No one is a pantomime villain or a halo-wearing angel – not least Harper, who makes a shady phone call early in this first episode. Yasmin (Marisa Abela) is from a privileged, Notting Hill background, but struggles to ascend beyond the role of team waitress, inflicting her annoyance on the poor shop worker who has to make her 80 salads every day. Gus is – alongside Harper – one of few people of colour in the office, but as an old Etonian he can access worlds that Robert can’t – although other barriers emerge as the story continues. One of the first comic “bits” (or is it just bullying?) from his seniors is the gag that his big, dark suit makes him look like a nightclub bouncer. The different privileges afforded to each of the central characters are subtly outlined as the series continues and they career towards the moment when half of them will be binned from the graduate programme.īoozy lad Robert (Harry Lawtey) is able to risk a ketamine-fuelled, vomit-stained night out before a meeting, stumbling in like a 90s Tory MP in a way you feel that Harper surely could not, yet he is also not from that world. It is the kind of place where the old boys’ network still hums just below the surface, where the Old Etonian and Oxford graduate Gus (David Jonsson) impresses in his interview by distinguishing between Jesus Christ and Margaret Thatcher with the quip: “One’s the reason we’re all here and the other’s a carpenter.”Īt Pierpoint, you don’t have to be an Oxbridge graduate, or white, or rich, but it doesn’t exactly hurt. ![]() ![]() Her character, Harper Stern, is a black, working-class woman arriving from a little-known New York university to join the graduate scheme at an elite London banking institution, Pierpoint & Co. US newcomer Myha’la Herrold leads a cast of appropriately bright young things playing the central roles.
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