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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Emma Loffhagen

The Castaways on Paramount+ review: Sheridan Smith's Lost-adjacent drama is deliciously twisty

It is one of the oldest literary genres, and for good reason. From Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Homer’s Odyssey, to Lost, Triangle of Sadness and Madagascar, there is something irresistibly alluring about a disparate group of people being shipwrecked on a deserted island, racing against the clock to fight for survival, forced to suspend all social norms and trust one another with their lives.

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