Guilt (TV Series) Episode #1.1 (2019) User Reviews

Poor Walter.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 25 November 2019]

Guilt starts off on some style, it's a comedy drama thriller, it dares to be different. The opening is very different, very much black comedy. I've seen a few mention Tutti Frutti, I'm seeing parallels more so with the likes of Stag, that kind of black dramedy.

Jamie Sives and Mark Bonnar are terrific in this. I always thought highly of Bonnar, until Summer of Rockets earlier in this year, where I discovered he's actually amazing. He shows here he can do comedy with ease, I loved his sarcasm.

I was into it after the first few minutes, great fun. 8/10

Great series

[Vindelander · 8/10 · 14 October 2021]

Fantastic series. I'm writing this having watched all of series 1 and highly recommend it. Fabulous cast, great plot and superb production.

We could do with more like this.

Well Set Up

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 6 September 2022]

I see that there is going to be a Season 3. While I really enjoyed the first episode, I'd better get myself used to the fact that the same story is going to go on and on. Season 2 is on the PBS station where I live right now. Things are set up very well. The running over of the guy at the start is the inciting incident. Max is the devil here and Jake has no spine. It would seem that a little bit of thought could have gotten them off the hook. A lie like we thought we hit a deer last night and the car was damaged. Going back the next day would have led to enough confusion. But that was not to be. So the die is cast and the two brothers, one, a self centered lawyer, and the second a soft spoken record store owner, now have to figure ways to avoid suspicion. When the niece of the dead man shows up, she takes a liking to Jake, totally complicating things. Jake likes her too, but he ran over her uncle and is covering it up. There are also two third parties. Max got to know an investigator, who is a drunk, and who he puts on the case with hilarious results. He has a chance to reclaim his wasted life. And, finallyt,we are told there was a witness. And, instead of going back to Chicago, the female interest is staying because she smells a rat, and because she like Jake. This could be great fun.

Episode 1

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 20 November 2019]

I have seen comparisons of Guilt being made with John Byrne's Tutti Frutti. That really is big shoes to fill given the stars of that series were Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson.

The first episode does have elements of Scottish Noir mixed with the Coen brothers.

Two estranged brothers, Jake (Jamie Sives) and Max (Mark Bonnar) knock over an old man and kill him after driving back late at night from a wedding. Both of them had too much to drink and Max is worried about the effect on his career as a lawyer.

As they figure that no one has seen the incident, they decide to cover up the death and take the body back to his house.

However the meek record shop owner Jake feels guilty about his actions. He also left his wallet behind at the dead man's house. It later emerges that the victim had terminal cancer.

It really is a simple cover up that descends into chaos and both brothers that start to bicker and events get complicated.

The first episode of this black comedy drama showed promise. You just know it will get messy especially as Max is more aggressive and self centered.

Smiles from a morbid situation

[xmasdaybaby1966 · 7/10 · 13 May 2023]

There is a great cast here and, as a one off, thd farce would seem great maybe even stretching to a series but, knowing that there are at least another 1 series to follow, I believe e things might become rather tired and cumbersome at a later stage but let's review this for what it is.

There is humour here and characters you can believe in even if it's a big over the top but they are human and the sort of people that Joe public might know.

Yes, as the modern TV show it ticks the woke boxes with a black lesbian character whom, as yet at least, has no relevance to the story.

Enough interest to keep you watching.