Recent events prompted me to start watching Survivors, which I thoroughly recommend if you're already feeling unsettled and want something worse to focus on. Relentless, horrifying and often moving, it's been a real experience so far.
I'm reposting my unstructured reactions here.
I'm watching ep 1 of Survivors and it's making the hair stand up on the back of my neck. 'They say a lot of the exchanges are short-staffed...'
That tennis machine is a splendid metaphor. Say what you like about Terry Nation, he may have been a hack, but he was an expert hack, he knew what he was doing.
'We've had one survival...'
The gradual breakdown of civilisation is really nicely paced. Like how Abby falls asleep in the car at the station with the radio on at 4pm, and wakes up at nine, and the radio is now just giving out static. And that's left subtly in the background, neither she nor David remarks on it.
Notice the recycling of tropes from Day of the Triffids - leaving money in abandoned shops to cover what you've taken, and the idea that the Americans will soon be along to sort everything out.
That church full of corpses though. Even Wyndham didn't go there.
The scene where Jenny empties out the dead man's bag, only to find it full of five-pound notes, which she abandons, is so wonderfully understated.
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