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Nick Curtis

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Biography:

Nick Curtis is The Standard’s chief theatre critic, co-host of the Standard Theatre Podcast, a feature writer, and an award-winning interviewer. Although he has written predominantly for the Standard for three decades his work has also appeared in most major English newspapers and magazines from Radio Times to Tatler to GQ.

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Lockerbie: A Search for Truth: Season 1 (2025) 79% 3/5 EDIT “This is a thoroughly decent, even honourable attempt to remind us what the Lockerbie atrocity was, and why it matters that it remains unresolved.” – London Evening Standard Dec 28, 2024 Full Review Black Doves: Season 1 (2024) 92% 4/5 EDIT “It’s great, escapist fun and the wintry capital looks almost as gorgeous as Knightley’s sharpened, angular beauty and Whishaw’s elegant dishevelment. ” – London Evening Standard Dec 3, 2024 Full Review The Day of the Jackal: Season 1 (2024) 85% 4/5 EDIT “The parallel narrative, suggesting that the hunter and the hunter’s hunter are not so different -- both ruthless, both siloing off work and family life -- is effective if unoriginal.” – London Evening Standard Nov 7, 2024 Full Review Rivals: Season 1 (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “Rivals is gloriously trashy and arch, the epitome of guilty-pleasure TV, everyone smoking and smirking in between the schtupping.” – London Evening Standard Oct 8, 2024 Full Review A Very Royal Scandal: Season 1 (2024) 80% 2/5 EDIT “I’d crawl over harsh terrain to see Sheen and Wilson in just about anything. After "AVRS" I felt I had.” – London Evening Standard Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Frasier: Season 1 (2023) 61% 4/5 EDIT “It’s not breaking any new ground, but this reboot stays true to what made Frasier popular and funny, and manages to age the character and his concerns without jumping the shark. ” – London Evening Standard Oct 9, 2023 Full Review A Spy Among Friends: Season 1 (2022) 88% 3/5 EDIT “It’s all so po-faced that lighter moments feel shriekingly off-key. Terrific cast, disappointing material.” – London Evening Standard Nov 29, 2022 Full Review This England: Season 1 (2022) 41% 5/5 EDIT “The dialogue is necessarily sometimes a little on-the-nose, but it’s hard to fault the sheer scale, detail and damning moral thrust of this drama. ” – London Evening Standard Sep 30, 2022 Full Review The Suspect: Season 1 (2022) 67% 3/5 EDIT “It’s diverting enough, and I imagine Turner’s beard will develop a fervent online following to rival that of his Poldark six-pack.” – London Evening Standard Sep 2, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 6 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It's all good, dense, devious fun, with impressive CGI dragons swooping around brooding castles, using their serpentine necks like firehoses that spray actual fire. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 5 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It's all good, dense, devious fun, with impressive CGI dragons swooping around brooding castles, using their serpentine necks like firehoses that spray actual fire. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 4 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It's all good, dense, devious fun, with impressive CGI dragons swooping around brooding castles, using their serpentine necks like firehoses that spray actual fire. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 3 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It's all good, dense, devious fun, with impressive CGI dragons swooping around brooding castles, using their serpentine necks like firehoses that spray actual fire. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 2 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It’s all good, dense, devious fun, with impressive CGI dragons swooping around brooding castles, using their serpentine necks like firehoses that spray actual fire. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2022 Full Review House of the Dragon: Season 1, Episode 1 (2022) 4/5 EDIT “It’s all good, dense, devious fun, with impressive CGI dragons swooping around brooding castles, using their serpentine necks like firehoses that spray actual fire. ” – London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2022 Full Review Marriage: Season 1 (2022) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a pleasure to see two such unflashy actors paired up on a minimalist narrative. Bolam is as good as ever and Alle adds a dose of brightness. This is a nuanced and delicately calibrated piece of work.” – London Evening Standard Aug 12, 2022 Full Review Great Performances: Season 48, Episode 19 (2021) 4/5 EDIT “The show belongs to the two leads though, especially Buckley, whose heartfelt performance proves that Shakespeare really should have given Juliet top billing.” – London Evening Standard Apr 8, 2021 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 8, Episode 6 (2019) EDIT “This was a largely satisfying conclusion. One could quibble over a couple of plot points, and argue about the reassertion of the show's regressive gender politics. But a piece of entertainment as complex as this was always going to involve some compromise” – London Evening Standard May 20, 2019 Full Review The Bridge: Season 1 (2011) EDIT “The show is shot with a washed out colour palette, strip-lit indoor scenes interspersed with brilliant, bleak nocturnal panoramas that make the two capitals look beautiful and inhuman.” – London Evening Standard Jun 26, 2018 Full Review
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