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Season 1
- Adrian Lester ( Doomsday (2008) ) as Simon Donahue
- Ike Bennett as Roman Donahue
- Andi Osho as Jenny Donahue
- Jessye Romeo as Megan Donahue
- Phoebe Fox as Kaye Newman
- Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Ruby Newman
- Malachi Kirby as Michael Garwick
- Sean Bean ( Game of Thrones ) as The General
- Rose Williams as Faith Palladino
- Adam Brody ( Mr And Mrs Smith ) as Max Larssen
- Billy Zane ( Titanic ) as Joker Jones
- Miranda Richardson as Lou Collins
- Thaddea Graham as Hanmei
- Jason Thorpe as El Capitano
- Guz Khan as Cheeze
- Elijah Rowen as Zane
- Joss Carter as Mook
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 1]
Curfew
Shown 22nd February 2019 [Friday]
This is set in a dystopian near-future Britain, a place so rough that the ambulances have cage armour and the police are armed and shoot on sight. Apparently there are isolated outbreaks of some kind of slow zombie contagion. The society has a nightly curfew, hence the show's title.
A group of diverse individuals joins an illegal steet race. The plan is to drive from London to Scotland, where there is supposed to be a sanctuary - like in Logan's Run . Basically this is more like Death Race 2000 than The Cannonball Run.
This is much slower and grimmer than the similarly-themed American show Blood Drive . The problem is that the first episode is wasted introducing the characters. The episode starts with the characters meeting up to start the race, and then flashes back twelve hours to introduce their boring personal lives. This includes yet another flashback, five years previously.
In the Five Years Earlier story, we discover that the female paramedic used to be a medical researcher. The black driver, who is now hooking up with her sister, was a patient in an experiment that seems to have cured his spinal paralysis.
Robert Glenister gets a brief scene as a Government honcho named Grieves. Meanwhile, his former Hustle cow-orker Adrian Lester has a small role as one of the good guys.
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 2]
Shown 1st March 2019 [Friday]
This episode starts at the pits, before the race begins. One of the contestants takes his dog for a walk, and meets a couple of familiar faces. Michael Biehn ( Terminator (1984) ) delivers an interesting story about his childhood. Sean Bean ( Game of Thrones ) is the other creepy competitor. Their surnames are pronounced the same, and they are big names that will be costing the producers a lot. So which one will be killed off first?
Simon Donahue (Adrian Lester - Doomsday (2008) ) had a plan for every obstacle in the race. The good news is that he wrote it all down. The bad news is that he has very small hand-writing and his family only have a general idea of what he intended. They might be able to make it work, but they need to start an unhappy alliance with the other good guys, the ambulance team.
Lester's son has flashbacks to a few weeks previously. He and his friend Linus hacked a secret database and discovered that the Government already had a cure for the zombie virus. Yes, they uncovered a conspiracy to keep the zombie threat alive so that the human population was easier to control. Unfortunately the Government had a clean-up crew on the job.
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 3]
Shown 8th March 2019 [Friday]
The episode starts four years prior to the main storyline. A young woman is hired as babysitter for a handful of children. Unfortunately the zombie apocalypse has begun, and one of the kids sneaks out into the garden at night.
Back in the main storyline, the young woman is now the pregnant child-bride of The General (Sean Bean - Game of Thrones ). He has a plan to smuggle her and the car through the police gate that secures the wall around London.
Meanwhile, the Lester family and the ambulance crew use an old road tunnel. Unfortunately the fast zombies come out at night.
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 4]
Shown 15th March 2019 [Friday]
Mrs Donahue has been bitten by a Fast Zombie. Luckily she gets picked up by Joker Jones (Billy Zane - Titanic ) and his crew. If anyone can cure her, it is them.
The flashbacks are of Jones at his day job, as a psychiatrist. One of his patients was a Government functionary He was the one who destroyed Glasgow and Edinburgh, sacrificing the Scottish central belt in order to save the rest of the UK. Well, this can hardly be called unrealistic. However, this show states outright that the Government only wants control. They do not care about finding a cure, only about an excuse to carry on the curfew indefinitely. The irony is that a year after this show was broadcast, the country went into a lockdown for Coronavirus which has yet to end almost two years later.
Michael Garwick (Malachi Kirby) is the only successful test subject for a potential cure to the plague. He and Kaye Newman ( Phoebe Fox ) find themselves in the sights of an indestructible hitman who seems to be the human equivalent of The Terminator .
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 5]
Shown 22nd March 2019 [Friday]
Lou Collins ( Miranda Richardson ) and her adopted daughter Hanmei ( Thaddea Graham ) crash when they hit a Fast Zombie. Then they have to work with the Donahue family to repair their cars. They have to visit a local farm, which may have been overrun by Fast Zombies.
The flashbacks are of the time that Kaye Newman ( Phoebe Fox ) introduced her boyfriend Michael Garwick (Malachi Kirby) to her sister Ruby Newman ( Aimee-Ffion Edwards ). We all know how that ended.
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 6]
Shown 29th March 2019 [Friday]
Michael Garwick (Malachi Kirby) is in the hands of the Contractor, and gets interrogated by the scientist. The flashbacks are of the time that Michael and The General (Sean Bean - Game of Thrones ) did a bank robbery together.
Kaye Newman ( Phoebe Fox ) teams up with the other racers to rescue Michael. The bad news is that the van is taken to Manchester. The good news is that Lou Collins ( Miranda Richardson ) and her adopted daughter Hanmei ( Thaddea Graham ) can deal with the local corrupt cops.
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 7]
Shown 5th April 2019 [Friday]
The racers continue into Scotland, apparently un-troubled by law enforcement despite the massacre that took place in the previous episode.
The flashbacks are of the time that Kaye Newman ( Phoebe Fox ) first met her boyfriend Michael Garwick (Malachi Kirby). This was when she was working at her mother's clinic, at the same time and place as the original zombie outbreak. Grieves (Robert Glenister) gets a brief scene as a contractor sent in to clean up the mess.
It turns out that Kaye might have greater culpability than we thought. Not only did she not stop the zombie outbreak when it started, she now has the cure in her boyfriend's bloodstream and instead only cares about winning the race so they can go live on an island somewhere. Worse, she may be a medical doctor but she does not bother doing CPR on those who need it.
Curfew [Season 1, Episode 8]
Shown 12th April 2019 [Friday]
This starts with the events leading up to the end of the previous episode. The survivors stop off at a petrol station, ninety miles from the finish zone. Max Larssen (Adam Brody - Mr And Mrs Smith ) is also there, to oversee the last stage of his race.
A bad decision leads to a Mexican stand-off, which is a bad thing at the best of times. A firefight at a petrol station is hardly ideal, and the shots bring the Mooks (the local Fast Zombies) running. Billy Zane and his buddy are meant to be medical doctors, but they do not seem keen to help anyone.
