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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9857899" data-attributes="member: 78087">Now watching Steal, which is a beautifully put together series. It’s well written, tightly plotted, and doesn’t treat you like an idiot - it’s like reading a great thriller, you have to stop and look stuff up occasionally (ANPR is automatic number plate recognition, by the way). Unlike The Night Manager or Black Doves, this series makes me proud to be English.The first episode is a heist from the point of view of the hostages, as an incredibly well informed and organised team raid a pension fund manager in the City of London and convincingly transfer £4bn to a British Virgin Islands account. It’s all succinctly explained - it takes a lot of information and focus to do this, and yes, people on the inside.A weird aside for me is that I spent the first three episodes thinking that Andrew Koji (who plays Darren, the financial investigator) is Will Sharpe, who’s just a very similar half-Japanese guy who’s been in similar parts. Koji in this part looks very much like Sharpe in A Real Pain. Koji is way more martial-arts, of course (he’s playing Ryu in the upcoming SF film) but not at all for this role.</blockquote>