I personally didn't like this as much as I liked "Luther," also written by Neil Cross. A little too violent for me. I like the more intellectual, less violent, shows. This would have made a better 2-hour movie than 6-hour miniseries. There's too much padding. The sub-plot about her son, for example, could have been left out. It adds nothing.
The premise, that the world will be ending in five years, is a great one. Lots of sci-fi authors are speculating about that at the moment. There's a novel called "2140" about it. There's the excellent movie "Don't Look Up!" that speculates about it. The best one, for me, is the novel "The Last Policeman." If you want to know how this series probably would have ended, read that.
In a way it's too bad that Cross was not allowed to follow his premise to the conclusion. At least one more season would have done it. But it was not to be. Not enough people watched this one. Maybe they just don't want to think about the world ending.
The premise, that the world will be ending in five years, is a great one. Lots of sci-fi authors are speculating about that at the moment. There's a novel called "2140" about it. There's the excellent movie "Don't Look Up!" that speculates about it. The best one, for me, is the novel "The Last Policeman." If you want to know how this series probably would have ended, read that.
In a way it's too bad that Cross was not allowed to follow his premise to the conclusion. At least one more season would have done it. But it was not to be. Not enough people watched this one. Maybe they just don't want to think about the world ending.