Your Fault: London
Directed by Dani Girdwood, Charlotte Fassler · Asha Banks, Matthew Broome, Louisa Binder
Romance Drama · 2026-06-17
“The same toxic romance you already streamed once, now with a British accent and an Oxford postcode.”
Your Fault: London arrives on Prime Video as the second instalment of an English language remake of Mercedes Ron's Culpables trilogy, which is a long way of saying it is a remake of a feeling you have had before. Asha Banks and Matthew Broome return as Noah and Nick, stronger, closer and more in love than ever, which in this genre is movie code for about to be miserable for ninety minutes.
The plot machinery is exactly what you expect. Noah heads to Oxford, Nick gets swallowed by work, distance does what distance does, and the brooding stares pile up like unpaid parking tickets. Critics landed on the same verdict, that the remake rarely offers anything new beyond a change in language and setting, the same toxic romance just with British accents. When your kindest review calls you addictive if not always convincing, you have made television, not cinema.
Here is the thing, and it is not entirely an insult. This glossy, melodramatic, doom scrolling kind of romance is engineered to be watched in one sitting with your thumb hovering over the next button, and on that narrow brief it works. It is comfort food that knows it is comfort food. The problem is it had a chance to say something real about two people growing in different directions, and instead it just turned up the lighting and the longing.
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Asha Banks and Matthew Broome have the chemistry the whole thing rests on, and they deliver it.
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It is slickly produced, easy to watch, and built for a one sitting binge.
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The London and Oxford backdrops give the romance a real postcard polish.
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It knows its audience precisely and never pretends to be anything loftier.
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It offers almost nothing new beyond swapping the original's language and setting.
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The toxic on off romance formula is recycled wholesale rather than examined.
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The Oxford and work subplot is a tension generator, not an actual story.
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It keeps mistaking brooding and longing for genuine character development.
Fans of the My Fault films and anyone who wants a glossy, bingeable melodrama to disappear into for an evening.
Viewers who want a romance with something fresh to say, or who find the toxic on off formula more exhausting than swoony.
Prime Video sold this on the built in fandom of the first film and the promise of more Noah and Nick, which is smart, because the marketing never once pretended this was reinventing the genre. The trailer is all yearning looks and a moody needle drop, and it delivers exactly that, no more and no less.
Your website, CV, or whatever you made. I'll roast that too.
A full teardown from €2,99. No mercy.