This past week, Sophie Turner made headlines after Amazon showed off her look as Lara Croft in its upcoming Tomb Raider series, the result of classic costuming and apparently eight-hour-a-day workouts, according to the actress.
But before that, she has a less high-profile show on Amazon, though it’s performing very well so far. That would be Steal, a new series that has hit the service and has planted itself at #2, behind only Fallout, one of Amazon’s most-watched shows to date. So that’s pretty good. But popularity does not mean quality, so is Steal actually worth watching?
The answer appears to be yes, though with the caveat that the show is probably not going to blow your mind. First off, the synopsis and trailer:
Steal’s scores are a 74% critic score and a 75% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, plus a 7.2/10 on IMDB. Knowing how these things work, this translates to “pretty solid” on the scale from awful to godlike, so that’s a good start. Additionally, it’s a good binge. Amazon is not releasing the show week-to-week, dropping all six episodes a few days ago. And…it’s only six episodes, so it’s a breezy watch.
Here’s one critic’s take via The Daily Mail, which gives it a 5/5 score: “The first episode climaxes with a delicious and well-concealed twist, and the surprises keep coming throughout all six episodes.”
Turner has been on a whirlwind ride the past month or so between this show, Tomb Raider news, and her upcoming movie The Dreadful, where she and her former Game of Thrones sibling, Kit Harington, play lovers. That’s out this coming February. She’s also given a lot of interesting interviews while promoting all this, including a recent tidbit that she cannot listen to the Game of Thrones theme song, much less watch new shows in that world like The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, because it gives her anxiety. That said, she has spoken about having a great experience on the show and being a rare cast member who liked her character’s finale, in which she became Queen of the North.
So, yeah, I’m going to check out Steal and report back with an official review soon.
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2026/01/24/is-sophie-turners-new-hit-steal-on-amazon-worth-watching/
