John Harper

This is the most awful drama the bbc has ever produced It is so compulsively bad that you have to continue watching it to see how bad it can get. It suffers from must do casting - the feisty strongly threatening female black power manager - the roguish young male protagonist - nearly bad but not quite - the inept young female politician in a position of power well above her capability grade - the bearded aged neo- hippy boffin dangerously close to dysfunctional mania and the must have savant child plus a chorus of misfits with various degrees in paranoia who are the lambs heading for slaughter This all takes place in a tube hurtling through space and time and a dystopian AI sci-fi ‘ headquarters’ somewhere in the innards of cyber land that are attempting to be in vitally, threateningly, existential communication and which conveys terror to a disbelieving audience Acting woeful - dialogue awful - script totally unbelievably dreadful. I’m just waiting for a Darlek to be driving the train and the cast of Casualty to be waiting at the end of the line .