...this BBC America newcomer; from a novel by Dalek creator Terry Nation, co-starring the near-perfect Freema Agyeman. Free two-minute preview up now on iTunes.
UPDATE: A timely reminder to always read the fine print:
Some characters were emphasised in the BBC promotional material, but only appeared in the first episode as both succumbed to the disease:Despite this annoying bait-and-switch scam, episode one was solid, with a nice ominous sense of scale and echoes of everything for "Day of the Triffids" to "Resident Evil." Fingers crossed.
Freema Agyeman as Jenny Walsh, a young primary school teacher who lived with Patricia and Anya before the virus, who died shortly after discovering the true virulence of the virus. Appeared in Episode 1.
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Who'll be the first to get voted out of the virus-riddled wasteland?
Incidentally, it's an ongoing joke that Terry Nation was a hack who basically wrote the same Doctor Who scripts over and over again, and it's a hard charge to deny. Watch all his Who episodes -- and apparently many of the stories he wrote for other shows -- in a row, and you'll find the same obstacles, progressions, and characters.
All the parallels don't come immediately to mind, but the most amusing and pervasive one is relevant to "Survivor": Terry Nation almost ALWAYS included A Deadly Virus in his plots.
If the characters in Survivor face an invisible monster, or if they have to cross a gaping chasm, then more checkboxes will be filled.
It premieres here on Saturday... Variety compared it to Gilligan's Island, which I think was sort of a compliment, implying that the series is basically light-hearted.
I've been watching the original series this weekend, and it's absolutely incredible: thought-provoking without being preachy, disturbing without being sensationalistic, and consistently interesting without being contrived.
Its tone walks a perfect line.
Though I've only just finished episode five, so I can't promise it's all this good.
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