A writer since her childhood introduction to Shel Silverstein, Marni adores film, cats, Brits, and the Oxford comma. She studied screenwriting and has written movie, TV, and pop culture reviews. Find her on Instagram and BlueSky.
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Early into HBO’s new raw and worthwhile dramedy, Rain Dogs, Selby (Jack Farthing) uses the phrase “poverty voyeur” to characterize the date who just showed up for main character Costello Jones (Daisy May Cooper). In lesser hands, it felt like that could have easily described this show’s audience,
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We start the finale of Guilt where we left off at the end of the last episode, with Maggie, Jake, and Max in a warehouse. Maggie delivers a lovely monologue about family, with a flashback to Jake and Max parting ways before the elder McCall got arrested. Maggie said it
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The penultimate episode of Guilt Season 2 picks up with Max and Erin glossing over the previous evening and moving straight to bringing down Roy Lynch. Max talks to Roy about working on Phoenix while Erin tells her mother she’s leaving Edinburgh. Maggie admits she’s been meeting Roy
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The second episode of Guilt Season 2 opens with a flashback. At the Phoenix Estate Development, a young man presents a proposal for the New Leith project. He gets turned down because his projected costs are too high, but on his way past the building site, another bright idea occurs
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In Guilt Season 1, we met Edinburgh lawyer Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) and his brother Jake (Jamie Sives). It all began when Jake struck and killed an elderly pedestrian with Max's car. Desperate to avoid a scandal, Max insisted they carry the deceased pensioner back to his nearby
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After last week’s relatively straightforward mess, the second half of Guilt turns up the twistiness. Let’s start with a flashback, where Sheila learns Walter left his estate to her, except for his vinyl collection, which goes to his niece, but disorganized solicitor Henry McKinnon can’t locate her.
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Set in Edinburgh, Guilt starts with high-powered attorney Max McCall (Mark Bonnar) on his way home from a wedding reception driven by his younger brother Jake (Jamie Sives), neither in a state to be behind the wheel. Suddenly, a pedestrian appears in the middle of the street, and Jake