Culprits is a slick heist thriller. The first episode is split between two distinct timelines, three years apart.
The NOW starts off with a masked killer killing a wealthy stuntman in front of his fast car in Italy.
Then there is Joe (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) dropping some kids off at school and going to an hardware store in Washington State that he has just purchased. Before a cop comes knocking on his door.
It is that Joe is not someone living a life of domestic bliss. He is muscle for underworld gangsters.
BEFORE he is hired by Dianne Harewood (Gemma Arterton) for a heist job. His codename is Muscle and he is told by Driver (the man who was executed) that it is all something out of a movie.
The first episode soon got tiring with the constant flashbacks. The pacing was slow and the slicing and dicing of the episode was just disguing all this.