Girls just wanna have (a staple) gun.

The premise: a girl gang heads to rural Wales for a raucous Hen weekend, fuelled by margaritas sipped through penis straws and a cock-shaped pinata for them to bang… with a stick, of course.

So far so not that bad. We see news snippets as the world ends and we learn that there is a deadly contagion sweeping the globe that disproportionately affects men. Having reviewed Y: The Last Man for the reading pleasure of SFB fans, this is ringing bells. Death is apparently swift and unavoidable for the less-fair sex, and never explained properly. If they’re all in that remote cottage with their very much still alive male stripper, surely he’s survived because he’s isolated from the rest of the population / other men? No, apparently it’s because he’s immune, like some gender-swapped version of The Last of Us’ Ellie with gold hotpants and about a tenth of her wit.

“It’s a comedy, so lighten up!” I hear you cry. OK I would, but make it make sense.

Yes, they’re a load of ‘messy bitches’ and this happens, but do women typically go around shoving small but rather irregularly shaped and bulky-looking walkie-talkies up themselves with nary a flinch, even in an apocalypse? No, methinks not. The chaos isn’t funny, it’s just nasty, and the bridezilla isn’t a very sympathetic character at all. In fact, none of them really are, which is possibly a key part of the problem, for me. They’re not tough women who fight for their survival, they’re spiteful, lying bullies.

Of course, one of them is pregnant and the father is someone she very much should not have slept with, and I’m bored now. Oh, the fact that the stripper is immune and not just lucky he was in deepest darkest Wales does come into play right at the end, but it’s stupid.

The cliffhanger ending would be tense if I’d still cared by that point, but for the love of all that is good and pure, can we please have a series that ends properly without the final episode being compromised by trying to set up a second series? Not today, it seems. Oh well.

Verdict: Contagion meets The Last of Us meets Y: The Last Man… but silly, vulgar and not that funny. 4/10

Claire Smith