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Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Saskia Kemsley

No Escape on Paramount+ review: this nautical drama is a white-knuckle ride

Despite the unbelievable popularity of Netflix’s steamy reality show Below Deck, its die-hard fans might reconsider their desire to become an easy-breezy, port-hopping yacht attendant after watching Paramount+’s No Escape.

Based on Lucy Clarke’s fantastic novel The Blue, the show’s very first frame plunges viewers into an almost supernaturally eerie crime. Emergency responders are inching through a ransacked yacht room by room; on the wall of one of the cabins, written in a barely legible, bloody scrawl, is simply: “I confess”.

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