The series leans right due to its central solution: the protagonist embraces and masters a criminal enterprise through individual cunning and ruthlessness, rather than seeking systemic change or moral escape, emphasizing self-reliance and power consolidation over external authority.

The series features a cast with visible diversity, though without explicit racial or gender recasting of traditionally white roles. Its narrative primarily focuses on crime and power dynamics within the British aristocracy and underworld, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities or making DEI themes central to the plot.