Director: Anna Symon
Sophie Turner steps well outside the fantasy-drama territory that made her famous for "Joan," a 2024 British limited series set among the jewelry heists and custody courts of London.
What is Joan about?
The premise follows a mother whose ambition collides with desperation once she is drawn into a glittering, high-stakes circle of jewel thieves. Each successful job buys her leverage in a custody fight for her daughter, but it also multiplies the risk hanging over her. Frank Dillane, Kirsty J. Curtis, Gershwyn Eustache Jr., and Tomi May fill out the circle of people she has to trust, deceive, or outrun as the series builds toward the moment when the two halves of her life can no longer stay separate. Rather than framing crime as pure spectacle, the show keeps returning to the domestic stakes underneath it, letting the heists escalate the emotional cost rather than replace it.
Cast & crew
Turner leads the ensemble opposite Frank Dillane, with Kirsty J. Curtis, Gershwyn Eustache Jr., and Tomi May in supporting roles that anchor the criminal and family sides of the story.
Context & significance
Director Anna Symon keeps the season to six episodes of roughly forty minutes, a length that favors momentum over sprawl. The show sits comfortably alongside other British crime dramas that use a single character's double life to hold the plot together, letting the custody-battle storyline give the heist sequences a reason to matter beyond the thrill of the job itself. London's contrast between its wealthy jewelry-district settings and the far more ordinary rooms where custody hearings play out gives the production a visual shorthand for the two worlds the lead character is trying to hold together.
Where & how to watch
"Joan" is available to stream on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so audiences can watch in Farsi from a free account login. The interface itself is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora, with no extra setup needed beyond signing in and pressing play.