Us review, Culture Whisper
In 2015, David Nicholls published his fourth novel Us in paperback. It was the year before everything mutated. Before Trump, Brexit, and Covid. The book exists in a paradisaic state, nostalgically serving as an escapist drama without perhaps intending to be.
The four-part BBC adaptation, shot prior to lockdown, maintains that blissful atmosphere – relaxing into a story that’s funny, fraught and troubling yet unburdened with the world’s collapse. The series charms with its European voyage through love, loss and parenthood.
