“Guilt” is a series that had potential to be an entertaining and captivating mystery drama series, but by trying to incorporate too much, the series ends up being too farfetched for its own good. “Guilt: Season One” is entertaining but a series with lost potential.
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DVD TITLE: Guilt: Season One
YEAR OF FILM: 2016
DURATION: 10 Episodes (420 Minutes)
DVD INFORMATION: 1:78:1 Widescreen Presentation, English 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio, Subtitles: English, English SDH, French
COMPANY: Lions Gate
RATED: Not Rated
AVAILABLE ON: October 18, 2016
Created by Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
Directed by Larry Shaw, Mairzee Almas, Gary Fleder, Elizabeth Allen Rosenblaum
Written by Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price, Tegan Shohet, Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer, Shaina Fewell, Fredrick,Kotto, Bryan Q Miller, Nelson Soler, Elle Triedman
Produced by Suzanne Reid, Gideo Amir
Co-Producer: Shaina Fewell, Kari Hobson, Gerry Gavigan
Executive Produced by Stephen McPherson, Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price, Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer
Co-Executive Producer: Elle Triedman, Ildiko Kemeny, David Minkowski
Music by Daniel Licht
Cinematography by Theo van de Sande
Edited by Anthony Pinker, Kevin hale, Jason Hellmann
Production Design by Laszlo Rajk
Art Direction by Monika Esztan
Set Decoration by Rebecca Gillies
Costume Design by Sam Perry, Peggy Stamper
Starring:
Daisy Head as Grace Atwood
Emily Tremaine as Natalie Atwood
Cristian Solimeno as Detective Sergeant Alex Bruno
Naomi Ryan as Gwendolyn Hall
Simona Brown as Roz Walters
Zachary Fall as Luc Pascal
Kevin Ryan as Patrick Ryan
Sam Cassidy as Prince Theo
Billy Zane as Stan Gutterie
Robbie Gee as DCI Pike
Amber Jean Rowan as Kaley
When a young woman is brutally murdered in her London flat, the search for her killer leads to scandal and intrigue stretching all the way from underground sex clubs to the highest levels of the Royal family.
In June 2016, the first season of “Guilt”, a British/American mystery drama aired on Freeform.
Created by Kathryn Price (“The Game Plan”, “The Mole”, “Fallen”) and Nichole Millard (“The Game Plan”, “Fallen”), the series stars Daisy Head (“The Last Seven”, “Underworld: Blood Wars”, “When Calls the Heart”), Emily Tremaine (“Vinyl”, “The Blacklist”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”), Cristian Solimeno (“Rush”, “Mother of Tears”, “Highlander: The Source”), Naomi Ryan (“Guardians of the Galaxy”, “Honeytrap”, “Mile High”), Simona Brown (“Man Up”, “Murdered by My Boyfriend”, “The Night Manager”), Zachary Fall (“Allies”, “Margo Learns French”), Kevin Ryan (“Copper”, “Laredo”, “Paddy’s in the Boot”), Sam Cassidy (“Yeti”, “Stella”) and Billy Zane (“Titanic”, “Back to the Future” films, “The Phantom”).
And now “Guilt: Season One” will be available on DVD courtesy of Lions Gate.
The series begins with Grace Atwood (portrayed by Daisy Head), an American student in London and her roommate Molly Ryan (portrayed by Rebekah Wainwright) having a party at their flat.
While Grace is with her boyfriend Luc Pascal (portrayed by Zachary Fall), Molly is drunk and enters her room and is murdered.
The following day, Grace, Luc and her other roommate Roz Walters (portrayed by Simona Brown) discover the body of Molly. Immediately, Grace and Luc become the prime suspects.
We are then introduced to Boston-based Assistant Direct Attorney Natalie Atwood (portrayed by Emily Tremaine) who is brilliant at her job. She receives a call about her sister and leaves to London immediately.
Pursuing the case is D.S. Alex Bruno (portrayed by Cristian Solimeno) who is the lead investigator, along with crown prosecutor Gwendolyn Hall (portrayed by Naomi Ryan) who are trying to find out if Grace and Luc killed Molly.
When Natalie arrives in London, she knows that Grace can’t possibly murder anyone. But when media and lawyers unearth video footage of Grace’s past, her affair and her argument/fight with Molly, Natalie tries to keep the faith that Grace didn’t, but Grace’s actions make her seem guilty.
Meanwhile, Grace and Natalie’s father James (portrayed by Anthony Head) has hired notorious lawyer Stan Gutterie (portrayed by Billy Zane) to represent Grace.
Also, Molly’s older brother Patrick Ryan (portrayed by Kevin Ryan) wants retribution for Molly’s death and Prince Theo, a member of the British Royal Family may have a connection with Molly.
As the media start to point the finger at Grace, can Natalie and investigators find a way to prove that Molly is innocent.
Who really murdered Molly?
VIDEO & AUDIO:
“Guilt: Season One” is presented in 1:78:1 widescreen presentation and in English 5.1 Dolby Digital. Picture quality and audio quality is as good as it can get on DVD. The series features crystal clear dialogue and music and surround channels are primarily for ambiance.
Subtitles are in English SDH..
SPECIAL FEATURES:
“Guilt: Season One” comes the following special features:
- “Guilt”: Sex, Sin & Scandal – (8:13) The themes for “Guilt”, featuring interviews with cast and crew.
- Deleted Scenes – (7:48) featuring deleted scenes from the series.
EXTRAS:
“Guilt: Season One” comes an UltraViolet digital code.
Upon watching the first episode of “Guilt”, one may find themselves thinking of the Amanda Knox case and the death of Meredith Kercher.
But as the show progresses, “Guilt” becomes a series that involves conspiracies, royalty, family out for revenge, a media circus, crooked lawyers, bad parenting, and a convoluted story of too much deviations from the original plot, many characters while trying to remain hip and cool for the audience.
While the series takes a long time to answer the question of “Who is responsible for a major murder?”.
As the series starts off with pointing the finger on Grace Atwood, the problem is that the story gets away from that plot and tries to introduce others that may be involved and one of the primary characters, Boston-based assistant D.A., Natalie sees her role minimized unfortunately due to writers wanting to incorporate other key players.
Also, another problem is that the character Grace is hardheaded and does so many ridiculous things that writers tried to incorporate characters that have their own problematic issues that the storyline strays away too much for its own good.
I lost faith in Grace’s character (and other characters) by the end of the series, so much that I didn’t care if she was guilty or not. And focusing on characters Natalie Atwood (portrayed by Emily Tremaine), detective sergeant Alex Bruno (portrayed by Cristian Solimeno) or even Stan Gutterie (portrayed Billy Zane) would have made a more interesting storyline, but then it would be a bit banal and too similar to American mystery drama series.
Overall, “Guilt” is a series that had potential to be an entertaining and captivating mystery drama series, but by trying to incorporate too much, the series ends up being too farfetched for its own good.
“Guilt: Season One” is entertaining but a series with lost potential.
