Jodie Comer plays a woman who has just given birth when most of the UK is flooded, precipitating a national food shortage and forcing people to leave the cities. Going to her in-laws doesn't prove a long-term solution, so she and her husband are forced to move on again until they're separated when the shelter they find will only take one parent per child. But the country is in utter chaos, so it doesn't end there either.
This would be a standard apocalypse scenario in most hands, and admittedly the breaking down of society is overplayed. However the set-up is more plausible than most due to the very real threat posed by global warming and the focus is squarely on the insecurity of a mother whose child is in danger. Comer also puts in a strong performance, totally erasing any associations with her psychopath role in Killing Eve. In summary, the whole is not perfect by any means, with a lot of dead air, but deserves recognition for trying a different tack to the genre norm.
6/10
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