Jun 20, 2026 5:00pm IST
‘Your Fault: London’ Review: This Grown-Up but Less Sizzling British Cousin has a Good Twist Up Its Sleeve
The Spanish films in the Culpables franchise on Prime Video, based on Mercedes Ron’s YA (young adult) book trilogy, have a devoted fandom. And so does its English adaptation, headlined by Asha Banks and Matthew Broome. So which one’s superior? The recently arrived second installment of the latter, “Your Fault: London,” proves that while it may be a trifle more mature and less toxic, the chemistry and sizzle of the Spanish original has its own pull.
“Your Fault: London” follows the events at the end of “My Fault: London.” Step-siblings Nick (Broome) and Noah (Banks) are keeping their relationship a secret from their respective parents, William (Ray Fearon) and Ella (Eve Macklin), and everyone else. The only people who know about them are their friends, Lion (Kerrim Hassan) and Jenna (Enva Lewis). Post graduation, Noah gets into Oxford University and becomes friends with her dormmate, Briar (Scarlett Rayner), who, unbeknownst to Noah, has a grudge against Nick, her ex. Let the mind games begin.
Despite Nick’s veiled attempts to keep Briar away from Noah, the girls grow close, with Briar gently nudging Noah to dump Nick and date their charming classmate, Michael (Joel Nankervis). Meanwhile, Nick gets a stunning new colleague, Sophia, and their proximity sparks more tensions between him and Noah. The distance, the external sabotage and their own emotional insecurities put Nick and Noah’s relationship through quite the wringer.
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Considering there’s a real thirst for YA titles across the demographic, and the norm today is, “If something works, don’t change it, just replicate it,” the Culpables saga needn’t have experimented much within its parallel universes. And, at least in the first film, it doesn’t. “My Fault: London” ploughed on, powered by the chemistry between its lead pair. But in a surprising twist, “Your Fault: London”, directed by Dani Girdwood and Charlotte Fassler (who also directed the first film), deviates from “Culpa Tuya” in ways that change the flavor of the story.
For one, “Your Fault” looks fantastic, dresses its characters in cool outfits and feels more mature, as it cuts out a lot of the telenovela-style drama we see in the original trilogy. The British adaptation understands that Nick and Noah’s relationship is doomed on its own, because of their own unaddressed issues, without help from anyone else. And so the film doesn’t over-villainize Briar and Michael to the point of making them downright toxic to drive the wedge between the couple. Briar is manipulative but never threatening, and Michael isn’t problematic but a good friend who cares, even if he is relentless in his feelings for an already attached Noah.
In fact, most characters get to play in the grey with their motives and behaviors, including Lion, whose messy arc from the original film is avoided, and barely any screen time is given to his and Jenna’s relationship. “Your Fault: London” trims most of the extra bloat, including much of Nick and Sophia’s friendship, and the focus remains entirely on Nick and Noah’s relationship. Thankfully, the explosive and unnecessary arc involving Nick’s biological mother and sister from “Culpa Tuya” has no place in this iteration.
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The biggest improvement arrives in the film’s final scene, set to Lana Del Rey’s “Breaking Up Slowly” after Nick finds out about Noah’s betrayal, and it leads to a surprise cliffhanger that has the writer excited about what could happen next. It sets the film apart from its Spanish counterpart in a definitive way by suggesting that actions ought to have consequences.
Both Banks and Broome are excellent as Noah and Nick. Their ups and downs are those of a regular YA couple, and they also bring the heat. There’s a certain cockiness to their characters’ intimate scenes as opposed to the vulnerability and desperation that lace the ones with Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara in the Spanish original. And it’s really a matter of preference on which is one’s drug of choice (the latter, for this writer). That being said, “Culpa Tuya” does feel hotter, not only because it has more of these scenes but also because all the drama and high stakes just up the ante.
“Your Fault: London” traces the familiar path of its original with a few detours that actually work in its favor. But not taking the scenic route has its cons too; the demands of the genre’s audience might not be fully met. Nevertheless, viewers will be eager to watch what Nick’s fate at the end of the film does to his relationship with Noah in the third installment.
“Your Fault: London” is currently streaming on Prime Video.
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