A middle-aged single mother who's a caregiver gets caught up in a cold call scam that turns her world upside down. The premise was good, although the numbers seemed wrong from the start. It's supposedly set in current (2019) times, but the idea that by selling her house, which she owned outright, for 83,000 pounds (approximately $114,000) and that she could give half to her daughter ($41,500 pounds or $57,000) and use her own half to live comfortably with her mother by renting without having to worry about money seemed like a fairy tale. But the plot was actually worse than that. When she goes to a support group for others who have been scammed, she meets a guy from when she was young, who tells her he can help her to get her money back. He clearly still carries a torch for her, and she's willing to accept his help, but she treats him like dirt. If he'd helped her find who stole her money and then they'd gone to the police and caught the thieves, this might have worked, but that's not the plot of this grim mini-series.
And SPOILER ALERT, the idea that when she finally gets back her 83,000 pounds = $114K, or even if you go with the idea that she has 100,000 pounds = $137,000, which is the limit on the credit card, she's in her late 40s (although she looks mid-50s) with no apparent pension or nest egg, and when the series ends, when she's on her phone booking a first class ticket to the tropics, to be met by a limo, all I could think was that this ditz was going to blow through that "found money" in a year and be in a worse position than she was at the beginning. Don't waste your time on this loser series.
And SPOILER ALERT, the idea that when she finally gets back her 83,000 pounds = $114K, or even if you go with the idea that she has 100,000 pounds = $137,000, which is the limit on the credit card, she's in her late 40s (although she looks mid-50s) with no apparent pension or nest egg, and when the series ends, when she's on her phone booking a first class ticket to the tropics, to be met by a limo, all I could think was that this ditz was going to blow through that "found money" in a year and be in a worse position than she was at the beginning. Don't waste your time on this loser series.