I know you ain’t used to a female alpha.

Agent 355 and Yorick get to bond as she follows the orders of her President, which goes just about as well as you think as the stoic spy gives him a few home truths.

Yorick can be an entitled brat, but he isn’t stupid. He catches on to the extreme tactics of Agent 355 and berates her for her actions, but that could easily be seen as a lack of gratitude or moral outrage. Strangely he still seems oblivious to the real and present danger he is in and his recklessness soon becomes irritating.

Elsewhere, we follow Hero, Sam, Nora and her daughter in a lower echelon of society as they navigate deception, confession and desperation and push the boundaries of friendship in their struggle for survival. The disgusting nature of ‘othering’ those you cannot or will not take the time to understand is depicted in tense fashion as they stumble into the path of a group of hardened, cruel women who evidently don’t take prisoners. All the men didn’t actually fall, but those who chose that gender and who don’t possess the doomed chromosome face even more derision than before the scourge. Has all the compassion been eradicated from the world too?

Cue one of the most impressive entrances so far as we meet the alpha of the group, a woman who commands the respect and obedience of the small clan that has formed, and for good reason, it would seem. The term ‘firm but fair’ could have been coined for her, as we see both her brutality and the kindness it’s tempered with. It’s both chilling and hopeful and I’m keen to follow her awhile.

Verdict: It’s easy to fear what you don’t understand as Y sorts the weak from the strong. 7/10

Claire Smith