It’s a confident, well-directed opener and ends with a twist.

Turner does a fine job of keeping Zara credible – a cornered terrier rather than a superhero – and you long for her to triumph. Amid all the action, however, Steal finds room for thought. While never taking its foot off the narrative gas, the series becomes a meditation on the notion that the love of money is the root of all evil.

The eventual big reveal leaves you with more questions than answers. No matter, this is a tightly wound, decent financial thriller worth a binge. It’s made all the more suspenseful for its lead characters’ honest and realistic antics.

Will the six episodes of Steal be full of tension-filled twists and turns or just spiral out into silliness? We’re certainly interested enough in the story after the first episode to find out, but given that the running time is only about five or so hours, we’re hoping things will stay tight and tense.

“Steal” is a well-made series with crisp editing, fine performances, and serviceable writing and direction, but at times the plot gets bogged down in exposition about financial subterfuge and somewhat arbitrary moments of betrayals.

A magnetic Sophie Turner stars in a heist thriller that has its moments until the suspense dribbles away from overlength and overcomplication.

The points it’s making about how destructive our financial system is are not wrong, but they’re too obvious and facile to make up for the show’s bloated pacing and two-dimensional characters — especially since, in the end, it lacks the nerve to follow its own logic anywhere truly daring or surprising.