Viv Rook is Prime Minister and promises freedom for the isolated UK, but is her government hiding a dark secret around what’s happening to The Disappeared?

After last week’s emotional punch to the gut, the Lyons family are celebrating Christmas, but with one fewer family member. And while the family are trying to help Viktor gain his freedom, Stephen is not in the right place to forgive. Rory Kinnear is our flawed Everyman, fated to make bad calls and live with the consequences. One such call will resonate beyond this episode.

There’s so much to enjoy in Russell T Davies’ futuristic drama. It’s New Year 2028, but it all feels so scarily contemporary. The tech is what puts it squarely in the next decade – body augmentation, oral implants – but the human condition and its frailties are unchanged. Fake news, a government not knowing what it’s doing, a homeless crisis – just how sci-fi is this?

Jessica Hynes continues to impress as Edith, breaking in to an office to access secret files with a little help from synced-up niece Bethany, but her illness is finally starting to catch up with her. And then Bethany discovers just what her father has done.

Verdict: Viv Rook’s rationalisation of concentration camps is just one of the chilling moments in the penultimate episode of Davies’ compelling drama. I genuinely have no idea how things will wrap up, if indeed they do… and that makes for must-watch TV. 9/10

Nick Joy