SNAPSHOT
Biopunk is set in London in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human. (synopsis via YouTube (c) DUST)
The future huh? We’re not desperately enamoured with the idea of it at present are we?
In fact, such is the abundance of dystopian and apocalyptic storytelling across TV, movies, books and gaming, that I think it’s safe to say the bold, heady flying cars-driven optimism of the 1950s is as dead and buried as the proverbial Dodo.
Trading on this murky loss of futuristic innocence, BioPunk takes us to a ravaged world where humanity has fallen on devastatingly hard times thanks to a virulent epidemic caused by corporate gene hacking that has not, it’s fairly safe tosay, really worked out as planned.
And yet even in the midst of death and mutation, relationships are sustained and remain, particularly between Resha (Katie Sheridan) and her younger brother (Benjamin Tuttlebee) and Resha’s gruff but inwardly-kindly employer Bob (Game of Thrones Kristian Nairn).
Alas not everyone is so supportive with puritanical zealots inadvertently making a bad situation even worse …