Your Fault: London review – This slightly icky teen drama-romance is a charmless slog
There’s clearly a fanbase for this series, which appears to be essentially critic-proof.
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- Rosie Fletcher
Published: Wednesday, 17 June 2026 at 11:00 am
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A star rating of 2 out of 5.
Non-blood-related step siblings in love is the hook of this slightly icky teen drama-romance which is a sequel to 2025’s My Fault: London, itself a remake of the first part of the Spanish My Fault trilogy, based on the novel by Mercedes Ron.
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There’s clearly a fanbase for this series – the Spanish version absolutely killed it in terms of viewing figures when it was released, becoming the most watched film on Amazon in 2023. The new film is directed by Charlotte Fassler and Dani Girdwood who both have a background in music videos, and it’s notable for the needle drops here, but this glossy nonsense really is just best consumed as vacuous background noise.
The central characters are Florida-based Noah (Asha Banks) who moves to London when her mother marries the wealthy father of Nick (Matthew Broome). The step siblings fight initially but soon that friction turns to attraction.
In Your Fault: London the two are together but keeping this from their families. No wonder – both Nick’s dad and Noah’s mum come across as terrible people who don’t give a fig about their kids, though in terms of this romance, they do have a point.
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Not so much will-they, won’t-they but more will-they won’t-they survive the challenges of a secret and taboo relationship and will they manage to stay together, the stakes are very low here. Noah has gone to Oxford University to study fast cars (or something) and is rooming next door to Briar (Scarlett Rayner) while Nick is a top exec in his dad’s firm.
While apart, Noah forms a bond with sweet and lovely second year Michael (Joel Nankervis) while Nick hangs out with posh girl colleague Sophia (Louisa Binder) who is good at tennis and golf and whom their parents approve of more than, you know, dating your step sister.
Meanwhile, Nick’s bestie, Lion (Kerim Hassan), is in financial trouble and bets his boxing gym on Nick competing in one last race. Though the plot here is utterly ludicrous, the scenes of Fast and Furious-style street racing are a welcome break from the mawkish melodrama. Noah, as she was in the first film, is a petrol-head and Nick has a new motorbike so the driving scenes bring much needed action and a tiny bit of peril.
This is fluffy escapism but the problem is that Nick is controlling, violent and deceitful so it’s very difficult to relate to the couple. The side plot of Lion and Jenna’s (Enva Lewis) troubles take a back seat to Nick’s jealousy and Noah’s disappointment and it’s very hard to care about anyone.
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This kind of toxic masculinity feels very outdated and that’s touched on via Briar, though her own subplot rather dilutes the issue here. Ultimately it’ll be up to the third part of the trilogy to tie up the loose ends – Your Fault: London ends on what would be a cliffhanger if you were actually invested in this relationship.
In terms of annoyingness, it’s on a par with Emily in Paris at its worst, but without the campy self-awareness of that show. But then Your Fault: London is a part of a series that appears to be essentially critic-proof.
The cast are game and attractive, the clothes and settings are fancy and the characters are talented and rich (except when they’re not – see poor old Lion’s throwaway sub-plot which Nick ultimately fixes by throwing money at it).
But then the story is basically irrelevant. This is wish fulfilment and escapism with a bit of off-putting-if-you-think-about-it sex, which fetishises jealousy and possessiveness as if they were synonymous with love. A charmless slog.
Your Fault: London is released on Prime Video on Wednesday 17 June 2026.
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