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The Blame(2026)

Also known as La Culpa

Archived · ITVX

6 eps
S01
DramaCrimeThriller
ON AIR: SEP 20Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Blame builds its crime drama around a specific, uncomfortable premise: two detectives fall in love during a murder investigation, and then one of them becomes a suspect. That shift turns every prior moment of closeness into potential evidence, and every professional decision into something that has to be re-examined. The pacing is slow and close, more interested in what people conceal from each other than in procedural momentum.

Guilt and desire end up occupying the same space here, which makes the central relationship genuinely hard to read. Loyalty that looked like love starts to look like obstruction; tenderness starts to look like motive. The show keeps returning to what each detective knew, when they knew it, and what they chose not to say, so the romantic history becomes its own kind of crime scene.

Best for

romantic crime, detective romance and Drama

Story lane

Drama and Crime

Commitment

Season 1 · 6 episodes

Where

ITVX

Official Premise

Two detectives fall in love while investigating a murder, until one becomes a suspect.

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