Under the Boss: a first day that skips the onboarding

What happens in Under the Boss

Under the Boss shows its office through the boss's eyes, and two women fill his first half minute. His PA has one thing on her mind: the Thursday dinner reservation still stands, and perhaps the two of them could use it. Harriet, the new temp, is clutching a black binder nearby, and her own thoughts are not kind to her. The staff look like models to her and the boss is, in her words, bloody gorgeous, so she has already decided that a big girl like her is invisible to him.

She is wrong within seconds. He calls Harriet pretty before the PA has finished filing her away as 20 and new today, and his assistant has to ask him to repeat it. He welcomes Harriet himself, and she admits to admiring him before correcting herself until the admiration belongs to the company; he lets her know the first version suited him fine. When the PA throws a nine o'clock meeting and the paperwork at him, he waves it all off and offers to show Harriet "where the bodies are kept."

A fling with a rival at the next desk

The tour ends up in a stockroom. In episode 2 Harriet stands among shelves of folded white stock in a hoodie with the firm's wealth management logo, her fingers wrapped around a man's hand. From there the boss's interest turns into obsession and the affair starts in secret, while the PA, passed over for a temp on her first day, puts her talent for running his life into ending it. How far she gets is for the locked episodes to answer, and the last of them hands you to a chat with Harriet.

Harriet Seagrave and her rival

Harriet Seagrave comes from Candy.ai's own roster rather than the creator program, and she leads three more series, among them Every Wife on Candy Lane. Here she is all nerves and honesty, funniest when her mouth outruns her plan. The boss stays mostly behind the camera, smooth and amused, so the women talk to you as much as to him. His PA has no name yet, but she has the most to lose: a boss whose diary she runs and a dinner she hoped to share.

Is Under the Boss explicit?

Under the Boss is not on our explicitness scale yet, and a level we have not checked would be worth little to you. The free pair offers a greeting on the office floor and a close moment in the stockroom, and the affair itself plays out after the lock, in episodes 3 to 5. That makes the free episodes a fair test of the tone rather than of the heat. For how much the catalog shows before and after the lock, see our Candy Shorts nudity guide.

Watching it: free episodes and tokens

Harriet's first day plays for any guest on Candy.ai, login or not, and the stockroom episode is yours after you register for free, still without spending a token. From episode 3 the price is 12 tokens per lock, so finishing takes 36 tokens with Premium, a little over a third of the plan's monthly allowance of 100 (as of October 2026). Under the Boss is one of 14 open series with dubbed voices, in five European languages besides English. Our free episodes guide walks you through registering.

Our take

One short episode is enough to give the triangle its shape, and the script is kind to Harriet, turning her most mortifying sentence into the reason the boss gives her a personal tour. The weakness is length: five short episodes leave little room for an affair and a sabotage campaign to build and pay off. It suits viewers who like office romance played for nerves and laughs. Every Wife on Candy Lane moves Harriet to a quiet suburban street, in a series we rate 3.