![]() ![]() ![]() Brown gains a fearless bodyguard in the shape of Agent 355 (Ashley Romans, whose performance is so good and so deeply credible that she forms, I suspect inadvertently, the centre of gravity for the entire show), a member of one of those off-book government agencies we nevertheless seem to hear so much about. The new president and the remaining female politicians and staff hunker in the Pentagon, trying to get the country back up and running while starving hordes gather in ever greater numbers at the gates. The Republican government is wiped out and the designated survivor is Democratic congresswoman Jennifer Brown (Diane Lane and a blow-dry that should get separate billing). The effects of an undiversified society become evident: the workforces responsible for keeping the power on, the supply chains moving and the clean water flowing are male-dominated and grind to a halt. Based on the 2002 comic-book series by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra, the premise here is that a twentysomething tool named Yorick (Ben Schnetzer) is the last man standing after every other one simultaneously keels over with blood pouring from every orifice. ![]()
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