User Reviews

Well the series is over and the ending was just so unpredictable .. i am seriously still trying to fathom what or why this happen .. the comedy was really good, Rob Lowe, Mathew Baynton and the hilarious Joel Fry they did an amazing job in here.

The events scenery arrangement was creative and thrilling and always drawing you into wanting what is next to happen. Again thou, the ending was a wowzer,,, i really did not see that coming especially the "narrative" style makes you think that every thing will be fine as always in any "comedy" show we've ever seen... but no .. out of the blue .. they hit you a with a huge surprise.

The show overall was a nice combination of American/British TV style brought to us by NBC and SKy1.

I am kinda bombed that "that is it" for the show but to think what would happen next !!! would just be some weak speculations and maybe not enough for a new season.

So the after all ,, the show was good ,, the comedy was fresh and genuine, so farewell to a short nice series ;)

TV series in general face the Grim Reaper of being canceled -even Star Trek's 5- year journey was nipped in the bud. I have suffered through paste-up finales ("Jericho" likely the worst) and ridiculous loose-ends non-endings, as in the memorably enjoyable but never completed "Vanished" a few years back. In the current age where elaborate mini-series have returned with a vengeance, "Apocalypse" should have been logically planned out to have an organic finish, but such is not the case.

Instead we get a breathlessly paced, with idiotic "24" style time warnings flashed repeatedly as if the viewer were brain-dead and after 10 weeks wasn't aware the end was near. Characters are snuffed out and coincidences piled upon coincidences in the worst way, as the filmmakers have assumed the audience will buy any type of snake oil they're peddling. If this script were submitted as a homework assignment in any Film School class, it would be returned to the student with an F scrawled across the cover page, and a demand to be done over.

I watched for 10 episodes as a dutiful, old-fashioned TV addict, and was hardly prepared for the crap that purportedly tied things up. It would take far more than 1000 words in IMDb to amply criticize all the episode's shortcomings, but the lowlights for me included: nearly satirical dragging out suspense at the very end with the contrivance of a vault door that won't close and fake-heroics with the vehicle to save the day; callous treatment of so many characters, especially the Southern- fried female sidekick who's actions and script treatment are horribly inconsistent; cheesy "parting of the Red Thames" sequence to inject some supernatural hokum into what had already maxed out on dramatic hokum; utter misuse of TV icon Diana Rigg in a baddie role as flimsy as could be - they should have given it to Rula Lenska and been done with it; and finally the Brian De Palma "Carrie" inspired switcheroo ending - always pleasing to morons who dig bad horror movies but way past insulting in this context.

Garbage in, garbage out: the writers and directors from Saul Metzstein on down have ridden current TV and movie trends to provide some of the worst of what I was deeming "Cinema of the Facetious" several decades ago when filmmakers, currently Tarantino being the worst, decided to treat their craft as one big joke on the audience, throwing any sort of sincerity out with the bathwater.

It's all gimmick, send-up and a Mike Myers' view of the world, and these UK hacks swallowed the whole decadent concept and spit it back out as a terrible TV "event". Like pornographers who have recently become obsessed with so-called parodies, this would-be comedy minus the laughs is a disaster only Irwin Allen might wish for.

It is the end of the world and everyone is on their way to the bunker to join the loony matriarch who is more interested in their blood than having a family reunion. Even General Gaines changes his mind and persuades Scotty that it is better to live.

However the path to the bunker in Slough while the comet is about to strike is not a smooth one. Ariel is still the fly in the ointment, out to get Jamie. There are obstacles in the path and with bridges collapsed the River Thames. As Jamie's birth mother said, he is the son of god and pretty soon Jamie manages to part the river Thames.

The ending might be a cheat with the vault door being jammed and Ariel hovering about. The big mistake was really the series should had conveniently been wrapped up. This black comedy is very British despite the international cast but it never really soared.