In its second episode, “Guilty Party” attempts to pull a neat little meta trick of admitting its own wrongs through the mouth of a skeptical character. As disgraced journalist Beth (Kate Beckinsale) pitches a story about Toni (Jules Latimer), a young Black mother serving a life sentence for a crime she insists she didn’t commit, Beth’s young boss Amber (Madeleine Arthur) cocks a skeptical eyebrow. “I don’t know,” Amber says. “It sounds a bit ‘white savior-y’ to me.” Amber might be wary of any story that can’t be written in listicle format, but her instincts about Beth, at least, are spot on. In trying to restore her reputation after an unceremonious firing for fabricating a quote (a charge Beth vehemently denies), Beth clings to the idea of telling Toni’s story in such a way that everyone would have to admit that she is, in fact,...
- 10/14/2021
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
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