Sophie Turner is back on our screens in Steal, an Amazon Prime Video heist drama that trades dragons and medieval prophecy for fluorescent lighting and corporate misery. Playing a burnt‑out office worker at rock bottom, Turner has spoken about the “liberation” that comes with being at your lowest—a sentiment that gives this series its unexpected emotional core and makes it more than just another slick caper.


Sophie Turner in interview still from BBC piece about Steal
Sophie Turner discussing Steal and embracing characters at “rock bottom”. Image credit: BBC.

From Winterfell to the Open-Plan Office

Coming off the cultural juggernaut of Game of Thrones, Turner’s career has been under a microscope: would she go full blockbuster, chase prestige drama, or quietly build a more idiosyncratic filmography? With Steal, she leans into something very 2020s: the heist-as-burnout fantasy, where office drones turn their frustration with late-stage capitalism into a very literal redistribution of wealth.


What Is Steal About—and Why Now?

Steal (an Amazon Prime Video original) follows a disgruntled corporate worker who has hit personal and professional rock bottom. Stuck in a dead‑end job, buried in meaningless tasks, and largely invisible to the people who sign her paychecks, she’s offered a chance to channel that frustration into a high‑risk heist that targets the very structures exploiting her.

The premise taps directly into post‑pandemic anxieties: quiet quitting, mass layoffs, and the sense that “work” has become a rigged game. In that context, a series where a burned‑out employee decides to quite literally steal back some power doesn’t just feel entertaining; it feels eerily cathartic.

“I think there’s a liberation that comes with being at your lowest,” Turner told the BBC. “There’s a power in having nothing left to lose.”

Sophie Turner’s Performance: Weaponizing Rock Bottom

Turner has always been good at playing characters who are underestimated—Sansa Stark’s journey from naive hostage to political operator was one of Game of Thrones’s quiet triumphs. In Steal, she channels that same arc into a contemporary office setting, starting as a numbed‑out employee and gradually revealing sharper edges.

The key here is her decision to lean into the messiness of rock bottom. Rather than glamorizing the heist fantasy from the jump, Turner allows her character to be a little pathetic: hungover in meetings, missing deadlines, and emotionally checked out. It’s only when she stops performing competence for the corporate machine that she finds a twisted sort of liberation.

Overworked office employee sitting at a cluttered desk under harsh lighting
Steal taps into the all-too-familiar exhaustion of modern office life before twisting it into a heist story. (Representative imagery)
  • Emotional range: Turner toggles convincingly between deadpan, desperation, and dark humor.
  • Physicality: Her slumped posture and exhausted expressions in early episodes make the later confidence of the heist feel earned.
  • Voice and delivery: The dry, almost bored line readings sell the idea that this character has simply run out of patience with corporate nonsense.

It’s not a showy transformation in the superhero sense, but a grounded one: she doesn’t become a different person; she just stops apologizing for who she already is.


The Liberation of “Lowest Point” Storytelling

Turner’s comment about liberation at your lowest taps into a long storytelling tradition: when characters are stripped of status, money, or reputation, they often become more honest—and more dangerous. In Steal, that idea plays out less as tragedy and more as black comedy.

The show suggests that being at rock bottom frees you from playing by polite, corporate rules. Once you’re no longer invested in climbing the ladder, stealing the ladder starts to look like a viable option. It’s a concept echoed across contemporary TV, from Breaking Bad to Industry, but Steal gives it a specifically millennial/Gen Z spin: what if you’re too emotionally exhausted to even pretend you believe in the system?

Nighttime city skyline suggesting sleek corporate towers and financial district
The sleek, anonymous corporate world of Steal becomes both the setting and the target of the heist.
Critics have increasingly noted how modern heist dramas “double as revenge fantasies for a generation priced out of stability,” and Steal comfortably belongs in that conversation.

Style, Tone, and the Heist Mechanics

Formally, Steal is cut from familiar streaming-era cloth: sleek digital cinematography, a pulsing soundtrack, and plenty of cross‑cutting between boardrooms and back‑alleys. Where it distinguishes itself is in tone—less swaggering Ocean’s Eleven, more “what if your team from the 9 a.m. stand‑up accidentally robbed a bank?”

Team working late in a dark office with glowing computer screens
The series reframes project planning and late nights at the office as preparation for something much riskier than a quarterly report.

The heist sequences themselves are solid rather than groundbreaking: timed entrances, security systems, improvised workarounds—the usual genre beats. The twist is how much of the scheme piggybacks on the boring parts of corporate life:

  • Security complacency built into routine.
  • Blind trust in ID badges and scheduled deliveries.
  • The way no one really looks up from their spreadsheet long enough to notice anything odd.

That choice gives the show a low-key satirical edge: the system is so convinced of its own invincibility that it barely bothers to guard against the people inside it.


Strengths, Weaknesses, and Overall Verdict

As a piece of television, Steal is more interesting for its thematic resonance and Turner’s performance than for any wild structural innovation. It’s a cleanly executed, well‑acted heist drama with a distinctly 2020s mood: anxious, sardonic, and quietly furious at how disposable workers can feel.

Person looking over financial documents and office ID badge on a desk
Money, access, and identity are all intertwined in the show’s critique of corporate culture.

Where Steal Works

  • Sophie Turner at the center: She anchors the show with a grounded, lived‑in performance that sells both burnout and rebellion.
  • Timely themes: The series feels plugged into conversations about toxic workplaces, mental health, and economic precarity.
  • Balance of humor and tension: It never becomes a full-on comedy, but it understands how absurd modern office life already is.

Where It Falls Short

  • Familiar heist beats: Genre veterans may find some twists predictable.
  • Corporate caricatures: A few side characters veer toward one‑note villainy instead of complex antagonists.
  • Limited scope: The show hints at broader systemic critique but mostly keeps things personal and local.

Still, for viewers who enjoy character‑driven crime stories with a social conscience, Steal offers a satisfying blend of catharsis and commentary.

Rating: 4/5 – A sharp, timely heist drama elevated by Sophie Turner’s performance.


What Steal Means for Sophie Turner’s Next Act

In the long arc of Turner’s career, Steal feels like a statement: she’s not chasing scale so much as specificity. Playing a woman undone by the grind of corporate life is a far cry from a queen in the North, but thematically there’s a through‑line—both characters learn what they’re capable of only when the world underestimates them.

Silhouette of a woman walking out of an office building at sunset
From fantasy royalty to office rebel, Turner’s latest role hints at a career built on women navigating systems that were never built for them.

If Steal connects with audiences—and the themes are timely enough that it easily could—it positions Turner as one of the more interesting millennial leads of the streaming era: able to anchor genre fare while keeping one foot firmly in the emotional realities of the present.

For anyone who has ever stared at an office spreadsheet and fantasized about burning it all down, Steal might not change your life. But it will absolutely recognize that feeling—and then hand you a fictional blueprint for what happens when someone finally acts on it.