"The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal. Harper is the head of her own fund by 30. Newlywed Yasmin is pulling strings among the peerage. With every season, the duo seems less like coltish rivals in a workplace drama and more like twisted reflections in a cracked mirror - the tortured love story at the center of a show that has more incisive things to say about class and money and image"
"She was hired by Henry's godfather to run a shorts-only fund, but her ascent through London's finance elite has clearly stalled between seasons. Her team can't outperform the market. Her investors are skittish. And Sir Otto has assigned her a pipsqueak babysitter who registers his objections via rhetorical questions. Even Harper's closest deputies - Pierpoint alum Sweetpea and Kwabena, a season-four newcomer played by Ted Lasso 's Toheeb Jimoh - have moved beyond quietly doubting her strategy."
Fans once signaled loyalty with Pierpoint & Co. purple hoodies; by season four the firm's London trading floor is gone and the show has become bleaker. Harper runs her own shorts-only fund at Mostyn Asset Management, but performance has stalled, investors are skittish, and colleagues openly challenge her. Newlywed Yasmin has moved into elite social circles and exerts influence among the peerage. The central relationship between Harper and Yasmin reads as a tortured love story and a mirror of competing ambitions. The series increasingly uses U.K. headline news to amplify a sense of social and political dread.
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