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Sat 11 Nov 2008The end is nigh-on hilarious
TV REVIEW:SurvivorsBBC Sunday and Tuesday, CatastropheChannel 4 Monday, Death or CanadaRTÉ1 Tuesday, Faoi Lán CheoilTG4 Wednesday
THERE HAS always been a taste for apocalyptic fiction - Noah's Ark is an early favourite, but the Book of Revelation is a little OTT, in my view - but it seems to be a frequently recurring theme in this increasingly odd post-millennial decade of ours. Perhaps the global threat posed by terrorists and investment bankers is more tolerable when we compare ourselves favourably to poor Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later, or doomed Will Smith in I Am Legend, or, above all, anybody in Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Yes indeed, the End of Days has found its time at last.
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