It’s the day all in Cardiff have feared – there’s no more drinking water…

The new Torchwood sets have taken the audience on a harrowing journey – something that fans of the show should perhaps be used to, given the concepts behind the most recent TV series, Miracle Day. However, God Among Us has brought things home in a much more realistic way than that did – perhaps because it’s maintaining its focus purely on what’s going on in Cardiff, rather than ranging around the whole world and flashing back at appropriate points. We are there on the front line in the camp with Colin Colchester-Price and Tyler Steel; we’re next to Andy Davidson as he tries desperately to hold things together. We’re on the streets with those left homeless by the Flood, who just want to survive one more day. It’s brutal, it’s honest – and it’s far, far more horrifying than alien creatures stomping around!

Tim Foley’s script has what I suspect is a depressingly accurate view of human nature in a crisis – the selfishness coming to the fore – and that’s contrasted with the actions of Orr and one or two others. There’s time for a quick heart to heart between two characters who really haven’t seen eye to eye since their introduction, and a rather longer one between Yvonne Hartman and the person she’s often seemed to think of herself as!

Verdict: The tension is ratcheted up by the end to almost fever pitch – it’s not even a question of who will survive, but who even has a chance to? 9/10

Paul Simpson

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