Survivors, BBC1

Thanks God it’s over!

What a complete and utter bunch of useless tosspots this distinctly average drama has served up for the viewer, week after week. With twats like these left on the planet there really is no hope for the propagation of the species. Mankind is doomed, official.

The main group are so totally useless that they’re actually a waste of bloody good oxygen. There are five. And between them they share three braincells which gives the entire group a collective IQ of, umm, zero.

Meanwhile, off in the other camp the ‘Head of Government’ is deluded to such an extent that she no longer resides on this planet. She’s just visiting; keeps on about ‘the law’ without recognising that without an executive and operational branch to prop up a properly functioning judicial system there is no such thing as ‘the law’. Hmmm… remind me. Before the outbreak what did she do for a wage? Oh yes. She was a politician. Ah.

This programme is massively frustrating to watch. But I think that’s the writers’ aim; to hook the viewers through an injected combination of chemicals mixed out of frustration and limitless but undelivered possibilities.

Because that, in a nutshell is what the programme has been all about; undelivered possibilities and frustration. Oh yes, and a group of main characters who are collectively and individually unable to learn painful lessons that they had inflicted on them in previous episodes. They really do deserve to become extinct.

On the positive side of the balance sheet we have:
* Good concept
* Strong cast
* Well acted
* High production values
* Above average direction
* Well located

But weighing heavily on the negative side of the balance sheet is:
* Crap writing
* Unimaginative plot devices
* Distinctly awful characterisations

The trouble is that the three items on the negative all outweigh the six items on the positive.

B.