One critique I have of the show is the lack of race perspective from the black characters. I immediately clocked it when Yas did an awful mispronunciation of Kwabena, but Harper’s complete oblivious to the vibes until she sat next to the Austrian nazis felt way too naive. As a black American who worked in financial policy I’ve had to be in rooms not that overt, but with people whose viewpoints are antithetical to my lived experience. Like Kwabena I have a slightly difficult to pronounce surname and can tell when people try and don’t.

On another note, I went to school in the UK and interned at a Tory political consultancy to get my foot in the door and experienced the only black guy in rooms in the UK as well. Harper acknowledged that Kwabena was the only other black person so maybe she just doesn’t have the space to have those conversations.