Must Watch reviews: Steal, Under Salt Marsh, and Take That

Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.

This week, Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan join Naga Munchetty to review ‘Under Salt Marsh’, ‘Steal’, and ‘Take That’.

What do the Must Watch reviewers make of them?

Under Salt Marsh is a six-part crime thriller on Sky Atlantic. It’s set in a fictional Welsh village, between towering mountains and a fast-encroaching sea that’s threatening its very existence. When former detective turned teacher Jackie Ellis, played by Kelly Reilly, discovers the body of her 8-year-old pupil seemingly drowned in a ditch, it sends shockwaves through the community and revives memories of an unsolved cold case that rocked the town three years prior, and cost Jackie her career.

Scott and Hayley both think Under Salt Marsh is a Must Watch.

Scott says he was “itching to get on and watch the rest” and he “found the premise of it really rather interesting.”

“Just the scene setting and the community was rather fascinating. There’s already this anger of people having to face the possibility of moving their homes and that’s even before the tragedy has taken place.”

He enjoys the “added dynamic of an ex‑police detective, she’s got one foot in and one foot out, and I found that dynamic is different compared to a lot of other police detective shows.”

The show “looks at the need for secrecy in police investigating versus the needs of the community who just desperately want answers.”

Scott describes this as “the most Hayley Campbell show that I can imagine.”

Hayley says it is “depressing, it’s atmospheric, the setting is beautiful and strange. It populates the town with various kinds of local eccentrics.”

She adds that it is “sort of Scandinavian in its setting”.

“Everyone knows everyone’s business, they’re all taking this death personally in their own ways and we’re finding that out slowly.”

She thinks Kelly Reilly is “amazing at looking pained all the time” and Rafe Spall is “always great.”

“He's playing the detective, and no one wants to talk with him because of how much he messed up the last case, but we don't know all the details of that yet.”

Hayley says “there’s this huge storm brewing” and the show “feels tense” because “everything is on a timer.”

Under Salt Marsh is available to watch on Sky and streaming service NOW from 30 January 2026.

Steal is a new thriller on Amazon Prime Video. It stars Sophie Turner as Zara, an employee of a pension management company that is soon at the heart of a major heist, and she’s asked to transfer £4 billion into the thief's accounts.

Scott says Steal is a “good watch’ but Hayley says she “doesn’t think it’s a Must Watch”.

Hayley says she “thought it was a silly thriller where people do things that are obviously stupid so that there can then be some action to try and rectify the stupid thing.”

“The two people who don’t want anyone to know they were part of the heist have loud whisper conversations about what to do with the money in the office kitchen.”

Hayley explains that the show is “silly” but also “bingeable and violent if you just want something silly, bingeable, and violent.”

She thinks it is “funny how a modern heist is just not as dramatically satisfying.”

"This is just people standing over a computer doing a fund transfer and then waiting for a bank to phone to confirm it.”

Scott says it was “rather riveting at some points” and found that setting the show in an office rather than a conventional bank is “rather interesting.”

“There was a great deal of suspense in it. In the first episode, I was on the edge of my seat and I thought that the pacing and the acting and the realism were certainly there.”

He thinks there is ”some very clever writing going into this”, especially how the show explores the line between thinking Zara will be the “saviour” or “a bit more shady”.

Scott did find there are “far‑fetched” moments and says “they’ve all quite soon gone back to the office after this absolutely awful situation… I would be like, take a day off, go on a holiday.”

“Normally I find Amazon Prime Video is a bit like a tombola but I am very happy that this has been commissioned. If you’re looking for a bit of a suspenseful series in the real long end of January, this is probably the one for you.”

All six episodes of Steal are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video now.

This is a new Netflix documentary about the band Take That. Featuring 35 years of rare archive, never-before-seen footage and personal material, as well as brand new interviews with Barlow, Donald and Owen, the series promises an intimate look at the highs, the heartbreaks, and the enduring legacy of one of the UK's most successful bands of all time.

Both Scott and Hayley agree this is not a Must Watch, Scott describes it is an ”OK watch, a good watch in parts”

He adds, “I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I would be.”

“We are at a saturation point with these types of documentaries. I’m starting to wonder whether there’s anything else really more to say.”

He thinks that episode two is the “really revealing part” as it looks at “what it is like when you’ve run out of road in your career at the age of 24.”

“Unfortunately in other parts, it felt just like a Wikipedia page being read aloud, it didn’t feel as if it was scratching beyond the surface.”

Scott says the best part is the use of archive clips which he says are “constant shots of Andi Peters and award shows and weird chat shows” as they “provide a bit of nostalgia.”

“It didn’t knock it out of the park.”

Hayley says she agrees with most of what Scott said.

She explains she was “never a boyband girl” and that you would need to “work to make me want to watch this.”

“That said, I loved Boy Bands Forever. I thought the Robbie Williams documentary was well done. But this documentary is just about Take That and nothing you will ever tell me will convince me that this boyband is interesting enough to sustain this much documentary attention.”

She says, “I just cannot be told this story again or I will cry. Don’t tell me another thing about Take That. I just don’t want to know.”

All three episodes of Take That are available to watch on Netflix now.

Listen to the full reviews of all three programmes on BBC Sounds.

But before all that, why not contact Scott and Hayley with the shows you’ve been loving, loathing or both on mustwatch@bbc.co.uk.

We used AI to transcribe and summarise our Must Watch feature. This article was then written and reviewed by a BBC journalist. More on how the BBC uses AI.