Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestIn denial about the collapse of her marriage, Annie prepares for her partnership interview. Stephen and Ashley confront Tilson and the PG about the Duvalier deal.
In a busy corporate law firm, Cooper-Fozard in the City of London, Stephen Bradley and his team work fast and furiously to put together mergers, takeovers and buyouts for a range of clients. But it's never as clear and clinical as that. When colleagues work hard they often play hard too; and working closely sometimes brings people together after hours. Soon you develop a taste for a good deal, and you can sense a suspicious one at forty paces. And above all, though you don't have to like the people you work with, you learn that you do need to trust them.
Acting
Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ian McShane elevating every scene they touch
Writing
Simon Block's sharp dialogue about deals and deceptions
Creator
Simon Block
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Chiwetel Ejiofor's first major TV role after Dirty Pretty Things, filmed right before he became Oscar-nominated royalty.
Trust arrived in that brief 2002-2004 window when British TV tried to replicate American prestige workplace dramas—see also: Attachments, Coupling's US failure—and mostly flopped.
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