Survivors Season 2 – Episode Four Preview
Season 2, Episode 4 – Airs: BBC1 – 9pm, February 9, 2010 (UK)
Cast: Julie Graham, Paterson Joseph, Max Beesley, Zoe Tapper, Phillip Rhys, Nikki Amuka Bird, Chahak Patel, Shaun Dingwall
Episode Summary
The family tries to track down Billy in the hope of getting information on Tom and Greg’s whereabouts. As the family try to find them, Tom and Greg engineer a plan for their escape from the coal mine they’ve been forced to work in.
Survivors Season 2 – Episode Four Preview Trailer:
Watching the new Survivors has been like waiting for a seed to germinate. It has just broken the surface with this last episode.
***SPOILERS AHEAD***
The old one was so full of interesting morality textures and scenarios, this new one is like a children’s version in comparison, although this last episode was more interesting. It even had Anya agreeing with Tom about weapons in the end! Perhaps in series 3 she’ll become the Ripley from Aliens as her and Tom kick ass in China. Or… the script-writers will have to bow down to their employers’ blinkered view of good writing, and we’ll be left with more of the same mostly mediocre melodrama, where the setting is incidental to the plot.
Oh, and when Anya tells Najid to ‘go inside!’ after Tom showed him how to fire a gun, I was expecting Najid to retort ‘F*@k off!’, having started the road to manhood, but of course he just plods off into the next scene. Shame.
Overall, the best one yet, but I’ve a feeling the characters are so hemmed in by their scripts and it’s such a shame to see the same self-conscious drivel oozing out of too much of this show.
And what do they eat? Why are there no animals in it (ok, chickens excepted)? Why wasn’t Al killed when Tom shot the man on top of him? Why didn’t Abby brief the others about Peter, in case they could prove to Peter that they knew her by mentioning some shared memory between mother and son? Tom could have saved a lot of bother in the woods eh?
I liked the ‘baddies’ being what are presently classed as ‘goodies’. Science is a corporate branch nowadays, nothing more.
I think my main problem with this series is the lack of dealing with the moral ambiguity that emergencies can bring out in folk. Tom has been the best at it, although he’s still a meathead & won’t accept folk can be good. Anya wants peace & love but can’t accept that violenece has a place. a match made in heaven! As the penny drops for both of them in this episode, I look forward to a third series of more mature moral maze being walked, as Nature prevails.
Well, looking at the news and info about Peak Oil & the global economy, it looks like Series 3 might be written by and starring YOU, with a cast of billions. Sh!t.
It’s been a year since the last post. Do you intend in continuing this blog? I just found you thru Google and pretty much like what you have been doing.
This show is SO good. I recently discovered it on Netflix and have been chewing through it like a zombie. I’ve just started season 2. It’s so nice to have a quality end-of-the-world show to watch!