As dusk falls, the world as we know it crumbles fast.

We’re seeing higher stakes and a fast pace in this second instalment as the problems rack up for the Yeats family and all around them.

Andy learns the depths of Mika’s deceit as she’s finally revealed as an MI6 agent – they have to trek across the desert while being pursued by people who don’t want him to find out exactly what’s happening to the world’s oil. Laura’s also not out of danger and we see the thin veil of her privileged eco-warriorship slipping from her – and maybe she is starting to learn an important lesson.

I must take issue with some elements of the script, though. There are some nods to equality and inclusion, but while I give 8 for effort, I can only give 3 for execution because they seem forced rather than organic. For example, the formidable woman of colour in charge of government security is welcomed back from maternity leave in a line that added nothing to the scene – a woman returning to work from maternity leave is perfectly ordinary, and while this was probably intended (in good faith, I’ll grant you) to highlight the resilience of strong women in positions of power, it’s the story of so many hundreds of thousands of ordinary women too, I genuinely flinched at the line.

Contrast that with an example of standard misogyny, seen when Andy gives a less than enthusiastic response to being protected by a woman – a woman who has just demonstrated her capability in a crisis to him – and that seems like a mis-step too. Sadly a more recognisable one, but it made me roll my eyes.

Then the pace picks up and something unexpected befalls one of the little gangs that has formed: Andy and Mike, Elena, Sam and Lucas; and Laura and Owen. I wasn’t expecting that one and it certainly shakes things up – I’m more interested in Laura’s part of the story than Andy’s at this point.

Verdict: Trying a bit too hard but we’re in it for the action. 6/10

Claire Smith