Director: J Blakeson
A heist crew scattered across ordinary lives gets pulled back together when someone starts hunting them down one by one in Culprits.
What is Culprits about?
Years after pulling off a job together, a group of former accomplices has settled into new identities, quiet routines, and families who know nothing about their past. That fragile peace breaks when a mysterious figure begins tracking each of them and picking them off, forcing old partners who'd rather never see each other again to work out who's behind it before they run out of time. The series jumps between the present-day threat and the original heist that bound the group together, gradually filling in why the job went the way it did and who might have a reason to come back for revenge. Told across shifting timelines and countries, it leans into slow-burn suspense over flashy action, spending as much time on the group's fractured trust as on the mystery of the pursuer's identity.
Cast & crew
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett plays the family man at the story's center, with Gemma Arterton and Eddie Izzard rounding out a cast that spans the crew's various new lives across different countries. Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Niamh Algar, and Kamel El Basha take on other members of the original group, while Ned Dennehy appears in a supporting role tied to the case. The ensemble is deliberately international, matching a plot that scatters its characters far from where they started.
Context & significance
Writer-director J Blakeson, known for tightly plotted crime thrillers, built the show around a nonlinear structure that keeps revealing pieces of the original heist only when they matter to the present-day chase. Rather than a single crime-scene mystery, it plays more like a slow unraveling of a found family under threat, with the heist itself functioning as the emotional debt everyone in the group is still paying off.
Where & how to watch
Culprits is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Persian subtitles, and the whole viewing experience, from menus to episode descriptions, is presented in Farsi. Signing in with a free K-Time account is all that's required to start the series, and anyone can browse its episode details before deciding to log in and watch.