The (mini) series is built around a premise in which nearly the entire British national pension fund is emptied by criminals who force key hostages to authorize the transfers. What would that feel like? Imagine Taiwan’s Labor Pension Fund—flush with stock-market gains—suddenly vanishing overnight. The whole country would explode.
On Amazon Prime Video in Taiwan the subscription is only 45% of Netflix’s price, so being able to watch this series feels like excellent value. Beyond the sheer scale of the money involved, the pacing and plot twists are expertly engineered. All six episodes fly by and leave you thoroughly satisfied. Writer Sotiris Nikias is highly skilled; the arguments he puts in the characters’ mouths come across with genuine moral weight.
Sophie Turner, formerly of HBO’s Game of Thrones, is one lucky actress. Moving to Amazon, she landed roles in two series, with a Tomb Raider series still to come.
I particularly like Archie Madekwe, who plays her colleague. He shifts from an innocent, cowardly face to a calculating, scheming one; he’s so handsome and likable that it’s hard to root against him.
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, the 38-year-old Jewish‑British actor with a solid body of work already, has that melancholic, languid gaze and presence. Playing a police officer, of course he needs a die‑hard bad habbit…
Andrew Koji (Andrew Julian Hiroaki Koji) delivers an equally understated performance. For once he has no fight scenes, so he doesn’t get to show off his physique.
I’m impressed by how Sophie Turner goes almost completely bare‑faced to convey a woman living in constant fear. She was still under 30 during filming, yet on screen the eye bags and wrinkles make her look closer to 50. Even with three strong supporting players around her, she doesn’t bloom into a radiant leading lady; instead she plays a sharp, thorny rose.
Wrapped in a crime‑thriller package, the series explores tax havens and financial privilege; idealism versus “naivety”; and the uneasy relationships between crime, law, and morality. The opening scenes of rank‑and‑file employees roasting their fat‑cat bosses will feel especially cathartic to any office worker.
What it is really examining is this: the complex financial system is ultimately a set of rules and beliefs created by people. Who benefits from them? When 99% of people are forced to follow the same rules while those at the very top retain the right to opt out, the problem is no longer merely a wealth gap—it is a power gap.
Some call idealism naïve. But the true naivety is seeing injustice and still believing that nothing needs to change.
Is money dirty or clean? If dirty money is used to do good, does it thereby become clean?
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