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‘My Fault: London’ Review: A Tasteless English-Language Adaptation of Tawdry Teen Lit
An American girl moves to London and meets her match in a bad boy stepsibling in 'My Fault: London,' Amazon's reductive remake of a popular Wattpad series.
The Wattpad fiction’s original Spanish adaptation of the same name, which debuted on Prime Video in 2023, seemingly fits the definition of a “guilty pleasure,” making audiences cringe as non-blood related stepsiblings challenge puritanical social mores with their embarrassingly toxic, borderline incestuous courtship. Marking their directorial debut, Charlotte Fassler and Dani Girdwood (the duo also goes by “Similar but Different”) demonstrate visual dexterity within the propulsive action sequences, yet fail to avoid the lazy, clichéd pitfalls of the pre-existing narrative. Writer Melissa Osborne does what she can to polish the narrative’s more regressive aspects (like the fairy tale nature of Noah’s glow-up, and her attraction to the bad boy due to her deep-seated psychological issues), adding in self-aware humor to poke fun at the problematic parts.
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