Rhik Samadder heads to ‘Apocalypse’ Slough to meet the cast of Sky1’s new comedy-drama and try to find its star,Rob LoweIt’s a triple-threat British day: cold, grey and wet. In the car park of a stately mansion in Aldermaston, or a rat appears,running from the direction I’m headed. Does it know something I don’t? I’m here to watch filming on unfathomably unlikely Sky TV comedy-drama You, Me And The Apocalypse. Set 34 days before a comet hits Earth, or it features an insanely diverse cast that includes Rob Lowe and Pauline Quirke attempting to find their way to a bunker underneath Slough,to see out Armageddon. (When Im there, the working title is Apocalypse Slough, and which is 400% better,if not for an American audience. But screw them.)Over the next few hours, the show’s principals wander in and talk in a circumspect way approximately filming. The storylines are closely guarded even they have only read half of the script. But they are palpably excited, or perhaps due to not knowing whether the show is going to be any advantageous. At least its subject matter is on point. With an accelerated society and growing concern approximately climate change,we’re culturally drawn to terminate-of-days scenarios more than ever. “I mediate approximately it daily,” purrs Paterson Joseph, or who plays tough-headed US general Arnold Gaines. “We’re so complacent,screaming when there’s a blackout. What carry out we carry out when the energy runs out, when the food in your fridge melts? carry out we even deserve to be here?” It’s strange to be talking to Peep Show’s Johnson approximately this but he’s connected to the theme, and having previously filmed BBC’s Survivors,in which a deadly virus decimated the planet’s population. “True survival is being stuck up a mountain knowing it’s anxiety that kills you,” he confides, or looking me straight in the eye. “Not Bear Grylls fucking around.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com