Two Weeks to Live (TV series)

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Two Weeks to Live
Genre
Created byGaby Hull
Directed byAl Campbell
Starring
Composer Toydrum
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producer
  • Morwenna Gordon
Producers
  • Lorraine Goodman
  • Charlotte Surtees
CinematographyMattias Nyberg
EditorMike Holliday
Production companies
  • Kudos Film and Television [1]
Original release
Network Sky One
Release2 September (2020-09-02) –
7 October 2020 (2020-10-07)

Two Weeks to Live is a six-part television miniseries, produced for Sky UK and HBO Max starring Maisie Williams as Kim Noakes, a misfit, who has been raised in almost total isolation "living off-the-grid" in rural Scotland for most of her life by her overprotective survivalist mother, Tina (Sian Clifford).

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Plot summary

Kim goes to a pub for the first time as an adventure and meets two brothers. She is naive and goes home with them where a practical joke is played on Kim –a fake video depicting a nuclear apocalypse and that everybody has just two weeks to live. Kim, raised to believe the end times were close, sets off to kill the man who murdered her father in front of her when she was a child. [2] [3] [4]

Cast

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateU.K. viewers
(millions)
1"Episode 1"Al CampbellGaby Hull2 September 2020 (2020-09-02)N/A
Kim walks into a diner and asks for breakfast. The owner, noticing her naivety tries to steal from her by charging for parking, bathroom etc. She beats up the owner and leaves. Next, she drives to a pub where her parents had a first date. There she meets Nicky and Jay and she tells them about how this was her first visit in the civilization that she plans with her father (actually, his ashes). She talks about how the world would end in a nuclear blast or some epidemic, along with espousing various anti-government conspiracy theories. As a prank, Jay shows her some fake/old video of news coverage of a nuclear blast with the caption "Two weeks to live". Kim takes it seriously and drives to the home of crime boss Jimmy Davies, whom she believes killed her father. She shoots Ian and points the gun at Jimmy, while Nicky and Jay, who followed, wait for her outside Jimmy's house.
2"Episode 2"Al CampbellGaby Hull9 September 2020 (2020-09-09)N/A
Kim and Jimmy get into a fight. Jimmy remembers how he killed Kim's father while she was there. Kim realizes that there is no nuclear blast and the world is not ending in two weeks. Jimmy tries to throw Kim off the balcony but he dies instead. Before dying he says "tell Jo...". Kim is pissed that Nicky lied to her. Turns out Ian is alive and the group plans to leave him at the hospital. While Kim is clearing her jeep, her mother Tina finds her, ties her up, puts her in the back of her jeep and drives away.
3"Episode 3"Al CampbellGaby Hull16 September 2020 (2020-09-16)N/A
Kim tells her mom that she killed Jimmy and his place is filled with her fingerprints. Back home, Jay thinks Kim left and decides to leave with the bag of cash he found in the house. Ian picks up his gun to stop him, and Tina kills Ian with her crossbow. A calendar in the house marks a meeting at 11 am with some people named Brooks and Thompson, hence the group cleans up the place right before 11 am. They make it look like Ian took the cash and killed Jimmy. They go to Beth's place (Jay's girlfriend) along with Ian's body. Jay finds Beth's positive pregnancy test, and he picks up the bag of cash and hides it. Thompson and Brooks go to Ian's house to talk to his wife. Nicky, Kim and Tina go to bury Ian's body in the woods with Nicky as a lookout. Nicky reads Kim's diary. Thompson and Brooks are burying Ian's wife's body close-by.
4"Episode 4"Al Campbell Phoebe Eclair-Powell 23 September 2020 (2020-09-23)N/A

Next day, Tina let's Kim pick any one item on her wish list to do, before they go back to their remote/hidden home. They go to the fair where Kim and her father went along with his ashes that Kim carries around. Nicky reveals to Kim that her mom is lying about many things, and her pollution pills are just mints. She opens the box of ashes and sees it has some CD of a cricket match, but no ashes. Kim is infuriated about all the lies.

Jay meanwhile, realizes that he could go to jail for being an accessory to murder and not see his kid grow. He goes to the police station to report the crime. Turns out Brooks and Thompson are cops and Jay is talking to Brooks. Brooks makes up a fake immunity form and gets the true story behind Jimmy's death. He gives Jay a tracker to put on Tina's van. Jay soon realizes the form is a fake due to a spelling mistake and puts the tracker in some fish sold at the supermarket he works in. He comes back home and tells the rest that he made a mistake. He receives a call from Beth, turns out it's Brooks. Tina tells Brooks that he can have the cash and a person to blame and kill.
5"Episode 5"Al Campbell Lucy Montgomery 30 September 2020 (2020-09-30)N/A
They set-up a meet outside the same diner as first episode. While waiting in the parking lot, everyone is distracted when the crooked cops drive in. So Kim picks up the bag of money thinking it's just a bag drop. Tina pulls up right on time before the cops kidnap Kim. A drive-chase ensues ending with Brook's car crashing (both alive) and Tina drives to a camping site. Nicky accidentally reveals that he read Kim's diary, breaking her trust. Tina and Nicky argue about who will Kim choose.
6"Episode 6"Al CampbellGaby Hull7 October 2020 (2020-10-07)N/A

Production

The UK series, written by Gaby Hull [1] and produced by Kudos, debuted on 2 September 2020. The six part series also stars Sean Knopp, Mawaan Rizwan and Taheen Modak. [5] [1] [6]

Reception

The Guardian considers that Williams "excels in her fish-out-of-water role, flitting between hapless and determined, worldly and childlike". [2] The Independent reviewer wrote "Two Weeks To Live lets Williams flex comedy muscles while also show off her stunt fighting and stunt skills." [4] The NME described the action drama as also genuinely funny. [3]

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  2. 1 2 "'The people at the top of TV don't want equality'". The Guardian. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
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