“The sight of Giles Coren and Monica Galetti unwinding in what must be the most palatial destination on earth was almost too much to bear.”
Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby, BBC2
“The sight of Giles Coren and Monica Galetti unwinding in what must be the most palatial destination on earth was almost too much to bear. I felt slightly guilty just to be watching, as if Giles and Monica were urging us to go shoplifting or fiddle our taxes. As usual, the duo tried their hand at working for the hotel. Even this looked blissful.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail
“My, those rooms were lovely, each with its own private infinity pool, every tile of which was scrubbed daily by the cleaners, which felt a little OTT (I wondered if that was just for the cameras?). Anyway, all this and that eye-boggling, wondrous view gave us something nice to drool over. Mind you, right now, the prospect of a single room in a Travelodge in Stevenage feels like erotica.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
“Whether you are convinced or not by the working hypothesis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head is a rush. It is vanishingly rare to be confronted by work so dense, so widely searching and ambitious in scope, so intelligent and respectful of the audience’s intelligence, too. It is rare, also, to watch a project over which one person has evidently been given complete creative freedom and control without any sense of self-indulgence creeping in.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian
“What makes it so effective – so comprehensible and informative rather than merely sensational – is how seamlessly pivotal periods of history, complex political ideologies, and popular culture are woven together. The pace is breathless, the soundtrack reaches from 2Pac to the Raveonettes, and revolutionaries and conspiracists who lived decades or continents apart feel like a cast of characters whose paths cross inevitably. It is told, like much of Curtis’s other work, entirely through archive footage, which feels vivid and commanding – an urgent, beating, loud history, which of course it is.”
Sarah Carson, The i
“This frank, funny interview was ultimately uplifting. I still can’t abide ‘The GC’ but Gemma herself is fine by me.”
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph
ZeroZeroZero, Sky Atlantic
“Episode two was an absolute corker. The opening scene when ageing Don ‘Minu’ (Adriano Chiaramida) escaped rat-like into tunnels via a secret passageway in his bathroom was terrific, even when he fell down a ladder and his finger broke at a right angle like an Allen key.”
Carol Midgley, The Times
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