Industry is using Season 4’s midpoint to widen its map. Episode 5, “Eyes Without a Face,” shifted action to Accra and pushed the show’s fintech plot into the open after the streamer released the episode early on Max ahead of the Super Bowl, while keeping the linear HBO slot intact on Sunday night.
The hour centers on Kwabena Bannerman, played by Toheeb Jimoh, a new trader who has become Harper Stern’s closest ally inside the season’s high-risk play. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Jimoh described the episode as his character’s key pivot point, with Kwabena forced to choose between loyalty, leverage, and self-preservation as Harper’s campaign against the payments company Tender accelerates.
Tender, the season’s disruptive target, is tied to Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), a U.S. banking operator selling speed and scale to investors while quietly leaning on murkier practices. In Accra, Sweetpea Golightly and Kwabena follow the money and uncover bribery, inflated results, and corporate theater that threatens to collapse Tender’s story just as it tries to expand overseas.
The Ghana setting did not happen by accident. Mickey Down has said the choice carried personal weight because his mother is Ghanaian, while production used South Africa for practical reasons. The move lets the show test how its Pierpoint-era instincts play in markets that do not answer to London’s rules.
Season 4 exists because HBO renewed the series in September 2024, before the third-season finale aired, citing the show’s sharp look at ambition and class and crediting Down and Konrad Kay. Casting has supported the expansion: Jimoh joined ahead of the run, and Minghella has said he felt “genuine pressure” stepping into a fan favorite.
With three episodes left, HBO has not announced a Season 5 order. That leaves viewers watching a show that is already acting like a bigger, more international drama, even while its future remains officially undecided.
