7.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Guest (2025)
The Guest (2025)
Overview
The Guest is a four-part British thriller miniseries directed by Ashley Way, focusing on the toxic relationship between Fran, a successful business owner played by Eve Myles, and her employee Ria, a cleaner portrayed by Gabrielle Creevy. Set and filmed in Wales, the story unfolds with escalating tensions and dark secrets.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Paramount+Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.9
Overview
The Guest is a four-part British thriller miniseries directed by Ashley Way, focusing on the toxic relationship between Fran, a successful business owner played by Eve Myles, and her employee Ria, a cleaner portrayed by Gabrielle Creevy. Set and filmed in Wales, the story unfolds with escalating tensions and dark secrets.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Paramount+Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The series centers on class disparities and power dynamics in the relationship between a wealthy businesswoman and her struggling employee, portraying wealth as both aspirational and manipulative without pushing for broader societal reform.
The series employs a predominantly white cast without racial recasting of roles and centers its narrative on class tensions between two women, avoiding critiques of white or male identities.
Secondary
The series depicts a central female friendship laced with homoerotic tension as part of its psychosexual thriller elements, treating such aspects incidentally without validation, critique, or centrality to queer themes.
The series questions traditional family norms by portraying childlessness as an empowering choice and subverting gender roles in partnerships, where women bear financial burdens and pursue individual ambitions over familial obligations.
No transgender characters or themes appear in the series. The narrative centers on a toxic relationship between a wealthy businesswoman and her cleaner, exploring psychological manipulation without addressing gender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Guest presents original characters in an original thriller narrative, with no adaptations or legacy roles involving gender changes.
The Guest is an original BBC thriller miniseries featuring newly created characters without prior canonical racial depictions in source material, adaptations, or historical records, so no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.6
7.0
Critic Ratings
10.0
N/A
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