Hard Sun, an incendiary new BBC1 sci-fi drama, imagines an Apocalypse Now.
I think in the end Hard Sun is optimistic because it shows that, when confronted by the apocalypse, you choose life and do all you can to defend that.”
So while Hard Sun plays into our long-standing fixation with the apocalypse, it also suggests that in the end our innate humanity will shine through.
This idea of an impending cataclysm is certainly what unifies the fractious pairing of Hicks and Renko in Hard Sun.