If dystopian narratives are your thing, then this one-off drama is for you. The title gives it away: the UK suffers a week-long failure of the national grid and here for your delectation is what would happen. Well, it's a version of what might happen, which is dark in the extreme. The mobile phone/digicam footage supposedly collaged from those who experience this chaos works well, and the footage is all too believable thanks to judicious use of real news clips of violent protests, traffic tailbacks and the 2011 riots. Our hesitation in recommending is for the utter nihilism portrayed. Would things be rosy? Almost certainly not, but there would doubtless be a great many people who stayed at home, coped on rations and helped their neighbours. No sign of that here. And that contrasts with the copout about the cause of the disruption, attributed to 'cyber-hackers' who somehow blow the whole country's power. We can believe that backup measures aren't what they should or could be, but a seven-day outage is more likely to be caused by a lack of fuel.
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