BBC's The Guest grips viewers just minutes into first episode

BBC's The Guest grips viewers just minutes into first episode

Viewers of The Guest on BBC One all expressed the same reactions within moments of the opening episode of this gripping new thriller series starring Doctor Who favourite Eve Myles.

Shot and situated in Wales, the four-part drama centers on the poisonous dynamic between business proprietor Fran and her domestic help, Ria.

The women's existences become perilously entangled through mutual secrets and a compulsive interdependence. Their bond also turns menacing and controlling, characterised as a "psychological game of cat-and-mouse".

The duo's circumstances could hardly be more contrasting, with cleaner Ria residing alongside her unemployed partner, struggling to survive financially. By contrast, Fran is a magnetic entrepre