Posted on 01/28/2016 8:03:45 AM PST by SMGFan
Just when it seemed the television renaissance had become more about quantity than quality, NBC's "You, Me and the Apocalypse," co-produced with Britain's Sky 1, sends a meteor across the heavens to destroy Earth and blow the narrative bar another notch or two higher.
Yes, this is a show you really need to see. Those already feeling overburdened may take some comfort in the fact that it's a 10-part miniseries. Though it's not difficult to imagine calls for a sequel, starting with mine.
Brawling, sprawling, absurdly ambitious and ambitiously absurd, Iain Hollands' black comedy pushes its many characters and fabulous cast across a high wire held in place by opposing forces: It's the end of the world, yet life goes on.
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I remember late 1980's TV show "Woops"
Extended trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnFTbj7QyBE
[Will probably check out the first episode On Demand.]
What is originally a great idea will be weighed down by the message of the leftist agenda.
Look for anti-gun McGuyver-types fashioning hand grenades out of pine cones and tree sap.
Oh, and don’t forget the Strong Independent Woman.
From what I saw of the previews, it looks pretty irreverent as well. Casting Rob Lowe as a priest is surely a sign that the end times are nigh.
That's irreverence at its highest. I'll tune in tonight.
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