# Culprits (2023)

> A family man's buried heist past resurfaces when a killer starts hunting his former crew, forcing him back to London.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/124497

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 54 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, thriller
- Created by: J Blakeson
- Network: Disney+
- Cast: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Kevin Vidal, Gemma Arterton, Ned Dennehy, Niamh Algar, Tara Abboud, Jayden Kirton
- TMDB rating: 6.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14531774/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, paranoid, bleak, propulsive

## What critics say

Audiences rate the miniseries as mixed, with a solid season one that delivers tense crime plotting and a strong ensemble.

## Synopsis

Culprits (2023) is a British crime thriller miniseries created by J Blakeson for Disney+. Nathan Stewart-Jarrett plays Joe Petrus, a family man living a comfortable American-style life with his fiancé and step-children, whose carefully buried past catches up with him when a killer begins targeting the members of the crew he once served with. Gemma Arterton and Niamh Algar appear among the principal players of that old crew, whose members each carry their own skills and their own secrets. The engine of the story is Joe's race to find out who is coming after them before his family is pulled into the violence, which means returning to London, reopening old loyalties and confronting a past he has tried to leave behind. The eight episodes form one continuous, tightly plotted story rather than standalone cases, with each installment tightening the pressure around the crew. The tone is tense and paranoid, with a bleak undercurrent of guilt and consequence, and the mood is driven by suspicion inside the group as much as by the external threat. Fans of Money Heist, Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty will find resonance in its crime-driven plotting and morally compromised characters. Its single-season, self-contained run gives it the shape of a compact limited thriller.

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