Sheridan Smith Leads Cleaning Up to Prime Video With Six Episodes
Sheridan Smith is back in Cleaning Up, and all six episodes of the six-part crime drama are now available to stream on Prime Video. The 2019 ITV series gives viewers a compact binge: one season, one central pressure point, and a lead performance built around a character who keeps making worse choices for reasons that are easy to follow.
Sam and the stock tip
Smith plays Sam, a struggling single mother in London who works as a cleaner and is also a recovering gambling addict. In the job, she gets access to potentially lucrative stock market information and tries to use it to make money, while huge gambling debts and a custody fight over her two daughters keep closing in.
The setup is a clean crime-drama engine. Sam is not chasing power for its own sake; she is chasing money because the bills are already ahead of her, and the show keeps that pressure tied to work, home, and debt rather than treating it like a generic thriller premise.
Sheridan Smith on Sam
Smith described Sam as “She’s someone you immediately fall in love with: massively flawed, but you’re on her side. Morally there’s a lot she does wrong,” and added, “but it’s for her family – she doesn’t want to lose her girls and her house.” She also said, “She’s got a gambling head on her, so might get that big win,” and, “And there are these big rich companies cheating – why should they get away with it, and not some poor cleaner?”
Those lines do the work of the series itself: Sam is written as a character whose worst instincts are tied to survival, not detachment. That makes Cleaning Up a better fit for viewers who want a short, character-driven crime drama than for anyone looking for a long-form procedural.
Prime Video now
The 2019 release date matters here because this is not a new commission or a sequel push; it is a catalogue addition that makes an older Sheridan Smith title easy to find and finish in one sitting. For anyone deciding what to watch next, the practical answer is simple: all six episodes are live now on Prime Video, and the series is built for a quick run rather than a slow investment.
Smith also appears in Care on Netflix and The Cage on iPlayer, but Cleaning Up is the one with the most immediate binge value: six episodes, one lead role, and a premise that turns ordinary work into a money problem with a deadline.
