Guilt Review: A Fall From Grace (Season 1 Episode 7)
“A Fall from Grace” features Grace falling to the ground after she stabs herself with her own shiv. Grace is certainly unpredictable, you gotta give her that.
Unfortunately, Grace isn’t interrogated at all during this installment of Guilt. Instead, we jump straight to prison. Honestly, the prison scenes are not the most entertaining thing in the world. I really don’t care about how Grace is surviving in there.
The only thing that Grace’s time in prison is good for is supporting the theory that Grace is a sociopath. Why else would she stab herself if there wasn’t something not okay in her head?
We all know that Grace has a tendency to mess around with the truth and with other people to get what she wants. It’s one of the reasons why it’s hard to believe anything that comes out of her mouth.
DS Bruno telling Natalie to wake up about Grace would have been a lot more impactful if the audience had the same view of Grace as Natalie. Instead, there’s more of a “yeah, yeah, we know this already” reaction. I am glad people are starting to wake up and not buy into Grace’s dramatics.
Still, it bothers me at how quickly Natalie turns on her sister. She doesn’t go to a halfway point where she is still clinging to hope that her sister isn’t a terrible human being. Natalie doesn’t sit down and replay everything Grace has said or done recently.
Nope, instead Natalie immediately believes Grace is guilty and a sociopath. She tells Stan she can’t help Grace anymore because Grace is a hundred percent guilty.
For me, it is too quick of a switch. It doesn’t feel believable. Maybe I’m putting too much of my relationship with my sister into this, but I feel like Natalie should have started off by doubting Grace or even admitting that yeah, Grace has a tendency to manipulate people.
Natalie should have maybe slowly started to accept the possibility that Grace did this because up until this point, she has maintained that Grace could never do this. Instead of jumping to the guilty psycho verdict, Natalie should have run through the evidence again or something to slow down her change in viewpoints.
Of course, you could argue that this happened when Natalie is drinking at the hotel bar, and we just jumped ahead to when Natalie concludes that Grace is guilty. We needed to see Natalie reach that conclusion.
What I really can’t seem to understand is why Natalie goes to Neville. She’s decided that Grace is guilty. Does she go to Neville for confirmation?
It comes across like Natalie still isn’t sure, or she’s trying to gather more information. This would be great if it didn’t follow Natalie’s drunken rants to Stan about how she’s basically done with Grace.
There should have been some scene in between the rant and going to Neville. Personally, it just doesn’t make sense why she would go to him asking about why he wanted to hurt Grace.
Also, considering where Neville is, shouldn’t Natalie be aware of the fact that Neville has some things he’s working through? I can’t think of the right way to phrase it, but it’s clear that Neville is in that ward because he has trouble showing interest and affection.
He only hurt Grace because she hurt him first. Grace said terrible things about him and ran away. I thought it was obvious that Neville didn’t harbor any ill will towards Grace. Also, Natalie was aware of that when she talked him down when he had the knife to Grace’s throat.
So, why does Natalie even ask him if he wanted to hurt Grace because she hurt Molly? It does not fit with what she knows, or what she should have been able to put together.
Suspect round up:
Prince Theo: Neville, aka the stalker with a perfect window into Molly’s apartment, IDs Prince Theo as the one who stabs Molly.
Roz: I don’t have anything super shady to point to, but Roz has shown that she will do whatever it takes to protect herself. If Molly had threatened Roz or the club in any way, I can see Roz killing her to keep her quiet.
Grace: She’s been arrested for the murder, which doesn’t look good. Is anyone actually believing that she doesn’t remember what happened the night of the murder when she went downstairs from the roof?
Finch: He might be off the hook! According to the cops, there’s footage of him soon after Molly’s killing, so soon that it would have been impossible for him to make it back from Molly’s flat that quickly. Also, it looks like Kaley kills him.
What did you think of this episode of Guilt? Is anyone else falling more and more in love with Charlotte, Prince Theo’s fiancé? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Guilt airs Monday at 9/8c on Freeform.
Allison Nichols
Allison is in a love affair with television that doesn't seem to be letting up anytime soon. Slightly damaged fictional characters are her weakness. She loves to spend her free time curled up with a cat and a show to binge-watch. Allison is a Tomatometer-approved critic (Rotten Tomatoes).