The wider galactic community isn’t going to take that lying down, and so Rebecca and the Commonworld’s director, Benedict Lee (Craig Parkinson), face a growing revolutionary threat. The eco-fascist regime’s raison d’etre is to protect Mother Earth at all costs – even if that means destroying countless other worlds. A plot line that sees Ash, Verona and Echo raid a fuel depot – while the others contemplate the painful death that awaits them if the Hemlock runs out of juice – is promising, leavening high-octane thrills with humour and character development (think Guardians of the Galaxy without the talking racoon).Īt this point, it also becomes clear that the Commonworld is on shaky ground. Led by ruthless matriarch Tula (Sharon Duncan-Brewster), the women commandeer the Hemlock prison ship in order to seek a new life in the fabled free world of Arcadia.īy the end of the third episode, the series has relaxed from the disorientating speed at which it began, and is all the better for it.
Yet while she is being transported there, she is drawn into a daring breakout attempt by Verona and a motley crew of inmates. Instead, it jumps straight to the action: just 10 minutes into the series’ first episode, Ash is arrested and framed for stealing the cache she retrieved from Verona.ĭespite the efforts of her mother Rebecca (Parminder Nagra), the Commonworld’s head of galactic security, Ash is sentenced to live out her days in an off-world prison colony.
I was therefore surprised that Intergalactic, a prison-break drama set in 2143, doesn’t linger here. Like me, you may think that these superimposed cities would be an excellent setting for a sci-fi show. Seemingly abandoned as the climate crisis intensified, the London we know today has become a literal underworld the only structures left intact are the enormous pillars that hold up the Commonworld, a network of gleaming metropolises under authoritarian rule. On the festering streets of Old London, rookie cop Ash Harper (Savannah Steyn) chases down Verona (Imogen Daines), a fugitive who has stolen a valuable commodity. Tula (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) with Cady (Eleanor Tomlinson, left) and Genevieve (Diany Samba-Bandza, right) in Intergalactic
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