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Torchwood: Miracle Day: The New World (2011)
How did they see it coming!!??
Humanity struck down but a strange never seen before affliction with unknown origins and all roads lead back to a nefarious pharmaceutical company with a familiar sounding name.....
These writers had access to a Time Machine for sure and all they needed to do was change some names and sprinkle some Dr Who style weirdness here and there...
I'm unashamedly a Dr Who fan and I enjoy Torchwood as it is similar and shares some occasional references but it doesn't do happy endings and calls a spade a shovel!
This season Miracle Day is americanised for sure, I reckon it works and they have blended it in nicely with the first three seasons which are well produced but in that clever budget style that is a BBC show. The American influence ups the production and includes some great new characters that are serious as opposed to the UK side characters which are often comical relief.
Brilliant writing and story, imagine the cause of a problem also has the solution ready in waiting... who'd a thunk that could be a thing.
Torchwood (2006)
Dr Who for grown ups!
Same Dr Who chaos with clever real world dialogue and outcomes. No fluffy happy endings here with everyone going home nicely.
I come back to this every few years and watch it again - it's non-pc and it shows unashamedly how people would really behave when the world was coming to an end. It has a lot of real people relationship stuff with some shagging here and there suggested but without going over the top like the dreadful starttek discovery bollocks.
Episode "Day 4" has some interesting dialogue that sounds hauntingly familiar to the govt narrative fed to the masses in the real world in 2020+
The final season included some American influence and it didn't ruin it, Bill Pullman and others really added to the characters and the mix with the Brit's is well played.