“The most striking and intriguing first episode of any new British TV series of the last five years…
The story draws on modern techno myths – The Matrix movies are a touchstone – but as Leila gets drawn deeper, and director Misha Manson-Smith plays up contrasts between her hazy, washed-out reality, and the sharp, vivid computer-animated paradise, older fantasies of alt-worlds and escape echo: Alice into Wonderland, Dorothy into Oz.”
The Herald
“Bryan “Skins” Elsley’s new six-part drama is a game-changer in more ways than one. Based on Lottie Moggach’s debut novel, it’s an engaging tale that spans the real and the virtually real worlds as it follows Leila and her digital avatar Shadowfax... An entrancing new style of television drama.”
The Observer
“Innovative and intriguing... a clever tale of lies and obsession. The obvious comparison is Steven Spielberg’s virtual reality movie Ready Player One. But its menu of pop-culture references offers nothing as nourishing as Kiss Me First’s atmosphere of angst and despair – sold through the warm, golden hour feel of its colour grading, and a performance from newcomer Haddon that was as haunted as it was haunting, as though grief has made her skin uncomfortable to wear.”
The Telegraph
KISS ME FIRST
DRAMA SERIES
NETFLIX
CHANNEL 4
STARRING
Tallulah Haddon
Simona Brown
Ben Chaplin
Samuel Bottomley
Matthew Beard
DOP
Jamie Cairney
CREATED BY
Bryan Elsley
PRODUCED BY
Bradley Adams
WRITTEN BY
Bryan Elsley
Lauren Sequeira
Rachel Hirons
NOTES
Lead directed 3 X 60
AWARDS
Nominated RTS Craft Award
“It’s visually stunning, but behind all the gloss is a really intriguing story that will hook you in and leave you wanting more.”
The Sun
“Smartly scripted, well-acted and shifting seamlessly between its two worlds, Kiss Me First feels a little like Black Mirror’s savvy, sharp-tongued younger sibling. I can’t wait to find out what happens next.”
The Independent
“The first of six episodes of Kiss Me First, which Elsley has been working on for four years, is ambitious, promising, and bleak as hell. Aimed at young adults, the digital natives whose lives have been most documented (or harvested?), it feels uncomfortably prescient for sci-fi. We’re not in Kansas anymore.”
**** The Guardian
“This first episode does a great job of setting up both the mystery and the relationships that will carry viewers through the series, and it’s done with more heart and care than 90% of shows bother with.”
Den of Geek
“Which is a long way from what I meant to say about Kiss Me First, from the acclaimed debut novel by Lottie Moggach, which is screamingly far from monstrously dull. It’s actually terrific, and crucially moves the genre on in one significant jump. Tallulah Haddon plays, quite brilliantly, understatedly, a bereft young woman, Leila, suddenly shorn of her mother, living alone, getting crappy jobs in rainy London to feed her addiction to escape, in the form of the virtual-reality immersion game Azana.”
The Guardian
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