The Guest

Ria is down on her luck; she loses her cleaning job and has a leech of a boyfriend. However, her fortunes change when she meets the glamorous Fran, who takes her under her wing, offers her a job, and shows her a different life. Unfortunately, it ends in tragedy.

This is a quality drama. If you haven't seen it, I urge you to do so quickly; make it a priority. This is well worth a couple of hours of your time.

It's perhaps a little slow to start; it takes time. But when it does, you'll be gripped; storytelling at its very best. It's intense, it's gripping, and it's such a captivating mystery.

The acting is superb; Eve Myles and Gabrielle Creevy are equally brilliant. The pair plays their parts superbly well. In my opinion, Eve tops her performance in Keeping Faith.

Incredibly location work, especially the magic of Rhossili; it looks sublime.

I'm up for more BBC Wales dramas; this is yet another belter!

9/10.

Is this an amazing live changing show? No. But it's not trying to be. This is a good story that I could see being a 500 page beach book that is only designed to be a distraction. Eve Myles and Gabrielle Creevy were brilliant as the two main characters (especially Myles who I find excellent in everything I see her in), while some characters were forgettable like every show. Some of the story doesn't make sense when you examine it closely and some decisions the characters make are obviously made just to drive the plot forward but I honestly don't understand why people are disappointed that a 4 episode series isn't a flawless award worthy piece of art. Just accept things for what they are and move on.

An enjoyable thriller which moves at an agreeable pace. Eva Myles is a great watch and looks like she's having the time of her life in a succession of glamorous outfits as a wealthy business woman with dark secrets. There's a few events that stretch credulity but mostly you're happy to glide over those for the overall reward. However, without spoiler, I can't reconcile how a character, who proves ultimately to have been involved in the whole nefarious business that's going on, should go off the deep end with catastrophic outcomes when he finds out the girl he's dating is not who she pretends to be?

The best drama/thriller I have seen on BBC in a good while.

* Excellent acting from all the main characters.

* Fantastic locations - and unlike some of Netflix's series where the lavish settings feel like they only did it because they had a massive budget to blow, they make sense here.

* hooray, a story that hasn't already been shown endlessly already, which zips along and keeps you guessing, gripped, and builds genuine tension. Is it improbable - yes sure. Does it matter - no, you're too busy trying to figure out the plot and stressing over what might happen next...

One would expect a BBC series to uphold its reputation for pragmatic storytelling...at the very least. Instead, the script felt like a discarded draft from a second rate AI platform, riddled with synthetic pacing and hollow dialogue.

The first episode teased genuine suspense, only to collapse into a clumsy, incoherent mess that played more like a production mishap than a narrative arc.