Matt Skaife

First off, I understand that, like any other addiction, gambling wrecks lives and you cannot rationalise someone's behaviour as they have an illness. That said, at least be good at it. By that I mean, gamble on something that might actually work - this woman just swings from buying 50 scratch cards, to placing everything on Red on the roulette wheel. She can't have been gambling long to think either of those methods are ever going to work. Then there's the reaction to winning or losing. It's simply ridiculous, like she's won a lolly pop at a carnival coconut shy or been told Disney aren't making another Lion King. And then there's the holes in the plot. At the end she shorts on shares owned by a man just sent down for insider trading. As if the Police and FCA wouldn't be sniffing around that sort of activity... and Sam, being Sam, boldly declares on the £16k windfall (not cleaning up, they had £6k to put down and you'd get a better windfall betting on Palace to beat Burnley away on a Saturday), "sorry ladies, I have something I want to do with this cash". She means pay off the bailiff, although I'm not sure why she thinks that's her cash, she didn't even put the £6k in - her mate did. This is a central theme, she just magically takes people's money and never returns it and manages to stay friends with them. That poor guy who she stole £1500 from and had the audacity to tell him he had crossed a line for advising that theft from people in front of her kids might not set an example? He didn't call you a skank, he gave you sound advice after you stole his cash he lent you! Unbelievable. These comments do not even scratch the surface of the idiocy in the writing, the terrible acting across the board, and yet I watched 6 episodes of it. There's obviously method to this madness. Fair play.