She’s convincing as someone trapped in an impossible situation, making terrible choices under pressure while trying to survive.
Archie Madekwe matches her energy as Luke, constantly on edge, and their friendship dynamic feels authentic. The chemistry between them makes you care when things get messy.
The central mystery has some solid misdirects. There are a few revelations that surprised me, and the show does a decent job keeping you guessing who’s actually pulling the strings.
Six episodes feels like the right length; it doesn’t drag things out unnecessarily, and you can knock it out in a weekend.
Where It Falls Apart
After that electric opening, the momentum just dies.
Episodes start feeling way longer than their 40-50 minute runtime. The backstory scenes showing how everything came together drag hard; too much time watching characters learn random skills or having conversations that explain motivations we already figured out.
The side characters are either underdeveloped or completely forgettable. There’s an intern, an MI5 agent, the detective’s partner. They all show up, brood mysteriously, and then contribute basically nothing. Too many people exist purely to look suspicious without adding real substance.
The tone can’t decide what it wants to be.
One minute it’s a high-octane thriller with genuine urgency, the next it’s a slow procedural drama where everyone stares moodily into the distance.
When that balance works, it builds tension, but when it doesn’t, you’re sitting there waiting for something to happen while characters wallow in fear and grief until your sympathy turns into frustration.
Some plot choices feel forced. Characters make decisions that only exist to push the story forward rather than because they make sense for that person. The ending is fine, but forgettable. Nothing sticks with you after it’s over.
The Honest Truth
Prime Video Steal series has a killer concept and starts incredibly strong, but it can’t maintain that energy. There’s a tight, pulse-pounding thriller buried in here that would’ve worked better as a two-hour movie instead of six episodes.
The buildups promise way more than the payoffs deliver, and too many subplots go absolutely nowhere.
It’s watchable if you’re in the mood for a heist-gone-wrong story and want to see Sophie Turner lead something, but it never fully grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go the way the best thrillers do.
Not terrible, but definitely not memorable. It steals your time without giving you much back. Worth watching if you’re bored and scrolling Prime, but don’t expect it to blow your mind.
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