He was one of the few people near her age that could relate to being a child star and could trust that what was said between them wouldn't be leaked to the media.

I worked at a national clothing chain back in the 80s. This was before UPC/SKU tags became commonplace. Days before an advertised sale, we'd pull the sale items and reticket to them to a higher price, then put them back out the morning of the sale.

Only watched the first episode, but yeah, the writing is incredibly bad so far. The characters' actions are really questionable. Makes the MI5 counterparts in Slow Horses seem extremely professional in comparison and they're supposed to be fuckups. The "x amount of time earlier" flashback thing in the beginning already had me rolling my eyes. It's so overused.