Deciding to add a new tv series to my viewing routine, whether scheduled or binged, makes me anxious. What other media will it displace? Will it peter out for me, whether due to my own distractions or the show's own shortfalls?
'No Tomorrow' gives that burden a clever judo throw by encouraging people to experience life joyously and fearlessly.
The high concept premise uses a 'miracle question' : what would you do if there were no consequences ? What dreams would you chase, what fears and regrets would you slay?
The protagonist, a likeable woman in her 30s chafing at the limitations of her middle management existence, finds enough impetus to chase a hot stranger, who then challenges her to seize the day, or at least the part-year remaining until the asteroid apocalypse he predicts will arrive.
That sort of premise seems to set an expiry date on a first and presumably only season. Fortunately this show hits the ground running. Some dense and clever writing, a steady flow of entertaining visual humour and character based humour, and the license to follow the characters into joyous and/or empowering challenges, all add up to a sunny tone that could deliver you from pandemic-lockdown misery.
'No Tomorrow' gives that burden a clever judo throw by encouraging people to experience life joyously and fearlessly.
The high concept premise uses a 'miracle question' : what would you do if there were no consequences ? What dreams would you chase, what fears and regrets would you slay?
The protagonist, a likeable woman in her 30s chafing at the limitations of her middle management existence, finds enough impetus to chase a hot stranger, who then challenges her to seize the day, or at least the part-year remaining until the asteroid apocalypse he predicts will arrive.
That sort of premise seems to set an expiry date on a first and presumably only season. Fortunately this show hits the ground running. Some dense and clever writing, a steady flow of entertaining visual humour and character based humour, and the license to follow the characters into joyous and/or empowering challenges, all add up to a sunny tone that could deliver you from pandemic-lockdown misery.
