I've only just finished watching it and thought it was a bit like the otherside of Years and Years. ie instead of experiencing chaos as members of the public where events just happen and you are left to deal with it, this was showing how politicians who make the decisions make the chaos better or worse.
And it seems most of them are too busy with their personal vendettas, family crisis, political coups to really do a good job.
I was prepared not to be too picky about how they got to the point of needing the Cobra meetings and thought a lot of the time they were trying to put in current political comments into the crisis.
And that meant making strange alliances. Find it hard to believe that in a crisis transport workers would go on strike and make the one area in England to be totally without power suffer even more. A sort of Daily Mail idea of TUs. But assuming they would do that to try and topple the PM (not sure what he had done to make they angry - too caught up in the idea of Robert Carlyle as a Tory!) then the freedom fighters of the NE would work with them to topple the PM. ie cover up the fact that the people barricading the motorways were the ones who were making the situation worse. But its that thing of if you cant forgive the original decision ie to make the NE suffer most, then everything after that is about making the person who did that the object of hate.
Thought it was trying to be very contemporary with actual decisions being taken now, the whole Brexit thing. White privilege. Racism. Violent eastern european thugs. The tribablism of some politics ie the pub scene with the wildly misplaced accusation of IRA loyatlies and so on.
I quite enjoy things like this they throw everything into the mix and stir it up, as it sometimes makes you look at things in a different way.
And I think they were trying to say the way groups act in a sort of unthinking hive way is also part of the problem. (I think camping outside the hospital was as much to do with it having emergency generators and supplies. And I had assumed lawless streets.)
But then I dont suppose we are likely to see this Tory cabinet approve a mansion tax.
Got really irrittated with the PM's daughter and her mother was terrible. But then in the end was quite sympathetic because she had done wrong and knew it, but these people wanting to hang onto their privilege and being in control put that first and bullied her.
But one thing it did make me think is cross as i get with politicians, I am absolutely sure I wouldn't ever want to have those responsibilities.
