When you think about the phenomenal quality of a lot of television being created right now, I just don't know who was thinking what when this was conceived. It's all so terribly dull. Seems like they just thought they could pad out a disaster premise with a load of political caricatures and other such stereotypical characters and throw in an irritating side story about students taking drugs (controversial) and it all going wrong like an episode of Casualty from 1988. Look at that bloke from the Met. "I'm a scientist, look at my unkempt hair and beard. Clearly, I'm a scientist." Get bent!!! Then the power goes out and it's all very exciting... except it really isn't. The actors are wasted really with a lame script and not much really expected from them in terms of acting. Also far too many posh, vacuous London turds everywhere for it to be remotely relatable to most normal people. I am disappointed in Carlyle and the one who played the Queen mum in the Crown... she seems to think she is still portraying a Royal. Very odd. Also, if you can't afford the budget to depict plane crashes properly (or even vaguely realistically) then write something where you don't need to bother. At least write something that maintains people's attention. Did I mention how dull it all was, just relentlessly mediocre. Sky should do better too, especially after Chernobyl. I thought they'd turned a corner. then they churn out this steamer. Boo.
