The Guest – Series Review | Netflix

THE GUEST on Netflix is a Colombian psychological thriller series about revenge (org. title: La huésped). It’s both steamy, soapy, mysterious, and very dramatic. With 20 episodes, it also runs on for too long. Read our The Guest series review here!

THE GUEST is a new Netflix series from Colombia. It has 20 episodes in the season, and we’re not talking short, crisp episodes either. No, we’re getting episodes in the 40-50 minute runtime range.

If you fall for this thriller series full of drama and revenge, then there’s plenty to look forward to. However, if that isn’t your cup of tea, then one episode may be enough to realize that.

Continue reading our Netflix series The Guest review here. Find it on Netflix from September 24, 2025.

From crisis to drama – and revenge

With The Guest, the story opens with the suicide of a marriage counselor. Then we meet the couple, who are at the center of the plot in this Netflix series from Colombia.

Lorenzo is a candidate for Attorney General, but also has a marriage in crisis, and their daughter, Isabela, is struggling with a methamphetamine addiction. Life is not easy, so the death of a therapist is just another bump in the road.

For his wife, Silvia, things haven’t been easy either. Their marriage troubles are rooted in Lorenzo’s infidelity, which he just wants to leave behind. All in the name of their love and to focus on the future, of course.

Soon, they will be challenged not only in their marriage or career, but will be faced with someone who wants to do real harm. The kind that someone who wants revenge dreams of.

The steamy and psychological avenger

One night, the married couple gets an unexpected visit from Sonia. This is a woman, Silvia met weeks earlier on a solo trip. Sonia shows up in a rain-soaked T-shirt late one night, and both husband and wife are clearly surprised… and intrigued.

This is clearly meant as an entertaining and somewhat soapy psychological thriller with a heavy focus on steamy scenes and dreams of revenge.

The latter is the main goal of Sonia, who believes someone to be the reason for all her pain and wants revenge to feel better. Before Sonia can complete her mission, she builds both an emotional and a physical bond with the family.

All with one goal in mind: To destroy the family from within!

Watch The Guest series on Netflix now

The Guest was created & written by Dario Vanegas and Lina Uribe (La Reina del Sur), with Clara María Ochoa as the showrunner. Directors of the 20 episodes in the series are Klych López (The Accident) and Israel Sánchez Vargas.

From the second I realized that this would be a 20-episode series, I was fairly certain this wouldn’t be my new guilty pleasure. Look, I am as entertained by a psychological and steamy thriller as the next, but not at any cost.

For further examples of me needing more (much more) from my entertainment, see our Compulsion review here >

With The Guest (org. title: La Huesped), you’ll have a fairly good idea of what to expect from watching the trailer or even just reading the plot. So, if you decide to give this a shot, don’t expect innovative or intelligent plots.

I don’t mean to hate on this show, but it is what it is. Nothing more, and nothing less either. This is not my cup of tea, but I didn’t expect it to be. I do, however, think there’s a huge audience for this kind of Netflix series, so it could be a hit.

The Guest is on Netflix (all 20 episodes) from September 24, 2025.

Details

Created & written by: Dario Vanegas, Lina Uribe
Showrunner: Clara María Ochoa
Directors: Klych López, Israel Sánchez Vargas
Cast: Carmen Villalobos, Laura Londoño, Jason Day, Victor Mallarino, Juan Fernando Sánchez, Margarita Muñoz, Jairo Camargo, Miguel González, Ariel Sierra, Kamila Zea, Alejandro Del Castillo, Andrés Suárez, Rami Herrera, Brayan Zorrilla, Laura García, Katherine Vélez, Johan Martínez, Álvaro García, Manuel Álvarez, Nathaly Cadavid