Though this struck many Poles as toe-curlingly crass, the proposal kicked off a serious debate.
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Many reviewers focused on the toe-curlingly bad final sequence, which rendered Molière's king as Donald Trump with an unsubtlety befitting the president himself.
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Kai calls the "night of a thousand Tates" his own "helter-skelter" — a reference to the most baffling, weird, and blood-curlingly racist part of Manson's worldview.
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" After a thorough discussion of Howells, I felt something missing, and called out in silence, "What about 'A Hymn to Saint Cecilia,' with that toe-curlingly melismatic descant?
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"Grey and Illuminate," in particular ("A little bit older now / A little bit bolder now") is wavy and goopy, but the real winner is "Shannon Rose," a glorious mess of a song that just wants to rush to the chorus and rock out in the most lip-curlingly, pleasingly middle-aged way possible.
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The production design team created two sets especially for scenes in which Ric Griffin (Hugh Quarshie) has to crawl through the hospital's ventilation system. The crossover was promoted with a series of trailers and cast member appearances on talk shows. "CasualtyXHolby" received a positive response from television critics. Victoria Wilson of TVTimes stated that it was "a gripping crossover with a fitting ending", while Sue Haasler for the Metro thought the cyberattack was a good plot device, which led to a "toe-curlingly good" clash between Connie and Jac.
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AllMusic writer John Lucas awarded the album four stars, considering it a "short, sharp and tight collection of some of the most exciting music in a particularly exciting career". Lucas also commended the album's maturity and its heavy use of electropop music. Similarly, Matt O'Leary of Virgin Media rated Tangled Up four and a half stars out of five, describing the album as "ballsy pop with moments of eclecticism which […] results in hair-curlingly exciting music", and enjoyed the group's ability to grow creatively. James Cabooter from The Daily Star listed it as their "Album of the Week".
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Among the reasons cited for the opera's lack of success were an "inflated production with problematic technical apparatus, gaudy costumes, overcrowded stage forces and a press overly attentive to the social glitter of the occasion" . Less kindly, the 1966 premiere was retrospectively described as "a hair-curlingly awful production. … The night has gone down in the annals of opera as a landmark of vulgarity and staging excess. Mr. Barber’s score, as we discovered from subsequent exposure to revised excerpts in concert and on records, was to a great extent an innocent victim of the over-all fiasco" .
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" Haasler found the cyberattack to be "a very clever idea", while the clash between Connie and Jac was "toe-curlingly good." Although Haasler felt Ric's ventilation crawl and Essie's collapse was a stretch, she thought it was done well, as was the battle to save both Iain and Sacha. She concluded, "Although the story stood by itself and could be enjoyed by viewers of either or both shows (or even neither, as it was so dramatic on its own), it has nudged both shows' storylines on a bit." Sophie Dainty of Digital Spy stated "It came, it delivered, and now it's all over.
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