The Guilty

Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.

The Guilty (2013) is a British three-part crime miniseries created for ITV by Hartswood Films. When a young child goes missing, the lives of everyone around the case are torn apart, and five years later detective chief inspector Maggie Brand (Tamsin Greig) leads a fresh investigation that threatens her own settled family life with husband Daniel Reid (Darren Boyd) and their household. Her working partner, detective sergeant Vinesh Roy (Arsher Ali), helps push the inquiry through a tangle of old statements, reopened witness accounts, and tense confrontations with superiors such as detective superintendent Alan Reece (Tom Beard). The engine of the story is the slow pressure of a cold case that refuses to stay buried, with each episode peeling back another layer of the families involved. Told in three hour-long episodes, the miniseries plays as a single continuing investigation rather than a case of the week. Its tone is sombre, tense, and emotionally raw, closer to the grief-heavy realism of Broadchurch and The Missing than to glossy genre fare. Fans of Broadchurch, The Missing and Happy Valley will find resonance in its patient, character-driven unease.

• Broadchurchslow burn missing child investigation, police procedural with personal fallout
• The MissingBritish crime drama, detective confronting family and past trauma, mystery structure
• Happy Valleyserialized British police mystery, detective drama centered on a child's disappearance and its emotional toll

Release Date

2013-09-05

Episode runtime

60 min

Rating

6.7 / 10 (23)

What is The Guilty about?

Five years after a young child vanishes, DCI Maggie Brand reopens the investigation and risks her own happy family life in the process.

What is The Guilty like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Guilty as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.

Is The Guilty violent?

Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Guilty as mild.

Which shows are like The Guilty?

Shows with a similar feel include Broadchurch, The Missing, and Happy Valley.

How long is The Guilty?

The Guilty: 1 season, 3 episodes.

Is The Guilty still running?

No, The Guilty has ended.

Where can I watch The Guilty?

In United States, The Guilty streams on Britbox Apple TV channel, BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel.