“This is quite a weird way of saying, ‘garnering attraction’ from a rival to the point where they might pay for your services to leave the bank and go somewhere else,” says Kay. “At the end of episode six, [someone] says, ‘Do you think we’re a bid away?’ which means, ‘Do you think we, as a team, are worth enough for you to pay for our services to leave.
This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.“That’s prime financial gibberish from season one,” Kay laughs. “I think it’s a technical term about the price of an option over time, but I have literally no idea what it means beyond that.”
“That’s a specific bit of jargon that is actually meant to be unintelligible because it’s the first bit of jargon you hear in the show, and it’s the first bit that Harper hears,” adds Down. “It’s meant to sort of throw you, and make you think, ‘Okay, I’m seeing the world through Harper’s eyes and I’m understanding this as little as she is.’ The problem then is that we have unintelligible finance dialogue which we expect the audience to understand.
"So, these telehealth/medicine businesses did quite well during the pandemic because everyone was working remotely and the wider story for conception was that Amazon, in order to get a foot in the telehealth business, wanted to buy up the locations of FastAide stores – similar to Boots or Superdrug – and put their technology in them. They wanted a physical location for their technology rollout, whereas Rican was a fully remote surface.