It’s always the quiet ones.

The worm, halfway through her U turn over the last couple of episodes, fully turns in this series 1 finale.

It’s difficult to write a spoiler-free review as you approach a series finale, and even harder for the last episode. Safe to say that we still have some shocking moments to – enjoy? That seems like the wrong word. We get an important familial flashback throughout too, that clarifies a few things about the relationships we’ve seen play out. That’s my only criticism, as it might have been interesting to see a little of this sooner in the narrative.

The show-not-tell of gender politics in the aftermath of a gendered apocalyptic event continues to impress, as does both the use of, and the subversion of, classic tropes. What it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man, what it means to grieve and what it means to survive are all well written and portrayed, with very few punches pulled.

Not everything is tied up, thought, as we see a Y-shaped fork in the road… perhaps leaving us, the audience, an open route to drive towards our own conclusions.

Verdict: Teams and storylines collide as season 1 wraps up. 9/10

Claire Smith