I enjoyed curfew, near future dystopia is one of my favourite genres. I often wish they spent more time showing us the world and it's wider implications than dumping it all out in exposition and dialogue, and I felt Curfew did a decent job of world building. It also had some really gorgeous messages about masculinity that I felt were delivered sincerely.
Positives -
Acting was great nice to see Mandip Gill as I liked her in Doctor Who.
Interesting way of telling the story with twists but not to hard to follow.
At first I though the show was presenting a curfew as the solution to violence against women, and by the end the message is a bit more nuanced.
Negatives -
It's really hard to build to a satisfying pay off in detective shows and this one doesn't quite reach it.
The very last moments of the series seem a bit rushes.
Apart from one sentence the implication of a curfew for trans and non-binary people was not explored.
I really hope there is a second season. Women who date women would enjoy a new privilege under curfew, which I would love to see explored, as well as how women who are violent and abusive could gain more power from curfew. I would also like to explore the idea, that the show touches on, that if we only see violence as happening after dark and in the streets, do we ignore it in other areas?
